Google officially says you can get 24 hours of battery life from the Pixel Watch’s 294 mAh battery and now provides an official breakdown of how it got to that number.
At launch, Google’s fine print just said that the “maximum battery life is approximate and is based on testing using pre-production hardware and software.”
Charging times are approximate. Use of certain features will…
Next year’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are rumored to feature a number of different camera updates, due in part to Apple’s apparent goal of further differentiating these models from the non-Pro models. A new report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today, however…
Apple this week launched the first betas of its next round of software updates, including iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and macOS Ventura 13.1. A new report from g today indicates that Apple is currently targeting a release date to the public sometime in mid-December for these…
Arm reportedly changing licensing model to prohibit custom GPUs and TPUs, could impact Google Tensor
October 30, 2022
Arm and Qualcomm are currently involved in a dispute over the latter’s acquisition of a chip company called Nuvia and subsequent work on new desktop (and server) chips. This lawsuit has revealed that Arm is apparently changing its licensing terms and business model so that what makes the Pixel’s Google Tensor chip unique and Samsung’s work on AMD GPUs might not be possible going…
Google prototyped iris scanning during the Pixel 2 era
October 30, 2022
Like any other hardware maker, Google goes through a lot of ideas before the final product, and one such exploration involved putting an iris scanner on the Pixel 2.
Shared on Twitter yesterday by Internal Archive, we see a prototype Pixel 2 as evidenced by various…
9to5Rewards: iPhone 14 Giveaway + Abode HomeKit Bundle
October 30, 2022
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Over the years, Google has crafted some fun and spooky games for Halloween, and this year they’ve expanded The Great Ghoul Duel with hats, new maps, and so much more.
While some may be partial to Magic Cat Academy, the single-player Halloween Google Doodle game series about drawing shapes to defeat ghosts, a little healthy competition keeps things exciting. Back in 2018, Google launched The…
It’s been almost a decade since Pebble closed its doors, but support for the brand’s smartwatches has lived on. This week, Google itself has somewhat revived the official Pebble smartwatch app to bring support for the Pixel 7 series by adding 64-bit support to the…
The third-party Pixel Watch band market is still sparse, making any new band bound to get some attention. Now, it looks like Ringke has a leather band to offer for the Pixel Watch, coming in at just a few dollars under Google’s official options.
For the Pixel Watch…
New Google Phone, Messages, and Contacts app icons roll out [U]
October 29, 2022
In addition to introducing a handful of Messages features, Google is rolling out new icons for the SMS/RCS app, as well as Phone and Contacts.
Update 10/28: Just a week after the icons were announced, Phone by Google has been updated with the new logo. The Phone icon is now flatter than before, while the Themed version is quite simple. Version 92.0.484272277 rolled out to the beta channel this…
