So, Google just had a keynote, and

they've announced possibly the single

biggest shake-up to the smartphone in

the last 5 years. In one go, they've

unveiled Gemini intelligence, so you can

ask AI to start taking over your phone

and doing things [music] for you.

That's cool. Android 17, which has ended

up far more eventful than the previous

few versions. There's a new Android Auto

that somehow out of nowhere is the

actual highlight of the show, all

finished off with an entirely new

category of laptop that lets you wiggle

your cursor and do magic AI things. Put

it this way, it is making Apple software

look very depressing by comparison. So,

first things first, Gemini intelligence

lets you do five things that you haven't

been able to properly do before. Like

Rambler. So, you know when you're

dictating a message, which I do all the

time, and then you ramble while

dictating that message, which I also do

all the time. Rambler is a new feature

that fixes you. So, let's say that your

wife asks you how much you enjoyed her

dinner, and you say, "It's a bit dry.

Actually, [music] no way. I love it.

I've never had

canned beans like this in my life."

This will no longer type out your entire

inner monologue. It'll smartly realize

what you're trying to say, or at least

that's what Google claims. I'll be the

test of that.

And it also means if you do accidentally

tell your wife her food was dry, you can

then say, "One, buy flowers. Two, buy

chocolates. Three, eat the beans and

nod." [music] And your phone will

realize by itself that you're describing

a list and format that into one. And

then you can say, "Swap the numbers for

emoji." It'll get that. Or even, I

guess, turn this whole message into

Hindi,

so she

can't read it.

This is really useful, and it actually

makes me feel like one of the

Flintstones when I look at this, and

then I look at my iPhone's current

dictation quality. Or another struggle

that we can all relate to, autofill. I

mean, don't get me wrong, the feature

itself is one of humanity's top [music]

five inventions, but every now and

again, you will come across a site or an

app where the rigid way that autofill

has been programmed means it just

doesn't activate. And

>> [music]

>> the pain that you feel then, having to

manually type out each letter of that

ridiculous email address you made when

you were 14 years old, knowing how easy

this could have been. Point being,

Gemini intelligence should be the cure

forever. It taps into your personal

intelligence pocket. Basically,

everything the AI knows about you,

including those random bits you're never

going to remember, like your passport

details. And then it smartly fills out

every form. And it should have a higher

success rate doing so, because unlike

traditional autofill, which is just

[music] interpreting code, so if a site

is not coded well, it might not realize

what data it's meant to fill in where,

Gemini, like you, can read and

understand what's being asked of it.

Seriously. Fantastic.

That sounds like I'm being sarcastic.

I'm actually gassed.

>> I've never been happier.

So it feels like part of Gemini

intelligence is very much focused on

giving people what they want, fixing

common pain points, but ones that have

actually required this new level of

intelligence to solve. But part of this

update is also improving things that you

didn't even know needed improving. Like

for example, you can now build widgets

by literally asking for them. They've

made it look so easy that this is

possibly the first time ever I can

safely say my granddad could be a

programmer. The example they gave is a

custom countdown to a marathon that

[music] you're running, but I think it

would be so cool to make one that can

pop up with activities happening around

you, but based on the time right now and

your specific GPS location. Another

example of something that I'm not sure

people were specifically asking [music]

for is app automations. They showed an

example of you taking a photo of this

flyer about a tour that you wanted to go

on, but then

>> [music]

>> asking Gemini, "Find me a tour like

this, but make sure it can accommodate

six people. And now Gemini is able to

first figure out what you mean, then

take that information to another app

like Expedia. [music]

It looks like it at this point kind of

thinks in the background until it's

finished, and then finally pings you a

notification to see the result. [music]

You click that, that's your booking

page. I do like that it doesn't try and

book for you. That would scare me. Do I

think I would use this?

Probably not for a while, to be honest.

Call me old-fashioned, but I still think

there's a lot of benefit to you [music]

looking at things like this yourself.

You know, you might find a tour that's

better rated [music] or closer to your

hotel or just something that you'd

actually rather do instead. Like the way

I see it, you and these five other

people are going to spend maybe a full

day doing this tour. Do you trust the AI

enough that you don't want to even spend

>> [music]

>> five minutes checking yourself for other

options? I'll pass. I will say this kind

of task doing [music] can become more

useful when you add in that Gemini can

now also pick up the full context of

what's on your screen. So let's say

you're kind of interested in going to

this stand-up comedy night, but you just

[music] cannot be bothered to plan the

logistics around it. Here, you can say

to Gemini, sort my parking space, and

[music] rest somewhat easy knowing that

it can read all of the context that it

needs by itself from your screen without

you needing to spell it out. And this is

probably the most visual example of how

Gemini is evolving into [music] more of

an agent with this update. Like you're

actually seeing it tap and type things

one step at a time completely without

your intervention. I could so imagine

just watching Gemini jaw clenched as it

confidently books me an eighth floor

spot when I can see that there's three

free on the first. But in principle,

this is a level up cuz like last week I

made a schedule of which supplements I

wanted to take at which [music] points

in the day. Yeah, I get it. I'm 30 now.

