Samsung is collaborating with the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Broadcasting Companies (OBS) to broadcast the Paris 2024 Video games this summer season.
For the primary time, the opening ceremony will happen outdoors of a stadium, because the athletes will parade on floating platforms on the Seine. Over 200 items of the Galaxy S24 Extremely will likely be mounted on these boats, streaming the parade over a personal 5G community.
The printed will likely be achieved in collaboration with Orange, which is putting in greater than a dozen 5G antennas alongside the river. There may also be relay boats performing as antennas in the course of the parade.
The identical expertise will likely be utilized to the crusing competitions in Marseille, a Mediterranean metropolis 650 km south of Paris, permitting followers to comply with their favourite Olympians on their path to glory.
Samsung says that is the subsequent step in its three-decade participation within the Olympic Video games and Paralympic Video games. The corporate historically fingers out its newest smartphone to all collaborating athletes and has given away over 120,000 cellular merchandise since Nagano 1998.
We anticipate to see what system the athletes will get this 12 months. It may be a custom-made Galaxy S24 Extremely, but it surely may be the newest foldable, anticipated to launch in a couple of weeks.