Google is bringing Gemini Intelligence to more phones. From Tuesday 10th November 2026, the Pixel 10 series gets it through the November Pixel Drop, Google’s monthly feature update for Pixels. Motorola also has its first Gemini Intelligence phone, the Signature 27, and Google added a few new features on top. The biggest lets you build a widget by describing it.
Gemini Intelligence is Google’s label for Android phones that can run its best Gemini features, the ones that do things for you across your apps on top of answering questions. Not every Android phone qualifies. Google limits Gemini Intelligence to phones with at least 12GB of RAM, a chip it has approved and Gemini Nano running on the phone itself, which is the hardware bar we went through in May. It started reaching phones this summer, first the Pixel 11 series and Samsung’s Galaxy S26 series, Z Fold8 Ultra, Z Fold8 and Z Flip8.
Which Pixel 10 phones get it
All four of the main Pixel 10 phones are covered: the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The cheaper Pixel 10a isn’t on it. The update rolls out over the next few weeks, depending on carrier and device, so if you have a Pixel 10 that isn’t the 10a, expect Gemini Intelligence on your phone in the next few weeks.
For Pixel 10 owners, the main addition is Rambler, a voice typing mode in Gboard, Google’s keyboard. Normal voice typing writes down every word you say, including the “ums” and the bits where you correct yourself. Rambler drops those and turns what you said into a tidy message, and it keeps up if you switch languages mid-sentence. So if you say “oops, not Thursday, I meant Wednesday”, the message that comes out just says Wednesday.
Task automation isn’t new to the Pixel 10. It arrived as a beta in the Gemini app for the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL and the Galaxy S26 series, at first in the US and South Korea, after Google previewed it in February. You ask the Gemini app to do something like book a ride or reorder your last coffee, and it opens the app and taps through it for you, in a virtual copy of your phone running in the background. You confirm the last step yourself, such as placing the order. Google calls it a beta, puts a daily limit on how many requests you can make, and says you’re responsible for what Gemini does, mistakes and unexpected purchases included. On the Pixel 10 you can stop a task, but you can’t yet take over halfway through. From this month it also works in the UK, India and Japan.
The new features
Create My Widget lets you build a home screen widget by typing what you want it to show: a countdown to a trip, a monthly spending tracker, a race day countdown. It pulls in information from Gmail, Google Calendar and Search to fill it. It rolls out over the next few weeks, and Google says it reaches the Pixel Watch in the next few weeks too.
Device Assistance lets you ask Gemini to fix or change things on the phone itself. Google’s examples are clearing up storage space, checking which apps can see your location, and muting distractions while letting important calls through. It needs Android 17 or later.
Pixel phones with Gemini Intelligence will also soon start offering suggestions in Android Auto, Google’s in-car version of Android. Google’s example: a friend texts to ask where your pilates class is, Gemini finds the booking email and offers to send the address with one tap. Last month we covered Gemini on Android Auto reading your Gmail and Photos; this goes a step further by offering an answer before you ask.
Google’s pages don’t all agree yet. The announcement says task automation is expanding to the UK, India and Japan. The Pixel Drop’s community post says it is available in the US, UK and India. The help page for the feature lists India, Japan, South Korea, the UK and the US, and says it isn’t supported on the Pixel 10 in South Korea. And the Rambler help page still lists the Pixel 11 series as the only phones it works on.
Motorola’s first Gemini Intelligence phone
Motorola launched the Signature 27 on 5th November at USD 1,599, or about KES 208,000. As we wrote last week, its European price is nearly double what the first Signature cost there when it launched in January. Google says it is Motorola’s first phone with Gemini Intelligence, and that it gets Rambler. US pre-orders open on 19th November. Sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa start on 16th November.
What it means in Kenya
Google doesn’t sell Pixels here, so a Pixel 10 in Kenya came through an importer, with no local warranty, as we noted ahead of the Pixel 11 launch. Motorola hasn’t announced a Kenyan price for the Signature 27. Google’s Gemini Intelligence device page lists four brands, Pixel, Googlebook, Motorola and Samsung, and of those, Samsung’s Galaxy S26 phones are on sale here.
Kenya isn’t on the country list for task automation, and it isn’t on the list for Create My Widget either. Rambler’s help page lists the languages it works in, with English among them and Swahili not, but gives no country list. So owning the right phone here doesn’t yet get you the two features that make the best case for it. We’d wait for Kenya to appear on those two lists before paying extra for a phone because it has Gemini Intelligence.
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