INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Samsung just announced its first smart speaker with Bixby and it has called it, drum roll, the Samsung Galaxy Home.It's been built to
compete against the likes of the Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod and Google Home.The company announced the Samsung Galaxy Home at its Unpacked
price, but we did to see, touch, and hold the new Bixby-powered smart speaker
around the perimeter of the top of the speaker.Whether the company plans to launch some extra colors for the device remains to be seen, as
it's just the subtle gray that we saw as it swooshed in front of us on a table being cleared away.There's an illuminated AKG logo, and
quality with a huge library of music behind it.The SoundSteer feature, that will direct the sound at the person speaking, is a definite
advantage over Apple's model, but this is a way of listening to music when on your own rather than in a big group of people with audio
Think more Apple HomePod than Amazon Echo Dot.It's powered by Harman's AKG audio, which is something Samsung bought to leverage in this
On stage, Samsung claimed it will "make music sound amazing", and we can't wait to test it out to see if that's true.We know it'll have
eight microphones to hear you for far-field voice recognition, so you can speak to it wherever you are in the room.The sound quality and
has announced a special partnership with Spotify to help you seamlessly switch from one device to another.This works through the Samsung
Smart Things app and allows you to walk into your home listening to Spotify on your Samsung phone and automatically connect it to your
speaker, smart TV or even fridge (if Samsung sticks a speaker on there) the second you walk into the room.TakeawayIt's hard to say
anything about Samsung's new smart speaker, mostly because they wouldn't let us check it out properly.We can't do our usual in-depth hands
on review of the device, as we couldn't hear it in action or try out the smart elements - so it's basically judging a powered-down unit
(albeit one with the lights on).We're looking forward to trying out more of the features soon though - there's a lot to pick through here
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