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Gemini’s Fancy New UI Starts Rolling Out to Wider Audience

Kellen January 10, 2025 5

Google's Gemini assistant on Android phones is getting a refreshed UI that appears to be rolling out to a bunch of people within the past 24 hours. The new UI simplifies the overall look, while bringing in a lot of the color scheme of Apple's new Siri...

Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2.1 Released for Pixel Phones!

Tim January 9, 2025 2

Google is shipping out Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2.1 to supported Pixel phones this afternoon. Inside, this appears to be a minor bug fixer update, so we've posted the changelog below. Various device freezes and crashes have been fixed, as well as an issue with...

Reminder: Your Pixel Watch Won’t Get an Update This Month, But Will in March

Kellen January 8, 2025 5

January's Pixel phone, foldable, and tablet update hit earlier in the week and you might be wondering when your Pixel Watch will see the same. Unfortunately, the Pixel Watch is not expected to see an update this month or next month. For those who missed the...

Pixel 4a Enters Battery Performance Program, Which Isn’t Ideal

Tim January 8, 2025 4

Google is adding the Pixel 4a to its exclusive Battery Performance Program, which is a super nice way of telling select Pixel owners that the company is about to decimate your phone's battery capacity and charging performance via a software update. This is...

Google Opens Public Developer Beta for Home APIs

Tim January 7, 2025 2

It was at 2024's Google I/O when Google announced the Home APIs, allowing developers increased access to create "innovative experiences for the home." This week during CES, the company announced that it has opened a public developer beta for the Android...

January 2025 Android Security Update Available for Google Pixel Devices

Kellen January 7, 2025 19

The first update for Google's line-up of Pixel devices has arrived for 2025, with builds for all still-supported Pixels from the Pixel 6 up through the newly launched Pixel 9 series. The update is expected to be mostly minor with bug fixes, as December was the...

Google’s January Pixel Update Looks Scheduled for Today With Several Fixes

Kellen January 7, 2025 1

We're into the first full week of January and that means we start wondering if Google will send out a Pixel update or not. Since they ditched their first-Monday schedule a couple of years ago, the timing of each month's Pixel update is sort of up in the air....

Wear OS Code Points to Inbound Gemini, Earthquake Alerts

Tim January 6, 2025 1

Separate teardowns are pointing to new features supposedly inbound for Wear OS users: Gemini as a replacement for Google Assistant and earthquake alerts. Courtesy of 9to5Google, Google is still preparing Gemini to replace Assistant on Wear OS, with code...