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Cortana for iPhone is Now Faster and Freshly Redesigned

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Microsoft today updated Cortana for iPhone with a significant redesign that has been available to Android users since December. As noted by Paul Thurrott, version 2.0 of the app is more responsive with redesigned calling, texting, and reminders and more immersive full-page answers with quicker page transitions.

Cortana's mobile redesign launched on Android in December

Cortana is Microsoft's equivalent of Siri for Windows PCs and smartphones, Xbox, iOS, and Android. The personal assistant enables users to ask questions, check the weather, schedule calendar appointments, set reminders, track packages, look up sports scores, and many other tasks that Siri is capable of.

Cortana is free on the App Store [Direct Link] for iPhone.

Tags: Cortana, Microsoft

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attila Avatar
attila
120 months ago
If it can't replace the OS-integrated Siri, I don't see the point of this.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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imac_g4_1702
120 months ago
Does anyone actually use Cortana on an iOS devices? Even Siri is cumbersome for me to use...
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Amazing Iceman Avatar
Amazing Iceman
120 months ago
Cortana belongs to Halo, unless she's a real 3D Hologram.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
miniyou64 Avatar
miniyou64
120 months ago
Yeah its hard enough to just trust Apple with private info no way Microsoft is getting it...
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Nunyabinez
120 months ago
It's just been released here in the U.K. I've got quite a strong regional accent that Siri struggles with 70% of the time; Cortana is much better at what I'm saying.
Is it anything like this?
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Amazing Iceman Avatar
Amazing Iceman
120 months ago
I wish we could select which assistant to use via the settings app. Siri is just poor. I only recently deactivated her because the battery setting said Siri was using 60% of my battery for the day… I hadn't even used her that day!


What's halo?
Wow, I never expected anyone to ask that question, but it's OK.
Here are some answers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(series)
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Cortana
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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