CES has not started yet, but Samsung was so eager to show off its brand new, exceptionally different fridge+smartphone hybrid that it posted a some official photos of smart fridge online. Along with a variety of other products, the company's Korean Flickr feed includes pictures of what Google Translater calls a "family hub refrigerator." It looks exactly like the thing we saw on CES advertising banners earlier today — which is to say, it looks like a normal fridge with a giant Android-smartphone phone glued to the door. Seriously, here's a closer look at the buttons on the bottom of that front panel:
As we noted earlier, Samsung has a variety of "smart home" technology already; it just doesn't usually take the phone/appliance connection quite so literally. Since none of these photos show a live screen, we still don't know precisely what one might be able to do on this fridge, or what the interface will look like — although based on the show floor ads, it includes basic features like calendar and weather displays, alongside Pandora and a shopping app. We'll know more (hopefully including pricing and release details) later this week.
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