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Hey so back in August Samsung kind of out of nowhere announced the Samsung Galaxy home which is basically a smart speaker kind of similar to the home pod or maybe the Google home or Google home max but we didn't really know a lot about it and they told us that they would tell us a little bit more at the Samsung developer conference well now we're here it's November we're at the same some developer conference and we were hoping to know more but they didn't really tell us anything extra but we never did a hands on originally so I'm just gonna work you through exactly what this thing is so this is a smart speaker from Samsung and it looks kind of like a little grille or maybe a cauldron it's it's a really funny shape and it's actually really big it's powered by a Harman speakers so they actually sound really good and Samsung says that it can direct sound exactly where you are in the room to make this sound a lot more clear and just a lot louder now the big thing about the speaker is that it's powered by Bix feet which is kind of controversial obviously a lot of people don't really like Bix be on their phone and a lot of people already have like an Alexa or Google assistant in their home already so it seems like it's gonna be a little bit difficult for Samsung to be able to penetrate people's homes the one big interesting thing that we learned at the Samsung developer conference is that Samsung is opening up big speed to developers so effectively people can make their own apps and work with the API to just develop things for the Samsung Galaxy home as well as for Bixby in general the Galaxy album can also do things like make phone calls or find your phone if you have a samsung galaxy phone so that's pretty useful but honestly Google assistant can already do these things as well so it's gonna be a little bit difficult for Samsung to actually get people to want to use this thing so we're really hoping that we would get some sort of release day or maybe price out of the conference here but they haven't told us anything they said that it was gonna be a 2018 product but they haven't said that it's actually going to launch it so we're thinking it's probably gonna get moved back to 2019 or if it even launches at all so we'll make sure to keep you updated as soon as we know those things but that's kind of been it for the same Sun Galaxy home would you put Bixby in your home or do you already have a lot of Google home and Alexa enabled speakers there let me know and stay tuned to Android authority comm as soon as we know any other updates on this thing because of course we are your source for all things Android