Samsung’s Galaxy Home Bixby speaker quietly missed another launch date

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The Samsung Galaxy Home did not ship in Q3 of this year, the most recent launch window for the Bixby-powered smart speaker announced more than a year ago. Samsung’s third financial quarter ended on September 30th.

Back in April Samsung CEO Hyun-suk Kim (who runs the company’s consumer electronics division) told The Korea Herald that the speaker was planned for launch in the “mid-second half of the year.” According to other Samsung executives, this launch window was widely interpreted to mean it would launch in the third quarter of the year.

This is just one of the many release dates that the Galaxy Home, which was first announced back in August 2018, has failed to hit. In February the company said the speaker would launch in April, but...

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