SMART HOME SPECIAL
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If your home has multiple Samsung devices, SmartThings can connect everything but the kitchen sink
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Samsung’s smart TVs are always impressive performers with an excellent user interface. SmartThings enables you to control them along with connected lights and soundbars.
Samsung’s SmartThings doesn’t get the attention that the Amazon, Google and Apple ecosystems get, but it’s a very powerful and flexible platform. Although the number of available devices is smaller than you’ll find for Alexa or Google Home, there are still plenty of big brands here including Arlo, Bose, Sonos, Nest, Hue, Innr, Lifx, Belkin and Ring.
SmartThings is actually two entities: it’s a smart home platform, but it’s also Samsung’s label for its own compatible devices – so it’s baked into the company’s phones and laptops… and even some of its fridges.