Magnesium is exciting. Gemini

intelligence, in theory, means that I

could hold the power button while

looking at the schedule and ask Gemini

to turn it into a set of reminders to

make sure that I follow this routine.

That's seriously helpful. Or let's say

you have your shopping list loaded up.

In theory, you could just bring up

Gemini and say "Buy [music] all of

this." And before you know it, you'll be

sitting there with a basket full of

these products ready for you to hit

checkout. They did also show how you

could be browsing an article and then

ask Gemini to make an infographic

summarizing it. Obviously, it worked,

but I wasn't super impressed with the

result. [music] It kind of screams AI

from 2 years ago. Overall, though,

Gemini intelligence feels pretty bang

on. The main caveat is just

availability. Like a lot of this isn't

coming [music] now. It's starting to

roll out this summer. It's not coming

all at once. Each feature is going to be

released when it's ready, they're

saying. [music] And to be honest, even

when it does come, it's coming to

Samsung and Google phones first.

Seemingly also only to the flagship

versions of them, potentially because it

relies on a more powerful version of the

Gemini Nano model, which needs to run on

the device itself. Point being, it could

be a year before your phone gets this,

if at all. But at least Google is being

clear about that. I think they're

specifically trying not to over-promise

and fall into the same trap that Apple

did with Apple intelligence. Thankfully,

the next Android update, Android 17, is

for all. And even if you took Gemini

intelligence aside, I actually think

what they've done with it is incredibly

clever. For example, you must have seen

by this point people posting this screen

reaction type of content. Well, now

Google is adding the ability to create

this screen reaction content instantly.

[music] It'll record your screen, it'll

use your front camera to record you,

it'll keep you in the right position,

and cut away your background. Having all

of that happening at once in real time

is a very efficient way to produce

videos. And on the pro end of the

spectrum, they're also bringing Adobe

Premiere to Android in summer with

templates specifically designed for you

to make YouTube shorts easily.

You can see why this works out for

Google, but it makes sense why they're

focusing on this because the iPhone

basically owns the creator market

currently, [music] and the creator

market has a lot of influence over the

mainstream market. So, Google's trying

to basically get the influencers on

board. And this thinly veiled full

frontal assault on Apple continues over

to Instagram. You know how for years

shooting content on Instagram for

Android has just been less reliable and

lower quality than iPhone. It's one of

the reasons I first switched away to

Apple like 6 years ago. But now, Google

is boldly claiming if you use a premium

Android device, you're about to get at

least as good if not better-looking

shots than on an iPhone. They're saying

that they've optimized the

capture-to-upload pipeline so that your

photos and videos lose as little quality

as possible when posting them. And that

even if you shoot directly within the

Insta app, you'll actually get

ultra-high dynamic range processing,

full working night mode, and built-in

video stabilization. How it's taken

[music] them till 2026 to do this, I

have no idea, but this could be great. I

say could because we've heard this whole

we fixed [music] Instagram sentiment

quite a lot, especially from Samsung

over the years. But I do feel a little

more confident because this is Google

themselves saying that they're fixing

this on a base Android level as opposed

to other companies whose software sits

on top and who probably have more

limited control. And you might know that

Instagram also has their own edits app,

[music] too. Well,

pretty cool, but with Android 17, you'll

now be able to use your phone's native

AI to power features within that [music]

app. So, like one tap to straight-up

enhance photos and videos. I'm hoping

this can actually upgrade the resolution

as opposed to just making things look

artificially bright and sharper. Or, do

you know how phones now have this audio

eraser feature to understand the

different sound sources in a video

you've taken so that you can turn down,

let's say, the wind noise specifically.

Well, you can now use that capability,

but within Instagram's editor. So,

automatically splitting up each audio

track into the individual stems that

made up that track. Whoever's making

these decisions at Google, I think they

got their head in the right place. And

while they were doing all this, they've

also decided to remake all the emoji on

Android. Literally all 4,000 of them

into 3D. But okay, my favorite part of

this new Android, though,

is Pause Point. You can tell that this

year, specifically, Google's really

looked at what else is out there and

thought, "How do we bring this into

Android itself?" Like the new Ramble

feature is very similar to a lot of the

new AI dictation apps [music] that have

been popping up. Create my widget, very

inspired by Nothing's Essential apps

feature. And Pause Point is functionally

identical to an app called One Sec that

I've been paying like $20 a year for.

The idea is you just set up a few apps

that you find distracting, and the next

time you try and open those apps, it

will ask you to stop and [music] breathe

for 10 seconds. Sounds silly, but it's

incredible. That 10 seconds gives you a

chance to decide either you didn't

really need to use the app, and you

close it, that you actually should

instead be doing something [music] more

useful, in which case you can get it to

redirect you to, say, your meditation

app, or three, that you really did need

to use the app in question, and you

proceed. I found by using One Sec that

even [music] just triggering that

thought means you're probably going to

be a bit more purposeful about your use

of this app, instead of just mindlessly

doom scrolling [music] before your

brain's even realized what's happening.

I do feel bad for the One Sec company.

