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Blackberry Announces Virtual Assistant To Take On Siri And Cortana by lanre316: 9:20am On Jul 17, 2014



Apple has Siri, Microsoft has Cortana, Google's got Now voice search and BlackBerry... doesn't have a virtual assistant of any kind. This morning, however, the Canadian smartphone maker confirmed that it has one in the works and will be showing up on the company's next major release. Known aptly as BlackBerry Assistant, the new program is a part of OS 10.3 and will be available on the upcoming Passport phone. Assistant is voice-activated and comes with quite a few of the standard features we've come to expect on the other mobile platforms, such as the ability to open apps, send messages and tweets, set reminders and change settings. It also is smart enough to learn and adapt to your needs, so it theoretically should become more useful over time as it gets to know you. BlackBerry isn't revealing all that Assistant can do yet, and it hasn't offered a firm timeframe for availability aside from the fact that it'll be part of the Passport, but so far we haven't seen much to set it apart from the competition. It's at least a good sign that the company is trying remain competitive.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/16/blackberry-assistant/?ncid=rss_truncated
Re: Blackberry Announces Virtual Assistant To Take On Siri And Cortana by Nobody: 9:39am On Jul 17, 2014
maybe this one will be predicting who will score next in O.G.O
Re: Blackberry Announces Virtual Assistant To Take On Siri And Cortana by Nobody: 10:15am On Jul 17, 2014
Will it predict matches? If not, it should take third place in class tongue

1st: cortana
2nd: siri
3rd: BlackBerry assistant
Re: Blackberry Announces Virtual Assistant To Take On Siri And Cortana by Warlord3000(m): 10:19am On Jul 17, 2014
Na wa o.. Wonders shall never end..

Dem dey find good meat for soup.. Even ordinary ponmo sef dey show face..

If I hear.. tongue
Re: Blackberry Announces Virtual Assistant To Take On Siri And Cortana by lanre316: 10:37am On Jul 17, 2014
Warlord3000: Na wa o.. Wonders shall never end..

Dem dey find good meat for soup.. Even ordinary ponmo sef dey show face..

If I hear.. tongue

Lol

But to be fair, blackberry is not that bad in the smartphone game. At least, their BIS services is second to none.

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