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Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a.

Edit: Someone also got doom and Minecraft running on this thing

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What would prevent an Android app from having "deep integration with AI"? If the AI is in the cloud then it's all done through normal web requests, which don't even require a permission, let alone so special allowance from Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even now they're already leveraging their OS-level control. The Android Authority guys said in their report, "the Rabbit R1’s launcher app is intended to be preinstalled in the firmware and be granted several privileged, system-level permissions — only some of which we were able to grant". I don't work at Rabbit, so I don't know exactly what modifications they've done to their AOSP fork, but they're doing something.

If I had to guess, I'd say they've messed with the power management of AOSP and probably the process scheduling somehow? I say this because the Rabbit R1 is hands down the fastest way to access an assistant that I've used. I have a ChatGPT shortcut on my homescreen of my Pixel 8 phone and the ChatGPT app is constantly killed in the background, so often times I go to access the assistant but I have to wait for an app to load. The R1 is instant.

And that's without counting the time it takes to face or fingerprint unlock the phone, then tap an icon.

No, I would have not paid $200 if Rabbit was an app. I have ChatGPT and Perplexity on my phone, I don't like the experience compared to the R1. I paid $200 for the end to end Rabbit experience.

Btw, I get that some people don't mind unlocking their phone, tapping an icon, waiting for it to load, asking a question, then getting an answer. That's fine. If you're happy with that experience, then the Rabbit R1 is not for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You brought up advantages of it being a device, which I don't disagree with. Nothing you said explained the "allow deep integration with AI". That's the only part I was questioning.