Check the new personal assistant Cortana on Nokia Handsets

Cortana is a new smartphone PA powered by Bing and it certainly impresses us. Inspired by real life personal assistants Cortana intelligently learns your likes, routines and preferences to gain enough knowledge to anticipate your needs. Asking questions to ensure she knows what matters to you, Cortana also promises to gain enough intelligence to schedule you reminders and all your important details to ensure your life runs smoothly.

Whilst many are quick to label Cortana as the Window’s Siri, Nokia and Microsoft are very keen to outline some of the ways Cortana surpasses Apple’s offerings. By answering some questions on start up and allowing access to all your personal details, emails, GPS, tweets, messages etc (which does raise some privacy issues) Cortana will figure out where you live and work, pop reminders on screen when someone calls you (eg say happy anniversary to your wife when she calls) and warn you of traffic backups before you even  start the journey.

A neat trick we liked was the ability to schedule ‘Quiet Hours’ when she’ll intercept calls from everyone apart from those in your ‘Inner Circle of Friends’, allowing you to field calls seamlessly.

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Cortana is currently available as a download on Nokia Lumia 530, Nokia Lumia 630, Nokia Lumia 635, and Nokia Lumia 930.

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