Google brings Gemini Live to all Android phones for free

Gemini Live can offer suggestions on gifting ideas to your loved ones and even assist users to brainstorm on how to host an birthday event.

In October 2024, Google rolled out Gemini Live, a generative artificial intelligence feature that can interact with users through voice, text, and images shared on the phone's screen. With this, users can seek more than generic information about the latest news or sports updates.

Gemini Live can offer suggestions on gifting ideas to your loved ones and even assist users in brainstorming on how to host a birthday event.

Recently, a new update was released to allow Gemini Live access to the phone camera so that users can converse with the AI chatbot even more freely. For instance, to solve a maths problem, just point the phone's camera to the problem on the paper and ask Gemini Live AI bot how to solve it. It will a offer step-by-step guide with logical reasons and complete it. cleaning process.

Also, for adults, it can even help one choose the right photo and design a keynote presentation for the office project.

However, Gemini Live was limited to premium Android phones—Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold—and Samsung's Galaxy S25, S25 Plus, and S25 Ultra. Device owners had to access the Gemini Advanced feature via a Google One AI Premium subscription, priced at Rs 1,950 per month in India.

Now, Google has announced that it is making Gemini Live accessible to all Android phone users for free.

"We’ve been hearing great feedback on Gemini Live with camera and screen share, so we decided to bring it to more people ✨ Starting today and over the coming weeks, we're rolling it out to *all* @Android users with the Gemini app. Enjoy!," Google said on X.

In India, Gemini Live supports Hindi and English. Google has announced to expand the support to more Indian national languages such as Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, and others.

In a related development, Google, earlier this week, released a new security update for Android phones which will protect them against illegal access.

If the Android phone is idle and has not been unlocked for over three consecutive days, it will automatically reboot and enter the Before First Unlock (BFU) state.

The BFU state will not erase the storage or factory reset the device, but will act as a security measure to protect the information stored in the Android phone. All the data in the phone gets fully encrypted, and other security features such as FaceID/fingerprint ID get disabled.

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