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Google is making the Assistant smarter on feature phones
Nick Summers, Engadget, 2019
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- A February 2019 Engadget report on Google's announcement that Google Assistant on KaiOS feature phones would get Voice Typing, so users could dictate text messages and web searches. The article says the feature was coming over the coming months.
- How much weight it carries
- A news report of a company announcement from 2019. It says what Google planned, not what shipped on any phone, and the announced rollout may have changed since. Use it to show that voice typing was planned for KaiOS, not as proof that a given flip phone has it today.
Facts taken from this source
- In February 2019, Google announced that Google Assistant on KaiOS feature phones would get Voice Typing, which would let users dictate text messages and web searches. Engadget reported the rollout as coming over the coming months.
“allowing KaiOS users to dictate text messages, web searches and basically anything else that uses a text box” (Article introduction)