The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful

cmiles8

Has anyone been asking for these features? It would appear not. But hey it let some product manager check the “we got some of that AI” box.

auntienomen

There are days when I suspect Google does not believe in doing user research.

650

Google is entrenched with career opportunists who are self serving, and are, excuse the lack of a better word, shitting out work to move stupid KPIs and continue the bureaucracy. A bloated Product org that advocates that something must be done, and is not focused.

whatsThisBtn4

Not sure if I have a 10 or 11 but I disagree. Although I think these features were in whatever pixel I had before. Adding events to calendar is my most common use case. I also have AI look at the screen and do stuff. My biggest complaint here, it doesn't go far enough. If I take a picture of contact info, I want it to be added, I don't want to go through the extra step of downloading a contact card. I really want an OpenClaw-like AI for my phone.

fsh

I'm glad that my 9a has little enough RAM to be spared the worst of Google's on-device LLM features.

mullenba

Unserviceable phones + features people don't want = Endless price increases and shareholder value!

dgellow

Apple complete failure early on with Apple Intelligence was really the best business move ever. I’m so, so glad my device has no agentic stuff. They learned their mistake, didn’t double down, let the others spend their money and energy trying to figure out what that whole AI thing is about. Just a perfect timing

yomismoaqui

I was tired of waiting for Google to make something as powerful as Openclaw on my Android and so I did it myself. I have Gmail & calendar control, web search, alarms, maps, contacts & phone, scheduled tasks & tasks triggered by things like notifications (I'm planning reacting to geofences & other events). You can create scripts to execute all these tools in a deterministic way & custom skills you can create to mix & match all these tools. For example I created a script that handles sending a message using Telegram reading the screen and tapping things using the accessibility service, it feels like magic. Right now I'm using models from Gemini API & Openrouter (deepseek flash v4 0731 is cheap & good enough). All data is in my phone This is not to brag is just to show how relatively easy you can do this on your Android phone. With an agenting loop, skills with tools (loaded on demand), and things like device control via accessibility service can do almost anything.

kazinator

https://archive.ph/wip/BhUIH (queued)

throwa356262

I think Samsung has the best amount of AI (once you turn off the Google crap). There are tons of things that work like magic. You don't even notice you are using AI. Even Bixby turned out to be uuseful. Although I have disabled the shortcut and generally don't use it much.

znasw

people buy pixels for graphene os. who uses the google os?