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“The Biggest Android Update Ever”
“The Biggest Android Update Ever”
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All right, so Google themselves hyped up this week's pre-I/O Android Show
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as the biggest updates to Android... ever,
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which is a really high bar to set.
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But they then went on to announce a bunch of stuff from Android 17...
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to a new Android Auto to Google Books,
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not to be confused with Google Books.
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So I'm gonna show you what's good, what's new, what's... meh,
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and what's a bit overhyped, I think.
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So I'm gonna start with Android 17, just because every year, you know,
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updates to Android get smaller and smaller and more incremental.
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So I was really curious to see what they were gonna get
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so hyped about this year.
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It's not a visual redesign,
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but there are some added features
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and then there's some Gemini stuff sprinkled on top.
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And spoiler alert, that's the stuff that they're so hyped about.
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That's the stuff that makes them say it's the biggest Android update ever.
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I have some thoughts.
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We'll get to that.
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But a couple neat things in Android,
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the Gemini interface is redesigned to look a little different, a little sparklier,
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but also briefly very blurred around the edges before it sharpens up.
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But it also says, "Concept UI.
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Subject to change..."
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So I guess I shouldn't go too hard on this just yet.
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Autofill will expand to be better by including information
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that it can parse from other Google services like Gmail,
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Wallet, Photos, etc.
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So it can already... put in your name and address and the classic stuff,
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phone number when it fills out forms.
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But let's say you're filling out a weird form
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that also is asking for your passport number for some reason.
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Well, if you have a photo of your passport in Google Photos,
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it can actually pull
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that out and automatically paste it in there without you having to go to
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Photos,
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find the picture, and then go back and forth.
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So that's nice.
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And then there's also some new creator tools to be built directly into Android,
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like more image processing compatibility,
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so that it matches what we see coming from iPhones
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and cutting you out
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and letting you talk over whatever's on your screen,
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which is a super popular format that we've seen all over Instagram and TikTok.
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So you can do that now... built into Android.
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But then they also showed us this new smart enhance for photos and videos,
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I believe... that can, in their own words,
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reveal breathtaking detail... and clarity that you didn't even know could be there.
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And then they showed a before and after, going from this... to this.
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And Jesus Christ, just no, no, no.
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This.
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It looks worse!
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I'm telling you, it looks worse.
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I know it's brighter...
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and people typically like a brighter image in a side-by-side.
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And I know there's technically more detail... in the shadows
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and probably in the highlights too,
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but now... you're creating this like flat,
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featureless image without a hint of contrast or shadows or anything.
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It's just, it looks worse.
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This is exactly what I was talking about in literally my last video about
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smartphone cameras and image processing.
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I'll link it below the like button.
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If you haven't already seen it, you can go watch it.
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This is what I'm talking about.
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But then there's this new feature.
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There's this new digital wellbeing feature called...
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Pause Point and it's actually kind of interesting.
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So you know the digital wellbeing stuff.
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Obviously you've probably heard of screen time.
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So if you've set a limit to how much you can use a certain
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app during a day,
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you hit that limit, it kicks you out... unless you bypass it.
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But this is a bit of a different take on that.
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This is basically when you go to open one of those apps,
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it'll pause you for a second and ask you like, is this,
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is this really what you want to do?
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Is this how you want to spend your time right now?
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It can even give you various prompts like taking a deep breath...
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or showing some different apps
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that you can open instead.
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Or literally swipe through some custom photos to remind you to go touch some
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grass...
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Along with showing how long you've already used this app today, which is hilarious.
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I don't know if this is gonna work any better than the other screen
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time tools,
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but it's different.
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It's a different take on it, so I'll give them credit for that.
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It's interesting.
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There's some other more expanded emojis
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and there's also better speech-to-text called Rambler...
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I don't know why they name it, but it's just better.
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It removes a lot of filler words like ums
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and uhs and likes
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and neatly stitches together everything you said into a single coherent thought,
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which is nice.
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We don't exactly know when all these features are actually coming out,
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but they did do the thing
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that they've done many times in the past at a Google presentation,
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which is they say this will all be available first... on Samsung Galaxy
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and Google Pixel phones...
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They've done this many times before, but it'll be later this summer.
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So whenever they do come out,
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they- Those will be the first devices to have it.
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Definitely get subscribed to see the first hands-on and actual review video,
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which I always do
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when there's a new version of Android for
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when that comes out.
