Google proclaims new Android options at MWC 2024

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 characteristic that summarizes lengthy textual content messages or noisy group chats (all of us belong to not 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 consumer is aware of, simply because a rollout has began, it may possibly take some time earlier than they attain your machine. So be affected person. Within the meantime, this is a fast rundown of all of the options coming to your Android machine quickly(ish).

Chat with Gemini in Messages

For these instances when nobody’s replying to your texts

Gemini, Google’s generative AI, is coming to Google’s Messages app, the place you may discuss to the AI identical to you’d one among your folks. Google says you should use the Chat with Gemini characteristic to draft a brand new message, brainstorm concepts, plan an occasion (like a visit with pals, or a date night time), or have a dialog with the AI. Gemini within the Messages app will launch in beta in English. Utilizing Chat with Gemini sounds method 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 photos, generated by AI

One other AI characteristic coming to Android may very well be a game-changer for these with visible impairments. As soon as obtainable in your Android machine, you may take heed to AI-generated captions for photographs, on-line photos, and footage included in messages. The characteristic is rolling out globally, in English to start out, however we totally 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 properly collectively, and they will get a little bit extra helpful with Google including the power to level your telephone’s digicam at one thing in your field of regard and have TalkBack learn the place’s data to you. This new characteristic will come in useful if you would like a fast approach to hear enterprise hours, rankings, or instructions, whether or not you’ve low imaginative and prescient or not.

Handwritten suggestions in Google Docs

Google Docs is an app higher suited to bigger gadgets with full keyboards. Nonetheless, that is about to vary, as Google is rolling out a characteristic designed to allow you to recommend adjustments and supply suggestions utilizing handwritten notes, straight out of your Android telephone 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 may present customized suggestions on a doc.

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Well being and wellness enhancements

Google is enhancing the redesigned Fitbit app by Well being Join and including knowledge out of your different wearables and apps like AllTrails, Oura Ring, and MyFitnessPal. With the enhancements, now you can go to the You tab within the Fitbit app in your Android telephone to see knowledge from linked apps alongside your Fitbit knowledge, making a extra cohesive well being app. It is just like how the Apple Health works on the iPhone, and a welcome addition to Fitbit and Google’s well being monitoring options.