Hacker News Reader

for one, its not a phone (it cant make calls)

https://www.rabbit.tech/

It also doubles as a low-range space heater.

google wont allow alternative voice assistants on android, so they had little choice.

?? Bixby and Alexa are on Android.

And it's pluggable at the system level so the global shortcuts that default to Google Assistant can be made to point to a third party provider instead.

Huh, now you mention it, that does sound correct. i wonder what i was reading that said there was some limitation..

What are you talking about?

"Assistant App" is a setting in the settings app where any assistant can be enabled. API is documented in the SDK docs