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Android 17 Continue On vs Apple Handoff: what each actually does and where the gap still is

Android
by Kushal Azza
May 22, 2026May 22, 2026

Apple has had Handoff since 2014. That is twelve years of a feature that lets you start a task on your iPhone and pick it…

Google Pixel 9 phone and Pixel Tablet side by side on a light grey concrete desk, both screens on showing the same Google Docs document mid-edit, the tablet dock showing a handoff suggestion indicator, shot at 45-degree angle, 50mm lens, soft window light from left, realistic screen glow, no hands, no people, no text overlay, photorealistic, 16:9

Android 17 Continue On is Google’s answer to Apple Handoff and it is actually close

Android
by Kushal Azza
May 21, 2026

Apple has had Handoff since 2014. If you started a document on your iPhone, your Mac had a small icon in the dock letting you…

Samsung Galaxy S26 resting on a light oak desk

Gemini Intelligence is Google’s biggest Android bet since the Assistant, and it has the same problem

Android
by Kushal Azza
May 20, 2026May 19, 2026

Google announced Gemini Intelligence on May 12, 2026, at The Android Show: I/O Edition, and described it as the moment Android stops being an operating…

Google Pixel 10 Pro standing upright on a clean light concrete surface, screen facing forward displaying a minimal Android home screen, soft ambient glow from a window behind the device, 45-degree side angle, 50mm lens, shallow depth of field, no text overlay, no hands, no watermark, photorealistic, 16:9

Google just told Android what it is supposed to be next. The answer is more Gemini, less you.

AI
by Nikhil Azza
May 19, 2026May 19, 2026

Sameer Samat, the executive who oversees Google’s Android ecosystem, said something unusually direct in an interview with CNBC last week. “We’re transitioning from an operating…

Google Pixel 10 in a hand against a soft warm beige fabric background, screen showing a clean minimal Pause Point waiting screen with a faint timer ring visible, shot at 30-degree angle using a 50mm lens, soft overhead window light, sharp focus on the screen with shallow background blur, no faces visible, no text overlay or watermark, photorealistic, 16:9

Pause Point in Android 17 needs a full phone restart to switch off

Android
by Kushal Azza
May 14, 2026

When I first heard about Android 17’s “Pause Point,” I assumed it was another toothless Digital Wellbeing update destined for the ‘Off’ toggle. I was…