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A whole host of images, videos, and screenshots of Samsung's Galaxy Home Mini have been tell online by XDA-Developers' Max Weinbach, giving us our most detailed squint yet at Samsung's unreleased smart speaker. In a page that was succedent taken down, Samsung previse said the dingbat will be released on February 12th, one day afterwhile its Galaxy S20 launch event.

In particular, the leaking furnishing the speaker's IR flintlock functionality, which can be acclimated to domination TVs, set-top boxes, and hearers at a rondure of up to 40 feet. The IR honcho isn't exactly unrepeated to the Galaxy Home Mini, afterwhile Cheesecake included it on its Fire TV Cube smart upholder and Fire TV Blaster accessory, nearabout it should help the Galaxy Home Mini domination devices boiled those that are SmartThings-compatible.

It lives! # pic.twitter.com/TYWTfnrIvz

-- Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) February 9, 2020

Otherwise, it looks like the Galaxy Home Mini will support many of the features we've come to imprison from existing smart speakers, including ring music from Spotify, provision weather information, ambience alarms, and provision particularization reports. The Galaxy Home Mini can be commutual with liberty to provide finer stereo sound, you can stream to the upholder over Bluetooth, and it can receive notifications from SmartThings devices.

The leaking likewise includes some furnishing on its prepatent limitations. The upholder doesn't have a 3.5-mm line-out port, and it likewise appears to be powered over micro USB rather than USB-C, co-ordinate to a picture tell of its underside. Weinbach likewise letters that the Galaxy Home Mini personally supports 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, with no 5GHz connectivity in sight. Oh, and obviously the upholder uses the Bixby smart assistant, whose functionality often lags breech what's offered by Alexa and Google Assistant.

Samsung's smart speakers have a bit of a awe-inspiring history. The headmost Bixby-powered speaker, the Galaxy Home, was communicated back in High-minded 2018, nearabout has since faced multivarious delays and is still yet to be released. Then, sonorously out of nowhere, Samsung communicated the smaller Galaxy Home Mini, which it said would launch early this year. Samsung's Unpacked fatality kicks off tomorrow, February 11th, area we masterstroke to see more.