Google is engaged on a function that’s so easy and so helpful that I’m shocked it hasn’t been a part of our lives for a decade: a method to lookup a telephone quantity that simply known as you, proper out of your latest calls display screen. X consumer AssembleDebug tipped off PiunikaWeb to a brand new “Lookup” button within the beta model of the Google Telephone app that, when tapped, brings up a Google Search with the quantity already entered for you.
Though the Google Telephone app is the default for Pixel telephones, different Android house owners can obtain it. The brand new Lookup button lives with different choices, like “Block” and “History,” that you just see whenever you faucet on a latest name within the Telephone app. In an age the place a lot spam comes from spoofed telephone numbers made to seem like native calls, it virtually feels just like the function is about 5 years too late.
Even so, I’m certain I’m not the one one who nonetheless goes by the painstaking means of copying unknown numbers that pester me and pasting them right into a Google search. Nowadays, I solely do it after I see the identical quantity greater than as soon as, however that occurs typically sufficient that I might like to cease messing with the clunky smartphone copy / paste track and dance.
AssembleDebug additionally sniffed out that Google is engaged on including Gemini electronic mail summaries to the Android model of the Gmail app. As you possibly can see within the screenshot above, the function exists as a button just below the topic line of an electronic mail. Faucet it, and it offers you a abstract. A minimum of, that’s the presumed thought. PiunikaWeb writes that the button doesn’t do something fairly but, however that there’s additionally a brand new Gemini menu choice in Gmail’s three dots menu.
Within the meantime, the Android Gemini app can summarize emails for you (offered you’ve a Google Workspace account). It might clearly be quite a bit nicer to have Gemini do that in Gmail straight, which is already the way it works on the internet.