If Joaquin Phoenix-starring Hollywood movie 'Her' has taught us anything, it is that human beings might eventually fall in love with their virtual assistants in the future. Even though the movie took the concept a little too far, it does depict that humans can form an emotional bond with technology if it is made more personable and human-like. In order to make its voice assistant easier to relate to, Google has reportedly hired writers from Pixar and The Onion.
As per a report by the Wall Street Journal, the search giant has hired writers who have worked on movies from Pixar as well has created humour content for The Onion to provide a personality to its voice-based virtual assistant.
Till now, just like its name, Google Assistant has been extremely mechanical compared with other virtual assistants like Siri from Apple and Cortana from Microsoft. Even though the functionality provided by the voice assistant from Google is highly efficient, it lacked the human touch provided by other virtual assistants.
If that's true that's an amazingly obscure problem wow hindsight lol
My Nexus 5x doesn't last the whole day. Was going to go with a Note 7 until the exploding rumours... Guess I'll have to wait a bit longer for a new phone.
idk, even tho i have an X Pure, i bought a Kenzo for my bother (Redmi Note 3 Pro, SD650 variant) and it works beatifully, it even has CM for it, but Miui works pretty well anyway, also my brother has the OP2 and loves it, so i had very good experiences with chinese phones.... maybe its luck tho, ive heard about issues in quality control but not from Xiaomi, they are pretty big
Im deciding if i take the bait and buy it in january.
On October 27 2016 04:48 parkufarku wrote: Yeah. Xiaomi. Chinese company. I'm gonna pass. And this is a guy coming from a guy who owns Oneplus phone, another Chinese company.
This, without further explanation, seems as racist as you can be.
If my walllet allow it, I'm totally into this new Xiaomi phone!
On October 27 2016 04:48 parkufarku wrote: Yeah. Xiaomi. Chinese company. I'm gonna pass. And this is a guy coming from a guy who owns Oneplus phone, another Chinese company.
This, without further explanation, seems as racist as you can be.
If my walllet allow it, I'm totally into this new Xiaomi phone!
Wut? Chinese products are known globally to be "cheap" or inferior quality. I thought everyone knew this.
For example, if you look at TVs, you have Samsung / Sony (Korean / Japanese), then you have Chinese brands like Haier, HiSense. The latter two are widely regarded as lower quality and hence lower price then the former two.
It's like the case for computers as well. Dell and Apple vs. Lenovo (Chinese). Acer / Asus may be decent, but they're Taiwanese, not Chinese.
Cars: BMW, Audi (Germany), Toyota, Nissan (Japanese), then you have Chinese car brands that no one has ever heard of globally (I google'd Geely, Chery)
Point is, Chinese products have been regarded as inferior quality, and continues to be this day and age as we can see with our modern products
On October 28 2016 00:24 Faruko wrote: Yeah, unlike my samsung galaxy note 7 which is compl
Edit: sorry, my phone exploded had to make this edit from my Pc
Yup. Samsung fucked up. It doesn't really make a good counter argument to come with anecdotal evidence.
That said, Chinese phones are excellent price-quality wise for the hardware, and that's why I kinda like my Huawei Nexus. Its battery life is a bit shit and I bust up the screen after a very nasty flight ending on the pavement, but it still works. Stock Android is, imho best Android, so having a phone that doesn't fuck with that (TouchWiz, I hate you) is very nice. Xiaomi doesn't do that, though, with their bizarro iOS look and feel built upon Android. Just saying.
On October 27 2016 04:48 parkufarku wrote: Yeah. Xiaomi. Chinese company. I'm gonna pass. And this is a guy coming from a guy who owns Oneplus phone, another Chinese company.
This, without further explanation, seems as racist as you can be.
If my walllet allow it, I'm totally into this new Xiaomi phone!
Wut? Chinese products are known globally to be "cheap" or inferior quality. I thought everyone knew this.
For example, if you look at TVs, you have Samsung / Sony (Korean / Japanese), then you have Chinese brands like Haier, HiSense. The latter two are widely regarded as lower quality and hence lower price then the former two.
It's like the case for computers as well. Dell and Apple vs. Lenovo (Chinese). Acer / Asus may be decent, but they're Taiwanese, not Chinese.
Cars: BMW, Audi (Germany), Toyota, Nissan (Japanese), then you have Chinese car brands that no one has ever heard of globally (I google'd Geely, Chery)
Point is, Chinese products have been regarded as inferior quality, and continues to be this day and age as we can see with our modern products
I dunno OnePlus and Xiaomi are kinda cool, Huawei/Honor sells very well, plus those Chinese products don't "explode". You kinda are spilling BS for the sake of it
Honestly, chinese phones have come A LONG WAY, and unless you are buying some undergroud brands (and even some of them are kinda nice) you should not have many problems.
Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus, Meizu, ZTE, Lenovo (Zuk brand) are all brands which respectable quality in their products.
Does anyone have any experience with Sony's recent smartphones? I got my father's spare Xperia Z3* and I love it. It is certainly a lot more responsive compared to my old Galaxy S4 and while it is more than enough for what I need right now, when I upgrade to a new phone I am considering Sony.
*Long story short, he was on the fence on whether something would be covered by warranty or not (it would) and did not want to gamble, so he bought a new phone before the Z3 returned.
Sony Smartphones are actually pretty good, but their biggest fault is being overpriced for what they actually are
I mean the first review i found on google of the X Performance says "It's not a bad phone, just a bad deal.", the second "and the exorbitant price tag makes it poor value for consumers.", considering its costs $700.
And at that price, you could find a $300 Xiaomi mi5*, $450 OP3 or at the $600+ price point a Galaxy S7, Google Pixel or the Huawei P9, all of them supposedly better and cheaper
EPT
Guess I'll have to wait a bit longer for a new phone.![[image loading]](https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/larger/public/article_images/2016/10/xiaomi-mi-mix.jpg?itok=rdT6XrN4)
