new advanced functions in the mobile phone

Google’s The Android Show is about this year’s news in Android, but much of the focus was on news in Gemini, which Google calls Gemini Intelligence. Despite giving the feature pack its own name, it feels more like a series of separate features than a clear package, and according to Google, they will be rolled out in waves starting this summer to the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel, followed by other devices later.

A first novelty is what Google calls Rambling Mode. This means that when you dictate text, Google will clean it up and see to the whole. For example, you can say “We need, uh, three cakes for the party, no by the way, two is enough” and Gemini will write that two cakes are needed and remove the humming and colloquialisms. We have previously seen this feature in Nothing’s mobiles.

Another feature that Nothing was early with that is now coming to Gemini and Android is the ability to create your own widgets using Gemini. This means that you only need to describe what the widget should do and it will be created by the system. For example, Google provides a widget that suggests a recipe for the day, or a weather widget that highlights rain and wind strength during the day.

Gemini will become more agentic, that is, able to perform complex tasks in several steps with the phone’s apps based on your instructions. For example, Google allows Gemini to book a bike in the front row of the spinning session for you, or put the course literature you need for your next course in your shopping cart. Considering how specific these examples are, one can suspect that they have to be implemented one by one for each service and that it may not be Swedish gym apps that come in the first wave.

Gemini Intelligence will also take place in the Chrome browser on the mobile phone. When you are on a web page, for example, you should be able to ask Gemini to summarize the content or present it in point form. Here, too, services such as booking a parking space on the web are mentioned.

The ability to fill in forms on the web must be significantly improved. Chrome can already remember different types of address fields and fill in information, now it should be able to understand the whole better and fill in everything at once, depending on the type of form. In general, if you allow it, Gemini should be able to learn more about you, like your family, that you are a vegetarian and if you have pets, and adjust its responses accordingly.

Finally, Gemini will get a new and refreshed look.

Most of the new functions place high demands on security and privacy. Google promises that Gemini should not be able to use any app without your express permission, and that these permissions should be very fine-grained so that one permission does not automatically open another. On the one hand, it should be really clear exactly what Gemini does and which services were used, both while it is running it and afterwards in the form of logs that you can easily access. When it comes to data security, Google claims to use the latest technologies to protect user data and prevent third-party attacks via AI, but it does not promise that the data used remains on the mobile.