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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.”

We found the most feature-rich Smart Fridge currently on the market—the Samsung Family Hub™ Refrigerator, a $6,000 tech behemoth—and then thought up DIY solutions to turn any run-of-the-mill refrigerator into as functional a fridge as the Family Hub.

Smart Tech: The Samsung Family Hub™ Refrigerator has a built-in Wifi enabled touchscreen that uses the same operating system as any Samsung phone or tablet. Basically, your fridge door is an enormous tablet.

Normal Tech Workaround: Mount an iPad or Android tablet on your fridge using one of the many tablet fridge mounts available, such as the Aduro U-Grip Adjustable Universal Fridge Mount for Tablets ($19.99). (Don’t worry, because tablets use solid-state hard drives, magnets won’t damage your tablet.) If your refrigerator is stainless steel, you will need adhesive strips to keep the mount up.

As for the tablet, you’ll want as large a screen as you can get, to make it easier to read and use, which means either a 12.9-inch iPad Pro ($799.99) or the mammoth 18.4-inch Samsung Galaxy View ($499.99). This is a suggestion though; feel free to use a tablet you already own.

Smart Tech: The Samsung Family Hub™ Refrigerator has built-in speakers which sync with Pandora and TuneIn Radio. The touchscreen can also mirror compatible Samsung TVs, so you can leave your living room to put a casserole in the oven without having to pause your show.

While this may seem superfluous, the refrigerator has long served as a hub for family communication and rotating art gallery. So why not give it the capability to do more of the same?

You might also wonder, why not an app for the tablet? Well, we don’t want to completely lose touch with our analog lives; there are certain things in life that will remain easier and more efficient compared to their digital counterparts. Jotting a quick note to your husband to empty the dishwasher is faster, and he is far less likely to miss it, if you write it out by hand. Also, the moment you (try to) use one of those plastic styluses on a touchscreen (or, God forbid, your finger), is the exact moment you wish you had a real writing utensil and writing surface.

“Yeah, but what’ll it cost to do the whole shebang?” Anywhere from $1000 to $1500 (including replacement filters and weekly grocery deliveries), which, compared to the $6000 price tag of the Samsung Family Hub™ Refrigerator, seems fairly reasonable. Still, piecemeal may be the way to go for the time being for those of us without monstrous refrigerator budgets.

Smart refrigerators have become increasingly popular over the past decade. As our society continues to become more “connected,” people everywhere are looking for tech-savvy ways to improve their lifestyle, which is where this revolutionary new appliance comes into play. Major appliance manufacturers like LG, Samsung and Electrolux have all pioneered their own smart refrigerators. So, what exactlyis a smart refrigerator? And can it really improve your life?

Also known as Internet refrigerators, smart refrigerators feature embedded sensors which identify the unit’s contents and notify the operator when a particular product needs to be replenished. While the exact technology varies from model to model, most units have a barcode or RFID scanner that allows for accurate inventory management.

Think of a smart refrigerator as a digital grocery list that’s constantly being updated. If you run out of milk, for instance, it will notify you to pick some up. Whether it’s food, beverages, condiments or any other product, the unit will keep tabs on exactly how many you have in stock and notify you when you get low or run out. A typical smart refrigerator features an LCD screen on the outside which displays the unit’s contents.

LG is credited with producing the world’s first smart refrigerator in June 2000; however, it failed to gain any traction among the general public due to its steep price tag of $20,000 plus. With traditional refrigerators selling around $500-$800, most consumers couldn’t justify spending $20k simply for the “added convenience” of inventory management.

LG’s innovative new smart refrigerator suffered from technology problems as well. It often missed transparent bottles and beverages, sending false notifications to the user that it needed replenishing. The unit also failed to properly read vegetables, fruit and other products without barcodes. These problems were fixed in future models, but they served as a nail in the coffin for the world’s first the smart refrigerator.

Smart refrigerators have come a long ways since LG’s experimental project 14 years ago. Current models are more accurate, possess more features, and cost significantly less than their predecessors. A typical smart refrigerator today sells for $2,500-$3,500.

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Samsung"s touch screen refrigerators all feature Samsung"s Family Hub, with Amazon"s Alexa voice assistant built-in. The smart fridge component can connect with, and be used to control your phone, computer, TV, smart doorbell, Nest thermostat and Samsung home appliances. It can share photos, stream music and more. The Family Hub feature lets you see inside your fridge from anywhere (via your connected device), search recipes based on what you have on hand, plan weekly meals and even send cooking instructions to your

We"ve found the top-rated Samsung refrigerators with Samsung"s Family Hub touch screen for you to shop right now. Not only are these refrigerators high tech, they also come with a bunch of cool features such as full-width drawers, smart dividers that can section off food to cool at different temperatures, built-in water and ice functions and more.

This full-depth Samsung refrigerator lets you control your smart appliances and devices straight from your fridge door with Samsung"s Family Hub. The fingerprint-resistant refrigerator features a full-width bottom drawer big enough to hold party platters, beverages and more.

The Samsung kitchen appliance includes an external filtered water and ice dispenser, as well as all-around cooling and multi-vent technology to maintain even air circulation on every shelf for a consistent temperature throughout your refrigerator.

