Huawei Mate Update: Amazon’s Alexa Starts Rolls Out In The US For Mate 9 Users
The Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Alexa is now rolling out to the Huawei Mate 9 smartphone devices. The smartphone manufacturing company first announced that they will bring the AI to the latter device back in January on CES 2017 event. On March 22, 2017, the smartphone manufacturing company announced that the Alexa Huawei app will debut on Google Play Store.
Now, that the Huawei Mate 9 users already have the option of using the Amazon's AI Alexa, they can now activate intelligent voice control and they will be able to do almost everything with Alexa on their smartphones.
The new Huawei Mate 9 app offers various Alexa features, such as the ability to control the smart home devices, shop, check the news and listen to Audible content. The ability to control the smartphone includes the ability to control smart thermostats, lights, fans, locks, and access to games and much more.
Alexa first used in Amazon's Echo-branded speakers, it is the same technology like Apple's Siri on iOS and Google Assistant. And as cited by ZDNet, the Huawei Mate 9 is the first ever smartphone device ever uses Alexa for intelligent voice control.
To use the Alexa experience, it is needed to install both the Alexa Huawei app and the Amazon Alexa app on the Huawei Mate 9 device. The AI is a voice-driven experience, but for now, the "always-listening" mode is not yet available in the Huawei app, and to enable the listening mode, it needs to launch first the latter app.
Huawei Mate 9 first rolled out the Amazon's Alexa exclusively in China before it arrives for US users. As of now, there's a lot of AI voice control supported smartphones available in the market. Aside from the Mate 9, iPhone, Nexus 6P, Android, and Windows 10 phones are now supporting their respective AI's.
