Cortana is coming to Android end of June, to iPhone later this year...

[kpsl808mg]

Joe Belfiore just hit the ball out of the park with his latest windowsblog entry:
 

Today, we’re announcing a Cortana application for Android phones and for iPhones which works as a companion to Cortana on your Windows 10 PC

after some rumors and following confirmations for the 'companion strategy' we now get the planned schedule...
 

How and when can I try these out?
Join the Windows Insider Program to try out the Phone Companion app on a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build we’ll flight out in a few weeks. The Cortana companion will be available for Android phones at the end of June and for iPhones later this year. The updated Xbox Music app for Android and iPhone will be available in late June or July of this year, with “beta” functionality to enable streaming of OneDrive music content.

source: bloggingwindows






edit:
for those 'not wanna click on source links / textwalls are bonkers' readers: almost 4 minutes of 'moving pictures' with Joe explaining the companion wizzard and the OS cuddle notion ^^ ...

[Agent181]

[Bogica]

Will it work as good as it works on WP is the real question!

[kpsl808mg]

Will it work as good as it works on WP is the real question!

a very good question indeed; there will be some limitations relating to the OS systems at start...

[AlexGoesHigh]

Will it work as good as it works on WP is the real question!

no, they said that in the blog but OP skipped almost the whole thing expect that cortana is going multiplatform, essentially it will have most of the feature but since its not integrated in the os, android and ios won't have deep app integration (you can't use cortana to summon an app for a specific task, ie, tell it to reply to a text with specific words, or open this document on excel) and you can't use voice to activate it, the app has to be opened manually, it will be a gimped version and imo those kind of features is what makes it worthwhile, this version will be google now with siri style silliness

[kpsl808mg]

... they said that in the blog but OP skipped almost the whole thing ...

indeed i did; i thought about a sidenote with a hint to the limitations, but hoped the 'date factor' would be info-worthy enough and further interest would be nursed by the source link...

 

...and there is even a bit of hope, that it will not be a 'light' version  forever:

 

won’t initially be available

 

...yeah i know, PR speech...

[Ekin]

The german Cortana is 99% useless. The only thing she can do is giving you weather information. Even basic things like telling the time is not possible. Every time I try to use her she only starts a Bing search. She still needs time and I think they should wait with releasing her on other platforms.

[kpsl808mg]

The german Cortana is 99% useless. The only thing she can do is giving you weather information. Even basic things like telling the time is not possible. Every time I try to use her she only starts a Bing search. She still needs time and I think they should wait with releasing her on other platforms.

valid objection, the 'stepchild status' of the localized versions is not a secret...

[LAwLz]

Even if this version of Cortana is pretty much useless (all the useful things removed) it's still nice to see Microsoft be more friendly towards other platforms.

It's weird that Microsoft are now even more cross-platform friendly than Google when they have done flat out illegal things to the past to hinder compatibility with competing products.

[Thony]

Cortana uses bing right ? Nobody else does

[Victorious Secret]

Cortana uses bing right ? Nobody else does

Bing is the superior porn engine. That's a fact.

[The Benjamins]

valid objection, the 'stepchild status' of the localized versions is not a secret...

 

what build are you on?

 

Cortana uses bing right ? Nobody else does

 

I think they will have it where you can use any search engine, not 100% sure though.

[Thony]

Bing is the superior porn engine. That's a fact.

Then Cortana should be a sex doll. And u should be able to tell her what race or a specific person/pornstar it should interpret during intercorse lol.

Billion dollar idea

[Thony]

what build are you on?

I think they will have it where you can use any search engine, not 100% sure though.

Posible. But since its MS's search engine i think they gonna try to prioritise that.

[atrash]

Cortana uses bing right ? Nobody else does

 

I do. Proudly. Haha. The image search functionality alone is so much superior to Google, at least in my type of work (architecture stuffs).

[kpsl808mg]

....

It's weird that Microsoft are now even more cross-platform friendly than Google when they have done flat out illegal things to the past to hinder compatibility with competing products.

seems like a fabulous soap to me ^^ ...both, ms and apple turning 180 degree hard, and google is like the child in the candystore; never gonna give the lollipop back...

 

what build are you on?

 

10125 US ^^