Cortana is now available to all Android users - well as a minimum in pick out areas. Microsoft has introduced the public beta of its virtual voice assistant for devices powered with the aid of Google's cell operating gadget. Cortana is available for download in the US through Google Play keep. It's miles officially not yet available in India, but you may still sideload it to your device.
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Formerly solely available on home windows cellphone, Microsoft introduced in may additionally that it'd launch Cortana on rival structures Android and iOS. Non-public Android beta of Cortana were given leaked in June, giving Android users an early observe Microsoft's digital assistant.
Cortana for Android may be very just like its windows phone counterpart. It continues the equal user interface and functionalities. If you've never used Cortana before, it's miles Microsoft's tackle virtual voice assistant. It competes with Apple's Siri, and Google's Google Now.
You can have Cortana take notes, add reminders, and ask it for weather and visitors updates. Cortana is also available on windows 10, Microsoft's most up-to-date desktop operating system. If you are the use of it for your laptop, you can use Cortana for Android as a accomplice app. As soon as integrated, you'll be able to see your notes, emails, and different matters from pc synced proper into your Android cellular device.
The discharge of Cortana alerts Microsoft's developing hobby to embrace rival systems. The enterprise which previously hardly cared approximately customers on competition structures, now realises that its most powerful wager to get them onboard is through adapting to the platform they prefer.
Cortana for Android will with any luck go away public beta and see a very last release within the coming weeks. Microsoft may even release Cortana for iOS gadgets. Though, the closed nature of Apple's platform is possibly to make it hard for Microsoft to make Cortana as useful on iOS because it's on other structures.
If you're in India or another non-US region, Cortana's public beta for Android isn't formally available for your us of a. Microsoft has previously introduced that it plans to extend help for Cortana to India by means of the quit of this 12 months. Within the meantime, there's nonetheless a way to strive Cortana for your device: sideload (manually install) it. You could seize the app from reliable third-party app keep APKMirror.