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Let’s explain to you how to take advantage of your old Android using Gemini as an assistantGoogle’s artificial intelligence. This comes after Google has extended the use of its AI to older devices, so you can reuse them in another way.

We are going to start the article by telling you what are the minimum requirements to be able to use Gemini on a mobile phone from about five years ago or more, and then we will tell you what you will be able to do with it.

Requirements to use Gemini on Android

In order to use Google’s artificial intelligence on your mobile, you need to have a version that is at least Android 9 Pie. This version of the operating system is from 2018, so if you have a mobile phone after that year, it is normal that you have this update.

If your old mobile phone has this version of Android or a later one, you will have an update with which you can use Gemini instead of Google Assistant. In the event that your mobile is seven years old but not this version, then you would have to try to search if there is any ROM that you can install, like LineageOS, so that its operating system is newer.

In addition to this, you will need your phone to have at least 2 GB of RAM, and you should have it linked to a personal Google account. Obviously, you will also need to reside in a country where Gemini is available, as is the case in Spain.

Complying with this, you just have to download the Gemini application, available on Google Play. Once you do it, Gemini will ask you if you want him to be your assistant instead of Google Assistant, and with that you will have it up and running. If it doesn’t ask you, you can also configure it by hand in the settings, in the default applications section or assistant in the applications section.

How you can take advantage of Gemini

First of all, You can use Gemini for the same thing as with a new mobilesince the functions are the same. Perhaps the application is not as fluid and may be a bit jerky, but you will be able to write and receive responses as normal.

Gemini will also allow you to generate images or videosplus code, graphics and everything you want. As long as the Internet connection is good, the operation will be smooth. Voice conversation will also work without a problem, and even the Gemini Live function to exchange phrases while having a natural conversation.

A 5 or 6 year old cell phone may not have the best camera in the world compared to current ones, but you can also use Gemini’s functions to recognize the content of the photos, and take screenshots to ask the assistant for information about the content, or to do translations or whatever you want.

Furthermore, you can also create your own Gems and use any existing one. Also remember that everything you do with Gemini will be stored in history through your Google account, so you can interact with conversations you have had on the PC with the browser or with another mobile phone.

An old cell phone as a smart speaker

But if it is an old mobile phone that you no longer use, there is also another interesting use that you can give it. Can turn it into a kind of smart speaker to be able to interact with Gemini by voice whenever you want.

To do this, once Gemini is configured as a voice assistant, you just have to go to its settings and adjust the voice command “Hey, Google” so that it also works with the screen off. So, simply put your phone on a stand, keeping it plugged in at all times and that’s it, you can ask it for whatever you want with your own voice.

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