How Cortana can be useful on iPhone and Android

The Cortana app for iPhone and Android doesn’t come with most of her Windows powers, but you may find some perks to the app. (Just don’t bother trying to text anyone.)

Watch CNET Update below to learn the good and bad of the new Cortana apps. Meanwhile, Google says goodbye to the Nexus 6 smartphone, and Mozilla will let Firefox OS fade from existence. But will Yahoo suffer the same fate?

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