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Why I fell in love with my assistant!  You heard it right! Who wouldn't love an always available, prompt, intelligent, punctual and well organised assistant by your side unconditionally? Well, this Android assistant is just one of a kind, perfect for the job atleast for me! Known as Google Assistant, is one of the so called "digital assistant" available for mobile devices in this case for Google's Android Phones. I was skeptical and reluctant to use it at the begining as I always felt these features are more of a gimmick than the useful thing for general public. But this time I was wrong. It is in fact a very intuitive, context based and as and when required information being pushed by the assistant as opposed to "pull" architecture which was tried on google now and other earlier iterations of assistants. It really makes most of my work and personal data management on the tip of my fingers... ooops!! ...I meant to say ...on tip of my tongue really 😀
Have an Android Phone with Marshmallow (Android Version 6) or above and want to setup Googles Assistant? Follow the below steps… Make sure your device is running Android 6.0 or higher. You must set the Language on your device to English US if you require other language then this method won’t work Now go back Settings -> Google -> click the three-dot menu on top right – > Help & feedback – > Click on the three-dot menu -> View in Google Play Store. Google play store will launch with Google Play services page. Scroll down to the bottom to find an option to join the Beta Programme by clicking “I am in”. Now go to the Google App in the Play Store and do the same as above to sign up for beta program. You must wait for about an hour before you are enrolled to google beta program, you don’t have to do anything just wait. Keep checking play store for updates, and you should see an update pushed for Google App, till then just wait. Once updated now clear the data fo