- Gemini Nano-powered scam call detection is on its way, and the Phone app is showing early evidence.
- Phone will start differentiating between spam calls and scam calls.
- In addition to automatically detecting scam, users may be able to manually report suspicious calls.
Are you sold yet on the potential of AI? Smartphone features powered by AI feel like the only thing manufacturers are talking about anymore, but how many of those are actually useful tools you’re interested in, and how many seem more like fancy tech demos? Even if you’re still waiting for that killer app, we’ve got reason to be optimistic, and have heard about a few compelling projects in the works, like Google using Gemini Nano to keep you safe from scammers on voice calls. As we wait to get full details from Google on how that will arrive, we’re already seeing some early evidence of it in the Phone app.
Opening up the new Google Phone 138 beta release, we spot a number of text strings that sound related to this incoming functionality: