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The Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator is the Korean manufacturer"s latest and boldest attempt at selling us on the smart fridge. With a 21.5-inch touchscreen on the door and cameras on the inside that keep watch over your leftovers, it"s arguably the smartest -- and inarguably the smartest-looking -- smart fridge to date.

And with a retail price starting at $5,600 (or $6,000 for a counter-depth model in black stainless steel like the one seen here) it"s the most expensive one yet, too. It isn"t available outside of the US yet like some of Samsung"s other four-door fridges, but that starting price comes out to roughly £3,900 or AU$7,500.

However you convert it, $6,000 is a hell of a lot to spend on a fridge, even one that looks as nice as this one does. Take the Samsung RF32FMQDBSR, for instance. It offers the same, attractive four-door build, the same luxurious recessed handles, and the same "Flex Zone" in the bottom right quadrant that you can dial between fridge and freezer settings -- all for at least two thousand bucks less than the Family Hub fridge. The only differences between the two? The touchscreen, the cameras and the admittedly slick-looking black stainless steel finish.

So here"s the basic question with this thing: Is that king-sized touchscreen (and the smarts that go with it) really worth the two thousand-dollar upcharge? Is this the fridge of the future, or a fridge too far?

No surprise, here. Stylistically, Samsung knows it has a good thing going with its "Four-Door Flex" refrigerators, and with the dark finish and the eye-catching touchscreen, the Family Hub Fridge is the best-looking one yet.

The Tizen-powered touchscreen is well-organized and striking to look at, too, especially when it cycles through your photo collection. It"s a dramatic difference from Samsung"s previous smart fridges, where the touchscreens were comparably puny. Turns out size matters -- but, that said...

Let"s get one thing clear: Samsung didn"t just slap a tablet onto the front of this fridge. That"s too generous a way of putting it. Tablets are personal and customizable, and they fill a wide variety of roles for a wide variety of users. The Family Hub fridge"s touchscreen is just an interface, and one that"s designed for the specific purpose of allowing you to interact with the refrigerator"s smart features, the same way that an ATM"s touchscreen is an interface designed to help you withdraw money from your bank account.Samsung didn"t just slap a tablet onto the front of this fridge. That"s too generous a way of putting it.

You can move the apps around on the home screen, but you can"t delete any of them, or replace them with new ones from third parties. You can switch the screensaver between a photo slideshow, a weather rundown, and a look at your calendar, but you can"t change the home screen, or set it to default to the latest images from those fridge cams. Good looks aside, it"s still just an interface, not a personal computing device.

There"s three of them built into the refrigerator"s "mullion," the strip of material that flaps shut between the doors whenever you close them. Each time you do, they snap a picture of the interior. Tap the "View Inside" button on the fridge"s screen, or open up the Samsung Smart Home app on your phone, and you"ll be able to check the latest picture. Samsung pitches it as a handy way of checking whether or not you need more orange juice or whatever while you"re out at the grocery.Using your smart fridge to track ingredients finally makes sense.

That seemed to me like the sort of feature that would come in handy maybe once or twice a year, and I didn"t blame anybody for scoffing at the sound of it. But that "View Inside" feature has one other trick up its sleeve: little drag-and-drop icons that keep track of when things in the fridge will go bad.

It"s easy to use, and a huge improvement from the ingredient-tracking capabilities of previous smart refrigerators, where you had to manually type in the details of the stuff you wanted to track. After all, if you really cared, you might as well just type those details into the notes app on your phone. Now, with the cameras in play, using your smart fridge to track ingredients finally makes sense -- although you"ll need to make a habit of putting things back in the same spot, because the icons won"t follow ingredients around if you move them.

Beyond the "View Inside" mode, you"ll find a web browser, an app that can mirror the feed from your Samsung smart TV, the Instacart and Groceries by Mastercard apps for getting ingredients delivered to your door, and an app called Sticki that syncs up your family"s calendars into a shared, color-coded fridge calendar. I liked it, especially because it didn"t force me to make a new calendar in a weird, new app -- I could just select events and meetings from my existing Google Calendar to show up on the fridge. Seems pretty handy for a busy family.

I also liked how easy it was to stream music or Internet radio using Pandora or TuneIn. The speakers are nothing special, but they"re "good for a fridge," which is to say good enough for casual kitchen listening. If you want something that sounds better, you can sync the fridge up with external speakers via Bluetooth. I suppose that"s a nice option, but I think I"d rather just get an Amazon Echo for the kitchen if it mattered that much to me.

Speaking of which, where is Alexa? When Samsung first pitched this fridge, the first and biggest bullet point on the press release was that it would be an Alexa-enabled device, with Amazon"s voice-powered virtual assistant built right in. Then, at CES, Samsung backed off on the Alexa claims, saying it was really just more of a possibility for down the line.

I get it. This smart fridge looks exponentially better and more futuristic than any other smart fridge ever made. Yes, it"s expensive -- too expensive to be a realistic option for most of us -- but I don"t think that"s really the point.

The point is that nobody wanted the smart fridges of yesterday. That"s the challenge Samsung and other appliance-makers must answer in order to capitalize on the smart homes of tomorrow. It sounds obvious, but they need to start making smart large appliances that people actually want. For now, at least, that means pulling out all of the stops and essentially producing their category"s version of a concept car. You"re almost certainly not going to buy it, but if it catches your attention and makes you want it, then it"s done its job.

Samsung"s Family Hub refrigerator for 2019 features platform updates that make it a true "home screen" for the entire family. New UI/UX and software improvements make the Family Hub a communal, emotional and cultural experience in the kitchen. *

See who"s at the front door with Ring, monitor multiple rooms with Arlo, use voice control with Alexa, adjust your Nest thermostat, get appliance notifications and more - all on your Family Hub.™* *Wi-Fi connection and Samsung account required. Compatible with select Ring, Arlo, Amazon, and Nest products, as well as select appliances.

