For the center of March, it was a surprisingly busy information week. Google lastly confirmed that Gemini is taking Assistant’s spot on the desk this 12 months — a shock to nobody, I am positive. We bought our first have a look at the Pixel 10 trio, a well-known set of smartphones that appears to add an extra digicam sensor to the bottom mannequin. And Android 16 Beta 3 arrived, marking platform stability for Google’s upcoming working system forward of its June launch.
Whereas Android 16 continues to appear like one of the crucial acquainted OS upgrades we have seen in ages, there’s loads of attention-grabbing information hiding underneath the hood. Positive, Google’s pending Fast Settings redesign continues to be within the works, however for my cash, nothing caught out fairly like some hidden code for notification summaries. Though we’d not know for positive till I/O, it looks like Android 16 — or, maybe, no matter second replace is arriving within the again half of the 12 months — will take a web page out of the Apple Intelligence playbook, and I am not so positive tips on how to really feel about it.
This morning, my evaluation of the iPhone 16e went reside. I would encourage anybody remotely fascinated with smartphones to test it out, even in the event you would not dream of switching to iOS. The iPhone 16e is an attention-grabbing telephone, if not one I discovered myself liking very a lot. Apple has developed its cell platform from a restricted-but-reliable walled backyard into one thing with an entire lot extra flexibility — and loads of issues. Whereas it is apparent the 2 issues aren’t associated, watching iOS flip into the bug-ridden mess I’ve heard Android be accused of for years is certain to ship a little schadenfreude.
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Actually, Apple Intelligence is the largest downside with the iPhone 16e, a tool with specs picked particularly to ship Apple’s AI suite at a barely cheaper worth level. It is merely not a platform I’ve discovered to be remotely price the price of shopping for in. And so, coming from a few weeks coping with notification summaries on iOS, I’ve to confess I am a bit apprehensive in regards to the idea of Android including the identical kind of toolset.
The excellent news, after all, is that Android’s notification summaries — in no matter present, early state they exist in — will be disabled. That is primarily based on the strings Mishaal Rahman and others present in Android 16 Beta 3, with Mishaal even managing to get the settings up and operating on a take a look at gadget. I additionally inherently belief Google to ship a greater notification expertise than anybody at Apple, contemplating the present M.O. on iOS is to cover notifications to declutter your lock display screen.
Supply: Android Authority
I is likely to be skeptical about notification summaries coming to Android — even when they’re performed properly, I simply do not know if I reside the kind of life the place I would like a number of group chat conversations routinely shrunk into a number of easy phrases — however I am interested by everybody else. That is certain to be a divisive matter, I believe; it is doable my time on iOS has merely burned me to giving the identical characteristic one other probability when it arrives on a very totally different platform. However I am interested by everybody else, particularly since loads of our readers are certain to haven’t any expertise with notification summaries in any respect.
I am hoping we’ll see some good conversations within the feedback under, however, as all the time, we have a ballot as properly. Are you curious about notification summaries on Android? Are you keen to present no matter Google’s cooking up a shot, or would you like your telephone to remain as AI-less as doable?