Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 review: The first take of a great future idea

Google Assistant: MIA. Hi, Bixby

As I said earlier: Google’s excellent voice-based Assistant isn’t on the Galaxy Watch 4. Instead, you’re stuck with Bixby as the only assistant for now. That’s incredibly frustrating considering how good Google Assistant is, and how Samsung’s Google Wear OS partnership seemed to be lining up specifically to allow things like Assistant. Google Assistant should be coming sometime, I think, but it’s unclear. It’s hard to promise what isn’t there.

Bixby does some useful things: it can handle voice dictation well enough to respond to notifications on Slack when I get a message midday. It can set timers and handle basic functions. But it won’t hook into the rest of Google. Without Assistant, this watch doesn’t really feel very Google-like at all.

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