Samsung's Bixby AI to get a dedicated physical button
The new AI assistant, dubbed as Bixby will be based on technology picked up by Samsung when it acquired Viv last year.
Samsung is planning to differentiate itself among the much crowded Android smartphone market by reducing its reliance with Google. The upcoming smartphone will feature a new intelligent personal assistant similar to Apple’s Siri.
Samsung’s AI assistant, dubbed as Bixby will be based on technology picked up by Samsung when it acquired Viv last year. What’s new is that the Bixby will be able to answer layered questions that other competing AIs are unable to do. Viv CEO Dag Kittlaus explained that Viv can answer complex queries like, “Find me a flight to Dallas with a seat that Shaq could fit in.”
According to few online reports, the new Ai will be integrated in S8’s camera and will be able to process text via OCR and even search for identify objects. A newly surfaced Galaxy S8 render suggests that the device may come with a fourth physical button for quickly accessing Bixby AI.
As for the specifications, the Galaxy S8 is expected to feature an edgeless AMOLED display with a new camera technology, 32GB / 256GB of internal storage. It is likely to be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 SoC paired with 6GB of RAM.