SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. is hoping that a streamlined design and a new virtual assistant for its next flagship smartphone will help consumers forget last year’s massive Galaxy Note 7 recall. The South Korean technology giant is likely to strip away the physical home button from the front of its Galaxy S8 smartphone and showcase a new virtual assistant akin to Apple Inc.’s Siri—to be called Bixby—according to people familiar with...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 10, 2017 05:03 UTC