BlackBerry is Finally Getting a Digital Personal Assistant

BlackBerry has announced that its finally bringing a digital personal assistant dubbed 'BlackBerry Assistant' to BlackBerry 10.3.

BlackBerry Assistant helps manage simple tasks from searching email and calendar, to finding what's trending on Twitter, to sending calendar invites. The more it's used, the more it adapts to the user.

The more I speak with it, the more tuned-in to my queries it gets. If you’ve had experience with other smartphone-based personal assistants, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how accurate BlackBerry Assistant is at recognizing your requests.


BlackBerry Assistant performs most of its actions without leaving the app.

If I’m driving and I ask it to read my latest email message to me, it does so. I can then ask it to “Mark Unread” without having to enter the BlackBerry Hub. If I’m in a meeting and I type “Remind me to follow up with Matt about our whiteboard session,” it builds me a reminder note that I can save without leaving the Assistant.

The assistant can also perform tasks such as turning on the flashlight and changing notification settings. More details can be found at the link below...

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