Samsung Bixby speaker to arrive in H2 2018

Yordan, 26 February 2018

Samsung made the Galaxy S9 official and is already looking towards the next devices in the technology roadmap. Yesterday the Samsung mobile chief Koh Dong-jin, widely known as DJ Koh, said that the Galaxy X foldable phone is not a gimmick. Today he confirmed in an interview to WSJ that a voice-activated speaker with Bixby is indeed coming, likely in the second half of this year.

NOT the Bixby speaker (this is a Samsung Radiant 360 Bluetooth speaker)

DJ Koh said pricing is not yet finalized, but the home appliance might come in different tiers. Right now Amazon and Google offer different form factors of more or less the same service, while Apple has just the HomePod.

Samsung expanding its voice service to third-party developers and smart homes is not news - the company shared its intentions back in October. Back then the Bixby SDK was pushed to limited beta engineers and from the looks of it, Samsung is already preparing for a launch.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
26 Feb 2018
pj8

True, and the only thing they dont improve is audio quality. Digitally "enhanced", added reverb and bad 3D sound, adding bass in the area they think impress 11 year olds the most but not a single improvement to achieve accurate audio reproduction.

Anonymous
26 Feb 2018
pj8

Great, now bixby can flop on one more platform. Samsung is the very worst on software and always been, how can they even dream of success with this? I never forget the first time i installed samsung software on a galaxy note series, it became the ...

Gibby
26 Feb 2018
qbf

If they design the hardware to look something like the speaker image shown, I think they might have some success. All other companies have produced monolithic speakers that are minimal & blend in to their surroundings. If they go for a hardwa...