CES 2021 Day 3 is underway, and we’re highlights all of the major news from Samsung, Sony, LG, and many others.
More CES news is coming today, according to the official CES 2021 schedule. We’re now on Day 3 of the Las-Vegas-convention-turned-fully-remote experience. What’s happened at CES so far? We’ve recapped all of the CES 2021 highlights, just in case you missed all of our live coverage of the major announcements during the first two days. There’s a lot to catch up on. You’re in for exciting news about big-screen 8K TVs, affordable 5G smartphones, new laptops and faster chipsets that power them, self-driving car tech, more smart home gadgets than your house can fit, and even two rollable phones. CES 2021 Day 3 will add to the highlight list, with TCL scheduled to have big another press conference, Microsoft ready to make its keynote and Microsoft Keynote and MSI touting its ‘MSIology’ later in the day. So far, the biggest story of CES 2021 has arguably been the LG Rollable smartphone, which we saw for the first time in a short teaser trailer. That doesn’t mean there haven’t been some other strong contenders for the CES limelight, though. Day two was the turn of the graphics card titans, with Nvidia and AMD both delivering big news. The confirmation that Nvidia’s RTX 3000 graphics cards are coming to gaming laptops is huge news that could see next-gen laptops arrive with a serious performance boost. Not to be outdone, AMD fought back by showing off its exciting Ryzen 5000 series of mobile processors. This followed several big CES 2021 stories in TVs and home theater land on the previous day. Another landmark announcement was LG Display’s confirmation that 42-inch OLED TVs will launch this year. We’ve been waiting for OLED tech to arrive in smaller screen sizes for a while, so this could be big news if you’ve been thinking about getting a second screen for your home this year. Keener to upgrade your home cinema audio? Samsung also announced a new Dolby Atmos soundbar, which could be its most immersive yet and pair nicely with its new flagship 8K TV, the Samsung Neo QN900 8K QLED TV. The tech giant also revealed some AI-powered washers and dryers for those of us who are unimpressed by the intelligence of our home appliances, and confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S21 will arrive on Thursday. With Sony also showing off its Airpeak drone for the first time and TCL confirming that it’ll be launching a rollable or foldable phone this year, CES 2021 has been a brilliant sneak peek of the biggest launches coming this year – here are all of the most exciting stories so far. In the last few days alone, Samsung has announced its new Neo QLED TVs that offer brighter, more colorful pictures; Sony unveiled its new Cognitive XR Processor as a successor to the X1 Ultimate and Acer has announced the next generation of Chromebooks. We’ve also seen lots of new audio products from the likes of JBL, as well as a mightily impressive Dolby Atmos soundbar from Samsung. That said, today is the day that everyone’s been able to watch LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony take to the virtual stage to talk about their other upcoming innovations. You can expect to hear a lot more about the next-gen 8K TVs and IoT smart devices, plus a few surprises at the Samsung Unpacked event that’s happening in the middle of CES week. Once the keynotes are over, the CTA (the company behind the event) says that it’s opening a virtual show hall that exhibitors will be able to show off their wares and answer questions from attendees and retailers about their new products. Exhibitors will be able to hold meetings of up to 30 people at a time and chat in real-time with one another. It’s all the practical parts of CES, basically, without all of us crowding into the Las Vegas Convention Center. So what, exactly, are we going to see at this year’s show? This guide will run you through our predictions for Sony, Samsung, AMD, and more based on pre-show rumors and what they got up to at last year’s event. A press release on the CES website originally put the CES 2021 dates at January 6-9, however those dates have since shifted to January 11-14,2021. That first day of the show will be keynotes from AMD, General Motors, Verizon and the CTA themselves, plus press conferences from LG, Sony and Samsung. Here’s the complete January 11 press day schedule provided by the CTA: In a typical year, CES takes over Las Vegas for nearly a week, with tech brands and press coming from all over the world to meet, make deals, and cover the latest announcements all together. How any of that will happen when it’s online-only is kind of hard to foresee, but it’s something the CTA has been hammering out for months, so we’re expecting things to run smoothly. Future CES events have definitive dates, too. CES 2022 and CES 2023 are scheduled for January 5-8, while CES 2024 is pencilled in for January 9-12. Keynote time: January 11 at 9 am EST on Samsung’s global news website. CES is always a big show for Samsung. It’s the place the company picks to roll out its latest QLED TVs, concept screens and monstrous custom-installs, plus innovations in the computing and phone space. Samsung’s First Look event gave us a glimpse of what’s to come, with the brand taking the wraps off its QLED TV successor – a technology it’s dubbed Neo QLED – that packs in 10 times the amount of LEDs into a screen to radically increase brightness, reduce blooming and widen viewing angles.
