ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 69REVIEWAmazon’s Echo family are brilliant devices, but you
shouldn’t consider buying one if you don’t subscribe
to Amazon Prime. Also, Google Assistant is better.
Google Assistant doesn’t need you to search for
and enable skills to answer your queries – this device
hails from Google, the daddy of online search. So
while Alexa can handle the sort of queries that have
a Wikipedia page, or shopping questions, Google
Assistant can just run a web search for you and throw
out the most likely result.
Use both side by side for only a short while and
you’ll see that Google Assistant is both more intelligent
and more resourceful than Alexa. While it will try to
answer any question you ask it, Alexa will more often
than not return its favourite phrase: ‘Hmmm, I don’t
know that one.’
But what we love most about Google Assistant
is the ability to converse with it using very natural