Ive spent a day with theRabbit R1, and to say that I was underwhelmed would be an understatement.
Considering were required to pay full price for an incomplete product, this is less than ideal.
At the moment, the R1 isnt even close to providing value thats worth the price.
Photo: Dua Rashid / Gizmodo
Its apparent that were simply the Rabbits guinea pigs here beta testing their debut product for them.
The app selection didnt excite me because I use Lyft and Uber Eats for my rides and food deliveries.
Uber got both my pickup and drop-off location completely wrong the first time but worked on the second attempt.
Screenshot: Dua Rashid / Gizmodo
Spotify was a complete mess.
It constantly got song and artists names wrong and played Josh Levine when I asked for Avril Lavigne.
Woefully average Vision feature
The Rabbit Eye-enabled Vision feature is pretty bare-bones as is.
English to Urdu translation.Photo: Dua Rashid / Gizmodo
You point the camera at something and the R1 can tell you what it is.
Its a feature weve had for years on Google Lens.
Except, it was average at best at that, too.
It got some queries completely wrong and other answers were very vague.
It confidentlylabeled my colleagues black shirt red.
Theyre unreliable and often inaccurate.
It did a passable job with Urdu and Arabic but stuttered a lot with Hindi.
Though the R1 boasts GPS services, it got my zip code completely wrong upon asking.
This could be fixed with the next software update, but its pretty bothersome.
It went down by 6% when it was just on standby for two and a half hours.
But you still need cellular service (along with Wi-Fi) to operate it.
So youre still technically paying a monthly fee to be able to use this machine.
The devices memory and the ability to understand context were the main capabilities being marketed here.
I tried the exact same prompts countless times.
It couldnt get it right even on one attempt.
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