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Just over a month after the first preview, Google this evening released the first Pixel 6 ad. With a “For All You Are’ tagline, this 30-second video provides our first real, non-rendered glimpse of the hardware. It starts by literally turning up the volume (using Android 12’s new slider UI), and asking “What if smartphones…

Breaking from the recent yearly release cadence, the next version of Android to release might be a mid-cycle bump — an “Android 12.1,” if you will — rather than Android 13. By all measures, Android 12 is a significant release for Google’s phones, among other things, revamping the design with “Material You,” which matches the…

With the launch of Wear OS 3 on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4, Google announced a wearable redesign of Pay as well as expanded international availability. Google Pay on Wear OS is now coming to 10 more countries. For the longest time, Google’s wearable payment system was only available in 11 countries. That limitation was particularly…

Today, in the midst of the latest Android 12 Beta release, Google dropped its first new image of the Pixel 6 since showing off the phone in August alongside a celebration of the Material You design that will make its proper debut on that phone. A post to Instagram on the official Made by Google…

The long road to a stable Android 12 release is punctuated by the preview phase and the very latest is Beta 5. An already stacked OS is getting yet more tweaks and refinements before it’s ready for the public, and so we’ve been delving into Android 12 Beta 5 to find all the new features…

Besides a slew of Material You additions and other enhancements, Android 12 Beta 5 today expands — as we’ve been expecting — Nearby Share with an “Everyone” device visibility option and redesigned QS pane. When you tap the Nearby Share tile in Quick Settings on Android 12 Beta 5, you now get a shorter panel…

Google recently added a new feature to Pixel smartphones that is designed to retain battery health by limiting charging in certain circumstances. Now, in Android 12, Google is expanding this limit so your Pixel will limit charging when the phone is overheating. As it stands today, Google Pixel phones will automatically stop charging and limit…

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The first thought around Google Assistant smart displays is usually Google’s Nest Hub lineup, but there are some third-party options, too. Lenovo has offered a handful of smart display options for the past couple of years, but recent updates have left many with some very frustrating software issues. A thread on Lenovo’s forums details an…