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samsung's new vics the assistant isn't just one digital helper for the Galaxy s8 and s8 plus it's a it's actually more like three you've got Bixby voice show me gallery photos from Melbourne which is the closest thing to Apple Siri Google's voice search and Amazon Alexa you can trigger it by pressing and holding that button below the volume rocker or you can use a wakeboard anyway this is where you ask the phone to do things like change various phone settings you can say turn on my mobile hotspot or send this photo to Stephanie but you can't ask it if you should wear your galoshes or how to get wine stains out of your couch so yeah that's pretty limited for now then there's Bixby home and this is more like Google now with cards that share a lot of information like yes the weather and also news stories your step count that sort of thing you can jump into the settings to pick how much you want to see and you can share items from here on social networks or with friends you can get here by swiping to the left of your home screen finally there's 6p vision this is basically Samsung's version of Google Goggles point the camera at an object and let fix the visions so get in you can learn more about wine including food pairings search for a book and translate more than 50 languages using Google Translate there's a shopping tool in here to some of our tests worked and some did not Samsung's still finalizing the software so we've really got to cut it some slack until Bixby's official launch and even then Samsung will add more and more features as time goes on so for now we'll consider this a taste of what's to come the big speed we've got our eye on you