The SDIC 8-bit MCU. (Credit: electronupdate, YouTube)
In this wonderful world of MEMS technology, sensor technology has been downsized and reduced in cost to the point where you can buy a car tire pressure sensor for less than $3 USD on a site like AliExpress. Recently [electronupdate] got his mittens on one of these items to take a look inside, and compare it against his trusty old mechanical tire pressure gauge.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there isn’t a whole lot inside these devices once you pop them open to reveal the PCB. The MEMS device is a tiny device at the top, which has the pressurized air from the tire guided to it. The small hole inside the metal can leads to the internals that consist of a thin diaphragm with four piezoresistors that enable measurements on said diaphragm from which pressure can be determined.
Handling these measurements and displaying results on the small zebra connector-connected LCD is an 8-bit MCU manufactured by Chinese company SDIC. Although the part number on the die doesn’t lead to any specific part on the SDIC site, similar SDIC parts have about 256 bytes of SRAM and a few kB of one-time programmable ROM.
This MCU also integrates the clock oscillator, thus requiring virtually no external parts to work. Finally, its sigma-delta ADC interacts with the MEMS device, rounding out a very simple device that’s nevertheless more than accurate enough for a spot check as well as quite portable.
We’ve all been there at one point or another; you unlock your iPhone with the intention of checking the weather or sending a quick text, only to be greeted by a sea of little red circles.
They’re everywhere, screaming for your attention like a digital toddler until you open the app and clear it. It’s a core part of the iOS experience, sure, but after years of staring at these tiny stress-inducers, I’ve had enough. The problem? I can’t really do much about it.
App badges are my worst enemy
The problem with app badges is that they are designed to be addictive. They’re pitched as helpful reminders, but in reality, they’re designed to draw you into an app to see what’s “new,” even when there’s nothing of substance actually waiting for you.
Every time I unlock my iPhone and see a bunch of badges on my home screen, I’m immediately distracted. Instead of doing what I actually set out to do, I find myself mindlessly scrolling through a feed just to make the number go away.
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It’s even more infuriating when the badges refuse to leave. We’ve all dealt with that one stubborn app – it’s the Oura app for me at the moment, oddly enough – where you’ve cleared every notification, read every message, and checked every update, yet the badge remains.
For a company that prides itself on “clean” design, the home screen often looks like a messy desk covered in red Post-it notes.
No, I’m not going to disable them one by one
Now, I know what the power users among you are going to say, “Just go into Settings and turn them off!” And yes, technically, you can.
But, there’s the catch: Apple forces you to do it on an app-by-app basis. I have hundreds of apps installed on my iPhone, and the idea of diving into the notification settings for every single one of them to toggle off “Badges” leaves me in a cold sweat – and besides, it’d take the better part of an afternoon.
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It begs the question: why isn’t there a system-wide toggle? Apple gives us “Silence Unknown Callers” and “Focus” modes to reclaim our digital sanity, yet it won’t give us a single master switch to kill the red dots. It’s a bizarre omission when you really think about it, especially for an operating system that is supposed to be the very pinnacle of user-friendliness.
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Android fixed the issue years ago
What makes this even harder to swallow is that our friends over in the Android camp solved this ages ago.
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On most Android skins, app badges (or “dots”) are intrinsically linked to the notification shade. If you swipe away a notification because you’ve seen it and decided it’s not important, the badge on the app icon vanishes too. A system that, in my mind, makes a lot of sense.
On iOS, the badge and the notification centre live in two completely different worlds. You can clear your entire lock screen, but those red circles will stay pinned to your icons until you manually open the app.
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At the very least, Apple should give us the option to mirror that Android-style functionality in the Settings menu for those of us who find the current system a little bit archaic.
It probably won’t change any time soon
As much as I’d love to be optimistic, I’m not holding my breath. With the reveal of iOS 27 scheduled for WWDC in early June, the rumour mill is buzzing about the long-awaited reveal of the Gemini-powered Siri and even more powerful AI features, but a badge overhaul is nowhere to be found.
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Badges have been a staple of the iPhone since the very beginning, and despite Apple redesigning the notification system multiple times over the last decade, they’ve remained largely untouched. It seems Apple is perfectly happy with the status quo, even if it means our home screens remain a cluttered, distracting mess for the foreseeable future.
Long-time GNOME/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice contributor Michael Meeks is now general manager of Collabora Productivity. And earlier this month he complained when LibreOffice decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project, as reported by Neowin, which had been inactive since 2022. After the original project went dormant — to which Collabora was a major contributor — they forked the code and created their own product, Collabora Online.
