NXP Secure UWB deployed in Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra Bringing the First UWB-Enabled Android Device to Market

News Highlights:

• NXP’s industry-first solution to combine UWB fine-ranging, NFC, Secure Element, and embedded SIM (eSIM) is included in Samsung’s new Galaxy Note20 Ultra.    
• NXP’s UWB technology delivers “relative-location” with unprecedented accuracy in crowded, multipath signal environments with numerous walls, people, and other obstacles.
• NXP’s mobile wallet extends into an end-to-end solution for a myriad of security applications such as NFC-based payments, mobile ticketing, eSIM, and first of its kind spatial-aware applications enabled by UWB.

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, Aug. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced that NXP’s Secure Ultra-Wideband (UWB) fine-ranging solution, embedded SIM (eSIM) as well as Near Field Communication (NFC) and Secure Element (eSE) unit are deployed in Samsung’s new Galaxy Note20 Ultra¹. NXP innovations bring a variety of future capabilities and applications to mobile devices as they become the smart hub of daily digital life.  

Propelling today’s on-the-go lifestyle with secure mobile solutions, NXP tethers consortia and ecosystem collaborations to ironclad industry alignment around UWB. NXP and Samsung are two of the founding members of the FiRa Consortium, which was established in 2019 to foster interoperability in the development and widespread adoption of UWB.

“For the first time in a Galaxy device, Samsung is integrating NXP’s UWB technology into our latest Galaxy Note20 Ultra to make sharing photos, videos and files easier,” said Inkang Song, Vice President and Head of Technology Strategy Group of IT & Mobile Communications Division at Samsung Electronics. “We are excited to introduce future UWB functionality in our Galaxy devices that will help locate items more accurately with AR technology and unlock your home as a digital key that will make life easier for consumers.”    

UWB technology delivers unprecedented accuracy in both line-of-site (LoS) and strong localization in non-line-of-sight (nLoS) scenarios, such as crowded, multipath signal environments with numerous walls, people, and other obstacles. It also uses angle-of-arrival (AoA) technology to indicate the direction of a signal for added precision, and to locate and identify other devices or objects at centimeter level. With that, Samsung’s utilization of UWB in its latest Galaxy Note20 Ultra brings users powerful tools to help maximize their time and simplify their daily routines.