Google broadcasts new Android options at MWC 2024

Key Takeaways

New Android options embody AI abstract for textual content messages and AI captions for photographs, interesting to tech-savvy customers worldwide.
Entry Google’s AI mannequin, Gemini, in Messages app for drafting messages, brainstorming, and planning occasions simply; rolling out in beta.
Google Maps & Lens collaborate for an audio function to learn enterprise data, whereas Docs permits handwritten notes for suggestions on Android.

Google kicked off its MWC 2024 presence by announcing a number of new options for Android telephones, tablets, and Put on OS gadgets. Android Auto is even getting in on the AI-fun with a brand new function that summarizes lengthy textual content messages or noisy group chats (all of us belong to no less than one). As is the present pattern for all tech firms and bulletins, there’s loads of AI to go round with Google’s newest Android options, whether or not you prefer it or not.

Google says the brand new options will begin rolling out straight away, however as any Android person is aware of, simply because a rollout has began, it could take some time earlier than they attain your gadget. So be affected person. Within the meantime, this is a fast rundown of all of the options coming to your Android gadget quickly(ish).

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Chat with Gemini in Messages

For these occasions when nobody’s replying to your texts

Gemini, Google’s generative AI, is coming to Google’s Messages app, the place you’ll be able to speak to the AI identical to you’ll one in every of your pals. Google says you should use the Chat with Gemini function to draft a brand new message, brainstorm concepts, plan an occasion (like a visit with pals, or a date evening), or have a dialog with the AI. Gemini within the Messages app will launch in beta in English. Utilizing Chat with Gemini sounds manner simpler than going to a separate web site or launching a separate app to speak to Google’s AI.

Android’s getting extra accessible

Hear captions for photographs, generated by AI

One other AI function coming to Android might be a game-changer for these with visible impairments. As soon as obtainable in your Android gadget, you’ll be able to hearken to AI-generated captions for images, on-line photographs, and photos included in messages. The function is rolling out globally, in English to start out, however we absolutely anticipate Google to launch it in different languages in some unspecified time in the future.

Google Maps will learn enterprise data out loud

Google Maps and Lens work effectively collectively, and they are going to get a little bit extra helpful with Google including the flexibility to level your cellphone’s digicam at one thing in your field of regard and have TalkBack learn the place’s data to you. This new function will turn out to be useful if you’d like a fast option to hear enterprise hours, scores, or instructions, whether or not you might have low imaginative and prescient or not.

Handwritten suggestions in Google Docs

Google Docs is an app higher suited to bigger gadgets with full keyboards. Nevertheless, that is about to alter, as Google is rolling out a function designed to allow you to recommend modifications and supply suggestions utilizing handwritten notes, instantly out of your Android cellphone or pill. In accordance with Google, you should use your finger or a stylus, that means markup in Docs is not restricted to the most recent Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely or the like. There are completely different pen colours and highlighters, so you’ll be able to present personalised suggestions on a doc.