A looming Android reconstruct is set to change the way smartphones work for millions of users worldwide. Ahead of their annual I/O developer conference, Google has detailed a vision for Gemini’s deeper utilitarian integration across all apps, among other improvements. It essentially transforms Android phones into artificial intelligence (AI) devices, even as industry whispers suggest a separate new category of these devices remains somewhere over the horizon.
Core to a modernised Android is a new Gemini Intelligence layer, which evolves Gemini from a conversational chatbot into an active, contextual assistant across third-party apps on a user’s Android phone. AI’s intent to automate tasks where possible — a significant change in how you’ve used an Android phone.
“We believe that an intelligent system, and an agent that it empowers, should just get things done for you, especially the more mundane, boring daily tasks. Another thing is that it should meet you where you are and the apps that you’re already in with proactive suggestions,” said Dieter Bohn, director of product operations at Google.
Some of Gemini Intelligence capabilities include bringing context to auto-fill when filling forms across websites and apps, a Rambler feature for the keyboard app which can convert typically spoken sentences with fillers into cogent messages or lists, and automating certain tasks such as booking tickets for an event you’ve discovered.
