When you press the AI button on the LG G7, it launches Google Assistant just as if you long-pressed on the Home button. But going forward, the physical Assistant button will have some new ...

Aside from the LG G7 ThinQ, more phones will now have a physical Assistant button. Google expects over '100 million devices to launch with a dedicated Google Assistant button.' ...

Traditionally, the Google Assistant always lived under the home button on Android phones, but as the company announced at MWC today, LG, Nokia, Xiaomi, TCL and Vivo are about to launch phones with ...

The physical home button is a smartphone facet that’s slowly becoming extinct. In 2016, the flagship devices from Google, Sony, LG, and HUAWEI all lacked such a button on their hardware.

The physical home button is one of those hardware features that used to be present on nearly every PDA and smartphone back in the day. As we look at the top smartphones today we only see a ...

If you’re the kind of tech enthusiast who needs direct, unadulterated access to whatever you are working with, check out this account of how a smart home was created via Home Assistant, the home ...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is a smart home reporter who’s been testing connected gadgets since 2013. Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. Home Assistant, the powerful ...