When the G6 finally acquiesced to letting me use it, it did not deposit me onto my desktop, as one might hope. Can we have your exact location? Can we send you push notifications? You said no to a few of these questions, so we’re going to ask you again. Would you like to set up an account? Would you like to connect a set-top box? Bluetooth? Your wifi? Please agree to three different screens of privacy declarations (and no, you can’t opt out of the marketing emails). What follows is minutes on end of pure UX gore. Naming any part of this process Smart Things seems like a contradiction in terms, but ok, I’ll go with it. You scan this QR code with your phone, which asks you to install the Samsung Smart Things app onto said phone. Upon power up, the G6 presents you with a bright blue screen that has a QR code on it. It would very much like to install an app on your phone that gobbles up all sweet, valuable personal data so it can serve you ads on the very monitor you’re trying to set up. Where what I would consider to be a normal monitor requires little more setup than taking it out of the box and plugging it in, the G6 is content to waste 15 minutes of your time for absolutely no reason at all. The Odyssey G6’s Smart TV functionality is like meeting someone with a winning personality, who is in possession of a single really annoying trait.Ī moment to be completely candid: I absolutely hated the set-up process for the Samsung G6 gaming monitor. A superlative gaming monitor pulled from the ranks of Samsung’s excellent Odyssey range, its other half, its Smart TV functionality, is a bit of an anchor around its neck. The Samsung Odyssey G6 is an excellent, top-flight gaming monitor with Smart TV functionality that feels caught in an identity crisis. BTW - prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. At Kotaku, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too.
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