Google lowers minimum requirements for Gemini apps

Gemini, Google's latest AI assistant exclusively for Android, provides live chat functionality with chatbots based on a powerful generative AI model. Google also allows users to set Gemini as the default virtual assistant on smartphones.

However, Google only allows the installation of applications on devices running Android 12 or higher, so many Android smartphones still cannot experience the full features of Gemini. With older phones, users can only use this virtual assistant through the website.

According to Android Authority, Google recently quietly reduced the minimum requirements, allowing phones running Android 10 or higher to install Gemini.

This change was discovered in the latest version of Gemini uploaded to APKMirror. Currently, Gemini's official support website still shows the minimum requirement Android 12 but the app has changed to Android 10 or higher.

Along with that, Google also supplemented the Gemini version running on Android phones with the Conversation feature, allowing users to chat more naturally, without needing to manually activate voice recognition each time they issue a command.

According to Neowin, Conversation is part of Google's effort to make Gemini the default virtual assistant on Android phones.

Recently, Google has tested a number of new features on its AI tool including real-time feedback, calling music playing applications according to preferences, reading feedback as soon as the tool starts giving answers.

Samuel Daniel

Update 26 April 2024