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But then there's the AI stuff too, the Gemini stuff.
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And I expect to see a lot more Gemini on stage next week at
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Google I/O.
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But there's already some big stuff here,
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and they're calling a lot of it Gemini Intelligence
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and branding it as... a new... intelligence system,
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which is really becoming a very Google thing to do,
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which is giving it a new name,
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even though it's just some new features
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and updates... on top of what already exists.
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But the idea is Gemini is going to be using what it knows about
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you across the system
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and across a bunch of other...
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Google services to be able to help you out.
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And it's agentic, so it can actually take actions for you
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and do things on your behalf
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if you ask it to.
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Now, I know agentic AI has been a pretty big focus of a lot
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of these models and systems for the,
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especially the past year or so.
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And Google is making some pretty big promises about what it wants these things
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to be able to do,
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but I'm really, I'm not sure how I feel about some of these promises,
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to be honest.
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Like, one of the promo videos has this scene in it, right?
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So a guy just walks up to take a picture of a concert promo
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poster,
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texts somebody about it, and then they agree they want to go.
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So Gemini Intelligence pops up this button
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that says 'book two floor seats to this concert'.
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And you click it
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and then it just says... 'buying tickets'
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and then 'tickets purchased'.
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And that- That's it?
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You just- that's the whole thing?
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That, I feel like, that can't be.
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That can't be the whole thing, right??
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But this, this isn't new.
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Like, this has always been a challenge to these, like, promo videos.
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They're trying to make an ad with like the most relatable,
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convenient thing that you want AI to do for you.
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"Oh, help me plan my... vacation to Italy,
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give me an itinerary," and then I'll just follow it blindly.
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But I just, I, I don't trust AI to get that all right.
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And maybe it's just
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because I've seen previous generative AI things get stuff wrong in the past
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or hallucinate insane things like we've talked about,
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but I just, I don't think there's going to be a one-click 'buy me
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these floor seats at a concert' button
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that I would trust to press
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and it'll get everything right.
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Everything.
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Everything right.
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It's going to get the right seats?
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What if it gets the wrong dates... or the wrong venue or the wrong...
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What if the price is not what I expected?
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It's...
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So I tweeted this just to make sure I'm not insane, you know,
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asking if anyone else would trust this...
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And about 99 out of every hundred replies were just like, "absolutely not.
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I would also not trust this button."
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One of the replies
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though was Dieter Bohn from Google saying there should actually be... more steps in
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the checkout process.
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They couldn't fit it all in the promo video
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and I would really like to see these steps right,
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because maybe it still would let me like pick the date and,
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and verify the exact location
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and make sure everything's correct
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and... set a price
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that I'm willing to pay,
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in which case... it let me do all the same stuff without having to
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go to the Ticketmaster website,
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which... honestly, that's still a win.
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But until I see that whole flow,
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I am definitely in the skeptical category because as of right now,
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this counts as like advertising a thing,
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a one-click thing that doesn't actually exist.
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But Gemini Intelligence will also let you make custom widgets,
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which I thought was really convenient.
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Like literally just a temporary widget for something... like a trip you're about to
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be on or some event you've got coming up where,
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again, it sorts through everything it knows about
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that trip through the services it's connected to like the weather...
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and the flight information.
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Basically you choose exactly what you want to show up
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and it makes a widget for you
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and then when you're done you can just get rid of it.
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And this... specifically I think is one of the best strengths of Android.
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Not just like this one example but this,
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the ability to do a lot of customization
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and do a ton of detailed personalization inside of something... without knowing exactly how
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to do it.
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Like we've had this ability in Google Home before where there's a ton of,
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you know, most people just do like the one-click light bulb,
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very simple stuff.
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But there's also tons of automations built in
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and if you don't know how to use it,
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you might never touch it.
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But if AI can let you with natural language just ask it to... "hey,
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turn on the light
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and the AC when I get home
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and do these two
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or three other settings
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and change all this stuff"
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and then it just builds the automation for you,
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that's a huge win.
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So this is another example of
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that. a custom widget... for even someone like me,
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would take quite a bit of time.
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"Okay, find the right app, find the right customization settings,
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build exactly the way you want it to be..."
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But if you could just ask it to build the widget for you
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and it does it.
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That's a win.
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Now, Android Auto got a big update as well.
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The biggest one is probably just the visual overhaul.
