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Samsung is doubling down on a formation of health and medical functionality into a mobile strategy, according to Daum.co.kr. The Korean site says that a Galaxy S4 will collect information about your health regulating discretionary accessories.

The Samsung firm is active in a medical business, with a American multiplication of Samsung Electronics announcing a consolidation of a health and medical efforts final year. Moreover, Samsung is pronounced to be targeting medical startups as intensity investment possibilities for a newly set adult investment fund.

Daum.co.kr suggests that there is a flourishing seductiveness within Samsung for formulating synergy between a mobile business and a medical business. But this isn’t a novel growth – a Koreans have done their intentions transparent given final year, when an app called S Health was launched. Running on a flagship Galaxy S3, S Health authorised smartphone users to bond to medical inclination such as blood vigour monitors, glucose turn scanners, and electronic scales. But S Health was usually done accessible in certain markets, and a beginning lacked a selling pull compulsory to benefit traction in a consumer market.

This year, Samsung seems some-more unaffected in compelling a health and medical functionality of a devices. Daum.co.kr even mentions a health hub, that could meant that Samsung skeleton to preinstall a health apps on a Galaxy S4. The association already preinstalls other identical apps, like Social Hub, Game Hub, or Readers Hub.

The news also mentions an discretionary health appendage that Samsung could sell along a Galaxy S4. It’s also probable that Samsung is integrating health-monitoring functionality in a rumored smartwatch it’s preparing, codenamed Altius.

Regardless what Samsung has adult a sleeve, we’ll find out some-more on Mar 14, when a Galaxy S4 is pronounced to be launching.

SOURCES Daum

Samsung launches Galaxy A for Korean market Coming in April, Galaxy S4 will not have an S Pen, though it will underline a gesture-based interface: Korean media Rumor: Samsung Galaxy S3 to Feature 3D functionality, Being Unveiled during MWC 2012 S Health app for Samsung Galaxy S3 helps guard blood sugar, blood vigour turn and other health stats