Google Assistant to become multilingual and support more than 30 languages.

Unlike some other company on the upper-west coast of the United States, Google is gearing up for Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona with some exciting stuff. Yesterday, the company announced that Android Go devices will be unveiled during the world's largest mobile trade show. And they have more up their sleeves.

Remember how Google Assistant was all over the floor during CES in Las Vegas earlier this year? Well, Google has more in store for the world as it goes global with Google Assistant. The latter is indeed diversifying its language portfolio with the addition of 30 more languages throughout the year and Google says this move will make the Assistant reach "95 percent of all eligible Android phone worldwide." In the next few months, Google Assistant will be available in Danish, Dutch, Hindi, Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish and Thai, with more to come throughout the year. 

Additionally, Google is making the Assistant multilingual. A feature that will come handy to those individuals or families that speak more than one language. Google says, "with this new feature, the Assistant will be able to understand you in multiple languages fluently. If you prefer to speak German at work, but French at home, your Assistant is right there with you." A very cool feature indeed which will first be available in English, French, and German. Of course, more languages will be added later. As a bilingual myself, I can't wait to try this feature out.

No doubt, MWC promises to be exciting and the Samsung S9 won't be the king of the show.

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Files Go now supports backup to Google Drive.

In November last year, Google released Files Go beta, a simple file manager app for Android and Android Go. Quickly after, Files Go exited beta in December and was made available for all to download. Today, Google has updated the app with Google Drive integration for backup. When selecting one or multiple files, File Go will now display a new shortcut to backup the file to Google Drive, similar to sharing the file to Google Drive app.

This update coincides with the debut of Mobile World Congress next Monday in Barcelona where Google, or at least its partners, will unveil new Android devices running Android Go, the latest iteration of Android designed primarily for low specs devices. Android Go will feature on devices running on 1GB of memory or less, as well as small amount of storage and processing power. These smartphones are expected to be affordable and, "in some cases less than $50."

Android Go phones will come with a set of optimized apps and they include Gmail Go, Google Assistant, Google Go, Chrome, YouTube Go, Maps Go, and Play Store. "Starting next week, you'll see the first set of Android Oreo (Go edition) phones, and soon after they'll be available for you to purchase.", google said.

Until next week, download Files Go in Google Play Store.