Anyone actually using Bixby?

[Almeuit]

You obviously have no clue what Bixby is. You're only hypothesizing what it is.

Bixby and Google's Assistant is philosphically and technically different.
Bixby is a voice enabled user interface that attempts to replace touch interface.
It will do things locally on your phone that no other voice enabled agents can. For example, simply saying the word "Change my language setting to French" will do just that. In contract, using touch, it requires a tour of the setting menu, digging deeply through the language menu tree to find the French language item and enable it. That requires multiple steps. This is especially helpful for those who dont know the menu tree system of Android. Using a voice interface will save time and hassle to enable such features.

Over time, the capabilities of Bixby will grow as it will integrate with thirdparty apps. When that happens, you can say things like, "Open Facebook and like the first post made by my best friend (Tom) and send him the picture that I took last Wednesday with him. Also, set up a reminder to give him a call when I get home". All of that in one sentence. Seriously. Google's Assitant cant do that nor any other voice agent cant do that.


To give you some ideas, here are some videos showing its capabilities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd-9pbDDheIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VutH-sv9jD4&t=1shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rblb3sptgpQ

I'll believe it when I see it .

 

[anon(238680)]

You're only hypothesizing what it is.

And, no offense, but that is exactly what you're doing. Bixby may or may not turn into the be-all and end-all of voice control, but for now your post brings to mind Scotty standing with an original Mac mouse in his hand saying "Computer. Computer?".

For now its a start, but I think a dedicated button for it now is premature.

 

[zipro]

You obviously have no clue what Bixby is. You're only hypothesizing what it is.

Bixby and Google's Assistant is philosphically and technically different.
Bixby is a voice enabled user interface that attempts to replace touch interface.
It will do things locally on your phone that no other voice enabled agents can. For example, simply saying the word "Change my language setting to French" will do just that. In contract, using touch, it requires a tour of the setting menu, digging deeply through the language menu tree to find the French language item and enable it. That requires multiple steps. This is especially helpful for those who dont know the menu tree system of Android. Using a voice interface will save time and hassle to enable such features.

Over time, the capabilities of Bixby will grow as it will integrate with thirdparty apps. When that happens, you can say things like, "Open Facebook and like the first post made by my best friend (Tom) and send him the picture that I took last Wednesday with him. Also, set up a reminder to give him a call when I get home". All of that in one sentence. Seriously. Google's Assitant cant do that nor any other voice agent cant do that.


To give you some ideas, here are some videos showing its capabilities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd-9pbDDheIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VutH-sv9jD4&t=1shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rblb3sptgpQ

And right now it does diddly squat.

 

[digitalbreak]

Bixby has potential but right now it seems redundant and useless. I already use apps to remind me and Google Now for other things.

That said, the interface and the integration of Bixby looks very nice in S8. Hopefully it will get better with future updates.

 

[digitalbreak]

You obviously have no clue what Bixby is. You're only hypothesizing what it is.

Bixby and Google's Assistant is philosphically and technically different.
Bixby is a voice enabled user interface that attempts to replace touch interface.
It will do things locally on your phone that no other voice enabled agents can. For example, simply saying the word "Change my language setting to French" will do just that. In contract, using touch, it requires a tour of the setting menu, digging deeply through the language menu tree to find the French language item and enable it. That requires multiple steps. This is especially helpful for those who dont know the menu tree system of Android. Using a voice interface will save time and hassle to enable such features.

Over time, the capabilities of Bixby will grow as it will integrate with thirdparty apps. When that happens, you can say things like, "Open Facebook and like the first post made by my best friend (Tom) and send him the picture that I took last Wednesday with him. Also, set up a reminder to give him a call when I get home". All of that in one sentence. Seriously. Google's Assitant cant do that nor any other voice agent cant do that.


To give you some ideas, here are some videos showing its capabilities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd-9pbDDheIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VutH-sv9jD4&t=1shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rblb3sptgpQ

This is exactly the problem. Nobody knows what Bixby is and it is a big problem. I don't think Samsung has completed rolling Bixby entirely yet. Once it is rolled out completely we may come to like it. Until then it has no use.

 

[NeoTreo]

Don't use it, don't want to see it and deleted all the cards.

 

[hdhuntr]

Package Disabler Pro is good and works

No as soon as a disable or remap fix comes back out for it I'll use it.