TechTvsSamsung’s fun Freestyle, unveiled at CES 2022, turns any surface into a Smart TVSamsung gets philosophical: what if your Smart TV didn’t need QLED, OLED or anything at all?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechTvsSamsung’s fun Freestyle, unveiled at CES 2022, turns any surface into a Smart TVSamsung gets philosophical: what if your Smart TV didn’t need QLED, OLED or anything at all?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Samsung gets philosophical: what if your Smart TV didn’t need QLED, OLED or anything at all?
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Samsung’s making an early bid to top ourbest projectorsguide in 2022: its newly announced Freestyle is a projector that brings Samsung’s much-loved Smart TV interface to any surface: the ceiling, a wall, your friends… if you can point the Freestyle at it, you can watch TV on it.
The Freestyle looks like an interesting alternative to the arms race where thebest TVsandbest OLED TVsare massive: this is aimed at people who want portability rather than pixels.
Take your video and audio wherever you go
The Freestyle is an odd thing. According to Samsung: “Targeted toward Gen Z and millennials, The Freestyle is a projector, smart speaker and ambient lighting device all rolled into one lightweight, portable device”. Unlike traditional projectors it can rotate up to 180 degrees to project images anywhere, and it has far field voice control for your favourite personal digital assistant.
The specs are impressive: it can produce up to 100-inch images and has full auto keystone and auto levelling as well as autofocus and 360-degree audio. You can run it off the mains or from a USB-PD battery pack, and you can also stick it into a light socket and power it from that. And when you’re not watching things, you can use it as a mood light.
The downsides? It’s 550 lumens, which isn’t hugely bright, and it’s $899. Both of those things rule it out for me, but then I’m very old and don’t have the “nomadic experiences” or TikTok accounts of the people Samsung are targeting this at. I think it’s very clever and a lot of fun, but I think I’ll stick to my front room and one of thebest TVsinstead.
UK prices haven’t been announced but the Freestyle is available now forpre-order in the US.
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