Samsung has revealed that it will likely be bringing Google’s Gemini AI assistant to Galaxy A smartphones.
Whereas I usually fairly just like the Samsung Galaxy A56, certainly one of my very own pet peeves with the cellphone is {that a} lengthy press of the aspect button (used for the facility/wake perform) brings up Samsung’s unloved Bixby assistant.
That will make good sense, if it weren’t for the truth that the Samsung Galaxy S25 sequence swapped that out for the vastly superior Google Gemini AI assistant a few months prior.
Now Samsung has introduced that it’s belatedly bringing the identical perform over to its Galaxy A sequence.
Samsung’s Galaxy A Gemini announcement
“With this replace,” says Samsung in a latest Newsroom submit, “customers will be capable of get pleasure from smarter AI experiences, together with launching Gemini, Google’s AI-powered assistant, by merely urgent and holding the aspect button”.
Samsung factors out that it took steps to convey extra of its AI (that’s ‘Superior Intelligence’ on this occasion) options to extra folks with the Galaxy A56 5G, Galaxy A36 5G and Galaxy A26 5G.
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Samsung’s AI Choose helps you pull info from and manipulate textual content and pictures on-screen, whereas Learn Aloud reads out on-screen copy, supplied you’re joyful utilizing Samsung’s native net browser and Bixby’s stilted voice.
Nevertheless, the primary cope with these newest Galaxy A telephones, no less than in relation to AI, may be very a lot Google’s Gemini (together with Circle to Search). Putting that energy beneath your thumb ought to make it much more accessible in a pinch.
Samsung says that this new software program replace will begin rolling out globally to pick out Galaxy A sequence fashions from early Could. On condition that it name-checks the Galaxy A56 5G, Galaxy A36 5G and Galaxy A26 5G earlier within the submit, we’re guessing that these newest telephones can be first in line.