Currently, the Google Assistant is only available on the Pixel smartphone. Speculations say that the tech giant will be giving its Nexus smartphones the virtual assistant on the next Android update.
Google Assistant for the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. The tech giant's virtual assistant is known to be only exclusive to the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones at the moment. According to Stephen Hall of the website 9to5Google, the Assistant will finally be coming to the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P when the next major OS update rolls outs. No other details are known about the Google Assistant coming to the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.
Previous reports claim that the Assistant will be rolled out to the LG G6 becoming the first non-Google smartphone to sport the virtual assistant. However, the speculations have not been backed up by an official word from both LG and Google to date.
The California-based tech giant has recently released the Android 7.1.2 beta for the Nexus and Pixel devices. Users would need to enroll their device in the beta program and to wait for the company to provide the update over-the-air to take advantage of Android 7.1.2 beta. This update is probably not the major update that comes with the Assistant that Hall had tweeted about as it is only a beta version and has not been made fully available to all Nexus and Pixel smartphones yet.
The Assistant is an artificially intelligent virtual assistant developed by the Mountain View tech company and introduced back in May 2016 at the annual Google I/O event in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Assistant differs from Google Now in a way that the former can engage users in conversations. Apart from the Pixel and Pixel XL, the virtual assistant is currently on the Google Home device, the Allo app, and the Android Auto.
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