Chromebook Plus AI Equals Gemini - Android Faithful #46

Big news coming from Google this week as they rolled out the next wave of Gemini AI integration, this time in Chromebook and Chromebook Plus laptops. We sat down with Google's VP of ChromeOS, John Maletis to discuss the news and what it means for Android. The gang is reunited as Huyen Tue Dao returns and joins Jason Howell, Mishaal Rahman and Ron Richards for Chromebooks and all the other Android news of the week.

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NEWS

• Huyen fills us in on the KotlinConf 2024 and how it compared to Google I/O and JetBrains approach to AI and developers
• GoogleTV is seeing some updates soon including Find My Remote and Picture in Picture
• Honor gets in on the AI integrated smartphone trend with the 200 series. They're very pretty!
• PATRON PICK: After voting on Patreon, the Android Faithful supporters chose the news that iFixit had some choice negative words for Samsung
• Google, along with Asus, Acer and HP, rolls out new Chromebook and Chromebook Plus laptops with Gemini AI integration and 1 year of Gemini Advanced for free!

HARDWARE

• Hands on review of the Acer Chromebook Plus 514

APPS

• Even Adobe is getting in on the AI game with Acrobat and other apps like Grammarly leveraging Gemini Nano
• Want a new Google Home app ‘Favorites’ widget? Your welcome.

COMMUNITY

• Rohan (and many, many others) wrote in with the solve to accessing your Notifications History on Android.

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