Samsung Galaxy Home speaker: will it ever be available?

Samsung Galaxy Home speaker: will it ever be available?

Remember the Samsung Galaxy Home speaker? Yet another release date is yet to come, leaving the entire world wondering when exactly we will see the company's first smart speaker powered by Bixby.

Last June, Kim Hyun-suk, one of Samsung's co-CEOs and president of the consumer electronics division, told the Korea Herald that the company was targeting a launch "in the middle of the second half of l & # 39. ; years ".

If this sounds confusing, "other Samsung executives" have told the Herald to "expect a rollout by the third quarter," according to Phone Arena.

Now that Samsung's third financial quarter is over, there is still no trace of the Galaxy Home speaker, and this is not the first time that Samsung has missed the deadline for this device.

Samsung smart speaker

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An 2020 version?

The Samsung Galaxy Home was originally scheduled to launch in April 2019, but as the months passed, it became clear that the Amazon Echo's rival, Apple HomePod and Google Home, would not emerge anytime soon.

Even if the Galaxy Home arrives in the next few months, we still don't know in which territories it will be available. According to the rumor, last year, the smart speaker controlled by Bixby would arrive in China, Korea and the United States. versus other markets, "but we don't know if Samsung will stick with this implementation strategy.

In August 2018, we first saw the speaker, who sports a rather strange shape, like a flower bulb resting on three silver pegs that serve as a backdrop. The opportunity to test it thoroughly before the end of the year heralds fewer and fewer possibilities.

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