Samsung's 2022 TV lineup supports Alexa and Google Assistant

Starting with the company's 2019 QLED models, Samsung boob tube owners will be able to use their vocalisation to control their tv set sets through Google Banana and Amazon Alexa, too equally Samsung'due south Bixby digital assistant.

The S Korean electronics giant announced the news on January sixth, 2019 during its CES 2019 keynote in Las Vegas.

While this is a major step forward for the company, Samsung isn't assuasive users to completely replace Bixby just yet.

To start, neither Google Banana nor Alexa will be built into the company's new Telly sets. Instead, owners of Samsung's new QLED TV sets will need to supply their ain smart speaker, whether that be Google Home, Amazon Echo or a third-political party speaker like the Sonos 1 that has ane or both vocalization-activated assistants congenital-in.

Additionally, support for Alexa and Google Assistant is rudimentary. Users will be able to accept reward of those platforms to plow their TVs on and off, suit book, switch inputs and launch select apps, but not use some of the more than advanced functionality offered by Bixby.

At the moment, Samsung has yet to commit to supporting Google Assistant and Alexa on its older Boob tube sets, though the company has a rail tape of updating its older models with new features, such every bit when it upgraded its 2018 QLED Tv set lineup to support AMD'due south FreeSync platform.

On Dominicus, Samsung likewise announced that it's bringing iTunes to its 2018 and 2019 Telly lineups sometime this spring. LG also appear that it would back up Apple tree'southward Air Play 2 on its 2019 smart TVs. LG's TVs will as well support HomeKit and HomePod.

Source: The Verge