Google Assistant gains more features as it marks availability on 100M devices

Google I/O keynote had a plethora of announcements about its in-house Google Assistant. We already told you the platform would be available with limited functionality on iOS, but on Android, it will bloom in all its glory - you will be able to buy stuff, and you can talk to it in other languages. This summer Google Assistant will be able to detect and respond in French, German, Portuguese and Japanese and by the end of the year Italian, Spanish and Korean would also be available. This update will come to over 100 million devices, Google said. The number represents the currently active...

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Google announces Android Go for devices with 1GB of RAM or less

At its IO developer conference today, Google has unveiled Android Go. This is an initiative that seems to have been created in order to fill the void left by the Android One program, which hasn't resulted in a new phone in a long while. Nevertheless, Google isn't calling this Android One 2.0, so there will be quite a few differences between One and Go. Google said it's been inspired a lot by the YouTube Go app when developing Android Go. Every single device launching with Android O and later OS versions which has 1GB of RAM or less will get Android in the Go configuration (and you can even...

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Android O Beta Program debuts

Today Google has officially unveiled the Android O Beta Program. Like the Android N Beta Program from last year, this will let anyone with a supported device test the next release of the operating system before its development is finalized. A Developer Preview of Android O has been out since March, but Google has advised non-developers not to risk running that, especially on essential handsets, because it was an early release so bugs are to be expected almost everywhere. The situation should be different with the beta builds, the first of which is expected to go out very soon. If...

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Google Assistant is now available on iOS

Google announced at its I/O today that Google Assistant is arriving on iOS devices, as rumors suggested. The company is launching an app that should appear on the App Store soon. Sadly, Assistant will have limited functionality and will not work so flawlessly as it does on Android phones. Because of API restrictions, the Assistant will be able to do only basic stuff such as sending messages and playing music on Spotify, Google says. This means that when the screen is off, "OK Google" will not activate the device and have the Google app open. Also, Apple is not allowing remap of the Home...

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Google puts Smart Reply in Gmail for Android and iOS

You probably remember the Smart Reply feature that devices with Android Wear have. Google announced at its I/O keynote that the machine-learning process for replying emails will be implemented in Gmail for Android and iOS. Smart Reply scans the text of the incoming message and offers you three basic responses in English. According to Google, Spanish will also be available "in the coming weeks" and other languages should follow soon. The company says Smart Reply will learn over time and will adapt to your vocabulary, so the responses should become more and more personalized with...

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Oppo A77 is official, packs 16MP selfie camera with Portrait Mode

The Oppo A77 is official. Oppo made the announcement over on its Taiwanese website and will open up pre-orders in Taiwan starting May 19. The A77 packs much better specs compared to its predecessor with a 5.5" screen of a higher 1920x1080px resolution, a larger 3,200mAh battery, an octa-core 1.5GHz MediaTek MT6750T chipset and more RAM - 4GB. There's a hybrid SIM slot housing either two SIMs or a SIM and a microSD card. The two cameras on the Oppo A77 are a 13MP f/2.2 snapper on the back with phase detect autofocus and a dual LED flash and a 16MP f/2.0 selfie camera with Beauty 4.0...

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