Samsung stops supporting Android Nougat, Oreo phones for Bixby Voice. Bixby Voice is the voice assistant some portion of the Samsung’s digital assistant that was propelled in 2017. Bixby Voice isn’t accessible on all Samsung smartphones and tablets and numerous mid-run gadgets just incorporate Bixby Home support. Moreover, Samsung is additionally ending support for Bixby Briefing on Android Nougat and Android Oreo gadgets.
The organization is by all accounts rolling out the improvement to push Samsung users to refresh their phones and abstain from spending designer assets on keeping up support for more established Android forms.
As indicated by a report by SamMobile, the Bixby Voice and Bixby Briefing support on Samsung smartphones running Android 8 Oreo and Android 7 Nougat will end on January 1, 2020. The Samsung smartphones that will lose access to these two Bixby highlights are Samsung Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, Galaxy S8 Active, Galaxy Note 8, and Galaxy A9 2018. Remarkably, Samsung Galaxy Note 9 proprietors who are yet to refresh from Android 8.1 Oreo won’t be affected by this change.
SamMobile stated that, “This move is meant to nudge users toward what’s referred to as Bixby 2.0. Unveiled with the Galaxy Note 9 last year, it brought a new interface for Bixby Voice in addition to many improvements. The improved Bixby is also better at processing natural language.”
As Samsung has discharged the Android 9 Pie update for all the previously mentioned smartphones, the proprietors can essentially refresh their gadgets to the most recent OS rendition to hold access to Bixby Voice and Bixby Briefings.
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