A report out of Korea indicates Samsung has merged their Digital Imaging Business Division with their Wireless Division. The Digital Imaging Business Division is responsible for cameras produced by the company, while the Wireless Business Division is essentially their smartphone division. According to a statement released by Samsung, the company “will transplant the brand, sales networks, software competency and manufacturing competitiveness of the Wireless Business Division into the Camera Business Division, and integrate the technical know-how of the two business divisions into competency for differentiating our smartphones.” The reorganization was effective on December 11th.
Underlying the reorganization is an effort by Samsung to improve the cameras that are included in their smartphones, and possibly others, as they try to capture the global mirrorless camera market by 2015. For consumers, any fruits of the merger may take a while to appear. The Samsung Galaxy S5 is likely well along the path to production with a release apparently slated to occur early next year. It is not clear whether the camera in the Galaxy S5 will receive an upgrade to include something like optical image stabilization or any other improvements from Samsung’s combining of the divisions. However, devices released later in the year may benefit from this move.
Samsung indicates that by merging the teams, greater collaboration and communication will occur. This will help produce not only better components, like the camera, but better integration between the camera and the rest of a smartphone device.
source: ET News
via: SamMobile
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