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Yandex, a technology company that builds intelligent products & services powered by machine learning, has unveiled its 1st smartphone, the Yandex.Phone. The company’s smartphone is fully powered by Yandex’s intelligent assistant ‘Alice’. It’s also the 1st phone that comes pre-installed with a suite of mobile services from the Yandex ecosystem.
The company said the Yandex smartphone uses AI to “deliver a highly personalized mobile experience” based on the users’ location, routine, & usage pattern. While mobile users have been able to utilize Alice for Yandex services on other devices, Yandex.Phone will be the 1st smartphone in Russia in which the AI assistant can be used across the majority of apps & services. Regardless of what they’re doing on the phone, users can have Alice manage everyday tasks for them. For example, Alice can add an event to one’s calendar without any interruption while they’re watching a movie or playing a game. Users will also be able to interact with Alice remotely, as the assistant will respond to voice prompts when within range of the user.
Yandex.Phone users have access to over 34,000 existing Alice skills to help with tasks such as ordering food, booking flights, & calling a taxi. With the introduction of Yandex.Phone, Alice can now also place voice calls for users. Through the Yandex.Dialogues skills platform, 3rd-party developers have created thousands of skills for Alice, with more being developed every day.
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