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Google Assistant will vanish from Android phones and connected devices in September
(www.engadget.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Can the Gemini assistant set reminders yet? Such a basic function of the old Google assistant and yet Gemini has failed every time I tried it in the past
F: play Spotify (activated by multi button on headset)
A: Please unlock your phone yada yada yada
BRO! GUESS WHY I USED THE MULTI-BUTTON >:( I CAN'T USE MY HANDS TO UNLOCK IT AND PLAY MUSIC MANUALLY.
Because it doesn't know what time is or how to measure it.
It's been abled to set alarms for me haven't tried reminders. I also use it to create events from me on my calendar.
It connects to my Google home now too, which it wasn't able to do before
Assistant tasks like this are probably the only semi reasonable LLM use case. If it was less resource intensive anyway
You don't really need a powerful LLM for personal assistant tasks.
Even the small ones are resource hogs.