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The Google Store has kicked off its 2025 Black Friday deals, with these Pixel offers available until December 2-6.

Like most Google apps, Messages A/B tests many features. However, it takes the RCS/SMS client a rather long time to actually launch these capabilities in stable even after they are announced. From various reports, Google itself, and devices we’ve checked, this is the current state of Messages.

Welcome to episode 80 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Abner, Damien, and Will talk through all of the new changes in Android 16 QPR2 and beyond. After digging through everything Google’s been working on these past few months, their attention turns to the newly-confirmed Galaxy Z TriFold. Can they make sense of what’s bound to be yet another ultra-premium device from Samsung, or does this feel like an experiment without a clear path to success?

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Google today is celebrating the 15th birthday of Play Books. The service started as “Google eBooks” on December 6, 2010. 

Google is rolling out a number of updates to Chrome Autofill, including Google Wallet integration and a slightly better design on Android.

It’s not often you see major companies reverting unpopular changes to their apps, but that’s exactly what Google’s doing to its cropping tools within Photos’ built-in editor.

Just over a month after launching an early access program, Gemini for Google Home is coming to a new wave of users in the latest rollout.

With Wear OS 6, Google promised “more consistent always-on behavior” (AOD), and the Pixel Watch is starting to do this across three key experiences, including the Timer app.

Besides announcing Call Reason this week, Phone by Google is testing a shorter bottom bar to comply with Material 3 Expressive.

Chromebooks have been in a really weird place for the past few years, and its future is extremely uncertain. Front and center of it all is the current flagbearer for ChromeOS, the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14. After using it for the past couple of months, it’s a fine laptop, but one that sits in limbo.

Warner Bros. had put itself up for sale over the past few months, and this morning, we learned which company has earned the right to purchase the landmark studio: Netflix.

With some brands getting an early jump on next year’s flagship race, all eyes are on Samsung for the eventual launch of its Galaxy S26 series. Now, an early One UI 8.5 build is giving us more confirmation on the S26’s very predictable designs.

The Mobvoi TicWatch series has produced some memorable Wear OS smartwatches, both in terms of value and hardware advancements, but the company seems to have thrown in the towel altogether.

Google today officially detailed the new Fi Web Calls & Messages that started rolling out yesterday. The MVNO acknowledges that there are a “few changes to how things work under the hood.” 

Following the announcement at I/O 2025 in May, Google Wallet is letting users set up nearby pass notifications.

Google has rolled out a new camera to the NotebookLM app that lets you quickly upload images and use them as sources.

YouTube TV makes for a pretty solid cable replacement, but if you’ve switched to Google’s service from traditional TV offerings, you’ve probably noticed C-SPAN and its spin-off networks have been missing since launch. Starting today, that’s finally changing.

As of this coming Friday, Google will have opened four retail locations in 2025. Google Store Georgetown is coming tomorrow to serve the Washington, DC area. 

After testing earlier this year, Google Messages is now rolling out a big redesign and modernization of its photo viewer.

After previewing last month with the launch of Gemini 3 Pro, the new Deep Think mode is now available for Google AI Ultra subscribers.