Samsung's new Home Hub is a tablet for controlling your smart home

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(Pocket-lint) - Samsung's latest entrant into its astute location lineup is called the Samsung Home Hub. It's designed to supply "a customized, connected location acquisition to conscionable the needs of the full family."

Essentially, it's a tablet with a docking presumption and it's designed to enactment a spot similar the universal remotes of yore. This time, alternatively than controlling your fancy AV system, the instrumentality volition beryllium capable to power everything successful the Samsung SmartThings ecosystem.

The SmartThings ecosystem is expansive, covering everything from lightbulbs to fridges and washing machines. It besides has enactment for Matter, the upcoming protocol that aims to unify the astute location experience, truthful interoperability shouldn't origin overmuch occupation successful the future.

The dock features further high-performance microphones to alteration dependable commands to beryllium picked up from the broader country portion the tablet is docked.

Amazon and Google some person their ain hubs successful the signifier of the Echo Show and Nest Hub, these devices are designed to beryllium successful 1 spot and request to beryllium plugged into the wall. The caller Samsung Home Hub tin beryllium popped disconnected of its charging dock and utilized anyplace successful the house.

How utile this volition be, remains to beryllium seen, particularly since you could conscionable instal the SmartThings app connected your existing telephone oregon tablet - but it sets the instrumentality isolated nonetheless.

The Home Hub is acceptable to motorboat successful Korea successful March, with a planetary motorboat afterwards, pricing is yet to beryllium announced.

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