The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the smart home security market. Control your smart home with Amazon’s upcoming wall-mounted Echo device. And… How does the future of Apple HomeKit look in the smart home market? Check out these stories and more in this week’s top smart home news for February 22, 2021.
Sales of cameras and surveillance equipment have surged throughout the pandemic for a variety of reasons. More people working from home and, for parents, more time spent out of school and daycare for children has prompted many people to take keeping tabs on their points of entry more seriously. The increase in deliveries for many people has also meant a desire to better monitor doors and driveways.
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Samsung SmartThings users can get an early hand on with some features that the company is testing. Through SmartThings Labs, you can try experimental functions in the SmartThings app and provide Samsung engineers with real-time feedback. There are eight experiments to check out, including a universal remote control, with which you can manage a variety of connected home devices from a single screen.
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Pei Yu or Carl Pei, as he is popularly known outside China, left OnePlus almost a year ago. Since then he’s constantly been making news, before recently announcing Nothing as his new company – and now, we know the company is planning to make wireless earbuds like the Apple AirPods and the Sony WF-1000XM3.
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