India, May 12 -- A looming Android reconstruct is set to change the way smartphones work for millions of users worldwide. Ahead of their annual I/O developer conference, Google has detailed a vision for Gemini's deeper utilitarian integration across all apps, among other improvements. It essentially transforms Android phones into artificial intelligence (AI) devices, even as industry whispers suggest a separate new category of these devices remains somewhere over the horizon.

Core to a modernised Android is a new Gemini Intelligence layer, which evolves Gemini from a conversational chatbot into an active, contextual assistant across third-party apps on a user's Android phone. AI's intent to automate tasks where possible - a significant c...