Like most Android phones, the S4 comes with a suite of useful Google apps, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and the voice assistant Google Now.
The Google Now personal assistant can tell you if there's a traffic jam on your regular route home and suggest an alternative.
The Note 10.1 launched last fall, but it received a software update with a new version of Android and a slew of other features like the voice assistant Google Now, which is a lot more impressive than Apple's original Siri.
One interesting note, which may mean absolutely nothing: The artwork on the invitation closely resembles the drawings associated with its Google Now automated personal assistant on Android.
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With Google's voice assistant now available on iPhones and iPads, The Associated Press used an iPad Mini to throw five test questions at Google Now and Siri on Monday afternoon in New York.
Google also does similar things with Google Now, its smart assistant feature in Android, which can do things like remind users when they should leave a location to make an appointment.
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This goal, of course, is hardly unique to Google, says Hyun-Yeul Lee, assistant professor of Communiction at Boston University and expert in design, media, and technology.
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All this spotlighting of privacy offers Google's competitors a chance to shorten Google's lead in the search industry, says Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School.
Google Glass would use natural language voice recognition to operate, making it a perfect candidate for virtual assistant integration.
When Google took the wraps off Now we all got a pretty excited about the potential of the preemptive virtual assistant.
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