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Microsoft's Cortana quietly snuck onto to Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you own a OnePlus One..
[...] while Siri works best with Apple apps and services, the Cortana integration promises to be deeper.
"When Apple launched Apple Music at WWDC, they showed the Siri integration with Apple Music. Siri doesn't power Spotify like that so we can do these kind of things with for example, integration of Microsoft's Cortana into the OS enabling natural language to power Spotify and other services," Cyanogen CEO Kirk McMaster said in an interview with International Business Times last year.
It isn't clear when this feature will roll out to other Cyanogen-compatible devices, but already this ambitious startup is getting serious with its quest to "steal Android away from Google".
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(Score: 2) by Celestial on Friday January 08 2016, @08:17PM
Not sure that integrating with Microsoft's services is the best idea, but "stealing Android away from Google" is a worthy idea. Now if only there was an Android smartphone with parts made after 2012 and has a screen smaller than 5"...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:35PM
If only there was such a phone... oh wait, there is [sonymobile.com]!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Zinho on Friday January 08 2016, @09:51PM
From someone other than Sony, please? Going to Sony to escape customer abuse from Google is like going to a Mafia loan shark because you don't like the interest rate on your credit union's Visa card contract.
Also, math fail: 5.2in > 5in. [gsmarena.com]
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:00PM
Get one of the Samsung mini-series phones. There's also a new 4.7" OnePlus 2 Mini in development, might be out by Summer.
(Score: 2) by NullPtr on Friday January 08 2016, @10:49PM
The z3 is a great phone though. You're only punishing yourself by not getting a sony product; they sure as hell don't know or care what you think of them.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Zinho on Friday January 08 2016, @11:19PM
The z3 is a great phone though.
I'm sure it is, and I hope you enjoy it.
You're only punishing yourself by not getting a sony product
No, I'm protecting myself from a company with a LONG history of underhanded tactics to force customer lock-in. On this site of all places I shouldn't have to list my grievances, they're common knowledge.
they sure as hell don't know or care what you think of them.
And that, right there, is the problem. I'd like to love Sony products, I really would. I know that they are high-quality. I wish Sony would just grow some confidence that their customers would stay with them due to the high quality. I've been watching them now for 3 decades, and every time I start thinking they've cleaned up their act they do something else that blatantly abuses their customers. When Sony starts caring what people think of them they'll start on the road to making more sales. Until then I'm boycotting, and I'm not the only one.
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:12AM
I don't agree with this. In my experience, recent Sony products look good when you compare the specs, but then what you find out is that the specs hide real problems. For example, my car radio can read USB thumb drives, BUT, only the first 4GB (and I bought the radio when 64GB thumb drives were common). Another is their use of their proprietary SD cards, designed to make the cost of ownership higher.
I don't consider a device with those types of mis-features to be high-quality.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday January 09 2016, @04:44AM
The z3 is a great phone though.
It may well be.
You're only punishing yourself by not getting a sony product;
No, there are enough equally good or better alternatives on the market.
they sure as hell don't know or care what you think of them.
Not yet, but the number of people boycotting sony is slowly getting bigger and when they notice the dollars going elsewhere thy will care.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by Nollij on Saturday January 09 2016, @02:25AM
You're not looking hard enough.
Samsung [verizonwireless.com], Motorola [verizonwireless.com], Kyocera [att.com], LG [att.com], and even ZTE [t-mobile.com] make phones under 5"
The trick is that small phones are not popular, and usually have lower profits - they are never featured, so you'll have to dig to find them.