The long-awaited National Bank Apple smart phone has finally appeared in the beta version.
Apple has launched the developer beta version of iOS 27.3 and watchOS 27.3, and the official version is scheduled to be launched in December. On National Bank devices, the relevant functions are displayed as "Apple Smart and Siri" and testing has begun.
The division of labor among the partners is relatively clear: the large model part is cooperated with Alibaba Qianwen, and functions such as notification summary and Genmoji are included; the partner for the image recognition function is Baidu. Currently, only some functions are open, not the complete package of the overseas version.
There’s something new here too on the watch side. Series 12 and Ultra 4 have added always-on AI monitoring: Siri Recap will organize the key points of the conversation into records, and Live Rewind can review the previous 15 seconds of text. These two items currently only support English. The function of always-on monitoring will definitely lead to discussion in terms of privacy. How to turn it on and off and where the data is stored? It is worth taking a closer look at the settings after the official version is released.
The Health App has also been redone this time.
For domestic users, there are two issues of greatest concern. The first is the capability gap: How far the Qianwen version and the overseas ChatGPT-enabled version differ in terms of writing tools and complex Q&A will not be known until more people get started. The second is the model threshold. Whether old models can be used has not yet been determined in the beta version. Before the official version comes out in December, it is not recommended to upgrade the main machine to the beta version just to try it out.