But this week Meeks blogged about even more changes, writing that the Document Foundation (the nonprofit behind LibreOffice) “has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners.
That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice for many years.” Meeks argues the ejections were “based on unproven legal concerns and guilt by association.”
This includes seven of the top ten core committers of all time (excluding release engineers) currently working for Collabora Productivity. The move is the culmination of TDF losing a large number of founders from membership over the last few years with: Thorsten Behrens, Jan ‘Kendy’ Holesovsky, Rene Engelhard, Caolan McNamara, Michael Meeks, Cor Nouws and Italo Vignoli no longer members. Of the remaining active founders, three of the last four are paid TDF staff (of whom none are programming on the core code). The blog It’s FOSScalls it “LibreOffice Drama.” They’ve confirmed the removals happened, also noting recently adopted Community Bylaws requiring members to step down if they’re affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with the Foundation. But The Documentation Foundation “also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing ‘when the time comes.’”
Collabora’s Meeks adds in his blog post that there’s “bold and ongoing plans to create an entirely new, cut-down, differentiated Collabora Office for users that is smoother, more user friendly, and less feature dense than our Classic product (which will continue to be supported for years for our partners).
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This gives a chance to innovate faster in a separate place on a smaller, more focused code-base with fewer build configurations, much less legacy, no Java, no database, web-based toolkit and more. We are excited to get executing on that.
To make this process easier, and to put to bed complaints about having our distro branches in TDF gerrit [for code review], and to move to self-hosted FOSS tooling we are launching our own gerrit to host our existing branch of core…
We will continue to make contributions to LibreOffice where that makes sense (if we are welcome to), but it clearly no longer makes much sense to continue investing heavily in building what remains of TDF’s community and product for them — while being excluded from its governance. In this regard, we seem to be back where we were fifteen years ago.
It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.
According to a customer email shared on Hacker News, Anthropic said that starting at noon Pacific on April 4 (today), subscribers will “no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw.” Instead, they’ll need to pay for extra usage through “a pay-as-you-go option billed separately from your subscription.”
The company said that while it’s starting with OpenClaw today, the policy “applies to all third-party harnesses and will be rolled out to more shortly.”
Anthropic’s head of Claude Code Boris Cherny wrote on X that the company’s “subscriptions weren’t built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools” and that Anthropic is now trying “to be intentional in managing our growth to continue to serve our customers sustainably long-term.”
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The announcement comes after OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger said he was joining Anthropic rival OpenAI, with OpenClaw continuing as an open source project with support from OpenAI.
Steinberger posted that he and OpenClaw board member Dave Morin “tried to talk sense into Anthropic” but were only able to delay the increased pricing by a week.
“Funny how timings match up, first they copy some popular features into their closed harness, then they lock out open source,” Steinberger said.
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Cherny, however, insisted that Claude Code team members are “big fans of open source” and that he himself “just put up a few [pull requests] to improve prompt cache efficiency for OpenClaw specifically.”
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“This is more about engineering constraints,” he said, adding that Anthropic is still offering full refunds for subscribers. “We know not everyone realized this isn’t something we support, and this is an attempt to make it clear and explicit.”
Meanwhile, OpenAI recently shut down its Sora app and video generation models, reportedly to free up computing resources and as part of a broader effort to refocus on winning over the software engineers and enterprises that are increasingly relying on products like Claude Code.
Todd talks about what it was like fielding calls from distraught users on the night of the announcement. John offers his thoughts on what the shutdown says about the VR hype cycle, and whether everyone betting on the AI boom should take notes.
Plus: Major League Baseball’s new automated ball-strike system is already exposing umpires and creating a whole new kind of showboating — including one player who was so confident the robot would overrule the ump that he just started walking to first base.
Back in 2021, rumors circulated about a new LG phone with a screen that unfurled like a scroll, similar to a roll-up map rather than a fold. Interestingly, they had planned to release it that year, but LG decided to discontinue its entire mobile division. As a result, the idea fizzled, only to resurface recently with a prototype reaching Zack Nelson (of JerryRigEverything fame).
Zack Nelson began by looking at the exterior elements. In its compressed state, the screen measures around 6.8 inches diagonally. With a simple command, the display expands to 7.4 inches diagonally, thanks to the internal motors. It generates a rather mild buzzing noise, which is thankfully muffled by software that includes some great sound effects. Users can watch the item expand in size in real time and even get dynamic backgrounds that adapt on the fly.