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It looks a lot like a response to all those Apple Maps versus Google
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Maps comparisons we've been seeing for the last couple years now,
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because it's now much more visually modern.
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Plus it shows useful information too, like there's building silhouettes, which can help.
8:51
There's overpasses and even specific lane guidance
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so you know which lane you're supposed to be in for an upcoming direction.
8:58
And then there's also... the app drawer,
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swipe over from the left side...
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or the widgets that live over to the right side,
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which again, are fully customizable.
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So we love to see that.
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Plus all the Gemini Intelligence features like making your own widget or Magic Cue,
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if it works, should still be here.
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So that's useful.
9:14
And then maybe the most interesting feature, at least to me,
9:17
was the ability to not only adapt to whatever screen is in your car,
9:22
but then... you can play full-screen YouTube videos in HD... on the screen of
9:27
the car while you're parked.
9:28
While you're parked, which sounds insane, but, you know, if you're an electric car,
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you know, you might sit there and charge for like 30, 40 minutes,
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so that seems like a reasonable thing to want to do.
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But then when you go to drive away,
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the video smoothly slides over to disappear, not be distracting anymore.
9:44
But it becomes automatically a background audio podcast,
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which is nice. but I just don't know how the phone knows
9:52
that you shifted into drive
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because the video,
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it kind of implied
9:55
that you shift into drive
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and then the video goes away.
9:58
And maybe it can use your GPS data to understand
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that you're moving and it'll eventually go away,
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but it's just...
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I'm not sure how seamless that will be.
10:06
We'll see.
10:06
Also, if you don't have YouTube Premium,
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does it still do background play
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or do you need YouTube Premium for
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that feature?
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Oh, and they're also expanding AirDrop support from Android to iPhone with a bunch
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of new devices... you love to see it.
10:18
Can't wait to AirDrop a photo from my OnePlus 15 to my MacBook Pro.
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It's gonna be great.
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But then, last but not least,
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they showed us the beginning of a totally new product category called Google Books.
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And it's just Chromebooks but... with an update, so they had to rename it.
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See, a lot of the demos they showed for these Google Books... looks a
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lot like the ChromeOS we already know
10:42
and love.
10:42
It's got the browser, the tabs, but we also can run Android apps.
10:46
And of course it can still do all of the Gemini Intelligence stuff
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that we just saw,
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like custom widgets.
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So that's all very convenient...
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The big new feature really is the AI-enabled cursor.
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So you wiggle that cursor
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and it lets you turn it into essentially a multimodal portal for all things
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Gemini.
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It's really neat.
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So you can click on an image to learn more about it,
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or even click on multiple images,
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drag them together and then combine them with Nano Banana,
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and it will visualize... those images all combined together.
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It just kind of lets you click around
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and do whatever you want in Gemini Land,
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click on some text to draft a reply to it
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or learn more about
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that text.
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It's a genuinely very smart idea.
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Since the cursor is like the one universal thing everybody understands.
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Making that magical and super convenient, I think levels this thing up.
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Now, the way they described it,
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Google Book is not just like a single laptop made by Google like you
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would think.
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It is more of a new generation of Chromebooks made by a couple different
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manufacturers.
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They said HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and ASUS.
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And the way you'll know it's a Google Book and not just any Chromebook...
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Premium craftsmanship.
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And the glow bar. on the back, there's this really sick...
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RGB glowing bar.
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I don't think they said the lights actually... do anything else.
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Like they said they'd be functional,
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but they didn't say what any of those functions would be... like.
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I think a battery indicator would be cool,
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like turn green when it's done or give me notification light.
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But they didn't say any of that.
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It mostly just... looks cool.
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Hopefully these things don't end up being much more than $1,000.
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Otherwise it might be an... unfortunate throwback to the Chromebook Pixel days.
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So you might have noticed my CR-48 back here.
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Really like that thing.
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Anyway, let me know what you guys think of all these new AI features
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built into Google and Android.
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Honestly, I'm very excited to test it.
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I think mostly my take is the smaller stuff seems the most convenient.
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Like the new autofill stuff is going to be really nice...
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Also the new Android Auto seems like it's going to be really nice,
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but we'll have to get our hands on all of it
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and test it and the agentic stuff
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and all of that.
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So let me know in the comments section what you want to see...
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Thanks for watching.
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Catch you guys next one.
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Peace.
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