BlackBerry KEYone US avaiability: here’s what you need to know

New York, NY, USA: Standalone smart speakers with digital assistants are all the rage these days. Amazon’s Echo lineup is far ahead of the competition while companies like Microsoft have been trying to quickly catch up to it.

Even Apple is expected to unveil a Siri-powered speaker at WWDC 2017 next month. The HP Cortana speaker that Microsoft talked about recently isn’t going to be a standalone speaker, though.

HP's Cortana speaker needs help. HP's Cortana speaker has to connect to a Windows 10 PC. 

Microsoft provided more details about the HP smart speaker at Computex 2017 today. The company described HP’s “digital assistant” as a small device, not unlike a puck, which requires a Windows 10 PC to function.

BlackBerry KEYone US avaiability: here’s what you need to know

It has to be attached to a PC or it will not be able to work, and thus won’t power Cortana.

It merits mentioning here that HP hasn’t shown off the device itself at Computex this year so it may be a while before this device is officially unveiled.

Microsoft did provide a “visual representation” of this device at Computex today, though.

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So now we know that HP’s Cortana speaker is not going to be like the Harman Kardon Invoke which is a standalone Cortana speaker.

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