Cellular World Congress is going on now in Barcelona, Spain. There will likely be a ton of tech-related bulletins this week, however among the most fun are Google’s Android bulletins. At the moment, the corporate took the wraps off no fewer than 9 new Android options. These are options for Android itself however should not connected to any specific model of the working system. In different phrases, all Android customers will see these updates!

About half of those options are rolling out now. Nevertheless, the opposite half are coming at an undisclosed date. Try the roundup of what to anticipate beneath.

New Android options coming as we speak

Beginning as we speak, February 27, you’ll be able to anticipate these options to seem in your telephones and tablets.

• Web page zoom on Chrome for Android — Beforehand, when you have been to pinch-to-zoom on Chrome for Android, you’d zoom all the web page, equally to the way you’d zoom a static picture. Beginning in Chrome Beta as we speak (and rolling out to the secure channel quickly), you’ll be able to pinch-to-zoom and solely enhance the dimensions of the textual content, photographs, video, and controls, however nonetheless protect the web page structure. This works at as much as 300% zoom. You’ll additionally be capable to set your default zoom degree in Chrome for Android, so that you don’t must pinch every time.
• Noise cancellation in Google Meet — This function technically already exists on choose telephones and tablets, however now it is going to be out there on many extra. Primarily, this function filters out background noise whilst you discuss, making it good for people who conduct conferences at espresso retailers and airports.
• Freehand PDF annotation in Drive — This model new Android function lets you scribble notes on PDFs utilizing your finger or stylus proper throughout the Google Drive app. You may also spotlight textual content to ensure it stands out once you or a colleague reads it.
• New Emoji Kitchen combos — Combining two completely different Emoji is already potential within the Emoji Kitchen for Gboard, however now you can also make much more wild combos.

Google wasn’t express about when these new Android options will land, however they’re on the way in which.

• Quick Pair on Chromebooks — When you have a set of earbuds, you’ll quickly be capable to join them to your Chromebook with only one faucet. So as to add to this, if these earbuds are already related to your Android telephone, you gained’t even must set them up in any respect — they’ll routinely be out there in your Chromebook.
• Google Hold single word widget — Handle your notes and test off your to-do listing proper from your private home display screen with this new widget.
• Faucet-to-pay animations in Pockets — If you efficiently tap-to-pay together with your Android telephone utilizing Google Pockets, you’ll quickly see new animations confirming the transaction. Google is obscure on what to anticipate however confirmed it’ll contain animals.
• Google Hold problems on Put on OS — You’ll be capable to rapidly entry Hold notes and different options from the primary watch face in your Put on OS 3+ smartwatch.
• New sound and show modes for Put on OS — These new Put on OS 3+ options will enhance accessibility on watches. You’ll be capable to have mono audio rather than stereo and use coloration correction and grayscale show modes.