Samsung launches an application to follow the Olympic Games

Samsung has developed the official application to follow the results of the tests from your mobile Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), which are held from August 5 to 21 of this year. The application is just one of the actions carried out by the Korean company to celebrate this sporting event in which it plays a leading role: Samsung is an official partner of the Games in the wireless communications category, and has also decided to put on sale a Olympic Games special edition of the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone

A customizable app to follow the results that interest us the most

The most interesting of the Samsung application for the 2016 Olympic Games is the possibility to configure the different settings to focus on the type of information that interests us the most You can establish notifications of results or medals only for the countries that interest us, or establish notifications by type of event or even by Olympic athletes that we are interested in following.

The application is now available for devices Android, Windows Phoneand iOS and in multiple languages: Japanese, Korean, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, and French. It can be downloaded from the store Galaxy Apps, at Google Play, at Apple App Store and in the Windows app store, depending on the type of device we have.

To develop this official application, the joint work of the Samsung team together with the organizing committee of the Rio Olympic Games has been necessary .

Google also allows us to follow live events

The application developed by Samsung is the official application of the Olympic Games, but it will not be the only way to follow sporting events live of Brazil in these weeks. We recently learned that Google has made available to its users a large battery of tools to better enjoy the Olympic Games: virtual visits to the Olympic facilities on Google Maps Street View, broadcast of the main events by streaming via YouTube, cards specials and search notifications in the mobile application of the search engine…

The official app developed by Samsung, however, it is offered as the best option to follow only the results that interest us and have in a single place the information of sporting events in real time, with the added advantage of being able to configure notifications related to our favorite athletes or countries.

A quick look at the Samsung app

Once installed on our device, the application will take a few seconds to load all the content (while showing us logos of various sponsors of the sporting event). Next, it asks us to select the language, accept the terms of use, set the time zone for the events calendar and select the content update time: manually or automatically every 5, 10 or 15 seconds In addition to notifications on the smartphone, we can receive others by email if we register our email address.

After all the introductory process, we can select the teams, sports (maximum three) and favorite athletes by simply clicking on an icon in the shape of a little star.

After having selected the favourites, we can navigate through the application viewing three sections or columns: medals, official news related to the Olympic Games, and real-time results .