It has also recently been speculated that LG will introduce six new devices at the show, including four phones from its LG K series, and the LG G Stylus 3. Find out more details about this and other recent updates at the Manufacturers section below.
The Consumer Electronics Show (aka CES) is one of the largest technology trade shows in the world. Taking place every January in Las Vegas, Nevada, CES is chock-full of interesting gadgets, toys, drones, and much more. Android Authority and our host of sister sites will, as always, be on deck for CES 2017, bringing you in-depth coverage of all the latest and greatest gadget announcements.
When is CES 2017?
What better way to kick off a new year than with a bunch of new electronics announcements to drool over? CES 2017 takes place between January 5-8. Early previews and major device announcements typically happen on the two press days before the show officially starts, so stay tuned from January 3 onwards.
You can see the full CES 2017 schedule here.
What to expect from CES 2017
We won’t try to give you a full list of press conferences, device announcements and other related news, but we can give you a rough idea of what to expect from CES 2017.
This year, we’ll have not only the Android Authority team on the show floor, but we’ll also be covering all the latest VR, tablet, laptop, audio drones, and electric news for our sister sites. If you haven’t already checked them out, feel free to do so.
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Sound Guys
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CES 2017 announcements
Compared to massive mobile shows like MWC in Barcelona and IFA in Berlin, CES doesn’t have quite as many mobile announcements from the major players but there’s always enough to keep us coming back.
Sony has announced its CES press conference will begin at 5:00 pm PST on January 4 and it will livestream the coverage to its Ustream channel. Sony is expected to unveil a pair of new OLED TVs at the show, and perhaps a new smartwatch, but rumors of upcoming smartphones have been pretty thin on the ground lately. There’s talk of two new Snapdragon 820-wielding handsets, but nothing has been confirmed.
HTC showed off the HTC Vive at CES 2016, and it could reveal a wireless followup at the upcoming show. An HTC Vive add-on was recently released in China which cuts the Vive’s cords, and rumors have been circulating that a Vive version 2.0 could be released with similar technology. That said, an HTC spokesperson has affirmed that any upcoming upgrades to the Vive hardware would be related to the current edition of the headset only.
LG will be on deck as always, at the very least with some mid-range smartphones and possibly another smartwatch, seeing as LG hasn’t announced one in two years.
LG has introduced five new smartphones in December, and we expect to seem more of them at CES. The most interesting of the batch is the LG Stylus 3, featuring a 5.7-inch 720p display, MediaTek’s MT6750 processor, and 3 GB of RAM.
The Korean giant is jumping on the AI bandwagon with “advanced robot technologies.” Think AI robot assistants that help you shop, work, or just clean up the house. Exciting!
As usual, LG will still have tons of televisions – including an ultra-wide Chromecast-enabled monitor – and other consumer electronics to demo, as well as audio gear and possibly other weird gadgets like 2015’s Rolly Keyboard.
Samsung will likely hold the Galaxy S8 launch either at MWC 2017 in March or at a standalone event a little while after. But there will still be some mobile news from Samsung at CES 2017 and the possibility of new tablets and wearables.
Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy A (2017 ) series, so it’s likely that the company will use CES to give the tech press demos of the new devices.
In January 2016, Samsung made Samsung Pay and Gear smartwatch announcements at CES and dropped several new laptops and Chromebooks. There will also be the usual range of TVs, notebooks, smart appliances, audio and other electronics to keep an eye out for – we already know about the fancy 32-bit H7 Wireless Speaker and some bizarre experimental smart skincare products.
Asus usually unveils new Zenfone options at CES, but there’s no telling what to expect from Asus at CES 2017 considering the odd schedule of Zenfone launches of late.
According to a teaser put up by Asus, we might see a smartphone with dual cameras and the new Snapdragon 835 processor. An AR phone which would make use of Google’s Tango 3D mapping tech has also been rumored. A couple of new laptops, more mini PCs and a new Chromebook or two may also be on the cards.
Lenovo and Motorola will be at CES 2017 in some form or another. Lenovo will have some new laptops and hybrids on show and we might get treated to some updates on Project Tango for the Phab 2 Pro.
There will be some new Android-based tablets as well as others running Windows but we have absolutely no idea what might happen with Motorola announcements based on 2016’s effort (fortunately that decision has recently been reversed).
At CES 2016, Huawei delivered women’s versions of the Huawei Watch, the new MediaPad, the Mate 8 and a gold variant of the Nexus 6P. With the MediaPad M3 already out, the Mate 9 announcement recently behind us and no rumors about the Huawei Watch 2 (other than that it might switch to Tizen), we can’t say for sure what Huawei has planned for the new year.
We do know that the CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group Richard Yu will present the Huawei CES keynote on Thursday, January 5. According to Huawei, through Yu’s speech attendees will learn about “Huawei’s plans for the future of mobile – one that integrates the latest in artificial intelligence, virtual reality and connected technologies,” but the company didn’t mention specifics.
Huawei sub-brand Honor promised an “epic” phone launch at CES – our money is on the US launch of the Honor 6X, though we wouldn’t mind seeing the new Honor Magic in the spotlight.
Xiaomi has officially confirmed it will be at CES for the first time ever, and will have a global product release to announce. Considering the vast array of products Xiaomi makes, there’s no guaranteeing this announcement will be of a smartphone or even a mobile device of any description. But either way, we’ll be the first to tell you what it is.
LeEco‘s CEO Jia Yueting took to Chinese social media site Weibo recently to announce the company’s presence at CES 2017. Yueting’s post was accompanied by a poster featuring a number of LeEco products, but it was removed soon after publication for an unknown reason. LeEco hasn’t made any other comments about CES 2017 besides this, though the Batmobile-like concept car from Faraday Future, which is backed by LeEco, is set to be shown there.
TCL Communications, the company that recently acquired the branding rights to BlackBerry’s name, has promised to reveal more information on “the new BlackBerry” at CES. Among the possibilities are new BlackBerry devices that include physical QWERTY keyboards or some other cryptic keyboard addition. A new and unknown BlackBerry device has recently been spotted with the model number BBC100-1 (the DTEK60 was BBA100-1 and the rumored ‘Mercury’ is BBB100-1).
The known unknowns
There’s going to be more drones that you can shake a stick at, but we’ll cover all the best of them on Charged, where you can also swing by if you want to stay on top of all the latest innovations from the world of electric vehicles and other forms of futuristic transportation. If we know one thing about CES, it’s that automotive often steals the show.
There will also be a huge amount of virtual reality news we’ll detail over at VR Source, while all the best audio announcements at CES 2017 will be covered on Sound Guys.
If tablets, laptops, ultrabooks and other non-smartphone tech is more your game, then Tab Times will have you covered from the first press conference until they kick us out almost a week later.
We can’t wait for CES 2017 and we hope you’ll join us for the ride.
What are you expecting from CES 2017?