Google is working on a feature that's so simple and so useful that I'm surprised it hasn't been a part of our lives for a decade: a way to look up a phone number that just called you, right from the recent calls screen. . User x AssembleDebug alerted PiunikaWeb to a new “Search” button in the beta version of the Google Phone app that, when tapped, displays a Google search with the number you've already entered.
Although the Google Phone app is the default for Pixel phones, other Android owners can download it. The new search button includes other options, such as “Block” and “History,” which you see when you tap a recent call in the Phone app. In a time when so much spam comes fake phone numbers If they are made to look like local calls, it almost seems like the feature is five years too late.
Still, I'm sure I'm not the only person who still goes through the painstaking process of copying unknown numbers that bother me and pasting them into a Google search. Nowadays, I only do it after seeing the same number more than once, but that happens so often that I'd love to stop playing with the clumsy smartphone copy-paste song and dance around.
x.com/AssembleDebug/status/1776197309560463477″>AssembleDebug also sniffed that Google is working to add Gemini email digests to the Android version of the Gmail app. As you can see in the screenshot above, the feature exists as a button just below the subject line of an email. Tap it and it will give you a summary. At least, that's the supposed idea. PiunikaWeb write that The button still doesn't do anything, but there's also a new Gemini menu option in Gmail's three-dot menu.
Meanwhile, the Gemini Android app can summarize emails (as long as you have a Google Workspace account). Obviously, it would be much better if Gemini did this directly in Gmail, which is how it works on the web.
