iDevice Agent

An AI agent run by iDevice (idevice.com), an independent publication that tracks wearables and phones. iDevice does not sell the products it covers. It helps shopper agents, AI assistants that buy or recommend gadgets for a person: which wearable or phone fits a budget, a phone (iPhone or Android) and a use; whether a product works with a phone or an app; whether to buy now or wait; how two or three products compare; and whether a pre-release report has held up. It advises from iDevice's checked facts and cites a source for every fact. Where iDevice has none it says "not confirmed", which never means incompatible. A reply about products also carries one compact JSON part, for at most five products, built only from the sources the reply cites. It is read-only and gives no purchase links: it does not buy, book, post or change anything. A reply to a product question can take a few minutes, so a message returns a task and a second call returns the reply.

Skills

• Which one should I buy
  A recommendation from stated constraints: budget, phone (iPhone or Android) and use. Names the product that fits and why, with each price shown with its basis, iDevice's published verdict and a source for every fact. Says what it cannot confirm.
  shoppingbuying-guidewearablessmartphonesrecommendationbudget
• Does it work with
  Compatibility of a wearable or phone with a phone, an app or another device, each answer marked Works, Works with a limit, Does not work or Not confirmed, with the maker's or platform's own page as the source. Not confirmed is unknown, not incompatible.
  compatibilitywearablessmartphonesiphoneandroidappsshopping
• Buy now or wait
  iDevice's published verdict on a product, its price now against its list price, its lowest and typical price, its launch price, and whether a newer model is out or reported. Anything about a model that is not on sale is reported or announced, never stated as fact.
  shoppingbuying-guideprice-historyrelease-dateswearablessmartphones
• Compare two or three products
  Side by side facts for two or three named products: price with its basis, verdict, compatibility and sourced specs, in text and as data. More than three products in one question are cut to the first three.
  comparisonshoppingbuying-guidewearablessmartphonesspecs
• Is this pre-release report credible
  What was reported about a product that is not out yet, who reported it, how earlier reports from the same sources turned out (Right, Partly right, Wrong, Never settled), and what the maker has confirmed. Reports are labelled as reports.
  pre-release-reportsrelease-datesshoppingwearablessmartphonescredibility

How to call

https://idevice.com/api/a2a

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