Samsung’s New Fitness Processor For Better and Accurate Workout Data

Many people bought smart watches for fitness purposes but the models that came up in 2015 still too simple. So Samsung decided to take the fitness tracker to a next level.

Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter

31 Dec 20151 min read

Many people bought smart watches for fitness purposes but the models that came up in 2015 still too simple. So Samsung decided to take the fitness tracker to a next level. Samsung new Bio-processor that what they like to call it. The chip will monitor not only your pulse, it will check your body fat, skeletal muscle mass, heart rate, skin temperature and stress level.

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The idea of using a technological device is it should be doing something that you need. We use smartphones because for communication at the first place. But smartwatches still nothing more than a fancy watch that you have charge it every day. But this new processes technology of Samsung can be useful for people who are interested in sports or some other people with health issues that need to be monitored all the time.

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Apple wanted to put these features to the Apple Watch but they only put heart monitor in it. So new Samsung SmartWatches that have these new processors are planning to be on sale at the second quarter of 2016. With their new SmartWatches which has this bio-processor can make the Samsung sit on the first place on smartwatch market. But still many people are waiting for more reason to buy a smart watch.

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Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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