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Nelson removed two Phillips head screws near the roller bit as he began to disassemble it. He applied heat to the back glass, and it popped straight off in one piece. With the glass removed, the side panel came away, and he discovered all these minuscule little hair-like things designed to keep dust from entering the flexy screen area. These tiny hairs are enclosed in a metal cage that protects the part that rolls up.
After that, Nelson proceeded on to check the actual roll component itself, which required him to retract it completely for some extra wiggle room to free it from the frame. He was surprised to see the screen curved around a pretty mild radius, compared to the other folding phones. Behind the screen, there are a series of elevated slats that rise upwards like escalator steps, helping to keep the entire structure flat and stable during expansion.
Other interesting features include little zipper-like linkages along the top and bottom margins of the screen. The sides have metal guides going along them to keep everything neat and tight. It all operates in tandem with two geared motors that communicate via a rack system. There are even three little spring-loaded arms that help keep the entire thing straight and smooth during extension, ensuring that it does not wobble or become stuck. LG stated that the entire system can withstand around 200,000 cycles, which is a significant number given the amount of stress placed on it.
Deeper inside the phone, you’ll find a battery rated a solid 4500 milliamp hours, as well as the usual suspects like a Snapdragon processor, 12 gigs of RAM, and 256 gigs of storage. The rear camera configuration includes a 64-megapixel primary sensor with optical stabilisation and a 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens. On the back, you’ll find a power button that also serves as a fingerprint reader. All of the connection wires are arranged in a fairly straightforward manner that may be simply disassembled.
The screen has a plastic layer that may be scratched with a fingernail, similar to the flexible screens on other phones. When you roll it up, the active portion rests behind the rear glass, allowing you to quickly check alerts and even take selfies (with the main cameras). If anything gets in the way, the software will pause the roll and offer a friendly warning.
Today, fireplaces, their cozy glow once a household staple, are mostly a thing of the past. In fact, a decent amount of old fireplaces are completely blocked up! [David Capper] brings back the atmosphere without the actual flames, with his RP2040-based fireplace glow simulator.
It’s not just a string of LEDs with some PWM brightness control, either. No, [David] goes into detail about the black body radiation that gives these fires their colors. He then uses the theory of black-body radiation to determine the colors that the LEDs glow to simulate the colors of a real fire.
But the colors alone don’t make for a good simulated fire, so [David] adds the heat equation. It starts with a grid wherein each cell has a temperature. Over time, cells are randomly selected to have heat added to them (increasing the cell’s temperature), then he applies the heat equation to diffuse and decay the heat within the grid for a nice simulated crackling fire. Add in a custom PCB and a nice little 3D-printed case and you’re ready for a cozy hacker time.
Nathan Fielder, best known for his Comedy Central show, Nathan For You (and cringe comedy), writes, directs and stars in this new HBO series. In the show, the comedian goes to extraordinary lengths to let people rehearse moments before they happen. In the first episode, Fielder helps a man prepare for a confession to a friend, and builds an exact replica of the bar they’re planning to meet at (the attention to detail is incredible). After planning for any outlandish thing that might happen, we see how the real exchange between the two friends plays out. Bizarre and truly fascinating, The Rehearsal should get some time on your screen.
Glen Anderson has been brokering trades in private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focused on the late-stage private market could be counted on two hands. Today, he says, there are thousands.
As president of the investment bank Rainmaker Securities, whose focus includes private securities markets — it facilitates transactions in roughly 1,000 stocks — Anderson has a front-row seat to one of the most nail-biting moments in the history of the secondary market. And right now, he suggests, the narrative has three main characters: Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX.
But the storyline is more complicated than the headlines suggest.
Anderson’s read on Anthropic is consistent with what Bloomberg reported earlier this week: demand for the company’s shares has become almost insatiable. Bloomberg quoted Ken Smythe, founder and CEO of Next Round Capital, saying that buyers had indicated to his outfit that they had $2 billion of cash ready to deploy into Anthropic, even as roughly $600 million in OpenAI shares that investors are trying to sell haven’t found takers.
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Anderson sees something similar at Rainmaker. “The hardest stock to source in our marketplace is Anthropic,” he told TechCrunch yesterday afternoon from his Miami home. “There’s just no sellers.”
Part of what turbocharged that demand, Anderson argues, was Anthropic’s very public standoff with the Department of Defense — a turn of events that initially seemed like bad news for the company but has wound up becoming a gift.
“The app got more popular, people rallied around the company as kind of a hero, taking on big government,” he said. “I think it amplified the story and made it even more differentiated from OpenAI.”
