When every smartphone OS whether it be iOS, Android or Windows Phone is getting a virtual personal assistant, Blackberry, the initiator of the smartphone realm was still lagging behind in terms of features and functionality. Sure they do have expertise in security but lack of apps and coping up with rivals in terms of functionality, Blackberry is lagging far behind other smartphone OSes.
Its not been much time since they announced the awkwardly shaped Blackberry Passport, they have today announced the launch of their own Personal Assistant stating its been worked for BB 10.3 on Passport. Again, coping up with rivals.
See the post here.
See the post here.
The official Blackberry blog says its a voice activated feature but it remains to be seen if its voice activated as Google Now on the Moto X.
It would not be as functional or contextual as Siri or Google Now but it can help you manage simple tasks like searching emails and calendar, finding out what's trending on twitter, or sending trivia night invitations. It does learn about you by how you interact with it.
It can also set reminders for about meetings, appointments or your anniversary. While driving you can ask it to read your latest emails and it does so. You can also ask it to mark the email as unread without even touching your Passport.
Doing tasks that require hardware interaction is still absent in Google Now while Blackberry Assistant supports this functionality.You can turn on-off your flash light and maybe you can do other tasks too like controlling bluetooth and wifi. Changing profiles should be an ease too.
Now the most important question that remains here is whether or not this feature come to other Balckberry phones running BB 10.2.?
With so many leaks about upcoming technology around the world, it is quite surprising as to how Blackberry was able to cover it all up until now. Maybe its all about Security then.
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