If you like the idea of Google Assistant but didn't like the fact that it was tied to the Pixel range , there's some good news. Google has announced that the handy helper is making its way to all Android 6.0 Marshmallow and Android 7.0 Nougat smartphones. The roll out starts this week , and brings Siri and Cortana like voice control to millions of Android users . Earlier today at MWC 2017 in Barcelona , the newly-announced LG G6 became the first non-Pixel device to offer Google Assistant. Google now says that the feature is coming to "eligible Android phones running Nougat and Marshmallow with Google Play Services" . Google is finally lifting the arbitrary limits on the Google Assistant and bringing it to all Android phones running version 6.0 and up—about 30 percent of active devices. Soon, an update to the Go ogle Search app- which the Assistant is a part of-should arrive and enable the new voice interface on all devices that can handle it. ...