Samsung Says It's Working on an Amazon Echo Competitor (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:00AM from the more-smart-speakers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Samsung is working on a smart speaker that will be launched "soon", the company's mobile chief told CNBC, which will pit it against the likes of Amazon, Apple, and Google, in the hotly-contested space. DJ Koh, the president of Samsung's mobile division, said a smart speaker was on the way. "Maybe soon we will announce it. I am already working on it," Koh told CNBC in an interview ahead of the Note 8 smartphone launch which took place on Wednesday. And it appears the company could be moving fast on the product. "As I mentioned I wanted to provide a fruitful user experience at home with Samsung devices, and I want to be moving quite heavily on it," Koh said.

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Re:Competition is good... by fred6666 · 2017-08-23 06:23 · Score: 3, Insightful

It's not too late, most people don't have one.
However Samsung just can't make software. Their phones are great, but every single piece of Samsung (not Android) software is total crap and/or redundant. I don't see why it would be any different this time.