The ambient mode of Google Assistant turns your smartphone or tablet into a smart display

Google Assistant has become the virtual assistant of choice for many Android users, partly because of its impressive capabilities and also partly because it is preloaded in the suite of applications from Google. At IFA 2019, Google gives the Assistant the ability to turn Android devices into smart screens via the ambient mode.

The ambient mode of Google Assistant will turn Android devices into smart screens for a better hands-on experience. The smartphones and tablets of the current generation are powerful in terms of computing capabilities, while smart screens are much simpler and limited in their operation, but benefit greatly from a more informative and voice-based interaction model. a different visual overview. When supported smartphones and tablets are connected and supported, the wizard now displays calendar information, weather, notifications, reminders, music controls, and smart home controls. . The wizard will also turn the device into a digital photo frame that will extract images from your Google Photos account.

The ambient mode of Google Assistant will be available on Lenovo Smart Tab M8 HD and Lenovo Yoga Smart tablets when they are connected, as well as on Nokia 7.2 and Nokia 6.2 smartphones while they are being charged. At the moment, it is unclear whether the ambient mode will be deployed on other Android smartphones, but we bet that will be the case. The next Google Pixel 4 seems to be the perfect candidate for Google to publish additional features based on the wizard and we were a little surprised to see new versions of Nokia being the first to benefit from this feature.

Google also took the opportunity to announce that Google Assistant would be available on even more devices, including with more headphones from JBL, Bose, Sony; speakers from Bose, Sonos and JBL and soundbars from JBL, Philips and others. Assistant is now available in more than 30 languages ​​and 80 countries and all these new devices. You are therefore sure to find this virtual assistant present everywhere.

Source: Google