Samsung announces a series of Devices, especially smart TVs

At its CES press event on January 9, Samsung announced a number of new devices coming to the US and the plans for new upgradeable smart TVs, a refreshed Series 9 notebook, and a new version of the Galaxy Tab 7.7, along with a bevy of other new products. Samsung is knee-deep in all sorts of segments, from mobile devices to home appliances to televisions, to name a few. It’s wading further into the consumer electronics pool with the next wave of connected TVs.

Many of the TVs Samsung launches this year will become part of Samsung’s new “smart evolution” program, which allows customers to buy and insert “evolution kit” chips into a slot on the back of the TV to augment its hardware profile. Samsung’s initiative focuses on three areas: smart interaction, smart content and smart evolution. This year’s models will include an integrated camera and microphone so your TV can “listen, see and do,” Boo-Keun Yoon, president of Samsung’s consumer electronics division, said. Samsung's LED smart TV, the ES8000, will come in sizes up to 75 inches. The ES8000 will have an integrated camera and microphone to allow control by gestures and voice commands. The camera will also make use of facial recognition, logging recognizable users into their own profiles on the TV. Samsung was vague on details, but said the first chips will come to market in 2013 for use in this year’s TVs.

Samsung also showed off a 55-inch Super OLED TV, It has a built-in camera and mic for voice and gesture control recognition, as well as a dual-core processor for app multitasking. The new Super OLED HDTV will have every feature Samsung offers in screens, matching its 8000 series HDTVs, which are getting refreshed and seeing UNES8000 edge-lit versions and PNE8000 plasma versions. The OLED HDTV joins LG's as the world's biggest OLED-based screens at 55 inches. It is 3D-capable and features a new dual-core processor that can run multiple Samsung Apps.

Multitasking HDTV apps is a new feature outride of Google TV products. The OLED HDTV has Samsung's Smart Interaction technology, which adjusts the picture through motion control, voice control, and face recognition.

Beyond its TVs, the company is releasing a refreshed version of its Series 9 notebook that weighs 2.5 pounds, gets up to 10 hours of battery life, and can boot up in 9.8 seconds. Todd Bouman, Samsung’s vice president of marketing, stopped short of calling the computer an Ultrabook, though he did not give enough details about it to determine why not. The Series 9 will also come in a 15-inch version. A new Galaxy Tab 7.7 with access to Verizon’s 4G LTE network was announced alongside a US version of the Galaxy Note, a 5.3-inch handheld that’s met some popularity overseas. The Galaxy Note will make extensive use of a stylus that can detect 256 levels of pressure, allowing for a writing experience that better mimics that of a pen and paper.

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