Amazon’s Alexa can now be set as a default voice assistant on Android smartphones.<\/p>\n
Users on Reddit<\/strong><\/a> discovered the feature on 7 May, pointing out that the option was available on a Google Pixel 2 smartphone.<\/p>\n Other smartphones which reportedly support the functionality include the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S9, OnePlus 5, and Essential Phone.<\/p>\n Previously, only Microsoft’s Cortana assistant was available as a default virtual assistant option in Android.<\/p>\n Alexa’s functionality remains relatively limited as a default assistant, and cannot be summoned using a wake word like its Google counterpart.<\/p>\n Amazon’s Alexa can now be set as a default voice assistant on Android smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":210532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7431,723,397,43470,1205],"class_list":["post-259189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-android","tag-integration","tag-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259197,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259189\/revisions\/259197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Microsoft shows off Alexa and Cortana integration<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"