Last week's Burger King ad ended badly, but was a great idea. In the long term though, we avoided a bigger issue that would have ruined our experience.
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What kind of screen should the Pixel 2 have?
Much speculation has gone into what kind of screen the Pixel 2 will have - flat, or soemthing more fun? We look at the possibilities here.
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Would you buy a refurbished Samsung Note 7?
Samsung has fixed the Note 7...again! So it's selling it...again! But questions remain - would you buy a refurbished Samsung Note 7?
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Who will finally kill the bezel?
In this editor roundup, we put on our prediction caps and try to predict which OEM will finally kill the bezel. Who will cross the finish line?
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Dear OEMs, it’s time to stop hardware fragmentation
Hardware fragmentation is as big or a bigger problem these days than software, and it just shouldn't be. OEMs need to push the same device everywhere.
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Did Samsung make a mistake with its Infinity Display?
Samsung made both flagships with the Infinity Display. Was it a mistake to not offer a flat sided option? Or was Samsung right to go all in on the design?
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LG and Samsung have set a high bar, can the competition keep up?
LG and Samsung have both brought the sexy this year. Can the competition keep up, and what does this mean for the rest of 2017?
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Can Samsung DeX succeed where Microsoft failed? Should it?
Samsung DeX is Samsung's version of Continuum. A noble sentiment, but is it a solution looking for a problem? We suspect it might be.
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Bixby is counting on the one thing you can’t count on – developers to buy in
Bixby has some lofty ambitions, and Samsung is going all in on it. And it needs Bixby to succeed, as I have previously written. Bixby is slated to be the ultimate warrior of personal assistants, growing to a full ecosystem of devices and content. Soon, we’ll see Bixby enabled phones, IoT devices, and more. These devices will all work together in perfect harmony.
But there’s something even better than Bixby will do. Bixby will allow you to use your voice to do anything that you can do by touching the device. Need to launch an app? No problem. Need to grab a screenshot? Done. Want to start watching a particular show on Netflix but you’re up to your elbows in cookie dough? Well…not yet. But definitely, probably, maybe, soon…ish. Samsung hopes.
All aboard!
Because a key factor in getting Netflix to launch a particular show while you’re elbow deep in cookie dough is to have Netflix on board the Bixby train. Netflix is going to need to add Bixby integration into its app in order for Bixby to do that. You know what we call that? We call that risk. Allow me to explain.
You might argue that Samsung is big enough and impressive enough to go to app developers and get them to play nicely. Well, sure. There was another company that was pretty huge and needed to bring developers on board to develop for its platform. It’s called Microsoft, you might have heard of it. At the risk of ripping a bandage off a still fresh wound, how did that turn out for Microsoft?
Apples to oranges
Now, you might retort with something like, “Microsoft was trying to push a whole operating system, not some stupid personal assistant!” and you would be correct. Microsoft was asking developers to basically write apps from the ground up in order to adopt the Windows Phone (now Windows 10 Mobile) platform. Samsung, on the other hand, is only asking devs to integrate an SDK into existing apps. It’s not a 1:1 comparison – I totally get that. But how much of a departure is it really?
Samsung is still calling on developers to put extra time, energy, and resources into integrating an assistant that is going into, what 20% of phones in the world? Maybe, depending on whose numbers you look at. Plus, they’ll have to support it on the back end. This is not really a small ask. It’s not like Bixby is going to be driving sales of apps. It’ll be a nice-to-have, not a necessity, at least in the short term. Maybe there is a day in the future when all apps will be 100% voice controlled, but will that day be ruled by Bixby? I’m not so sure.
Looking ahead
The hard part about this is, if there is a company that can make this happen, it’s Samsung. It has the money and the popularity to push its agenda forward. So Bixby could be the start of the next big thing. It’s easy to laugh off or [...]
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TL;DR: Why does everyone get lost on their way to lunch?
Every time an assistant is demoed, it always includes a scenario where someone's meeting someone from lunch. Often, they're late. What the heck?
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The Edge is dead. Long live the edge!
The Edge, originally an also-ran variant of the Galaxy Note, has now come full circle and become a part of Samsung's design language.
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Can a fingerprint sensor ruin a perfectly good phone?
Samsung's placement of the fingerprint sensor on the Galaxy S8 is...questionable. Could it ruin the entire phone experience, or will we learn to love it?
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Let’s settle this – fingerprint sensor on the back, or on the front?
The fingerprint sensor is mainstream now, but they have a location problem. We're here to hash it out and find the best place - the back or the front?
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SureCall EZ 4G review: Say no to dead zones!
The SureCall EZ 4G is a potential solution to a frustrating problem. It takes some effort, but dead zones can be a thing of the past with this device.
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Here’s why Bixby needs to be great, and why you should hope it is too
Bixby has a lot of competition, but with its scale, it needs to be a top notch experience. Anything less could be a disaster.
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