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Domestic Appliance News
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Dreame Get Into Refrigeration
Many people will know Dreame for thier robotic vacs, they’ve been doing those for a while now and are well regarded in the market but just like Xiaomi and others, it seems that Dreame have plans to get into large kitchen appliances as well.
Bounty To Crack Samsung Fridges
You might recall the recent story about Samsung fridges all of a sudden, without user’s consnet we’re told, displaying adverts that we reportred on recently. It seems that some people are not at all impressed with this and have offered a $10K bounty to break this function.
BSH On Closures
Bosch has issued a statement on its recent announcement that it would be closing two facilities in Germany although it seems fairly clear why, increased competition in the lower end of the market.
Waterline In Administration
Waterline the kitchen company, based in North Crawley Road in Newport Pagnell, entered into administration earlier this month and administrators are to manage an “orderly wind down”.
BSH Closes More Facilities
BSH (Bosch, Neff and Siemens) have announced that they are to close down production at two plants in Germany at Nauen and Bretten leading to the loss of around 1400 jobs.
Beko Refurbishes Appliances
Beko have scaled up their efforts to reduce waste by expanding the program that they have i operation to refurbish returned appliances.
Smart Appliances Less Reliable
Although we have questioned the usefulness of smart or connected appliances over the years the one thing we didn’t get into or consider all that much was the reliablity of them. Turns out J.D. Power in the USA has and, it’s not good news.
Xiaomi UK Launch
T3 has reported (as we speculated a while ago) that Xiaomi will be launching more, larger products, in the UK and Europe and this is set to include large appliances such as fridge freezers and washing machines.
Samsung Fridges To Show Ads
This is a new one, Samsung are trialling showing ads on people’s Family Hub smart fridges, and they cannot be disabled by users, it is being reported.