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Compared to past years, Google is hosting its annual hardware event around two months early. At Made by Google 2024, we’ll see the Pixel 9 series, Pixel Watch 3, and Pixel Buds Pro 2.
How to watch Made by Google 2024
The keynote takes place at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. GMT. Made by Google 2024 is a live event taking place in Mountain View, California.
You can stream the event live on YouTube. We’ve got the full details on how to watch right here.
Live Blog (Reload & scroll down for continuous updates…)
- New Google Store in Chicago and Santa Monica in coming months
- “Research with Gemini” to create research reports tailored to your exact questions
- Gemini becoming more “agentive“
- Project Astra: Coming first to Gemini Live. Share your camera during a conversation.
- Gemini Live getting Extensions
- Rick Osterloh to close things out
- “Years of foundational work are coming together”
- Teases next few months
- Google didn’t adopt Qi2 in the Pixel 9 series
- Pixel Buds Pro 2 at $229
- Powered by Tensor A1
- First earbuds with Gemini
- Pixel Watch 3 41 mm: $349 | 45 mm: $399
- Loss of Pulse Detection joining Car Crash and Fall Detection
- Starting in EU + UK, with more regions to come
- Understands that you’re looking for in-depth research
- “continuous research loop”
- Save to Google Docs
- Coming to Gemini Advanced in the coming months
- The Pixel 9 series is available to buy in these 32 countries
- Pixel Watch 3
- Actual Display: Up to 2,000 nits
- Big focus on offering a running assistant, with workout builder and real-time feedback
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- Pixel Watch worn by “millions of people”
- When the Pixel 9, Pixel Watch 3, and Pixel Buds Pro 2 will ship
- Pixel 9 Pro Fold: $1,799
- Pixel 9 Pro XL: $1,099
- Pixel 9 Pro: $999
- Pixel 9: $799
- “Best smartphone for photography” and “Highest quality video on smartphone” rating from third-party
- Google touts smartphone video and computational videography
- Improvements to Video Boost with Night Sight: Brighter, more detailed. 2x faster rendering by using Tensor chips in the cloud
- HDR+ across the zoom range
- Magic Editor adding generative AI. Edit by describing what you want
- Reframe subjects
- Reimagine with: Lets you enter a prompt to change background, other elements for a photo
- Hands-on: How the Pixel Screenshots app works [Gallery]
- Here’s the Pixel 9 Pro Fold compared to Galaxy Z Fold 6 and OnePlus Open [Gallery]
- Made You Look on the Pixel 9 Pro Fold to show an animated character on the cover screen
- Here’s the Pixel 9 Pro Fold compared to Galaxy Z Fold 6 and OnePlus Open [Gallery]
- Jimmy Butler on stage to demo Add Me
- AR guidance
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- Pixel Camera
- HDR+ pipeline rebuilt: To better reflect the world as you see it. More accurate skin tones, textures
- Panorama redesign, with rebuilt UI inspired by Photo Spheres. Night Sight Panoramas now possible
- Compared to iPhone 15 Pro Max
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- RCS on the iPhone mention
- Pixel Studio: On-device Imagen 3
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- Pixel 9 adds Call Notes recording & transcription, free Satellite SOS for two years
- Keke Palmer on the stage, teases the After Party
- Pixel Screenshots
- Fast search, Tensor G4 + Gemini Nano credited
- Screenshots in Chrome remember the website
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- Google seems to have fixed its official Pixel 9 and Fold cases [Gallery]
- Pixel Call Assist
- Call Notes: Full transcripts
- The Pixel Watch 3 is using its battery for more features, like Loss of Pulse Detection
- Pixel Weather
- Gemini Nano used for custom weather report
- For Pixel 9 phones
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- Pixel 9 Pro Fold: “The best of both worlds.” 8-inch tablet + phone
- Satellite SOS
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- The Pixel Watch 3 is using its battery for more features, like Loss of Pulse Detection
- Improving thermals: Vapor chamber for peak performance
- Tensor G4: Worked with Google DeepMind team
- Features Gemini Nano with Multimodality
- 3x more capable than first version of Gemini Nano (with Pixel 8 Pro)
- Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor: 50% faster
- Pixel 9 Pro & Pro XL: Google says customers have wanted a small Pixel Pro phone
- “Biggest Pixel design progression in years”
- “Sculpted design”
- 2x durable compared to Pixel 8 series
- Google’s new Pixel Weather app has a precipitation map, ‘AI Weather Report’
- Pixel 9 series: “First phone designed for the Gemini era”
- Biggest update to Pixel family
- Pixel section starting at 25 minutes in
- Gemini Live demo of coming up with event ideas was solid
- Starts rolling out today to Pixel, Samsung, and other Android phones
- Pixel 9 series launches with Android 14
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- Gemini Live: “conversation is the best way to work through something complex”
- “The most natural way to interact with Gemini”
- 10 different voices to choose from, named after constellations
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- Seeing Samsung and Motorola devices at the “Pixel” event is quite strange
- Gemini is the default Pixel 9 assistant as Gemini Live starts rolling out on Android
- Demo fail for Gemini Extensions (Calendar, Tasks, Keep)
- Hands-on: Google’s Pixel 9 series is mature in all the right ways
- Hands-on: The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is a masterclass in learning from your mistakes
- Emphasizing how Google can offer an end-to-end AI experience with no third-parties involved
- Pixel Watch 3 hands-on: Go big for the best Wear OS
- Sameer Samat takes the stage to talk Android: “rebuilding Android with AI at the core.”
- Emphasizes bringing Gemini app to all devices, including lower-powered ones, in a dunk at the iPhone
- “new Gemini assistant”… biggest leap forward since Google Assistant
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- Recaps last week’s Google Home announcements
- “Integrated AI strategy”
- Google launches AI-loaded Pixel 9 at $799
- Teases live demos
- Rick: “What can AI do for me?”
- Bringing cutting edge AI to mobile, with all of Android benefiting
- Rick Osterloh takes the stage
- Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold launches in September with major hardware upgrades for $1,799
- Pixel Buds Pro 2 feature Gemini Live, Tensor A1 chip, and 2x ANC for $229
- Google announces Pixel Watch 3 in 41 and 45 mm
- Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL launch with Satellite SOS, Android 14, $999 starting price
- The Pixel Watch 2 is now $100 off, while the original wearable is no longer sold.
- The original Pixel Fold is “No longer available” on the Google Store.
- We’re live from Mountain View! As Ben pointed out, the screen on the stage looks like a Pixel Tablet on the Charging Speaker Dock.
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