Enlarge / The hardware Bixby button on the Galaxy S8. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Voice assistant smart speakers are all the rage these days, and if Samsung is good at anything, it’s at doing what everyone else is doing. To join the smart speaker lineup alongside the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and a Microsoft […]
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Samsung needs data before Bixby is ready for English speakers
Wondering why Samsung still hasn’t enabled Bixby voice features in English despite promising a launch in the spring? Apparently, it’s down to a lack of info. A spokesperson tells the Korea Herald that the company just doesn’t have enough “big data” to make its AI-powered voice assistant available in languages besides Korean. It needs that […]
Samsung’s Bixby is even less useful on the Verizon Galaxy S8 at launch
Samsung’s Bixby assistant on the Galaxy S8 is a little bit hobbled out of the gate. It won’t be able to respond to your voice commands until later this spring, and one of the few tricks it can do at launch isn’t yet fully functional on Verizon Wireless. That trick is called Bixby Vision. Inside […]
Samsung’s Bixby assistant won’t support voice commands when Galaxy S8 launches
Samsung has gone to great lengths to position its new Bixby assistant as the automated centerpiece of the new Galaxy S8. It even included a dedicated button on the phone just for launching it (though you can remap the button if you so choose). However, in a statement given to The Verge this afternoon, Samsung […]
Fans get Bixby up and running on Galaxy S7, though not without some problems
Still enjoying your Samsung Galaxy S7 but wish you could get in on the Bixby craze? Enthusiasts over at XDA Developers might have you covered, as they have Samsung’s new personal assistant partially up and running on last year’s flagship. To make it happen, you will need to install the APK files for the Galaxy S8’s […]
Developers are getting Bixby running on older Samsung phones
That was fast. Bixby, Samsung’s new virtual assistant for the company’s new Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone, is now working on older Samsung phones running Android 7.0 Nougat. But not officially. A person who goes by the handle takerhbk in a forum on the Android website XDA-Developers managed to get Bixby working on top of the […]
So, what is Samsung’s Bixby AI assistant really made of?
From all the reports we’ve seen so far, it seems clear that a new AI assistant is going to be a big part of Samsung’s next flagship phone, the Galaxy S8. There has been plenty of speculation about its features (we’ve heard it will work in up to eight languages; that it will conduct visual […]
Galaxy S8 Leak Shows April 18 Release Date, Bixby Vision, Removable Battery And Headphone Jack Tease
Several new leaks about the Samsung Galaxy S8 have emerged recently, and fans of the flagship device are more hyped than ever. While rumors about the flagship device have been emerging since the release of its predecessor, the new batch of leaks are unique in such a way that they appear to confirm a number […]