In addition to the pre-installed applications from Samsung, users can browse the web and enjoy any applications from Google Play or Samsung Apps stores.
Featuring a wealth of games, navigation, social networking, e-book, health and lifestyle applications, Samsung Apps gives users instant access to a huge choice of mobile experiences.
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Samsung's bada platform allows mobile users to simply and easily download an abundance of applications from Samsung Apps, an integrated application store accessible from the device and online.
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The Galaxy Note 10.1 comes with a range of software and games embedded and a selection of apps to download, with over 100, 000 free downloads available in Samsung apps.
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And to watch video on one of the Samsung apps, the one called Samsung Hub, you have to navigate through two screens trying to sell you video that I couldn't get to work on the other apps.
Supply-line leaks, and what appeared to be an accidental post on Samsung's apps page, suggest that a smaller S4 smartphone might be one of them.
With the Galaxy S4, Samsung has built up so many features that consumers will be spending far more time in apps designed by Samsung than with Google (not counting the core OS).
The display runs apps from Samsung's app ecosystem, which has been used primarily on TVs so far.
In its bid to create a phone with features so useful you hardly have to download extra apps, Samsung has integrated popular predictive typing app SwiftKey as a core technology set in the new Galaxy S4.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: Along with a new batch of S Pen apps, owners of Samsung's latest tablet will also find a new system update that's ripe for the picking.
Instead of messing with its UI, Samsung has concentrated on specific apps -- and plenty of new gesture functionality.
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The news app will initially be available free of charge on Samsung Smart TVs through their apps store and later it will be accessible on a variety of connected devices and displays, including an international version.
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While Samsung pushes ahead on attracting apps to its Smart TVs using its own platform and LG, Sony and Vizio align with Google TV, there are still reasons to believe that the smart TV will fail to have tremendous impact as Switched On discussed last year.
Duplication now exists around voice command, chat, picture editing, video editing, music handling and it seems that with every new version, Samsung is bringing more of its own apps to the product line, a great idea from a differentiation standpoint but one that may ultimately benefit Samsung much more than it does Google.
Samsung doesn't offer video apps on the fridge because that would make no sense, he said.
Samsung plans more pen-oriented apps, and there are some games and drawing apps for the stylus.
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The BBC's consumer rights show, Watchdog, will be focusing on the smartphone in next week's episode, and the fact that almost half of the phone's memory is already occupied by Samsung's own software and apps.
Oddly, it looks like the app selection is still missing some key titles that already exist on Windows Phone 7, but Samsung's made its own efforts, with preinstalled apps running the gamut from the useful (ChatON) to the less so (Samsung's own Music Hub).
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While you might be scratching your head, wondering why Samsung didn't make these two apps one and the same, S Note is significantly more complex, and thus, takes much longer to load.
The Samsung TV platform can run third-party apps, like a smartphone does, and some of them can even interact with a phone.
For example, the Marketplace hub displays the four different software stores where you can purchase media: third-party apps, games, music and Samsung Zone, a separate app store serving software made by Samsung.
With the wealth of user-generated content on video streaming apps like YouTube and Vimeo, Samsung Smart TVs also offer De-Blocking and De-Mosquito picture filters that significantly improve the viewing experience for low resolution video.
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Compared to Samsung's Note products with their suite of S Pen apps, the very vanilla Tab series offers much less in the way of standout features.
Finally, only at CES in the Samsung booth, the T9000 LCD is on display, featuring apps to help families stay organized and connected in the kitchen.
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If that all sounds rather humdrum, Samsung is attempting to spice up Windows 8 by bundling custom apps, some of which you might remember from its various Android products.
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Home, available on a new HTC phone and for download to a half-dozen other HTC and Samsung phones starting April 12, is a suite of Facebook apps that will load as soon as the phone is turned on.
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The device, first introduced this past February at Mobile World Congress, stands apart from its capacitive rivals thanks primarily to the addition of a Wacom-like digitizer panel optimized for the company's handwriting recognition software and a slew of stylus-specific, pre-loaded apps, like Adobe's Photoshop Touch and Samsung's own S Note.
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Samsung spokespeople said the company was releasing an SDK so that other apps could include the feature.
Some similar apps are available for the iPad and iPhone, but Samsung is investing more in the stylus and what it can do.
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James Politeski, Samsung's senior vice president for home appliances, said these apps are "location specific, " meaning they're designed to be useful to people who are in the kitchen and looking at the refrigerator.
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