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That distinction is becoming increasingly meaningful to investors navigating a market where, for years, the prevailing logic was to bet on everyone. Anderson notes that many institutional investors still want exposure to both Anthropic and OpenAI. “The jury’s still out,” he said, on which AI model will ultimately win – but the momentum, at least in the secondary market, has shifted.
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That doesn’t mean OpenAI has fallen off a cliff. Anderson pushes back slightly on a binary reading of the situation.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a one-or-the-other conversation,” he said.
But the excitement isn’t there. “It’s not nearly as vibrant a market as Anthropic right now,” he acknowledged.
On valuation, Anderson broadly confirmed Bloomberg’s reporting that OpenAI shares on the secondary market are trading as if the company were valued at $765 billion — an appreciable discount to the company’s newest $852 billion primary-round valuation. He cautioned that he was working from memory, but said the Bloomberg figure was “in the right range.”
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OpenAI itself has tried to assert more control over secondary trading. “People should be extremely cautious of any firm that purports to have access to OpenAI equity, including through an SPV,” an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg, noting the company had established authorized channels through banks, with no fees, to counter what it described as a high-fee broker model.
Perhaps tellingly — at least for now — banks including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have begun offering OpenAI shares to their high-net-worth clients without charging carry fees, according to Bloomberg. Goldman, meanwhile, is charging its customary carry – often 15% to 20% of profits – for clients seeking Anthropic exposure.
What none of this accounts for is SpaceX, which stands apart amid shifting sentiment around these other powerful brands. Anderson describes it as one of the only names in Rainmaker’s universe that never experienced the punishing correction that hit much of the private market between 2022 and 2024, a period when many private companies’ shares fell 60% to 70% from their peaks (after their valuations were run up just as fast).
The rocket and satellite behemoth has “been pretty much consistently up and to the right,” Anderson said.
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Anderson, who, naturally, has an economic interest in flattering the company and its earlier backers, credits SpaceX’s management with disciplined pricing and not squeezing every last dollar out of each funding round or tender offer.
“A lot of companies will fall for the temptation to maximize the price of their stock in every round,” he said. “The problem is that that doesn’t leave any room for error.”
SpaceX, by contrast, played it conservatively, by “not getting too greedy,” and the payoff for earlier investors has been enormous. “You can imagine if someone got in in 2015 what kind of gain they’re sitting on right now,” said Anderson.
To put a finer point on that comment: SpaceX was valued at roughly $12 billion in 2015, when Google and Fidelity jointly invested $1 billion in the company. Someone who got in at that price is now sitting on a gain of more than 100x, with the company valued at more than $1 trillion ahead of its planned IPO.
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That IPO is now imminent, seemingly. SpaceX filed confidentially this week for an initial public offering, setting the stage for what could be one of the largest market debuts in history, with Elon Musk reportedly aiming to raise between $50 billion and $75 billion, possibly in June. Only Saudi Aramco’s 2019 debut, which valued the energy giant at $1.7 trillion, has come close.
Unsurprisingly, the rumored filing has already changed the dynamics of the secondary market for SpaceX shares, according to Anderson.
“Today, I saw a flood of SpaceX investors coming to me saying, ‘Can you give me SpaceX?’” he noted. “It’s been a very active buy side.” But supply is drying up. The closer a company gets to an IPO, the less incentive existing shareholders have to sell because they can see the liquidity event on the horizon.
That’s where things get a little dicier for OpenAI and Anthropic. Both companies are reportedly exploring public offerings of their own and have signaled they could move this year. But SpaceX, by filing first, is about to test the market’s appetite in a major way, and Anderson suggested that whoever follows will be at a disadvantage.
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“SpaceX is going to soak up a lot of liquidity,” he said flatly. “There’s only so much money out there allocated to IPOs.” The first mover gets to the trough first; those who follow face both more scrutiny and, potentially, less capital.
It’s a dynamic that plays out in every so-called vertical and from which the AI companies aren’t completely immune, despite the attention being showered on them right now. Time your IPO too early and you’re the one testing market receptivity. Wait for someone else to go first, and you may find the biggest checks have already been written.
You can hear more of our interview with Anderson in the upcoming episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, which drops every Tuesday. In the meantime, check out recent episodes, including those with Whoop CEO Will Ahmed and investor Bill Gurley.
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At a media workshop at Samsung’s US headquarters last month, we got to spend some quality time with Samsung’s new 2026 OLED TVs, including the S90H and S95H flagship. Both sets offer impressive performance but they do differ in some important ways like peak brightness and color gamut coverage. In fact, both TVs feature the same video processor and 165Hz native OLED panels, but they’re tuned for different performance levels with the S95H offering much higher peak brightness, making it better suited for bright room viewing.
