Google’s AI extends to Android Auto and Wear Os

Android revolution. In the absence of a week that Google I/O, the annual developer event of The Great G, The company announced by surprise a previous event in charge of advancing news of the most used operating system in the world in general and of Spain in particular, which already goes beyond mobile.

In addition to a new, light and useful design, the main protagonist of all Android changes It has its own name: Gemini. Google’s artificial intelligence is the central element of how the company has reimagined Android 16. It also does it from the hand of important novelties in security and privacy.

The truth is that if Android first came to the phones just by pressing a button, now Google is expanding Gemini beyond the phone to turn it into a truly useful and intelligent assistant. It will be omnipresent to be on the clock, the TV or the car. Everything to integrate this technology on a day -to -day basis and make it easier to speak naturally.

“We are expanding Gemini beyond the phone, to make it a truly intelligent and useful assistant, which can access from all your devices. Gemini is always at your disposal To help you, the same if you have run, if you are driving, or if you are resting on the couch, “explained Guemmy Kim, senior product director and Android user experience.

From the car to the glasses

Google’s ambition is that Gemini is the total, definitive assistant. That is more than an assistanta partner to take everywhere, and that is why he wants him to have a presence in all the devices that we have more by hand.

After mobile, the closest will be smart watches with Wear Os. Google explains that Gemini will arrive in the coming months to these devices thinking about the great utility that can be pulling the AI ​​directly from the wrist when we do not have the mobile by hand. Thus, for example, if we are doing sports, cooking with stained hands or when you move from one place to another, it gains importance to speak to the device as the very same Michael Knight.

The most important thing about the interaction with Gemini is that it seeks speaking naturally and not create commands. Thus, for example, if we have just entered Crossfit and we have left our mute in the locker room, it will be enough to tell Gemini “Remember that I have left things at box office 4”. In addition, Google’s AI is able to integrate with the rest of the applications, which can be asked to refer to conversations we have had with friends or locations where we have coffee.

Another scenario where Gemini will be especially important by having your hands always busy and having to look to the road is in the car, With Android Auto. If the voice commands with the Google assistant were already useful to answer conversations or change the music, now they will go much further.

“Gemini will further improve that experience, since you can talk to him while driving and explain what you need in the most natural way. The goal is to keep the view on the road, without having to think much about perfect instruction or worry about pressing the right button, “says Kim.

Gemini in Android Auto will arrive in the coming months to those models with integrated Google and will go far beyond choosing the best route to reach the destination. The company explains that it is designed to help us on the way such as locating load stations, mail offices or coffee shops. Besides You can summarize messages, answer in other languages ​​with simultaneous translation or ask for news summaries.

In addition to the car will also reach televisions, by the hand of the new Google TV which launched last September. If the device was already ambition to take control of the connected home, it will now do it helped with Gemini. We will have control of the home ecosystem with a voice in a more natural way, but also with the possibility of asking for recommendations to know what to see, adapted to according to tastes and public – especially important for children – as well as perform the requests that we would make to Google in general.

However, the most promising element of this GEMINI ubiquity is – without doubt – in headphones and Android XR glasses, that will charge special prominence in the Google I/or next week. From the company they explain that, on the platform they are building with Samsung “it will offer new ways of interacting with a whole future generation of devices, from helmets to glasses, and anything in between.”

Google expects Samsung to launch in the coming months its first headset with this technologywith what Gemini can help do more ambitious things such as planning a vacation, deploying local videos, maps and recommendations around you. Likewise, a whole itinerary can be created in a matter of minutes with a more realistic sensation of the sites you explore. In addition to virtual glasses and helmets, also Sony and Samsung headphones, you will have personalized, powerful and proactive help, wherever you are and from any Android device that is being used.

A safer environment

This commitment to Gemini’s artificial intelligence has made Google reinforced the security and privacy on Android with Pixel 9 Pro as a armored device banner. These include the best protections against telephone scams, a pilot experience to improve the protection of bank applications, detection of scams in the application of messages or the armor against malicious applications.

In the first case Google explains that to fight Telephone scams They are working to block specific actions and warn users when we detect any attempted sophisticated fraud. “These operations occur entirely in the device and only apply to conversations with people who are not on our contact list,” which is why new protections during Android calls provide an additional defense layer that avoids performing risk security actions in the course of it.

Regarding messages detection, the app has the function SCAM Detection which detects a suspicious conversation pattern and warns in real time so you can react before falling victim of a scam that implies economic damage. Android has also developed Key Verifier to combat fraud and impersonation of identity and new protection measures against the theft of the device.

All this innovation comes with “the firm commitment to offer security improvements and new innovative functions that contribute to Keep our users safe. To do this, we develop a close collaboration with partners of the Android ecosystem and with the whole security community, “explains Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Security and Privacy in Android.

A better design

Personalization is fundamental in Android, and Material 3 Expressive, one of the greatest updates in years. With it, the company seeks to make each user’s device feel unique. Specifically, it seeks to offer new ways of showing the style and personality of each one, as well as fluid interactions and presents the information with An easy reading.

This new design form that covers applications to notifications does not remain on the phones but also reaches the rounded screen of the Pixel Watch. We can have a better integration of messages and more customization. In addition, with Wear OS 6, the battery will improve 10% thanks to system optimization.