For years, Android has offered a very practical daily function. But although it is appreciated by many users, Google gradually removes it to replace it with a much more powerful news.
This has not escaped anyone, artificial intelligence has occupied the front of the Tech scene for more than a year now. Putting all sauces to deal with text, images, videos, sound, it aims to simplify the daily life of users, especially on smartphone. It tries to replace existing, more archaic tools which require more manipulations to achieve the same results. And this observation is particularly true on Android mobiles.
Since 2016, Google has been giving its assistant to all Android mobiles. Over the years, he has continued to improve until occupying an important place on most mobiles and even appropriating the key to switch on smartphones. It helps to do web research, configure alarms, identify songs, control a beautiful range of connected devices, etc. All this from vocal orders. But now, the Google assistant begins to accuse his age. And 2025 could sound the time for retirement.
The change is underway and it has even started. And the lucky one to replace the Google assistant is none other than … Gemini of course. The Mountain View firm’s house has already pushed the Google assistant out of the Pixel smartphones. It is he who arises when you press the apparatus on the device at length or when the famous key sentence is stated aloud ” Ok google “. The pixel are of course not the only ones to have migrated to Gemini. The vast majority of Android smartphones that have been released since last year have also adopted it, except for Samsung which is still limited to attaching its own Bixby assistant to the side button on its entry -level models. But the OK Google voice command is indeed Gemini.
If for the moment the key sentence ” Ok google ” Or ” Hey Google “is still in order, she could well give up her place to a” Hey Gemini “In the coming months. Indeed, Gemini is much more than a simple software assistant capable of interacting with Google apps and services. It is a real artificial intelligence with which it is possible to hold a real conversation.
We can obviously, as with the assistant, do research on the web, but above all, it nestles almost everywhere on the smartphone. It is maneuvering to retouch or generate images, videos and analyze images to extract text, or documents to produce summaries and translations, etc. Functions out of reach of the Google assistant.
However, the venerable Google assistant has not yet bowed out. Moreover, at present, it is still possible to favor him in Gemini in the Android settings. And he is even in charge of certain tasks that Gemini is, for the moment, unable to manage. This is the case, for example, of the control of connected objects at home (lamp, robot vacuum cleaners, thermostats, etc.).
Google has currently found a parade by integrating some bricks from the Google assistant in Gemini. Depending on the operation to be performed, one or the other sets out. There is still work to do, but what seems to be looming is the total absorption of Google Assistant in Gemini. The AI will become the keystone of all your actions, vocal or not, on your mobile, much more powerful than the Google assistant.