Bot the S90H and S95H also feature the latest version of Samsung’s Glare Free screen treatment which reduces the reflection of ambient room light. Meanwhile, Samsung’s S85H OLED comes with a more traditional glossy screen with a 120 Hz native OLED panel.
The Samsung S95H OLED TV features a unique “Float Layer” design.
One thing that varies significantly on the S90H and S95H is the cosmetic design. The S95H sports a new “Float Layer” industrial design which features an integrated (non-removable) picture frame around the edges of the panel. The set also comes with an innovative flush wall-mount bracket that allows the TV to sit completely flat against the wall. The design makes the S95H look more like artwork when not in active use. But unlike Samsung’s “The Frame” and “The Frame Pro” TVs, the outer frame itself is neither replaceable nor customizable.
Museum Quality TV?
For the first time on an OLED TV, Samsung has given owners of the S95H access to the Samsung Art Store, a curated collection of artwork which can be displayed on the set when you’re not actively using it to watch video. Although “given” is an odd word to use here. While customers can access up to 30 different pieces of art per month for free, access to the full art store with over 5,000 pieces of art incurs a subscription fee, currently $5.00/month or $50/year.
Compared to last year’s flagship S95F, the S95H does away with the separate One Connect box which had moved all the inputs and outputs to a separate component, connected to the TV by a proprietary cable. This year, all of the inputs and outputs on the set are integrated into the side of the TV itself, but in a discrete manner in which they are not visible when the TV is mounted to the wall using the included flush wall-mount hardware.
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Check out the S90H and S95H up close and personal.
Customers who want a simpler installation for the S95H can purchase a wireless One Connect dongle which plugs into a proprietary port in the back of the TV. This allows you to connect all your video source and components to a separate wireless One Connect box, located up to 30 feet away from the TV. With this option, the only cord the S95H needs is a power cord. And, since all of the HDMI ports on the TV and on the OneConnect box are accessible, technically you can connect up to 8 separate sources via HDMI 2.1 if you use the wireless OneConnect box. That’s a lot of ports!
The S90H features a traditional thin black bezel.
Meanwhile the S90H offers a more traditional cosmetic design, with a thin black bezel and all input and output ports recessed into the side/back of the TV. Unlike last year’s S90F, the S90H now includes Samsung’s Glare Free screen treatment which reduces reflections from ambient room lighting. If you prefer a glossy type of screen, Samsung offers the S85H OLED TV without the Glare Free coating.
Samsung’s S85H OLED TV will offer a traditional glossy screen.
QD or Not QD?
In terms of underlying panel differences, Samsung is once again using different panels within a specific model line, depending on screen size. Some use a QD-OLED (Quantum Dot Organic Light-Emitting Diode) panel from Samsung Display, while others use a WOLED (White Organic Light-Emitting Diode) from LG Display. Both offer exceptional black levels thanks to self-emissive pixels, as well as excellent off-axis viewing and freedom from artifacts like Dirty Screen Effect, blooming and haloing around bright objects. QD-OLED panels generally have a slightly wider color gamut than WOLED panels, though this isn’t normally evident while viewing real world content on Blu-ray, streaming or even UHD Blu-ray Disc.
From what we could see (and measure) the 65-inch S95H seems to be using the latest QD-OLED panel from Samsung Display. BT.2020 color gamut tests came in at around 88.4% of BT.2020, which is consistent with a QD-OLED panel. If Samsung takes the same strategy as last year, then we expect that the 55-inch and 77-inch screen sizes of the S95H will also use a QD-OLED panel (at least in the United States), while the 83-inch screen size will use a WOLED panel. The S85H will use a W-OLED panel in all screen sizes.
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It gets a little trickier with the S90H. Last year, the “90” model (S90F) used a QD-OLED panel in select screen sizes (55, 65 and 77 inches), but the measurements we made on the S90H in a 65-inch screen size suggest that this new model actually uses a WOLED panel. While it can reach 98.6% of the P3 color standard, it only manages to reproduce 74.77% of the BT.2020 color gamut. And while this isn’t a serious limitation on most of today’s content, it does suggest that the underlying panel is actually WOLED, not QD-OLED.
This may be subject to change, particularly outside the North American market. And we can only report on the actual sample that we viewed and measured at the workshop. Production samples may differ.
