Honor says its soon-to-be-released Magic 7 telephone will deal with your morning espresso order, tailor-made precisely to your style, proper all the way down to the kind of milk you favor.
The Chinese language firm launched a demo video to the media on Tuesday displaying a text-based interplay between an individual and the system’s AI assistant, Yoyo. The consumer requests the assistant to order him a pick-me-up beverage saying, “Please assist me order a drink. I’m feeling a little bit sleepy.” The AI assistant then goes on to launch the app for LuckIn Espresso, China’s reply to Starbucks, deciding on the Uncooked Milk Latte drink and takeout earlier than putting the order.
Within the video, a number of the drink’s preferences, equivalent to not including sugar and making it iced, appear to have been preselected quite than inputted on the spot. Presumably, the assistant was repeating the individual’s most frequent order. Honor stated the thought is for the telephone to study an individual’s habits over time, which can permit the Magic 7 to study whether or not a consumer prefers coconut milk with their espresso over dairy milk, for example.
In recent times, smartphone-makers have been leaning on generative AI to lure consumers. A latest Motorola AI idea describes the same characteristic to what Honor is describing, which might additionally order a espresso on command from the closest store. Each 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 telephone gross sales have been climbing this yr. In accordance with analysis agency Canalys, world smartphone shipments grew by 12% within the second quarter of this yr, reaching 288 million models, with Samsung taking the highest spot adopted carefully by Apple.
Honor’s Yoyo Assistant putting a espresso order.
Honor additionally talked about different assistant-like capabilities that it expects to make its strategy to the Magic 7. These embody the AI assistant discovering and canceling undesirable subscriptions throughout completely different apps with only a command, which it previewed with a second demo video.
Within the video, an individual asks the Yoyo assistant to test which apps have auto-renewal subscriptions activated. In a matter of seconds, the assistant pulls up a collection of apps which might be due for renewal after which asks the consumer whether or not to cancel all these subscriptions.
“OK, Yoyo has taken over your telephone,” the assistant stated earlier than happening to cancel a subscription.
Aside from that, Honor stated that the AI agent might help 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 tip 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 telephone AI appears extra action-oriented in comparison with its opponents — very like 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 telephone with a easy command, amongst different duties.
Final yr, Honor teased an AI-powered eye-tracking characteristic round this time that finally made its strategy to the Magic 6 collection. Honor gave the Magic 6 Professional, the higher-end predecessor, a worldwide launch on the Cell World Congress expertise convention in February this yr. Honor is anticipated to provide the Magic 7 a global launch as properly, however at present hasn’t confirmed these plans.