This high-end Samsung refrigerator is made to be counter-depth, for a built-in look. The refrigerator features a fingerprint-proof finish, so you won"t see any grubby hand marks on its french-door design. The high-tech fridge comes with the Samsung"s Family Hub function that lets you control your Samsung smart appliances and devices, stream music and share pictures with your family right from the fridge door.

This Samsung refrigerator features a middle FlexZone drawer with a smart divider that can section off food to cool at different temperatures for flexible storage. It includes a built-in, auto-fill pitcher that has cold water ready anytime your family wants it, as well as an external ice and water dispenser.

This Samsung touch screen refrigerator with Family Hub is fingerprint-resistant, includes an in-door ice maker, plus all-around cooling and multi-vent technology to maintain even air circulation.

"I didn"t think I could ever love a refrigerator, but I do," the customer wrote on the Samsung site. "My produce lasts weeks longer than my previous refrigerator and there"s enough room to organize and keep everything clean! When I thought I had a full fridge before, switching over this was so much roomier and I could actually keep an eye on everything... No stinky produce drawers."

This Samsung refrigerator with Samsung"s Family Hub is available as either a full- or counter-depth model. It features a beverage center that gives you water in two different ways: You can choose from an internal dispenser; or, you can use the built-in pitcher that automatically refills (with the option to infuse a flavor).

"Samsung has created (in my opinion) the perfect refrigerator," a customer who purchased the kitchen appliance wrote on the Samsung site. "This is the new and much improved Samsung 4 Door flex. Some of the features of this refrigerator are the same as the previous 4 door flex such as the Family Hub with Smart Things, built-in speaker, WIFI and the internal cameras, but what Samsung has improved upon with this new unit is the beverage center, ice maker, and the built-in UV deodorizing and a lot more space."

These Samsung refrigerators may not have touch screens, but they have a bunch of other great features. Shop more top-rated Samsung refrigerators below, and you"ll score a Labor Day deal on a new Samsung kitchen appliance.

This four-door Samsung fridge comes with a dual auto ice maker and an auto-fill water pitcher. It"s also totally customizable: Individual drawers can be set to specific temperatures -- and the refrigerator"s exterior can be customized with changeable door panels. The deal below is for the full-depth model; it also comes in a counter-depth version.

This slim refrigerator with a modern design from Samsung is suitable for a small space, or for when you want to add a second fridge or freezer to your kitchen. Switch the device between fridge and freezer temperatures (but you can"t have both at the same time). Choose from a white, gray or navy-glass finish. This fridge comes with a 100-day, risk-free trial, meaning you can return it for a full refund if you"re not satisfied within 100 days of purchase. Delivery is free.

This Samsung fridge"s freezer area can be temperature adjusted to provide more fridge space if you"d prefer. Its Twin Cooling Plus system maintains high refrigerator humidity and dry freezer conditions for fresher produce and less freezer burn. It comes in black stainless steel, stainless steel or white, and has an ice maker. Pay just $10 for installation.

Disappointing, in a word. I"m generally a big Samsung fan and when it came time to buy a new fridge, I looked at a lot of reviews of the Family Hub to see if the tech had gotten to a point to make it worth the extra money. I liked what I saw in reviews and it seems like Samsung was/is convinced this type of connectivity is the future so they"d be committed to making it successful and useful, but I haven"t quite seen that yet. The idea of needing to mirror a screen to watch media content feels like 20 year old tech (like when I used to tether my laptop to my tube TV with an S-Video cable). It renders both devices almost useless. I can"t turn off a screen I don"t want to watch, I can"t use it to do something while someone else watches the TV on the screen, and I can"t use any of the functionality on the fridge itself without disconnecting, doing what I want on the screen, getting the other device, reconnecting, etc.) I don"t understand the lack of native apps for YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, and really any other streaming video service. I also figured, ok, well there"s an internet browser so I can just login to my accounts, bookmark those websites, and stream that way. Nope! No video streaming supported in the native web browser. I also can"t uninstall useless apps like Shop-Rite (there isn"t one within 30 miles of me and I don"t shop there, I don"t need the app). Getting pictures on the screen should be as easy as a Google Photos integration but no, you have to open the app and manually choose pictures and videos to upload (a process that takes a decent amount of time on a high-speed local network). The built-in refrigerator management features are weak at best, and bad enough that they take so long to use they"re not useful. The only thing the image recognition engine has recognized correctly so far are eggs, otherwise nothing has even been close, and makes it more difficult to use the app, not less, b/c I spend all of my time deleting the suggestions. Sending items to your shopping list sounds like a nice feature until you have to long press the item, send it to your list, pick the list, hit ok, long press the item, delete it, confirm the deletion ... sounds like a trivial thing but doing that when you"ve used up 4-5 items during a meal is far more time consuming than it"s worth, especially since the fridge doesn"t actually recognize that something is no longer there and suggests it to be removed. There"s also no ability to add a quantity on any of the items you add. So something as simple as 6 yogurts takes 5-10 minutes to add and remove from the system, instead of scanning one and being able to input a number or hit a + or - icon. And no integrations with some of the biggest players in smart home tech is just silly at this point. Google Nest, Sonos ... how is it possible these aren"t at the top of the list here? Then I found out today Samsung only releases updates to the onboard apps 4-5 times / year? Honestly, I could go on and on but it seems like a decent project manager should be on top of all of this and then some. Highly disappointed, I expected so much better.