How to run Bixby intelligent assistant on older smartphones Samsung

Samsung has introduced Bixby with the new smartphone Galaxy S8, which is a special physical button to invoke an intelligent assistant. It seems, Bixby can be installed on older Samsung phones.

Officially, there is no such function, but a user with the nickname takerhbks published on the XDA Developers forum is a basic guide to start Bixby and put all the APK-files.

To test the smart assistant, you need to have a Samsung smartphone with Android 7.0, and download corporate launcher for the S8.

Instruction and installation files can be found here.

Assistant adds schedule and other important information on the panel, which can be accessed on the home screen, swipe, It helps to make the Self, can cause the contacts from the phonebook and tells you where to buy photographed products.

However, not all have established Bixby program works perfectly: there can be problems with the camera or speech recognition. And there is a suspicion that the observed installation files are added only to the dashboard interface of your device, but not the voice recognition and chips with a camera.

Samsung has no plans to do Bixby officially available in Google Play. But, fortunately, it is not the only virtual assistant. Is working on in order to make google Assistant accessible to a larger number of smartphones on Android Marshmallow and Nougat. And in Google Play have Cortana from Microsoft.

What do you think about Galaxy S8 and Bixby? You do use some of the clever assistants or waiting Russification? Share in the comments.