Google has announced new updates for Android at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The updates aim to improve connectivity, productivity, accessibility, and fun across all Android devices. One of the updates includes the ability to connect your phone to your watch, laptop, TV, and car easily.
Android is introducing updates that will enhance productivity on your devices. For instance, Google Keep single note widget will enable users to manage their notes and check off to-do lists from their Home screen. This widget will display reminders, background colors, and images added to notes from the Keep app while syncing with your smartwatch. In addition, Google Keep is introducing two new shortcuts that will enable users to create notes and to-do lists with a simple tap on their Wear OS by Google smartwatch.
Another update aims to improve audio during calls on Android mobile devices by offering noise cancellation on Google Meet. The feature will filter out distracting background sounds, such as nearby construction or lawn mower sounds while the user is speaking.
Android is also making fun updates available for family and friends. Emoji Kitchen now offers new emoji combinations that users can mash up, remix, and share as stickers via Gboard. In addition, Google Wallet is introducing new fun tap-to-pay animations to help confirm in-store transactions.
Lastly, Android has introduced an update to customize Chrome, where users can easily increase the size of content, including text, images, video, and interactive controls, by up to 300%. Users can also set their preferred content size as a default for Chrome, which will roll out officially in March. Wear OS 3+ is also introducing two new sound and display modes to improve watch accessibility, including mono-audio and color-correction and grayscale modes for watch displays.
Overall, these updates show how Android continues to enhance and introduce new features to make devices and Google apps better over time.
