[remoquete]

I was a loyal Claude user until I decided to try Gemini 2.5. "After all", I thought, "I already use a Pixel phone, so it's integrated with Android. And with Google Drive. And I can get it through my Google One subscription."

And now that I'm on it, I don't think I'm going back. Google did it again.

[firecall]

Just to add, I am mainly an iPhone user. But I have a Google Pixel 6a for dev and testing reasons.

And Google Gemini for the voice assistant is excellent fun!

Just being able to ask it weird and wonderful whilst on a road trip with the kids is worth the cost of a cheap Pixel phone alone!

[jofzar]

I have to seriously disagree on it for the "assistant" part. It is so terrible vs Google assistant.

There have been two really bad experiences that I had which boggled my mind.

These are transcribed because these were so bad I took a screenshot.

Example 1: "set an alarm for 15 minutes"

> Gemini sets the alarm for 1:15pm

"I want that to be 50 minutes"

> "you can change the duration of alarms in the clock app"

Example 2:

"what the temperature today"

> It is currently 5 degrees Celsius

- It was October in Sydney, the temperature was 22c with a low of 12c.....

[aprilthird2021]

Yeah I find myself actually talking to the Gemini assistant like I never have to any other

[acheron]

Is this an example of how to integrate ads into an AI response?

[remoquete]

Could be, if an AI actually wrote it.

[singhrac]

Can you choose a model via the Gemini app? I can on the webapp (finally), but on the mobile app it won’t let me choose.

Using Gemini via Google Workspace.

[throwup238]

2.5 Pro Experimental and Deep Research showed up in the Gemini app for me today days after it was available on web so it seems to be different roll outs for different platforms.

[remoquete]

You can. Then again, I'm paying.

[ksec]

At this point something happened to Google, may be Open AI? And it seems everything is finally moving.

Unfortunately Pixel is still not available as widely as iPhone. They still need to work on its hardware as well as distribution.

The only thing I dislike is their AOM only or anti JPEG XL.

[weinzierl]

Out of interest: Using Gemini on your phone, integrated and all, obviously reduces friction, but would you say convenience is the only reason for you not going back or do you feel Gemini is a real improvement as well?

[remoquete]

The improvement in Gemini 2.5 is real, but I wouldn't say it's miles away from Claude 3.7. The fact that web browsing still isn't in Claude in Europe bothered me. It's many little things.

[akkad33]

> Google did it again.

This is quite vague. What did they do

[theletterf]

Ensure I only use them. It happened with search first, then mobile (Pixel), now it's LLMs.