But of course, the problem with Google is that they already have basically every person on the planet as their customer, and their ideas for how the future should look like aren't exactly transformative. The Gmail UX in 2026 is not radically different / better than in 2016. The same goes for Chrome. Android phones have better cameras and displays compared to ten years ago, but the software functionality is mostly the same.
So I guess they're in the same spot as Microsoft, trying to innovate in a mildly user-hostile way, looking for an audience that doesn't exist?
Although I think these features were in whatever pixel I had before.
Adding events to calendar is my most common use case.
I also have AI look at the screen and do stuff. My biggest complaint here, it doesn't go far enough. If I take a picture of contact info, I want it to be added, I don't want to go through the extra step of downloading a contact card.
I really want an OpenClaw-like AI for my phone.
But otherwise the calendar setting alone is pretty amazing. I just take a bunch of pictures of events and they get in my calendar.
I feel like companies are pushing AI for stuff that saves a minute of your time in exchange for huge privacy red flags and sloppy updates
They learned their mistake, didn’t double down, let the others spend their money and energy trying to figure out what that whole AI thing is about. Just a perfect timing
I have Gmail & calendar control, web search, alarms, maps, contacts & phone, scheduled tasks & tasks triggered by things like notifications (I'm planning reacting to geofences & other events). You can create scripts to execute all these tools in a deterministic way & custom skills you can create to mix & match all these tools. For example I created a script that handles sending a message using Telegram reading the screen and tapping things using the accessibility service, it feels like magic.
Right now I'm using models from Gemini API & Openrouter (deepseek flash v4 0731 is cheap & good enough).
All data is in my phone
This is not to brag is just to show how relatively easy you can do this on your Android phone. With an agenting loop, skills with tools (loaded on demand), and things like device control via accessibility service can do almost anything.
This is not to brag is just to show how relatively easy you can do this on your Android phone.
It's stored in your phone but it's still going to the LLM when working on it, right?
Unless you invented a system of magic placeholders?
Are you disclosing to people that they are interacting with an agent? If I learned a friend is using an agent to communicate with me they would get blocked right away. It’s really rude.
Also, you can do that via telegram API, no? no need for such an overcomplicated system
cmiles8•45m ago
But hey it let some product manager check the “we got some of that AI” box.
dude250711•35m ago