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Google Brings Gemini Intelligence to Pixel 10 and Motorola, Adds AI-Built Widgets

Gemini's app-spanning task automation expands to the UK, India and Japan, and a new tool lets users create homescreen widgets from a text prompt.

By Nakoda News Desk

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Google is extending Gemini Intelligence, the AI layer it built into Android this year, to last year's Pixel 10 phones and a new Motorola handset, and adding features that let users build homescreen widgets and fix device settings by asking in plain language, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

The update widens the base of Android devices running Google's most capable on-device assistant beyond the flagships it launched on this summer, the Pixel 11 and Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Z Fold8, Z Flip8 and S26 series. It also takes Gemini's ability to complete tasks inside other apps to three more markets.

Motorola's first Gemini Intelligence phone, the motorola signature 27, goes on pre-order in the US on November 19. Through this month's Pixel Drop, the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold receive the latest Gemini Intelligence features. Rambler, which turns speech into organised text as the user talks, is now available on the Pixel 10 range and the new Motorola phone.

Task automation, which lets users ask Gemini to order food, book a ride or make a reservation across third-party apps, is expanding to the UK, India and Japan. Google did not say which apps are supported in those countries.

The main new feature is Create My Widget, rolling out over the next few weeks. Users describe the widget they want, such as a trip dashboard, a monthly spending tracker or a countdown, and Gemini builds it, drawing on information from Gmail, Calendar and Search. Google said the feature will come to Pixel Watch in the coming weeks.

A second addition, Device Assistance, lets users ask Gemini to change or troubleshoot their phone, for example by clearing storage, checking which apps can see their location, or muting notifications while letting important calls through.

Google is also taking the assistant beyond phones. It launched Googlebook, which it describes as the first laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence, last month. Pixel owners will soon get proactive suggestions in Android Auto: in Google's example, if a friend texts to ask where a class is being held, Gemini can find the booking confirmation in email and offer to send the address with one tap.

Google did not give a date for the Android Auto feature beyond saying it is coming soon.

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