Samsung’s Bixby is even less useful on the Verizon Galaxy S8 at launch
Samsung’s Bixby assistant on the Galaxy S8 is a little bit hobbled out of the gate. It won’t be able to respond to your voice commands until later this spring, and one of the few tricks it can do at launch isn’t yet fully functional on Verizon Wireless.
That trick is called Bixby Vision. Inside the camera app, you can enable Bixby Vision, point the camera at something, and Bixby gets to work. From our review:
It uses computer vision to identify an object or text and then links you to similar images on Pinterest or options to buy more of the same product from Amazon. It uses Google Translate to translate text, much like how the proper Google Translate app does. It can also identify landmarks and provide links and facts about them or tell...