We spend anything between 12-18 hours of our waking day fiddling with our smart phones. We are either making calls, checking social media channels, taking pictures, playing games, and everything else in between. Interestingly, we end up doing the same things every day, at around the same time. While we may not consciously have a routine to our smart phone behaviour, we mostly use our devices for the same set of features. Now, imagine someone tracking everything you do with your device, identifying a pattern and reminding you what to do when. That someone is an artificially intelligent piece of UI software that sits on your phone and records every single thing you do.
Panasonic’s new range of devices come with Arbo – a new software that uses AI to analyze the user's behaviour based on time and location. According to the time or location, it automatically makes suggestions using information from apps, Wi-Fi usage, phone numbers, messages, among other things. Arbo monitors your smart phone behaviour for 7 days, identifies a pattern and then starts making suggestions. Imagine you wake up from Monday to Friday at 7 am, go for a walk before hailing a cab at 9am to head to work. Between 2 pm and 2:30 pm, you order lunch, twice a week around 5pm you order groceries, and leave work at 7 pm. After the first 7 days of its usage, Arbo automatically sets your daily alarm at 7 am, reminds you to book your cab and displays your favourite cab aggregator app, reminds you to order your favourite dish from Fresh Menu for lunch, pulls up the Big Basket app twice a week, tells you when to call up your loved one, and helps you book your cab back home. As Arbo learns more and more about your usage patterns, it will fine-tune its suggestions and alerts.
Panasonic has launched Arbo with two of its latest devices – the Eluga RayMax and the Eluga RayX. While the RayMax features a 16MP back and 8MP front camera, a 3000 mAh battery, and comes with a 4GB RAM and 32/64GB memory variants (priced at Rs. 11,499 and Rs. 12,499 respectively), the RayX comes with a 13MP and 5MP camera configuration, a 4000 mAh battery in a 3GB RAM and 32GB memory (priced at Rs. 8,999). The devices are available on Flipkart this week.
