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Welcome to Pixelated episode 122. This week, Abner, Damien, and Will discuss the first slate of iPhone Duo reviews, as Apple dives headfirst into a crowded foldable field for thee very first time. What should Android OEMs learn from the iPhone Duo, and what did Apple fail to catch up to the competition on? As always, there’s plenty to discuss.

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Gemini Notebooks are already available in the Gemini app side panel, but Google is now adding deeper Connected App integration.

If you’re an Android user, you’ve probably trusted Google with mountains of your own personal data over the last couple of decades. Now, a new privacy policy update suggests that the company is finally dipping into that data to target personalized ads, and you can’t opt out with disabling Personal Intelligence.

With the Fitbit Edge announcement, Google Health previewed improved automatic activity tracking, and it’s now beginning to roll out with version 5.11 of the app.

After the stacked card list redesign, Google Wallet for Android is gaining a notifications feed and support for more passports.

I already love to use all of Meta’s AI glasses when I leave the house, and now I’ve got a new reason to love the camera that comes on (almost) every pair.

Apple’s take on a wide foldable isn’t being received without some criticism as it makes its way into the hands of users. The biggest limitation might not even be the hardware.

OnePlus is now rolling out stable Android 17 updates to OnePlus 15 and OnePlus Pad 4, marking the end of OxygenOS as these devices are just the first to transition to ColorOS.

Samsung has a bunch of new foldables in store for next year, but also one more coming out this year, and it’s coming out in just a few days according to a new leak.

Samsung has confirmed a list of Galaxy devices that are set to get its Android 17-based One UI 9 update in at least one region, which tells us what to expect globally in the coming months.

RAMageddon sucks folks. Over the past few weeks I’ve been using the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max, a phone I’ve been pretty enthralled by, but its price tag really killed the hype on this one.

YouTube is making a number of changes to its Android and iOS apps with the launch of custom feeds, including moving Subscriptions out of the bottom bar.

As Canada makes changes around Daylight Savings, Google is explaining how to deal wiith the time zone change on your Android phone.

Besides coming to Android Auto this week, Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app is also expanding its Google Maps integration.

Well, that didn’t take long. As Apple’s iPhone Duo starts to land in the hands of early customers, copycat apps for the Duo’s most well-known features and apps are already landing on Android foldables – not that that’s a bad thing.

Times have changed. Prices have changed. Your phone hasn’t changed, but the value of LineageOS 24 certainly has.

Earlier this week a new method of Spotify Family plan verification came to light and, in its latest earnings call, Spotify says that it’s not a “crackdown,” but also something that doesn’t have an “end date.”