What is Bixby? Explained in a simple and understandable way

Many users are less familiar with what Bixby is. Other voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana are far more well known. In this article, we explain how the little helper Bixby can make things easier in everyday life.

What is Bixby - the Samsung voice assistant presented

Bixby is at home on the Samsung smartphones Galaxy S8 and S8 +.

• Bixby is more than just an information provider or shopping advisor. The helper can also use smart home. The main functions are "Voice", "Vision", "Home" and "Reminder".
• Samsung is known to not only manufacture smartphones, but also household appliances. This is the advantage over other language assistants. Samsung wants to make its electrical household appliances compatible with the voice assistant Bixby in the future.
• What Bixby can do: Recognize things that are held up in front of the lens. For example, point the lens at your neighbor's shoes and Bixby will show you where to buy them.
• After a long wait, Bixby has also learned German. So far, the language assistant could only speak English, Korean and Mandarin Chinese.
• In addition to German, Bixby also learned Italian and Spanish.
• The only requirement for using Bixby: Your Samsung smartphone needs the upgrade to Android 9.0 Pie.

Bixby "Home" to join in

You can access Bixby "Home" with a swipe gesture from the start screen.

• Here you can not only access the calendar, but also other third-party applications.
• Samsung wants to make its assistant a little more interesting for users.
• With the Bixby Developer Studio, Samsung has created a freely available development platform so that as many developers as possible can participate and the scope of the offer can grow rapidly.
• This platform should not only make services, but also devices suitable for the assistant. Therefore, Samsung also opens the "SmartThings" platform for third parties. So you can not only control Samsung devices using Bixby.