Samsung Galaxy S3 - S Voice
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The S3 has S Voice, a Siri-esque phone companion that recognises and understands your voice. You kick this into action with a phrase of your choice - the default is "hi Galaxy" - without the need to hold down any buttons. Once activated, you can ask questions and tasks of the phone, such as what the weather is like or to go to the camera. In practice, at least. We were in a very noisy room, so we wouldn't want to judge S Voice on this meeting alone, but we certainly had some issues with getting it to do what we wanted at times. When asking to take a picture, it once thought we'd said "pizza" and another time, "constipation" before getting it right. Interesting...
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