Android features unveiled at Samsung's Unpacked event narrow some of the gap between Samsung’s flavor of Android and Google’s.

One of the most important changes in Samsung’s new phones is a simple one: when you long-press the side button on your phone, instead of activating Samsung’s own Bixby assistant by default, you’ll get Google Gemini .

With today’s update, Gemini is able to carry out more complex multimodal tasks. You might ask it to find a dog-friendly Italian restaurant and send it to your friend, or pull up your NFL team’s upcoming games and add them to your calendar, all in a single prompt.

As of this morning, we're seeing a new compact UI for Gemini's assistant overlay on Android. The updated version allows you to see much more of the screen underneath while retaining almost all the old UI's functionality. The old Gemini assistant overlay (left) compared to the new one (right).

Google has added multi-extension support for Gemini, allowing it to perform multiple actions with a single prompt.

Google started pushing the ability for select users to control smart home devices via the Gemini app on Android. This is now officially leaving Public Preview and rolling out to all supported users. On top of making it available to all,

Google’s Gemini will be the default assistant on Samsung’s newest line of smartphones, giving a boost to the search giant’s efforts to get the chatbot in the hands of more people. The companies announ

Gemini Live can now analyze and discuss files, images, and YouTube videos, but only on select Samsung and Google phones.

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Along with that, we also got the news that Gemini can now communicate with Samsung apps through extensions. To refresh your memory, extensions allow Gemini to communicate with other apps and services. This way, it can perform actions within those services. For example, with the Google Home Extension, Gemini can control your smart home devices.

At Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google marked the occasion with a slew of At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, the company unveiled an improved Gemini assistant,

Pre-ordering the Galaxy S25 will get you a free six-month Gemini Advanced subscription. That's $120 in savings, plus all the other preorder benefits, like two months of Adobe Lightroom and three months of Peacock Premium, in addition to the boosted trade-in credit you already get.