It was inevitable. Gemini is now found across Google’s platforms and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that it’s found its way to Android. Besides the new lineup of Pixel hardware,
Google also restated its focus on AI through a couple of new Gemini features:
Gemini Live is a feature that lets you talk to it like it is in your ear. Google has a term for this; the newly redesigned ‘assistant experience with Gemini. ’
Gemini’s users on Android will get a new overlay soon. Like the previous Assistant, Gemini can be activated at any time with a long press of the power button and provides suggestions based on the content of the phone’s screen. This functionality can be integrated with different apps in one way or the other. For example, Google demonstrates it in a video that you are watching on YouTube, or when generating images in such applications as Google Messages. The Circle to Search feature also gets a minor update on most Android devices; enabling tap to share content as you engage with the content.
These enhancements are as follows: To introduce, Gemini Live which will go live today is the big show among these new features. This feels like a riff on the indie art film Her but in a very Google-y manner and without the contested face of ScarJo. You can, for example, have a realistic talk with Gemini as a human does with an AI character in the movie ‘Her’, where Joaquin Phoenix converses with his ‘partner’ through an earpiece.
And yes, indeed, the just revealed Pixel Buds Pro 2 are geared up for facilitating this one. Google has said new features in Gemini Live comprehend the user’s objective, track comprehensible chains of ideas, and execute various tasks more complicated than the initial Assistant. Not only is it possible to chat about life, and even contemplate over a cup of tea about what kind of work might match your talents. In other words, Gemini is about finding your position in the digital world, which is I assume the reason why the site is called Gemini.
Gemini is slated to be the most universal Google AI, similar to the Google Assistant that previews it. Though the Assistant is still part of the Nest environment, Gemini is already in line to become the primary assistant. The major distinction lies within the manner of its usage – whereas Google Assistant builds most of its operations around voice control, Gemini uses graphics and suggestions, making the emphasis on the direct rather than as format, to which were previously somewhat accustomed. Over time we have gotten accustomed to the fact that social chit-chat with digital assistants is largely unrealistic and so, perhaps, Gemini will be the chatbot for social conversation in Android.
Google swears that Gemini is personal, and they won’t inspect any component of your digital life in the ecosystem without your consent. Some of the Android functionalities performed on Gemini are still in the cloud while the rest and most of the ‘’sensitive use cases’’ are handled by Gemini Nano present on the device.
If you are all that fired up about attaining the look and feel of the Gemini that Google had in mind, things such as Gemini Live shall gradually be brought into the Gemini Advanced subscription. In addition, Pixel 9 or Pixel 9 Pro will come with a free trial of the Google One AI Premium Plan, which will include the Gemini Advanced without any additional cost for a year.