They specifically say on their site,

"We're a small independent [music] team.

We're not affiliated with big

corporations." Which makes me think that

Google didn't exactly buy them or ask

permission to take [music] their

feature. But ultimately, this is still

probably good for users. Like everyone's

going to get the feature. You get it for

free, [music] and because it's now baked

into Android, it's going to feel a a

slicker to use, too. Now, here's what

was really not on my bingo card today.

Android Auto actually being the star of

the entire show. Because, I mean, for

starters, all the new Android and Gemini

intelligence features, if you have them

on your phone, you get them on your car,

too. And if you think about it, the car,

while you're completely occupied, is

where it's most important to have an

assistant that can do things for you.

Like, if you're on your way home, being

able to just say, "Order me my usual

food from DoorDash." And within 5

seconds, your car is on the checkout

page waiting on you to confirm. That

feels very much like the future. And if

Apple doesn't very quickly pull Siri out

of whatever Cupertino basement she's

been chained up in since like 2014, I

think it's going to make the gap between

these assistants too wide to ignore. And

that's just the start. Google Maps is

now about to have immersive 3D

navigation. The idea is that your view

looking at the map will more closely

match your view looking out to the

actual window. You'll be able to see

same buildings, the overpasses, and it

should be able to better highlight which

lane you need to be in. This is a

million miles more intuitive to me than

trying to squint at these things and

then translate them to the road in front

of you in the split second before you

approach a motorway roundabout. And then

they're saying that this new lane

tracking will be particularly accurate

on cars that support Gemini built in.

>> [music]

>> So, again, this is one of those

unsupported models business. But, if you

have a car that gets the support, then

you're going to get the extra benefits

of Gemini actually being trained on your

car's hardware, which means that Google

can use the live feed from your car's

front-facing camera to know for sure

what lane you're currently in. Plus,

also, you can then ask Gemini, "If I go

and buy this TV from Samsung, will it

fit in my trunk?"

>> [music]

>> And it will be able to answer with an

awareness of the car's exact dimensions.

Or, I'm imagining this also means you

could ask things like, "Remind [music]

me, how do I turn on my cruise control?"

And it would be able to reference the

manual and tell you specifically what

the button looks like. The software

should also look a little jazzier.

Google's saying the new Android Auto

will adapt to all the weird and

wonderful shapes of infotainment systems

we've been seeing lately, that they've

updated the way that individual apps

look, and that your car will now get the

same fonts, the same [music] wallpapers,

and the same smoother animations that

the phones are now getting. Plus,

widgets on the side, like a quick dialer

for your most frequent contact or a

button to open your garage door as

you're pulling up. Kind of feels like my

birthday, because then, for the first

time ever, Google is officially

supporting watching videos in your car

at 1080p 60 frames per second, assuming

your infotainment system supports that,

with Dolby Atmos audio. So, if you did

tell your wife her food was dry, at

least now you can get a high-quality

movie night for one out of it. And then,

to stop you trying to watch Fast &

Furious while you

become Fast & Furious, the videos will

minimize and play just audio as soon as

you start driving. What a clever little

feature. It does also need you to have

YouTube Premium, cuz that's what enables

background play. So, again,

you can see what Google gets out of all

of this, but then they surprised us all

by revealing an entirely new type of

laptop, too. Not a Chromebook, not a

Windows, a Google Book. It's not

actually super clear right now what

operating system this is running, but

they've got the tagline "Intelligence is

the new spec", which

I've actually got a great video all

about invented specs like intelligence.

But, basically, this is them saying, "We

won't be competing on actual measurable

specs." The impression I get is that

these Google Books are not about to be a

competitor to a top-end MacBook Pro for

someone who wants to edit and render

IMAX movies on their couch. I mean, come

[music] to think of it, ultra high-end

performance is just not what Google does

with any of their products, really, is

it? But, I still think it will be a

somewhat premium set of machines that

leans heavily on AI, which is why they

have reimagined the cursor. Now you can

wiggle it, which will put it into AI

mode [music] and let you do smart things

like you select a bunch of images and AI

will fuse them together in front of you.

They're saying that every Google book,

doesn't matter which company

manufactures [music] it, is going to

have this multicolored light strip,

which I assume is its way of indicating

that it's doing intelligence. Plus, some

of the new features from Android are

also getting carried over. Like you can

generate your own widgets on Google

book. And this looks like by far the

most seamless way I've seen to access

your phone and open apps from it [music]

directly without needing to pick the

thing up. With probably the coolest

thing being that your Android phone

storage can become accessible on your

Google book

>> [music]

>> as if it were part of the Google book

storage. So, transferring something from

your phone to your Google book would

just be going to one folder and pull

that file into another. Past experience

tells us that there is a broad range for

how terrible or great this could end up

being. But as far as I'm concerned, if

Google can make sure that Google books

get close to the build quality and the

trackpad quality of the MacBook, then

I would genuinely consider a full on

jump from the Apple ecosystem. I mean, I

spend 98% of my time on it on Google

Docs anyways. And so, looking at all of

this Google stuff together, while not

everything is coming soon and not

everything is coming to everyone,

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