The new Siri alternative for iPhones and Android?

When the iPhone 4S was released one of its most of hyped features was “Siri” – The Personal Assistant with natural language processing. Users of other versions of iPhone were disappointed because Siri was exclusive to iPhone 4S. Android users too felt left out as Android lacked such a feature. But it seems Apple finally has some true competition out in the market.

 Evi, well an amazing piece of artificial intelligence tops off Siri in numerous ways. For starters, Siri is not so good at answering stuff that’s not about US. So Evi might just be Siri for the rest of the world, since it can be used on all versions of iPhone and Android too.

Evi knows around a billion facts and she can even search trillions when needed. It also has a other useful features such as Yelp for local searches, conventional search etc. Evi isn’t perfect either. She can’t add things to your calendar or reminders, but it will just be a matter of time before she can do this, as the app is still in Beta and is improving all the time.

Folks over at TechCrunch, installed Evi on an iPhone 4S and compared it to Siri. Ask “How do I make apple pie?”. Siri is can’t provide a direct answer and so asks whether you want to search the web. Evi provides a list of recipes with links.

They also asked “Who was President when Queen Elizabeth II was born?”. “Siri is unable to provide an answer and suggests performing a web search. Evi determines who Queen Elizabeth II is, when she was born, the dates when she will have been a teenager and then compares this against which US presidents were in office over that time, delivering the results of both serving US presidents during those years.” – says TechCrunch. That’s pretty intelligent if you ask me.

Evi even opens up a multitude of opportunities – it may make its way to televisions, consoles etc. Siri sure has some competition now and even iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G users may jump onto the Evi bandwagon. 

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