Enjoy streaming your favorite music apps, watching your favorite shows from your compatible Samsung smart TV or Galaxy phone, and accessing all your favorite sites like Facebook and YouTube - all on your Family Hub.™* *Wi-Fi connection and Samsung account required.

Easily stay connected with your family. Share pictures, videos or drawings, leave handwritten notes, and sync calendars - all on your Family Hub.™* *Wi-Fi connection and Samsung account required.

See inside your fridge from anywhere, search recipes based on what you have on hand, plan weekly meals, send cooking instructions to your Samsung smart oven - all on your Family Hub.™* *SmartThings App available on Android and iOS devices. Wi-Fi connection and Samsung account required.

Samsung"s Family Hub refrigerator for 2019 features platform updates that make it a true "home screen" for the entire family. New UI/UX and software improvements make the Family Hub a communal, emotional and cultural experience in the kitchen. *

See who"s at the front door with Ring, monitor multiple rooms with Arlo, use voice control with Alexa, adjust your Nest thermostat, get appliance notifications and more - all on your Family Hub.(TM)* *Wi-Fi connection and Samsung account required. Compati

Enjoy streaming your favorite music apps, watching your favorite shows from your compatible Samsung smart TV or Galaxy phone, and accessing all your favorite sites like Facebook and YouTube - all on your Family Hub.(TM)* *Wi-Fi connection and Samsung acco

Easily stay connected with your family. Share pictures, videos or drawings, leave handwritten notes, and sync calendars - all on your Family Hub.(TM)* *Wi-Fi connection and Samsung account required.

Have you been looking for the next piece of tech to wow your guests when they come over to your house? Look no further! Samsung has built the Family Hub 2.0 to shake the refrigerator world as we know it!

The fridge comes with a 21.5-inch touch screen panel. It is reminiscent of an android layout making it easier to navigate. This panel gives you access to the fridge in ways you may have not thought possible. We’ll try and narrow it down to a few of the best features.

Family Hub: The whole concept of the fridge is based on the family hub. It brings the family closer as you’re all able to connect with each other through this interface. When you connect to Smartthings or the family hub app, you gain instant control over your appliances. Turning your home from a house to a smart home.Start off your week with tech news recap and trending conversations in your inbox

Calendar:With the calendar app, you are able to mark important events you would want someone else in the family to remember as well. With the panel on the fridge, whenever someone accesses the app, they are able to see what’s coming up next on the family schedule.

Phone And TV Mirroring:This allows you to watch TV or run normal smartphone tasks on your phone. With this, you can watch your favourite show as you cook or follow up on a recipe without having to use multiple devices.

You don’t have to open the fridge door anymore to see what’s inside. See what’s inside using the three in-built cameras. You can then see what’s left inside and choose what to eat, what to buy or what to make fromanywhere in the world. Also, you can bring a food list form your refrigerator to your phone or vice versa.

Through the app, you can see what’s in the fridge and get all that you need from the store. Thanks to the touch screen panel, you can see what’s inside, tap on a food item and customize what it’s about. You can name it, add it to the shopping/food list and even add an expiry date to it. It then tracks this information and updates you on what you have, what you needs and warns you what will expire.

For a few years, Samsung has been hoping to make the fridge more than just a fridge by adding touchscreens on the front. The model we tested out in 2014 had Wi-Fi capabilities and an 8-inch LCD display. It had calendar and weather widgets and worked with the Epicurious app, allowing you to find recipes. Fun and useful but not necessarily something that everyone was going to go out and buy — especially with its $3,000-plus price tag. Now Samsung is hoping its 4-Door Flex Refrigerator with Family Hub, with its larger 21.5-inch HD LCD screen — will make a bigger impact.

Debuting at CES 2016, the fridge is meant to bring more than a little convenience to the kitchen. Samsung says it has improved the calendar app with the help of startup Sticki. You’ll be able to sync it with your other calendars, and you’ll also be able to choose what shows up (dinner with the neighbors instead of your noon work meeting, for example). Whereas typical stainless steel fridges, with their non-magnetic faces, don’t really have a place for photos and other paraphernalia of familial life, the Family Hub can display your phone’s pics or a memo (“dinner at 8”). “There isn’t that public space anymore,” said Justin Reinke, Director of Refrigeration Product Marketing at Samsung, in a call with reporters. He says the screen lets you add a bit of personalization back onto the silver surface.

These features aren’t so different from the older touchscreen fridges, but the large display makes it a little more suitable for entertainment. It can mirror your Samsung TV, so you can keep watching the game if it comes back on while you’re still making your snack. If you walk out of the kitchen, the screen will go to sleep, and will then turn back on when you come back in, thanks to proximity sensors. While it has a browser and some third-party capabilities, the fridge, which runs on Samsung’s Tizen platform, also has a lot of features that are controlled through the appliance’s app.

Some of those third-party functions include grocery ordering. The Instacart app will be available on the touchscreen, as will a new offering, Groceries by MasterCard. Through FreshDirect or ShopRite, users will be able to get food delivered from the app when the fridge rolls out in the northeast in May. The advantage there is that you can compare between the stores; if one doesn’t have your favorite brand of almond milk, the other might.

With a price of over $5,000, Samsung wanted it to be more than just a smart fridge combined with a tablet. “We don’t want to take a tablet and glue it to a refrigerator,” said Reinke. “We want to make this useful and have a reason to be on the refrigerator.”