“Samsung has gone to great lengths to position its new Bixby assistant as the automated centerpiece of the new Galaxy S8,” Nick Statt reports for The Verge. “It even included a dedicated button on the phone just for launching it.”
“However, in a statement given to The Verge this afternoon, Samsung admits that Bixby’s headline feature — voice control — won’t be ready in time for when the device ships to US consumers on April 21st,” Statt reports. “Instead, owners of the S8 will have to wait for a software update to be released later this spring.”
“Bixby was also positioned as perhaps the second most important addition to the Galaxy line during the unveiling, behind only the S8’s bezel-less display,” Statt reports. “That’s what makes it so confounding that Samsung won’t be shipping the phone with Bixby’s standout feature intact.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hardly surprising. Now, will this one incinerate your Jeep, garage, and/or home as well?
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
I guess if it sounds like a dog…
It’s barkin’ loud all right. This has the Pocket Casket or Purse Hearse feature you’re not looking or.
Shipping a flagship device without a major feature: yet another thing they copied from the iPhone…
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Came here to say this, already said. There you have it.
So it won’t have the nepalm feature? That’s signature of Samsung products.
It is funny how they only two main attractions are:
1 the edge to edge screen they think will come in the new iPhone 8 but Apple won’t actually use it because it is going to create a lot of errors with the touch because of your fingers holding the device and touching the screen at the same time.
2 a Siri knock off that won’t be available.
so why would any body will want this already outdated phone?
The OS programming skills just don’t exist at Samsung.
Supposedly, ‘Bixby’ is Viv by Dag Kittlaus and friends, creators of Siri.
Samsung to Acquire Viv, the Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Platform
Korea on October 06, 2016
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has agreed to acquire Viv Labs, the intelligent interface to everything….
Apparently, that hasn’t gone so well. Oh well! 😆