Honor’s Magic 7 cellphone, which launches in China on Oct. 30, will deal with your morning espresso order, tailor-made precisely to your style, proper right down to the kind of milk you favor.
The Chinese firm launched a demo video to the media on Tuesday exhibiting a text-based interplay between an individual and the gadget’s AI assistant, Yoyo. The person requests the assistant to order him a pick-me-up beverage saying, “Please assist me order a drink. I’m feeling a bit sleepy.” The AI assistant then goes on to launch the app for LuckIn Coffee, China’s reply to Starbucks, deciding on the Raw Milk Latte drink and takeout earlier than inserting the order.
In the video, among the drink’s preferences, equivalent to not including sugar and making it iced, appear to have been preselected moderately than inputted on the spot. Presumably, the assistant was repeating the particular person’s most frequent order. Honor stated the thought is for the cellphone to study an individual’s habits over time, which can permit the Magic 7 to study whether or not a person prefers coconut milk with their espresso over dairy milk, for example.
In latest years, smartphone-makers have been leaning on generative AI to lure patrons. A latest Motorola AI idea describes an analogous characteristic to what Honor is describing, which might additionally order a espresso on command from the closest store. Every main phone-maker from Google to Samsung and extra just lately Apple has been selling new AI options in a bid to drive gross sales. AI is not essentially a contributing issue, however cellphone gross sales have been climbing this 12 months. According to analysis agency Canalys, world smartphone shipments grew by 12% within the second quarter of this 12 months, reaching 288 million models, with Samsung taking the highest spot adopted carefully by Apple.
Honor’s Yoyo Assistant inserting a espresso order.
Honor additionally talked about different assistant-like capabilities that it expects to make its technique to the Magic 7. Those embrace the AI assistant discovering and canceling undesirable subscriptions throughout completely different apps with only a command, which it previewed with a second demo video.
In the video, an individual asks the Yoyo assistant to verify which apps have auto-renewal subscriptions activated. In a matter of seconds, the assistant pulls up a sequence of apps which are due for renewal after which asks the person whether or not to cancel all these subscriptions.
“OK, Yoyo has taken over your cellphone,” the assistant stated earlier than happening to cancel a subscription.
Apart from that, Honor stated that the AI agent can assist throughout a broad vary of duties together with reserving an airplane ticket, notification administration and calendar scheduling, amongst others. These options are set to launch on an upcoming working system, MagicOS 9.0, earlier than the top of the month. The Magic 7 will run on Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, the corporate stated.
Honor’s imaginative and prescient for its cellphone AI appears extra action-oriented in comparison with its opponents — very similar to the plan Motorola laid out earlier in October, whereby it shared its ambitions of turning their telephones into a real assistant. Motorola’s imaginative and prescient additionally included the flexibility to order espresso utilizing your cellphone with a easy command, amongst different duties.
Last 12 months, Honor teased an AI-powered eye-tracking characteristic round this time that finally made its technique to the Magic 6 sequence. Honor gave the Magic 6 Pro, the higher-end predecessor, a world launch on the Mobile World Congress know-how convention in February this 12 months. Honor is predicted to present the Magic 7 a global launch as properly, however presently hasn’t confirmed these plans.