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With a voice remote and Vision AI on-board, you can talk to your TV… and it will talk back.
Samsung Vision AI – The Next Generation
All of Samsung’s 2026 MiniLED, Micro RGB and OLED TVs are taking full advantage of Artificial Intelligence, both in picture processing and in the overall end user experience. More than simple recommendations about what else to watch, Samsung’s Vision AI allows you to interact with your TV with normal language questions and get not only content recommendations but also natural answers to these questions. You can even get real time language translations in a number of different languages via on-screen subtitles (on select content).
Both the S90H and S95H use Samsung’s NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor, the same processor from last year’s flagship OLED TV. This brings several AI-based picture enhancement options to bear, including 4K AI Upscaling Pro to improve the look of lower-resolution content, AI Motion Enhancer Pro, and an Adaptive Picture function that uses AI to optimize the image based on the content being viewed. This assures that sports programs will have blur-free fast motion while movies will preserve a more cinematic look.
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In honor of this year’s World Cup, Samsung is offering a new AI Soccer mode which accentuates the green grass of a soccer pitch and enhances the detail and clarity of the moving soccer ball while also giving the crowd noise a more spacious sound effect. We saw a demo of this and have to say it was pretty effective at making you feel like you’re actually at a match, but without any pesky football hooligans.
One UI Tizen FTW
All three of Samsung’s 2026 OLED TVs include the latest version of Samsung’s Tizen Operating System. This platform offers all of the major streaming apps and is one of the better user interfaces when it comes to finding and presenting content without excessive advertising. In our use, we found the menu navigation and apps to be smooth and zippy, and the AI-enhanced search found content from a variety of streaming apps and sources as expected. Samsung says they will provide free upgrades to the O/S for up to 7 years, so customers will get enhanced operation and new features over time without having to buy a new TV every year.
As with Samsung’s 2025 TVs, the S85H, S90H and S95H support HDR10 and HDR10+ HDR options, but not Dolby Vision. They do support Dolby Atmos audio as well as Samsung’s new Eclipsa Audio immersive audio format (but not DTS).
Thoughts on Performance
We spend several hours with both the S90H and S95H using a Kaleidescape Strato E movie player loaded with challenging content as well as a few UHD Blu-ray Discs. Initial tests showed that both the S90H and S95H offer excellent color saturation and detail. Black levels in a darkened room were exceptionally inky, and still pretty strong when we turned on the lights. Unlike the first generation of Samsung’s Glare Free screen treatment, the latest version manages to nearly eliminate light reflections on the screen without sacrificing black levels too drastically.
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Even with room lights on, the Samsung S95H was able to create a bright punchy image on 4K/HDR titles like “F1” (photo by Al Griffin).
Skin tones were particularly well represented on both sets as evidenced by test clips on Spears and Munsil’s UHD Benchmark discs. And using 4K/HDR content mastered for 4,000 nits of peak brightness (like the film “Alpha”), we could see that both sets’ on-board HDR Tone Mapping did a great job adjusting the HDR scale so that bright specular highlights were maintained as well as dark shadow details, even when both appeared on screen at the same time.
Skin tone reproduction was spot on with the Samsung S90H (pictured) and S95H OLED TVs as seen in this clip from Spears and Munsil UHD Benchmark disc.
The S95H provided a more punchy and dynamic image overall, thanks to its higher peak brightness, though this advantage was less obvious when we dimmed the lights.
S90F vs. S95H, By the Numbers
Using the latest version of CalMAN software on the S95H, we measured a peak brightness of 2,553 nits in a 10% field white window in Standard mode and 1,072 nits in Filmmaker mode. The brightness measurement in Standard mode is exceptionally high for an OLED TV and about 25% higher than last year’s S95F. And the lower brightness in Filmmaker mode seems to be consistent with recent OLED TVs from both LG and Panasonic, each of which is targeting a closer visual match to the broadcast reference monitors in use in the film industry to master theatrical content for home. Meanwhile the S90H peaked at 1,190 nits, again using a 10% window in Standard mode and 1,295 nits in Filmmaker mode.
