Android is no longer an operating system, according to Google. It's an "intelligence system." And you only need to look at the handful of newly announced Android 17 features -- most of them tied to Gemini -- to see why. Google is making Android 17 do more of the work for you -- a direction the company has been steadily moving toward. Instead of manually handling every task yourself, many of them will increasingly be managed by Gemini-powered agents. From smarter tools for planning parties to a speech-to-text feature that could outperform anything we've seen on other phones, Google may be right in calling 2026 one of the "biggest years for Android" -- a claim the company made while announcing The Android Show: I/O Edition. Of course, Google has made similar promises about new Android releases before, back when Android updates were still mostly just about the operating system itself.…