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So, um, he shared about Go- you can search in Google Maps directly from Gemini.

And then within it, in one of the comments, it was a post from Android Police kind of explaining it a little more in detail.

So basically, it was that you can search on Google Maps from a circle radius.

Uh, and then what you do is basically you'll open the app, you'll scroll over to the map, and then you drag this radius where you want it to be, and then you can ask a question directly in Gemini like, "Can you recommend cafes near me?" That was the example used.

This week, I'm joined by my friend and former co-host, Daniel Bader, to talk all about our thoughts and feelings on just that, AI.

If you've listened to any episode of the old Android Police podcast or any of the episodes Daniel has guested on The Sideload before, you are probably aware that he and I could be all over the map when discussing certain topics, and that is... absolutely the case today.

We are going to segue into a conversation about AI-powered dance floors at weddings already in progress after this message from our sponsor, NordVPN.

Look, let's be real.

There is a gap between the old way and the new way and one writer found it.

He writes for Android Police.

He tried the voice feature on messy grocery lists, and he says he talks a lot when he records.

The old voice note would stop before he finished his list, so he had to type the missing items by hand.

Now the question everybody asks first, who can use this here is what google says keep live is for google ai plus pro and ultra subscribers docs live is for pro and ultra but the keep help page says the voice note feature is for pro and ultra on android the rollout is still reaching more people so the details may shift a bit check the plan on your own account if you use google through work or school there is another rule whether you get it depends on your workspace plan it also depends on whether your admin turned on Gemini beta.

So if you do not see it at work, ask the person who runs your Google account.

Also, the writer from Android Police said you must turn on Google Workspace inside the Gemini app.

If Gemini will not save to keep, check that setting first.

Because of that fact, I'm a premium subscriber to the service.

If you're a big YouTube watcher and don't mind consuming YouTube by using a tablet or computer, then Android Police has an article that instructs you how to get a virtually ad-free viewing experience using the Brave browser.

I won't be giving the details here.

Instead, I'll put the link to the article in the show notes.

Um, and so just all, all in all, just a bad scene.

Um, and at the same time, this comes pretty much at the same time when Android police just laid off some staff.

Um, so it's just, you know, it just, it's.

Listen, it's a tough time for media in general.

Everything in journalism is topsy turvy and upside down, but Android journalism has been very, has, has, yeah, it's, it's gone through some bumpy roads in the last, I'd say five, six years.

Yeah.

There was a time when Android Central and Android Police were the two sites that we...

And then XDA doesn't even really exist anymore, I don't think.

I have seen this happen again and again and again.

You and I worked at Android Police under Valnet.

We're not gonna breach our contract and talk about it, but it speak-

Who? Who are you f- [laughs]

Because you're g- you're gonna have, you're gonna be competing against 47 different articles on the same thing.

So it's, y- enthusiasts hopefully read a good chunk of them.

But I always thought that the goal should have been, uh, the plan was to have it where, okay, I read xxx article because I'm gonna go to Android Police or Android Authority to see what Steve had to say or to see what, uh, whoever w- uh, Will had to say or to see what Taylor had to say.

And, and to build that up in a way to make us more fr- uh, uh, uh, public-facing to kinda get around that, to avoid the kinda anonymity that, that Discover can have.

[lacht] Also man wird also weiterhin, ähm, Artikel hier posten über Android Central, äh, zumindest eben von diesen Freelance Contributors, aber, äh, man gibt keine weiteren Informationen raus.

Auch Android Police, 'ne andere Seite, die sich eben, ähm, um Android kümmern, auch die haben, äh, vor Kurzem zwei wichtige Mitarbeiter entlassen.

Ähm, hier gibt es keine, ähm, ähm, Antwort bisher an The Verge.

Und das heißt, es sieht momentan schlecht aus für die Android-News-Redaktionen.

Also das ist schon etwas seltsam, könnte man meinen.

Ja, aber so ist das nun mal.

Und bei Android Police, gut, die hatte ich nicht aufm Schirm, aber auch hier wundert's mich nicht, wenn ich so allgemein die, äh, das mache ich ja jeden Monat intensiv, ja.

Ich lese ja jeden Monat die, ähm, ja, ich glaub, drei bis viertausend Artikel lese ich durch für hier den Podcast.

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Android Police reports that Samsung is moving away from Microsoft in regards to its Galaxy phones.

In the past, Galaxy phones synced with MS's OneDrive cloud service by default, and MS Office apps were pre-installed on devices.

Even Samsung's own apps defaulted to syncing with OneDrive.