{"id":195346,"date":"2017-08-30T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=195346"},"modified":"2017-08-30T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T06:22:07","slug":"samsung-introduces-bixby-a-smarter-way-to-use-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/195346\/samsung-introduces-bixby-a-smarter-way-to-use-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung introduces Bixby &#8211; a smarter way to use your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zYW1zdW5nLmNvbS96YS9hcHBzL2JpeGJ5L3ZvaWNlLz9jaWQ9emFfdmlkZW9fbXlicm9hZGJhbmRfYml4YnlfMjAxNzA4MjRfXzFjcG0?source=Free%20Value\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bixby<\/strong><\/a> is Samsung&#8217;s own AI assistant, rivalling the likes of\u00a0Google\u00a0Assistant and\u00a0Amazon\u00a0Alexa, but it goes so much further beyond voice.<\/p>\n<p>Bixby makes your phone helpful \u2013 assisting in completing tasks, telling you what you\u2019re looking at, learning your routine and remembering what you need to do.<\/p>\n<p>While you can ask the smart assistant to carry out tasks like turning on the flashlight or taking a selfie, you can also ask more complex questions such as &#8220;Find photos I took in Spain and create an album called &#8216;Vacation&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bixby can be activated by pressing a dedicated button on the side of the S8 and S8+ or the newly unveiled Note 8 or by saying the wake phrase &#8220;Hi Bixby&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Bixby, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.mybroadband.co.za\/\/track.php?page=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zYW1zdW5nLmNvbS96YS9hcHBzL2JpeGJ5L3ZvaWNlLz9jaWQ9emFfdmlkZW9fbXlicm9hZGJhbmRfYml4YnlfMjAxNzA4MjRfXzFjcG0?source=Free%20Value\">Samsung website<\/a> and watch the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bixby makes your phone helpful \u2013 assisting in completing tasks, telling you what you\u2019re looking at, learning your routine and remembering what you need to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":195348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[26,52],"class_list":["post-195346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-headline","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195350,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195346\/revisions\/195350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}