The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.
The Samsung Family Hub Refridgerator is the next step in the evolution of the family fridge. Combining years of Samsung’s tablet, appliance and smartphone experience into the centerpiece of the most important room in the home, the kitchen.
Features
- Family Hub – 21.5″ WiFi-enabled LCD touchscreen
- FlexZone™ • Large Capacity – 22 cu. ft.
- Triple Cooling System
- Metal Cooling
- Ice Master Ice Maker in the Refrigerator
- High-Efficiency LED Lighting
- ENERGY STAR®-Compliant
- Stainless Steel Accents on Interior Shelving and Door Bins
- Tempered Glass Spill-Proof Shelves
- Two Humidity-Controlled Crispers
- EZ Slide-Out Shelves in Freezer and FlexZone™
- Flip-Up Shelf
- Gallon Door Bins Convenience
- Door Alarm
- Water Filter Indicator
Capacity and Temperature
With 22.1 cubic feet, easily accessible using the four doors, there is more than enough space for a lot of groceries, left overs and whatever else you need to keep cold. With separate controls for each area, you can choose to have a two door deep freezer, one freezer and one wine chiller or meat storage or a defrosting area. All of the controls for the cooling selections are easily managed on the Family Hub Touchscreen or, through the Samsung Smart Home app on your Smartphone.
The fridge does an excellent job at maintaining the set temperatures and our food is lasting longer because of it.
The integrated Ice Maker/Water Dispenser is very nice as well. As for ice, you can choose to have cubed or crushed ice dropped right into your glass. The water is all filtered with a filter cartridge stationed inside the main fridge between the meat/cheese drawer and the vegetable crisper. I’d have to say that this feature is by far my kid’s favorite feature, you would think they never saw ice before! I have to agree, I do love having a water and ice dispenser now.
The Tech
The Family Hub Wi-Fi LCD Touchscreen truly turns this refrigerator into the heart of the family kitchen. Whether you need to check the weather, the latest shopping list, the multi-user family calendar or you want to listen to your favorite Pandora station while cooking, you can do all of that and more through the outstanding simple to use interface.
The first thing I checked out was the music feature, now I can have my own little dance party while cooking dinner!
We’ve also been using the Whiteboard feature on a daily basis leaving notes and funny pictures. We also love the calendar option so we can see what everyone is doing that week by just looking at the fridge.
It is easy to control how your fridge cools and at what temperature each zone will operate. You can leave notes, update shopping lists and see what is inside your fridge. You can take a picture and post it to the touchscreen to immediately share something memorable. Did I mention you can do all of that from your smartphone with the Samsung Smart Home app?
Yea, you can do that.
Those are actual photos taken from inside our fridge!
The interior LED lighting is incredibly bright and leaves no hiding spaces inside any section of the fridge. This is especially useful when you want to look in the fridge without opening it. The three interior cameras are placed in the center of the fridge and a new picture is taken each time the door is shut. Using the touchscreen or your phone, you can set a marker on each and every item nothing how long until it goes bad or to let you know exactly how old those leftovers really are.
The App
The Samsung Smart Home app is designed to work with a number of Samsung Home Appliances including the FlexZone Refrigerator.
Using this app on any smartphone, a number of settings can be controlled including the temperatures, adding pictures, updating shopping lists and communicating through the Whiteboard on the touchscreen.
Convenience
Using the LCD Touchscreen, it’s easy to get your groceries ordered and delivered to your front door through the online shopping app. Once you create an account you simply pick the foods you need and they will be delivered to your door from your local supermarket.
Using the built-in apps, you can find tons of cooking recipes for all kinds of meals, desserts and just about anything you can think of. AllRecipies and Club du Chefs are the two available right now and, making use of the online ordering or shopping lists at the same time, you can make a list of exactly what you need and have it delivered, sometimes within the hour, right to your door.
Final Thoughts
The Samsung Family Hub is an outstanding appliance. Our food stays fresher longer, the interior space and design is superb and the added features of a WiFi connected refrigerator are, to say the least, beyond any expectations we ever had for a refrigerator. We love our Samsung FlexZone with Family Hub Wi-Fi Enabled TouchScreen Refridgerator.
Plus I never thought we would ever hear this sentence come out of our mouths: “I have to read a manual on how to operate my refrigerator.”