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Samsung delays launch of Galaxy Home for second time
June 18, 2025
Will we ever see theSamsung Galaxy Home? The company announced its Bixby-powered smart speaker in August 2018 alongside theSamsung Galaxy Note 9, yet here we are nine months later without even so much as a concrete release date.
Samsung gave usa look at the Galaxy Homein November 2018 but gave no hints on a release date. In early 2019, Samsung said the device wouldland in April. It missed that date with little notice. Then, the company said it would landby the end of June 2019. However, now we have word from Samsung CEO Hyun-suk Kim (viaThe Korea Herald) saying that the speaker won’t land until sometime in the third quarter of this year.
“The Galaxy Home speaker, which will be the center of Samsung’s home appliances, is planned to be launched in mid-second half of the year,” Kim said.The Korea Heraldconfirmed that, according to other Samsung executives, “mid-second half of the year” refers to the third quarter of 2019.
That means it could be as late as the end of September before we see the smart speaker — which means it could launch a full year after Samsung announced it. How strange would it be if Samsung launched the Galaxy Home at its anticipated event for theSamsung Galaxy Note 10? It would be like déjà vu.
Every day that goes by, the smart speaker market gets more and more difficult to enter. Right now,Google and Amazon own the landscape, with not even Apple able to make a dent with its expensiveHomePod. With Samsung’s push for the Galaxy Home to be a high-end sound machine coupled with the idea that the smart speaker isn’t likely to featureAmazon’s AlexaorGoogle Assistant, it’s probably going to be a hard sell whenever it does land.
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