In terms of color gamut, both sets were able to reproduce close to 100% of the P3 color standard (99.9% on S95H, 98.6% on S90H), but they differed a bit on the BT.2020 color gamut tests, as we mentioned earlier. The S95H was able to hit 88.4% of BT.2020 while the S90H only managed to hit 74.77% of BT.2020 in the CalMAN tests. This leads us to believe that the S95H is using a QD-OLED panel while the S90H may be using a WOLED panel. Does this matter in real life? Maybe not. Most content on streaming and even on UHD Blu-ray Disc stays within the P3 color space, which both sets are more than capable of reproducing,
In terms of overall color accuracy, we measured the average “Delta E” (color variation from reference) at under 3 for grayscale and under 2 for color on both sets, both in Filmmaker mode. Specifically the S95H averaged 2.9 dE for grayscale and 1.6 for color dE. The S90H actually turned in slightly better out-of-the-box measurements with an average dE for grayscale of 2.8 and an average dE for color of 1.1. These are both impressive measurements for out-of-the-box settings and it’s likely that even better results could likely be attained with a full calibration.
Overall, both sets offered solid performance for an OLED TV. Or really for any display. Whether you’re gaming, streaming, watching HD Blu-ray Discs or 4K UHD Blu-rays, or 4K/HDR movies on Kaleidescape, you’ll be in for a visual treat with either of these sets.
Specs and pricing of the S85H OLED TV are also included below with the S90H and S95H details, but we have not yet spent any hands-on time with the S85H.
Speaker Type: 4.2.2CH Output Power (W): 70W Dolby Atmos Object Tracking OTS+ Q-Symphony: Active Voice Amplifier (AVA) Pro Adaptive Sound: Pro Bluetooth Audio 360 Audio
Speaker Type: 83″-48″: 2.1CH, 42″: 2CH Output Power (W): 83″-48″,40W,42″: 20W Object Tracking: OTS Lite Q-Symphony: Active Voice Amplifier (AVA) Pro Adaptive Sound: Pro Bluetooth Audio 360 Audio
Speaker Type: 2CH Output Power (W): 20W Dolby Atmos Object Tracking Sound (OTS): OTS Lite Q-Symphony Active Voice Amplifier (AVA): AVA Pro Adaptive Sound: Pro Bluetooth Audio 360 Audio
TV Design
FloatLayer 4 Bezel-less Front Color: Slate Black Stand Type: Round Feet Stand Color: Black Adjustable Stand: N/A
LaserSLim 4 Bezel-less Front Color: Graphite Black Stand Type83″ – 48″: Simple Plus Blade 42″: Simple Blade Stand Color: 83″- 48″: Space Titan 42″: Black Adjustable Stand: 83″-48″: N/A 42″: Yes
83″ – 55″: Contour 48″: LaserSlim 4 Bezel-lessFront Color: Graphite Black Stand Type: 83″ – 55″: Simple Linear. 48″: Simple Blade Wide Stand Color: Black Adjustable Stand: 83″-55″: N/A, 48″: Yes
Connectivity
Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth (BT5.3) One Connect Box: N/A 4 x HDMI HDMI Maximum Input Rate: 4K 165Hz (for HDMI 1/2/3/4) HDMI Audio Return Channel: eARC HDMI-CEC: 3 x USB-A Ports 1 x Ethernet (LAN): 1 x Digital Audio Out (Optical): 1 z RF Connection: Y 1 x RS-232C Input
Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth (BT5.3) One Connect Box: N/A 4 x HDMI HDMI Maximum Input Rate: 4K 165Hz (for HDMI 1/2/3/4) HDMI Audio Return Channel: eARC HDMI-CEC: 3 x USB-A Ports 1 x Ethernet (LAN): 1 x Digital Audio Out (Optical): 1 z RF Connection: Y 1 x RS-232C Input
Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth (BT5.3) One Connect Box: N/A 4 x HDMI HDMI Maximum Input Rate: 4K 120Hz (for HDMI 1/2/3/4) HDMI Audio Return Channel: eARC HDMI-CEC: 2 x USB-A Ports 1 x Ethernet (LAN): 1 x Digital Audio Out (Optical): 1 z RF Connection: Y 1 x RS-232C Input
Samsung Vision AI
Vision AI Companion: AI Soccer Mode: AI Sound Controller: Pro Live Translate Generative Wallpaper: Multi AI Agents (Copilot & Perplexity) Pet & Family Care: Home Insight:
Vision AI Companion: AI Soccer Mode: AI Sound Controller: Pro1 Live Translate Generative Wallpaper: Multi AI Agents (Copilot & Perplexity) Pet & Family Care: Home Insight:
AI Soccer Mode: AI Sound Controller: Live Translate Multi AI Agents (Copilot & Perplexity) Pet & Family Care:
Mobile to TV TV initiates mirroring Sound Mirroring Wireless TV On
Mobile to TV TV initiates mirroring Sound Mirroring Wireless TV On
Mobile to TV TV initiates mirroring Sound Mirroring Wireless TV On
Multi-View
Up to 2 videos
Up to 2 videos
Up to 2 videos
