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Samsung started rolling out a new Bixby update to enhance two primary features and smarten the voice assistant. The new Bixby update, version 3.3.15.18, weighs a little under 63MB. The company says that you can now do more with Bixby. Thanks to this new update, when talking to Bixby, the voice assistant can recommend useful […]
Samsung and Google feel closer than ever as the two companies continue to join forces and find common ground in software solutions. The Korean tech giant abandoned Tizen for smartwatches in favor of helping Google develop Wear OS 3, and it's using it for the Galaxy Watch 4 series. Samsung's foldables offer an improved software experience […]
If you missed the news, customer interest in Samsung's new portable projector “The Freestyle“ is very high, especially across the European continent, where more than 230,000 people have pre-registered to show interest in the device. Of course, pre-registrations don't always reflect sales figures accurately, but even so, The Freestyle appears to be an early hit. […]
To say that Bixby hasn't been faring too well in the first-generation AI assistant wars would be an understatement. As few are even thinking about Samsung's voice-enabled companion these days. But does that mean Bixby's on the losing side of the never-ending battle for market share? Not necessarily, especially if Samsung finds her a nice […]
Samsung quietly began releasing a new update to its AI assistant Bixby a few weeks ago. Availability was limited but it was evident that Samsung's focus with this new update was to streamline the user experience. More users are now starting to receive the latest Bixby version and, as a result, Samsung has finally and […]
Samsung is replacing Samsung Daily with a new feature called Samsung Free. The news feed still remains on the leftmost homescreen of Galaxy smartphones, and it has started rolling out to some users. In a notice related to the discontinuation of Samsung Daily, the company had mentioned that it would bring a redesigned and easy-to-use […]
Over the past few weeks, Bixby‘s future as part of Samsung's mobile app portfolio hardly underwent any radical changes, yet it also seems slightly less on a nearly daily basis. Because Samsung itself appears to be running out of ideas about what to do with its AI assistant, to the point it already shuttered some […]
Samsung smart TV owners in the USA are in for a surprise as the company has launched a new firmware update that introduces the Google Assistant. The update is now rolling out to select 2020 smart TV models including the Crystal UHD series, the company's 4K and 8K QLED TVs, as well as its lifestyle […]
After barely three years of service, Samsung is discontinuing a good chunk of Bixby Vision's augmented reality features.
Samsung is reportedly disbanding its developer relations team in charge of growing third-party voice apps for Bixby. The move comes shortly after the company was said to have started considering deeper Google Assistant integrations into its devices. And while it's still unclear whether Google finally coughed up enough billions for Samsung to agree to the […]
Bixby users in South Korea don't have to wait for NEON to become a reality before they can have a celebrity's voice act as their virtual assistant. Samsung has updated Bixby Voice in South Korea to include the voices of three celebrities, namely Kang So-ra, Kim So-hyun, and Kim Ye-won. The three actresses are well […]
Is Samsung finally ready to let people buy its Bixby-powered smart speakers? That seems to be the case: Samsung published an article on its Korean newsroom earlier today that revealed the Galaxy Home Mini's release date but was ultimately taken down. The Galaxy Home Mini will hit retail shelves on February 12, but you might […]
Samsung is yet to make any of its smart speakers available for sale, but the company has some exciting ideas to make such devices more useful. Going by a patent filed by the South Korean electronics giant, it has plans to cover cylindrical smart speakers with rollable displays. The company has acquired a patent for […]
It's been almost three years since Samsung introduced Bixby. Samsung joined the game pretty late, so Bixby Voice naturally doesn't have the robust language support that we see with competing virtual assistants like Google Assistant, Apple Siri, and Amazon's Alexa. Right now, Bixby can speak and understand US and UK English, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian […]
Samsung launched its Bixby assistant with the Galaxy S8 back in 2017. The assistant, particularly the Bixby Voice functionality, has since been expanded to many of its devices. Bixby Voice is what responds when you give your phone a voice command. Some mid-range Samsung phones and tablets only have Bixby Home. Bixby has come a […]