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Many users of Samsung’s smartphones and tablets have taken to removing the software by “rooting” or significantly modifying their devices, risking voiding their warranty, as the TouchWiz software is not removable without modifying the underlying Android software.įlatter, more standard Android-like appearance The bloated software has also impacted the battery life of Samsung’s devices, with many of the features taking their toll on the battery without significantly adding to the experience and slowing the smartphones and tablets down. The TouchWiz software additions clutter the Android experience, making using the smartphones far more complicated and leading to confused users.
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These additional features such as “air gesture” (to move pages without touching the screen), “air view” (to enlarge previews without touching the screen) and “smart scroll” (to scroll through pages using eye movement) have been dismissed as gimmicks critics, who don't see them bringing any value to users. Samsung has attempted to differentiate its Android smartphones and tablets from the competition by packing them with features, part of the software customisations made to the standard Android experience called Samsung “TouchWiz”. “Even though we’re doing the software business, we're not as good as we are in hardware,” said Kwon Oh-hyun, vice chairman and chief executive of Samsung Electronics. The electronics company dedicated half of its research and development workforce to the software issue, with software engineers numbering around 40,000 of its 326,000 employees worldwide. Samsung admitted that its mobile software, including that found on the Galaxy S line of phones, was poor in November, and pledged to work “very hard” to produce improved software. The key development for Samsung’s next flagship smartphone is expected to be in software. ‘We’re not as good as we are in hardware’ There is also the possibility that Samsung will follow Apple’s lead and fit the Galaxy S5 with a 64-bit processor allowing for more memory. The launch event, at the annual mobile industry conference Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona at the end of February, is expected to be a much more low key affair than the 2013 launch of the Galaxy S4, which saw Samsung take over part of New York’s Times Square.Īmong other devices, it is widely expected that Samsung will announce the Galaxy S5 at the event with a larger 5.25in screen, improved camera, as well as the option for a metal body.