One of the most important changes in Samsung’s new phones is a simple one: when you long-press the side button on your phone, instead of activating Samsung’s own Bixby assistant by default, you’ll get Google Gemini .

Android features unveiled at Samsung's Unpacked event narrow some of the gap between Samsung’s flavor of Android and Google’s.

Google’s Gemini will be the default assistant on Samsung’s newest line of smartphones, giving a boost to the search giant’s efforts to get the chatbot in the hands of more people. The companies announ