You Can Finally Pre-Order a Googlebook, Starting at $899
A laptop announced in May with no price, no ship date, and no way to actually buy one is easy to forget by September. Googlebook…
Acer’s Googlebook 14 Gave Its Lid a Job, Most Laptops Never Bothered
Laptop lids have carried the same boring formula for decades: a brand logo centered dead center and nothing else worth noticing. The Acer Googlebook 14…
Google’s Pixel 12 Could Get Cheaper as Production Leaves China for India and Vietnam
A phone’s country of assembly used to be a footnote on the back of the box. It now shapes the spec sheet, the retail price,…
Pixel Watch 5 arrives with incremental upgrades and Gemini Intelligence, but are you willing to pay more?
It’s that time of the year for Google to introduce its line-up of smartphones, smartwatches, and everything else that is destined for greatness. Samsung showed…
The Pixel 11’s Coolest New Feature Is Actually 10 Years Old
The Pixel 11 lineup arrived this week with a genuinely great redesign. The camera bar is 40 percent thinner, the glass runs edge to edge,…
Google’s Pixel Tag is making the same ‘boring’ design mistake that Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi made
The Pixel Tag comes in exactly one color, a grey green called Fog, wrapped around stainless steel with a G logo stamped right on the…
Google Built a Translation Device That Doesn’t Need Google’s Own Cloud
Real-time translation has quietly become one of the most useful things AI can do, and most of the solutions doing it well are deeply dependent…
Samsung and Google Are Trying Smart Glasses Again, at the Worst Possible Time
“Glasshole” entered Urban Dictionary as word of the day in March 2013, which tells you roughly how long it took society to make up its…
Google Pixel 11 Amazon Leak: $899-$1899 Price Range, New Colors, and a Surprise ‘Pixel Tag’ Tracker
At this point, a Google hardware leak ahead of launch feels almost ceremonial. Long before the keynote lights come up, the phones usually arrive in…
This Pixel 11 Pro Concept Makes the Camera Bump Its Best Feature
The back of a smartphone has historically been the least interesting real estate on the device. A logo, some camera lenses, and a flat slab…
Google, Amazon, and Sonos All Redesigned Their Smart Speakers, Except Apple
Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon’s devices division burned through over $25 billion, with Alexa and Echo hardware at the center of almost every bad quarter….
After 6 Years, Google Finally Remembered To Launch A New Smart Speaker, This Time with Gemini Built-in
The Nest Audio came out in September 2020. If you bought one that fall, you were probably still navigating pandemic grocery runs and wondering when…