Yandex introduces its first Telephone with a voice assistant called Alissa

When your direct competitor Google launches the Pixel smartphone, you can't just stay silent - you have to counter-attack and protect your domestic market. That's exactly what the Russian search engine Yandex did - it launched Yandex Telephone with its own voice assistant Alissa which sounds like a Slavic Alexa knock-off. The specs of the Yandex Telephone are mostly midrange affair - Snapdragon 630 chipset with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage. The phone supports two SIM cards in a hybrid slot, meaning you can replace one of them with a microSD for up to 128 more gigs of storage. There...