The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 could support both Google Assistant and Bixby, as well as other voice assistants.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 could support both Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant and Google Assistant, according to a new rumor. While we knew the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 would probably inherit some fun perks from Google’s Wear OS now that it and Samsung have collaborated on Wear OS 3, the operating system introduced at Google IO 2021. We hadn’t heard many specifics on new features that would be shared, so getting Google Assistant on the watch is an exciting possibility. In a reply to a 9to5Google tweet about the Galaxy Watch 4, leaker SnoopyTech mentioned that the watch would have Google Assistant and Bixby: As 9to5Google explained in follow-up coverage, there’s a reference in the Wear OS app’s code to support for an ‘alternate assistant’ – that is, an alternate to Google Assistant. There’s also evidence that the alternate, which could be Bixby or, perhaps, another voice assistant like Amazon’s Alexa, could get its own tile in the Wear OS launcher.
