Until now. Samsung has redefined the central appliance of the home with its new Wi-Fi/Bluetooth-enabled Family Hub refrigerator, essentially a tablet with a fridge/freezer attached.

The Samsung RT21M6213SR top-freezer refrigerator comes with a feature that converts the freezer into an extra fridge, along with recessed handles and the option of a black stainless steel finish.

The new Bespoke Refrigerator with Family Hub Plus is Samsung’s latest smart fridge. It has a 32-inch touchscreen tablet, is a Matter controller, and starts at $5,000.

In practice, that means customers get Samsung's own voice recognition setup instead of the more popular Amazon Alexa, and developers end up having to make software that's individualized for a fridge.

Instacart links with Samsung on shoppable fridge tech The multiyear partnership will allow people to order groceries from the screens of select Samsung refrigerators.

Is it a fridge? Is it a tablet? No, it's a fridge-tablet hybrid, coming straight from Samsung's brainstorming sessions. Samsung's new Family Hub fridge features a giant tablet on the front. The ...

The Samsung refrigerator in my kitchen has a sleek, flexible design with French doors, an extra refrigerated drawer, and two levels in the freezer.

Today, Samsung held an event to officially launch its Family Hub smart fridge. We first saw it at CES a few months ago, but Samsung didn’t have working units back then. Now it does and now we ...