Motorola is teasing what seems to be an “arty” new Edge phone coming next week, and it looks like we can expect fast wired charging on what the company has dubbed a “masterpiece.” That’s a bold claim, but the last Moto phone I used sure was a good-looking device — personally I’m hoping for more of that lovely vegan leather and less ugly bloatware.
Samsung is adding three new languages to Galaxy AI this spring: Arabic, Indonesian, and Russian. That’s a total of 16 languages supported across AI features like live translation and interpreter.
Samsung’s adding a few new dialects too: Cantonese, Canadian French, and Australian English. That’s really going to clear up some confusion when I tell the S24 Ultra I want to “throw a shrimp on the barbie.”
[Samsung US Newsroom]
Less than one year after launching its AI coding assistant, Google has announced that it’s changing its name from Studio Bot to Gemini in Android Studio — just to make sure you know that yes, it uses AI, too.
Google also announced that the tool will run on the company’s Gemini Pro 1.0 model, which should help it provide faster and more accurate answers to coding questions. Gemini in Android Studio isn’t the only AI coding assistant out there, with both Amazon and the Microsoft-owned GitHub offering similar tools as well.
Based on the video AssembleDebug shared below, it looks like it’ll work exactly as it does in iOS: tap the Gemini logo at the top, and you’ll be switched over to a chatbot prompt field. There, you can type to Google’s revamped chatbot, ask it to create images, or have it analyze pictures you send it.
Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman offers a look at the upcoming rejiggering of Android 15 in desktop mode. Rahman says it’s still lacking in good keyboard shortcuts for window management and that a lot of apps still don’t support drag-and-drop, but it does support multiple windows and even lets you resize them. Small victories.
Right now, it looks a little like using an iPad with Stage Manager turned on. Merry Dexmas, indeed.
Mishaal Rahman points out that a new settings panel is popping up for a few people with a beta release of Google Play Services, like @AssembleDebug on X, but they can’t yet opt-in (using the process shown below) to make it work.
Announced at I/O 2023, the upgraded network will use encrypted location data from other Android phones for tracking, but it has been delayed until Apple updates its tracking protection, which could be coming in iOS 17.5.
OnePlus is stepping into the piping-hot waters of mobile AI. It’ll soon release AI Eraser, a feature that uses Oppo’s own LLM, AndesGPT.
It sounds like a straightforward generative AI photo tool in the style of Google’s Magic Editor, and it’s coming to the OnePlus 12, 12R, 11, Open, and Nord CE 4. I guess the refreshingly AI-free flagship is AI-free no more.
Update April 3rd, 9:45AM ET: Added link and sample images from OnePlus.
