Google Assistant comes to smartphones running Android 6 and 7

Google announced this week that its intelligent assistant Google Assistant will be available for smartphones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and 7.0 Nougat.

Google Assistant - is a smart personal assistant, which was introduced more May 18, 2016. It combines the functions of a personal information manager, organizer and voice Gadget. Until recently, it was available only to Google Home owners, watches running Android Wear and smartphones google Pixel.

Today, Google announced that it is now almost all the new default device will contain the firmware Google Assistant. For the rest of gadgets for Android 6 and 7 controlled intelligent assistant will be distributed in the form of Google Play Services updates.

As reported in the blog company, is the first update will be able to download the English-speaking users USA, UK, Canada and Australia. Following the German version will be for residents of Germany. The new will be added to all languages ​​and countries for a year to this list. We hope that the Russian-language version does not take long (hello, Cortana!).

The company's goal is the gradual penetration of Google Assistant on all devices running Android. Therefore, following the assistants for smart watches and phones should be available version for TVs and cars.