By John Glenday

Google is doubling down on its voice activated smartphone tool Google Assistant by extending its reach to all smartphones running the latest iteration of its Android operating system.

Google’s answer to Apple’s Siri, the service allowed people to use voice commands to interact with their phones by issuing commands and posing questions but has been restricted to Pixel phones only until now.

Among the first new phones to receive the functionality is LG‘s G6 ahead of a broader roll-out to all phones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow or 7.0 Nougat.

Gummi Hafsteinsson, product lead for Google Assistant, remarked: “With this Read full story ›

Source: The Drum