One location for your news, social, health and travel plans, backed up by voice interactions.
Personal feeds like the Google Feed (formerly Google Now) and HTC BlinkFeed aren't a new idea, and phone makers never seem to tire of trying to collate all your personal info and updates into one place. "Samsung Hello" could be the company's latest attempt to do just that, and based on the timing of a recent trademark filing, a launch alongside the upcoming Galaxy S8 is a good bet.
The European trademark, first spotted by SamMobile refers to an app which "gives personalized features and information based on user's preferences in the fields of weather, music, entertainment, games, travel, science, health, contact, and social news via voice command and voice recognition." That sounds an awful lot like the Feed within the Google app, though it's unclear whether Samsung Hello would be entirely voice-only, or whether there'd also be some visual component.
Will Samsung Hello and the 'Bixby' AI be one and the same?
On a drier and more technical level, the filing also mentions "software that enable block users or computers and mobile devices to access, aggregate, organize and interact with content, information and images and topics of general interest to such users." (Read: showing you stuff you might be interested in — another central feature of the artist formerly known as Google Now.)
It's also not clear how Hello might tie into the Galaxy S8's rumored 'Bixby' AI assistant, or whether they're one and the same. Most of the features detailed in the trademark filing would seem to overlap with what you'd get from a voice-controlled assistant.
We should be careful about basing too much on a single trademark filing. While they can be useful indicators of what's to come, Samsung's past filings have included dubious marks like "Galaxy Fonblet," which never went anywhere. Regardless, with "AI" becoming one of the major phone trends of 2017, we'll be watching with interest to see how Samsung's AI efforts come into focus. The Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are rumored to break cover at an event in New York City on March 29.
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Samsung Hello could be the Galaxy S8's answer to Google Now
Google Now has seemed pale in comparison to Assistant on my Google Home as it is.
Still I don't see how you can compete with Google on a query basis when it comes to AI. Home even understands my 7 year old's incoherent questions and answers them correctly.
Just give me a Note 7 replacement and leave the AI to Google.
Note 7 replacement is all any Samsung phone fan cares about at this point.
So those that prefer the Galaxy series are waiting for the next Note?
Well, when my Note 4 boots up, the display shows Galaxy Note 4, so, yes Galaxy users are waiting for the Note 7 replacement.
I think this would be Nougat since samsung clearly sucks at software departement....
Hmmm...
http://m.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2069166/fire-breaks-out-chi...
This just stays lingering around...
Well... That's because the bad batteries were lingering in that waste depository.
It would kind of help to understand why and where the fire happen instead of trying get to spread FUD
Yesterday's post sooo what your point same thing happened at the tesla plant batteries and fires are gonna happen windsalor ^^^
I don't know why AI is a thing. I feel silly talking to my phone.
So you feel silly whenever you make & receive phone calls on your phone? You're still talking to it.
Exactly, our phones are finally turning back into devices we talk and listen to instead of typing on... Whether it be an Ai or an actual person.
It's a lot easier and quicker to press and hold my home button then say, "set an alarm for Thursday at 6am"... Than it is to manually create this same alarm.
Just give me the eye scanner back from my default note 7 and all will be good in the world hehe
If Samsung S8 does not support Google Assistant and always listening I'm officially done with Samsung...
Am I the only one that wishes Samsung would go back to making GPE and stop with their gimmicks? If the Note 7 or GS8 renders could be wiped of Samsung BS software and run a stock version of Google, I'd be all for it. The GS8 looks absolutely B-E-A-utiful! I had the S7 edge for less than 4 weeks, great looking with all features (except storage) I wanted in a phone before i sold that thing off. It started slowing just loading apps...
So don't buy the S8! You must be pretty unhappy with the looks of whatever phone you bought after selling the S7 Edge otherwise you wouldn't be ogling the S8's design. So just get over the fact that Samsung will continue to be Samsung and Samsung phones will continue to be Samsung phones. The rest of the world is just fine with that.
Haha you took the words right out of my mouth Samsung is Samsung and the other phones are ....well the other phones buy one of them and stop complaining about Samsung direction
My wife and I both have the 7 Edge, she is happy with it... And I think I'll try the Pixel 2 next time around...
First off I never said I got rid of the phone cause it was ugly, nor did I say my current phone was either. I was simply referring to how Samsung keeps shooting gimmicks and specs to wow the general population. I also made a comment about the renders and how I felt it looked. I got rid of my S7 because It didn't do what I needed it to do for me so I got rid of it and found a phone that did. If yall are here to troll and not offer anything except critiques on other users posts, just let it be. I know what Samsung will do and continue to do. I'm not here to get into a word fight over what this person said or what this person said.
See this is a open forum and not everyone will agree and they will say why they don't you'll have to except that are maybe just not post on a open forum if you fill you've been wronged , are if you fillings where hurt . Such is life in a open forum
First its accept not except. Second is feel not fill. Third if your feelings were hurt not fillings where. Please just stop as if your trying to put me down, it didn't work and outright just made you look bad.
Again I'll state what I said in that I hope Samsung can see that we users want certain things and just stop trying to always rush products (Note 7) and other items. If they stick to what made them the number one selling Android in the world, they probably would be losing so many clients and customers worldwide and grab phones made cheaper with feature users want.
Who's going to use it? I get that Samsung wants a Siri competitor, but seems like they should just leverage Google Assistant, or if they can't use those APIs, use Google Home. Same results.
Maybe they don't want the Google Assistant?
Shut up and make phones
Im very intrigued by Bixby. My guess is that Samsung wants to have a presence in the iot world. If the s8 is a big success bixby will easily have a big chunk of the market. Also im sure they will bring bixby to the gear s3 frontier. The fact that the viv developed assistant can write it's own code has me very interested in bixby and what it may bring to AI. If it works well im sure it will be a huge success.
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