The exclusivity that packed with the Google Pixel smartphones (and to an extend Google Home, Google Allo and Android Wear 2.0) is shredding. The conversational, personal and artificial intelligence powered Google Assistant is coming to your android device.
The Google Assistant will be available to your smartphone if it’s running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above with Google Play Services. This would make the personal assistant spreading to more than 30 percent of all android device in the world.
Well, you can start by saying ‘Ok Google’ or long-press on the Home button. Ask anything from the weather outside, your train status, find the translation in over 100 languages, direction to a place and more.
Google Assistant will start rolling to Android devices running Marshmallow and Nougat for English users in the US. It will be followed by the rollout to English users in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Also, German speakers in Germany will have the taste of Google Assistant.
If you are in India make sure you set the preferred language under Google settings to either US English or UK English. The first smartphone other than Pixel or Pixel XL running the Google Assistant would be the newly launched LG G6.