The Google Pixel Fold and the Pixel 7a may have garnered all the headlines earlier this year when they debuted at Google I/O, but it’s almost time now for Google to freshen things up again with their mainstream flagship smartphones. Google is widely expected to debut the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro some time in October, and ahead of its expected release an advert showing off a new AI-powered feature has appeared online. In a post on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, a video ad that featured the new ‘Audio Magic Eraser’ tool surfaced showing off the Pixel 8 Pro throughout ..read more

If you’re a football fan who follows either Arsenal or Liverpool, you now have a new reason to get yourself a Pixel smartphone. Google has announced that they’re now the official mobile phone partner of both Arsenal and Liverpool, signing a multi-year partnership deal with both clubs. According to Google, they will be working with the men’s and women’s senior teams of both clubs. In particular, they will leverage the Pixel’s leading AI-powered camera and its suite of features to create exclusive content for the clubs. This will include ‘deeper, tech-driven experiences’ with the Pixel to improv ..read more

Android vs iPhone has been one of the biggest debates among tech enthusiasts for the better part of the last two decades now. But what happens when the two phones stop being rivals and start being friends? You get #BestPhonesForever, a new miniseries of ads from Google that imagines the Pixel 7 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro as best friends. In just the first episode for instance, we see the Pixel 7 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro standing by what appears to be the Grand Canyon, taking in the view when suddenly, the iPhone felt the urge to tell Pixel some stuff. Lamenting its age, the iPhone remembers be ..read more

Alongside the Pixel Fold, Google has also announced the Pixel 7a, continuing its line of lower-end A-series devices. This latest model takes all the performance and smart features of the Pixel 7 and brings them to a more accessible price point. How accessible? Try USD 499 (around RM2,225), which is what the Pixel 7a is going for in the US, making it USD 100 (around RM446) cheaper than the Pixel 7. Closer to home, the device is priced at SGD 749 (around RM2,515), SGD 250 (around RM840) less than the Pixel 7. Despite this, the Pixel 7a actually comes with a higher-resolution 64MP main camera (w ..read more

We’ve known about the Google Pixel Fold for at least two years now, but today the cat is out of the bag. Google has finally launched its first foldable at Google I/O, bringing the fight directly to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold series. It’s even priced the same—like the current Z Fold 4, the Pixel Fold starts at a whopping USD 1,799 (around RM8,004). That’s with the same 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage; the 512GB storage model costs USD 1,919 (around RM8,539). As reference, the Z Fold 4 starts at RM6,799 in Malaysia, rising up to RM7,299 with 512GB of storage. The Pixel Fold may be priced like th ..read more

Welcome back to another episode of Ask Us Anything, where we gather your questions from the internet and answer them. In today’s episode, we find out how Google and Apple implement Crash Detection on their respective devices, and what you can and cannot do with Samsung Wallet in Malaysia. Crash Detection on iPhone vs on Pixel Google quietly introduced Crash Detection with the Pixel 4 as part of the Personal Safety app towards the end of 2019. Apple meanwhile introduced Crash Detection on the iPhone 14 series in September of 2022, almost 3 years later. The Crash Detection feature from App ..read more

After putting up a literal input/output puzzle that developers might enjoy playing with, Google has finally let the cat out of the bag: Google I/O is back for this year, and will be happening on 10 May 2023. You can already sign up for it on the Google I/O 2023 website, and by the time May rolls around you’ll be able to watch it live on the Google YouTube account. Excited that this year's #GoogleIO will be on May 10, live from Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View and online at https://t.co/sWxfPsVvJi pic.twitter.com/QtNXE6wjl5 — Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 7, 2023 As for what we ca ..read more

With just a day left to Apple’s Far Out event, Google has perhaps tried to steal the show a little bit by reminding everyone that they too have their own flagship smartphones coming up soon. They have just announced that they will be having a Made By Google event this 6 October at 10am ET (10pm Malaysian time), where we can expect to see the Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro. It's all coming together. Join us live for #MadeByGoogle on October 6th at 10am ET. Sign up for updates and add to your calendar: https://t.co/SAeNERjey0 pic.twitter.com/NaeUtChx7X — Made By Google (@madebygoogle) September ..read more

Back in February, Google revealed the first sneak peek at Android 13 when they announced the Android 13 developer preview. Now, it’s no longer just a developer preview, as Google has made it available as a public beta—but only for those with a compatible Google Pixel smartphone. We’ve covered what major changes Android 13 will bring in the original developer preview article, but the new public beta for Android 13 will come with its own set of changes and quality of life updates too. Officially called Android 13 Beta 1, the first new change comes in the form of a more transparent permission sys ..read more

Back in October, Google held its annual Android Dev Summit where it announced a new ‘special feature drop’ for Android called Android 12L. It’s essentially the same Android operating system you know and love, except this time with a bunch of new optimisations and features to make it easier to use and more polished on large screen devices like tablets and foldable smartphones. However, back then it was still only available in a developer preview, it has now gotten a full beta release. However, the Android 12L Beta is only available for the Google Pixel 3a and newer, with support for the Pixel 6 ..read more