Buds Auto Switch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Works with Apple AirPlay
Yes
Yes
Yes
Works with Google Cast:
Yes
Yes
Yes
Daily+
Yes
Yes
Yes
Now Brief
Yes Voice/User Detection
Yes Voice/User Detection
Yes Voice/User Detection
Workout Tracker
Yes
Yes
Yes
Karaoke Mic
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
Storage Share:
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gaming Support
Gaming Hub: Cloud Gaming:-Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce Now, Luna, Blacknut, Antstream, Boosteroid AI Auto Game Mode ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) Game Motion Plus Super Ultra Wide Game View Game Bar Mini Map Zoom AMD FreeSync: Freesync Premium™ Pro NVIDIA G-SYNC HGiG Hue Sync:
Gaming Hub: Cloud Gaming:-Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce Now, Luna, Blacknut, Antstream, Boosteroid AI Auto Game Mode ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) Game Motion Plus Super Ultra Wide Game View Game Bar Mini Map Zoom 83″- 48″: AMD FreeSync: Freesync Premium™ Pro 42″: Freesync Premium™ NVIDIA G-SYNC HGiG Hue Sync:
Gaming Hub: Cloud Gaming:-Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce Now, Luna, Blacknut, Antstream, Boosteroid AI Auto Game Mode ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) Game Motion Plus Super Ultra Wide Game View Game Bar Mini Map ZoomAMD FreeSync: Premium™ NVIDIA G-SYNC HGiG Hue Sync:
Security
Knox Vault: N/A Knox Security: Yes
Knox Vault: N/A Knox Security: Yes
Knox Vault: N/A Knox Security: Yes
Power
Power Supply (V): AC110-120V~ 50/60Hz Stand-by Power Consumption (W): 0.5 Typical Power Consumption (W) 83″: 236W 77″: 192W 65″: 145W 55″: 127W Max Power Consumption (W): 83″: 650W 77″: 770W 65″: 600W 55″: 470W Eco Sensor Auto Power Saving Auto Power Off
Power Supply (V): AC110-120V~ 50/60Hz Stand-by Power Consumption (W): 0.5 Eco Sensor: Yes Auto Power Saving: Auto Power Off
Power Supply (V): AC110-120V~ 50/60Hz Stand-by Power Consumption (W): 0.5 Eco Sensor: Yes Auto Power Saving: Auto Power Off
Included Accessories
Remote Control: BT SolarCell™ Remote TM2660H Power Cable Slim Fit Wall-mount Support
Remote Control: BT SolarCell™ Remote TM2660H Power Cable Slim Fit Wall-mount Support
Remote Control: BT SolarCell™ Remote TM2660H Power Cable Slim Fit Wall-mount Support
Sizes and U.S. Pricing of Samsung’s 2026 OLED TVs:
S95H OLED TV
55-inch S95H: $2,499.99
65-inch S95H: $3,399.99
77-inch S95H: $4,499.99
83-inch S95H: $6,499.99
S90H OLED TV
S85H OLED TV
The Bottom Line
With Samsung’s 2026 line-up of OLED TVs, it’s clear that the company is still committed to this category, even as they continue to enhance their LCD TV line-up with both Mini LED and Micro RGB backlighting. The 165 Hz OLED panel, impressive peak brightness, advanced AI processing, deep black levels and accurate color reproduction should appeal to those who want exceptional picture performance without the requirement to turn out the room lights or close the drapes.
Samsung’s industrial design has always had its share of fans and detractors. Incorporating a picture frame into the chassis of the S95H will likely appeal to those who want their TVs to pass as artwork when not in use, but it may be a sticking point for those who want a more traditional thin bezel design. For those who like the idea of the Frame TV but want something with higher picture performance, we believe the S95H will offer a compelling choice.
We also believe moving away from the required One Connect box on the S95F by including the input/output ports on the S95H TV itself and offering a wireless One Connect option for those who want to move the cables to a separate box is a great move. This makes the S95H even easier to install than its predecessor with more options for the consumer and custom installer.
For those who appreciate the wider color gamut reproduction of a QD-OLED panel but dislike the matte finish of Samsung’s Glare Free screen treatment or aren’t fans of the framed design of the S95H, Samsung isn’t really offering an alternative this year. Whether this turns out to be a misstep or just a trivial checklist item remains to be seen.
But what we’ve seen so far of the Samsung OLED line suggests that the flagship S95H will likely be one of the top performing TVs of the year.
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