Samsung is the undisputed leader in many markets, however there are two sectors that are resisting more than the account in terms of sales and popularity: Smart watches and smart speakers. This is how the South Korean firm wants to restore hope to its users by presenting the Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Home.
With the Galaxy Watch, we find a smartwatch with a spherical design already common in Samsung, and the Galaxy Home is presented, a virtual assistant that will compete directly with the HomePod of the North American company Apple. Let's get to know these new products from the South Korean firm a little more closely.
Galaxy Watch: The successor to the Samsung Gear range
It is clear that Samsung wants a piece of a cake that is quite resistant to it, that of smart watches, a market that Apple wins from the street thanks to its popular Apple Watch. However, it seems that the competition has arrived suddenly. This new Galaxy Watch has been introduced during the Unpacked of the Galaxy Note 9 whose characteristics you can see summarized in this link. Be that as it may, this new watch aims to give you a breath of fresh air to Samsung's Gear range, a phenomenon of smart watches that have been removed from the sleeve over the years but have not ended up penetrating the market for many reasons. However, in many characteristics we could say that this Galaxy Watch is more of the same, an example is that it has a spherical design (46 mm and 42 mm), as well as the generalized shape of its box and its front.
This new Galaxy Watch will be offered in color silver, black and rose goldCommon colors also in the competition, in fact they are the three offered by the Cupertino company. Meanwhile the panel so that we can view the content offered by the Galaxy Watch will be AMOLED, technology that Samsung masters and that offers spectacular performance in these types of devices. As a surprise at the user interface level, we must highlight that Samsung has been determined to include Bixby, your virtual assistant, and it makes sense when you consider the other great presentation of the day, the Galaxy Home. Despite the fact that the virtual assistant of the South Korean firm does not seem to impose itself at all with respect to its rivals such as Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant.
For their part, they have also wanted to guide the Galaxy Watch to the sports phenomenon, so it will have heart rate measurement sensors, training options and the possibility of immerse it up to 5 ATM. Samsung has also presented what it has called stress management monitor, which will detect our stress levels and recommend breathing patterns. At the connectivity level we will have connection capabilities LTE in addition to Bluetooth. For its part, we will enjoy 4GB of total storage and the autonomy they assure, would reach up to 80 hours depending on the use. It will also be compatible with iOS, yes, It will not be possible to reserve until next August 24, and the first deliveries will be from September 7, without giving clues about the price we imagine that will be around € 300.
Galaxy Home: Samsung plants a rival for the HomePod
We could imagine something, but the reality is that the presentation of the Galaxy Home has caught us all by surprise, especially considering the almost total absence of product leaks. This is how Samsung has presented a smart speaker with a totally disruptive design that has nothing to do with what Google, Amazon or Apple had been doing until now. So we we find a speaker supported on three metal legs and a spherical shape on the bottom and flat on the top, of course the design does not leave anyone indifferent, although we are not going to delve into matters of taste.
For its part, Samsung has reported that the speaker is composed of six speakers, a subwoofer and of course eight long-distance microphones that will be responsible for responding to the "Hi Bixby" order with which we would activate the virtual assistant of the South Korean firm. They have not revealed specific details at the level of compatibility with connected home products, it is clear that in this matter Samsung has a lot of work ahead of it. The audio quality remains to be detailed (although at Samsung we ignore that it will be good) and also the price. Everything indicates that it will be during the IFA in Berlin when Samsung takes advantage of the stage to show us what exactly this smart speaker that has let us see for a few minutes consists of. while presenting the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, the new flagship of the firm. We will be awaiting the news of the Galaxy Home to tell you more about it, while we continue to test the Amazon Echo while waiting for Amazon to launch the final version in Spain and Mexico.