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You can play Flappy Bird and speedrun wearing out your foldable phone’s hinge at the same time.

With the launch of Gemini 3 Flash, the Gemini app’s model switcher expanded, and there’s now a faster way to make a selection.

Waymo autonomous vehicles date back to Google’s self-driving car project that started in 2009. As of today, you can get a ride in five cities across the US.

Remember Google Clips? The not-quite-a-GoPro that used AI to automatically capture key moments was released at the second Made by Google event, and felt like the company’s penchant for experimental software was going to extend into hardware. 

2026 could be a blockbuster year for Google after some serious success across almost all areas in 2025. What should and could we expect? Here are a few early-year thoughts and expectations.

Motorola doesn’t appear to be on track to release any new flagship foldable phones just yet, which makes the most recent World Cup-themed Razr teaser all the more cryptic.

After a somewhat underwhelming release last year, privacy-focused brand Punkt is back with the new MC03 smartphone, which is based on Android and ships with “AphyOS,” and coming to the US this year.

The Pebble smartwatch is back, and now that includes the thin and stylish Pebble Round 2.

Coming from the same company that revived a physical keyboard for your smartphone, the “Clicks Communicator” is a dedicated piece of hardware that acts as a phone for your phone and is all about managing your messages.

Asus has seemingly confirmed that it is mostly done with Android phones, with no plans to release new devices in the Zenfone or ROG lineups in 2026.

The Clicks Keyboard case that revived the experience of using a physical keyboard for modern smartphones is now coming to, well, everything, with the new magnetic “Click Power” launching in 2026 with support for any device you want to use it with.

During my hands-on with Android XR glasses last month, I kept returning to the digital clock that was displayed over the real world. Professionally, I have been waiting over a decade for Google to re-enter the smart glasses space, and everything is lining up for this to happen in 2026.

Google quietly revealed last week that it is adding an option for users to change their Gmail address and it seems a lot of people are excited, but will you change yours?

A decade or so ago, I thought Google needed a newer mission than “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Having never lived without the Search engine, I frankly thought the mission was solved and that Google needed a new aspirational aim. 

The Nothing Phone series has delivered some of my favorite phones of the past few years, with a refreshing but familiar take on Android and smartphone hardware in general, and it’s all culminated in the Nothing Phone (3). I think it’s safe to say this was one of the most polarizing phones of 2025, and it’s also one that I think will serve as a bit of a make-or-break moment for Nothing.

Over the holidays, dbrand has introduced a neat new skin design called “Sketch 2D” that turns your Pixel 10 – and a bunch of other devices – into a real-life cartoon.

Chrome on Android has offered a Reading mode for several years now, and Google is now significantly redesigning it.

The Galaxy Tab A11+ just went official and it actually seems like a pretty decent Android tablet for its $250 price tag.

Oppo appears to be building out another new foldable for 2026, with the Find N6 set to deliver a camera upgrade while also addressing some other key specs.