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Samsung plans to pitch a digital assistant as one of the main reasons customers should return to its Galaxy brand:
Samsung Electronics Co. plans to equip its next Galaxy S smartphones with a Siri-like digital assistant, seeking to make a strong comeback after the global debacle that precipitated the death of its flawed Note 7 lineup.
Samsung, which last month acquired U.S.-based artificial-intelligence software company Viv Labs Inc., said the Galaxy S8 slated for next year will come with AI-enabled features "significantly differentiated" from those of Apple Inc.'s Siri or Google, executive vice president Rhee In-jong told reporters. Those services now offer up potentially useful information from the weather to flight times based on user activity.
If it's "significantly differentiated" from Apple or Google, does that mean it's like Amazon's Alexa?
Also at Reuters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @08:31AM
Are there any examples of excellent quality products made by Samsung?
(Score: 2) by ledow on Monday November 07 2016, @08:53AM
You can troll if you like.
I'm not a brand-buyer. I don't do it. I blacklist (I own NOTHING Apple and never have, for instance) but I don't whitelist brands. Even where I like a particular brand, I don't own all it's products or in any way go "Ooh, new product from X, that will fit in with the others" or give it any preference other than by its own merit.
Yet, the Samsung stuff that I do have is faultless - possibly because I buy on merit rather than brand.
- TV - 32" HD LCD, flawless. Just works. No Smart-junk, it just works..
- Blu-Ray player - same.
- Phones (my gf and I are both on our third Samsung phone each, since our first ever smartphones, and only upgraded because we outgrew the previous models - Galaxy Ace's at first (not too bad but REALLY low end, because we were testing for our first smartphones), then S4 Mini's, now S5 Mini's). - The Ace made us see the potential but was limited in capacity, the S4 stood us for many years, the S5 was a "treat" that kept things the same for us.
- Laptop (gaming laptop I have had for many years but still play 1000+ Steam games on every day, and laughed at things like GTA V) - flawless and I RE-BOUGHT the exact same model when the one issued to me by a workplace was taken away. It gets 8+ hours of use EVERY SINGLE DAY and has for years.
- SSD (1Tb in the above said laptop - in it's second drive bay - and faultless) - I was careful to avoid the 840 range because of announced problems (not unusual with any manufacturer), but the 850 has been flawless and does exactly what it claims. And I don't even do half of their "suggested configuration" stuff that the wizards wants, like increasing RAM caching and putting on over-provisioning, etc.
To be honest, Samsung do an awful lot of nice products. Where they fall down is when they just copy others (e.g. removing SD card slots from phones, curving the glass, etc. - but I don't care because I find the standard S phones to be too bulky anyway).
No company has every product perfect. But Samsung do an awful lot of very nice products.
All you have to do is stop buying "sorted by brand" and start buying "sorted by features and/or reviews".
If you want one product to counteract your assertion? Samsung 850 Pro. Go on. Beat it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @09:09AM
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a23704/samsung-washing-machines-exploding-recall/
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Monday November 07 2016, @09:13AM
The Note concept is unbeatable - high res stylus for drawing and note taking.
Personally, I wont be buying a phone with more AI from anyone.
There is a Goon Show episode where Eccles falls in the water and is drowning.
Neddy says "He is drowning, quick, give him artificial respiration!"
and Peter Sellers (not sure what character he is playing) responds
"Artificial respiration? The man is drowning - he needs the real thing!"
I think of it every time I hear the words AI.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @09:31AM
You're so lucky! Those of us with a background in animal husbandry think of something entirely different when we hear "AI".
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Monday November 07 2016, @02:00PM
Those of us with a background in animal husbandry think of something entirely different when we hear "AI".
Hey we don't need to hear about Avian Intercourse around here.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Monday November 07 2016, @10:26AM
Considering that samsung is a chaebol and the world's (by revenue) 13nth largest company - yes, quite a few. Everything from syringes to nuclear plants and tankers (ships) they are pretty much in the cutting edge of - and in industrial settings you don't even react when you see their name. When it comes to contrustruction and heavy industries they are one of the "big-3" (the other two being Mitsubishi and Seimens).
But if you meant Samsung Electronics - yeah, they actually make pretty good smartphones (try to find something better than the Galaxy S2) and they do make excellent digital cameras.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday November 07 2016, @12:44PM
I really like my Samsung Galaxy S4 Active [gsmarena.com], for example.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Monday November 07 2016, @01:54PM
When Windows Phone (the new ones not the old pda-style ones) was new, I got a Samsung WP7 phone, and it was the best designed and built phone I ever had (I wish I could remember the model, I lost it and ended up getting a Galaxy S4, which totally soured me on Samsung). High quality materials, external microSD slot, metal sliding covers for charger and headphone ports, both of which on the top (why oh why can't I find a phone built like this any more?!), and WP7, which was superior in every way to WP8+, Android, and iPhone OS, unless you're talking about apps, and it had the ones I wanted (ebook reader and emulators).
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday November 07 2016, @05:00PM
SSDs. Particularly the 850 Evos.
TVs.
My dishwasher is a Samsung and it's extremely quiet for the features it has and the job it does.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @02:15AM
Rumor has it they make cheap explosives in both handheld and washing-machine form factors! Business is booming!