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TL;DR Google has officially listed seven phones that support Gemini Nano 4, the model behind some of its newest on-device AI features.
The supported devices are the Pixel 11 series and Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z foldables, including the Z Fold 8 Ultra.
Features such as Gboard’s Rambler and Create My Widget increasingly depend on newer hardware, potentially leaving older phones behind.
Google’s latest AI features are becoming less about what version of Android your phone runs and more about what’s inside it. If you were hoping a software update would eventually bring Google’s smartest Gemini Intelligence features to your older flagship, the latest device list is a good reality check. Google now says Gemini Nano 4 is supported on only seven Android phones, and those are the devices positioned to unlock the newest on-device Gemini experiences.
The list includes Google’s Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold, alongside Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8, and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. Google quietly added these devices to its developer documentation this week (via 9to5Google), making them the first phones officially listed with Gemini Nano 4 support.
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The Pixel 11 series has some of Google’s newest and most advanced Gemini Intelligence experiences, including Gboard’s Rambler voice typing and the upcoming Create My Widget feature. Rambler, for example, is meant to make voice typing feel much less robotic. You can speak naturally, stumble over your words, repeat yourself, or change your mind, and Gemini can clean up the result instead of dumping your entire ramble into a text box.
Create My Widget, which Samsung is also working on, takes the idea further by letting you describe the information you want on your home screen and having Gemini build a custom widget around it. Google has also demonstrated more intelligent autofill and increasingly capable task automation as part of Gemini Intelligence.
The catch is that Google has already made it clear that Gemini Intelligence is a premium experience. Its requirements include 12GB or more of RAM, a qualified SoC, on-device Gemini Nano support, and lengthy software and security commitments. With the Nano 4 list, Google might be drawing another line between phones that can run Android and phones that can run the newest version of Google’s Android experience.
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