On CE - For Dealers, Distributors and OEMs of Consumer Electronics throughout EMEA

Samsung announces what it claims is the first 5G tablet-- the Galaxy Tab S6 5G, a variant of last year's Galaxy Tab S6 featuring a 5G modem, specifically the Snapdragon X50, instead of the integrated X24 LTE modem.

Set to initially go on sale in Samsung's home S. Korea, the Galaxy Tab S6 5G features otherwise identical specs as the previous model. It is a 10.5-inch device with a QHD+ Super AMOLED display and quad speakers with Dolby Atmos, and inside are the same Snapdragon 855 processor, 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. An S-Pen is also included for stylus input.

Philips sets to further transform into a company wholly focused on health and related equipment as it puts its domestic appliances division, a business it describes as "not a strategic fit," on sale.

The domestic appliances division produces coffee machines, vacuum cleaners and airfryers, as well as 2019 sales worth €2.3 billion. Over the coming 12-18 months, Reuters reports, Philips will carve it out into a separate entity, similar to what it has already done with the lighting and CE divisions. According to a "quick and dirty" calculation by ING analyst Mark Hesselink, the domestic appliances division is worth around €3bn.

Nintendo skips the traditional console refresh cycle and cuts down any number of rumours as president and CEO Shuntaro Furukawa tells investors the company has "no plans" for a 2020 update of the hybrid machine.

Instead, the venerable gaming company plans to focus on "communicat[ing] the appeal" of the Switch, in both regular and portable-only Lite flavours, as well expanding the current userbase. After all, Switch sales are not too shabby at the moment, with overall sales managing to overtake lifetimes sales of the much loved classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) at 52.48 million units.

IKEA takes on the house party as it launches Frekvens, a line of modular Bluetooth-enabled speakers, party lights and appropriate furniture designed in collaboration with Swedish CE maker Teenage Engineering.

The results of the partnership have been a long time coming-- after all, IKEA first announced the partnership back in June 2017. At the heart of the Frekvens (translates to "frequency") collection is the portable music system. It consists of an 8-inch tall speaker complete with 10-hour battery life and either black and red or black and yellow design, a larger option with a subwoofer and a small 4-inch speaker complete with belt clip for carrying around the party.