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First of the Google Assistant-Powered Smart Displays Arrives This Week From Lenovo

Kellen July 26, 2018

Back at CES, Google and its partners introduced a new kind of home assistant speaker called smart display. As the name suggests, this was a device that featured the smarts of a Google Home, but was upgraded with a display to hopefully provide you with a more...

What’s New in Android P Developer Preview 5 (Beta 4)?

Kellen July 25, 2018

The final Android P Developer Preview 5 is available and we've already got it up and running on a Pixel 2 XL. Since we are all curious what might be new from one preview to the next, we'll do our best to capture the changes in this post. Before we dive in too...

Verizon Wants YouTube TV or Apple TV as 5G TV Partner

Kellen July 24, 2018

Verizon's home 5G service is scheduled to launch in four cities this year, three of which we already know. When they do go live, they'd like to have some sort of TV package to go with the internet service. According to Bloomberg, that could be Google's YouTube...

Pixelbook 2 Said to Release Before Year’s End

Tim July 23, 2018

According to @evleaks, Google has a 2nd-generation Pixelbook coming, said to be released by the end of this year. The original Pixelbook launched only last year in early October. The new one, described in Evan's tweet, will feature smaller bezels, but that is...

Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL Just Keep Showing Up in AOSP

Kellen July 19, 2018

Back in October of last year, we revealed what we believed to be three possible codenames for Google's 2018 line of Pixel phones. A trusted source of ours said that "crosshatch," "blueline," and "albacore" were all devices in testing at that time. We initially...

DEAL: Best Buy Drops $300 Off Pixel 2 XL, $150 Off Pixel 2

Kellen July 19, 2018

Verizon is still running a BOGO deal on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, but if you only need a single phone, Best Buy has the current best deal. The Verizon Pixel 2 at Best Buy is $150 off and the Pixel 2 XL is $300 off. Of course, this "deal" arrives in the form...

Google’s Fuchsia OS Could be on Smart Devices in 3 Years or Nothing at All

Kellen July 19, 2018

Google's Fuchsia OS is an odd creature. We've seen it evolve publicly for the past couple of years into a Google-built preview-able operating system that could replace Android some day. Or maybe it won't. It could also become an OS for smart devices, like...

Google Now is Back! Well, Sort of in Google Assistant’s New Visual Snapshot

Kellen July 17, 2018 30

Google Now was easily one of the best features I think that Google has ever released on Android. Its awareness of your day made commutes, flight status checks, and sports score updates more convenient. Of course, it has long-been killed (or buried away) in...