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Today we’ve got the Alphabet Founders’ letter penned by Sergey Brin himself, you can now leave reviews of Assistant actions, and Duo hints at tablet support (again!).
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This week, we talk about the brand new Gmail that’s rolling out to millions of people and how it’s both hugely new and very familiar, we explain what’s going on with Material Design and our thoughts on it, and dive into what might be happening with the Play brand and Play Music as Google pushes forward with its new YouTube Music service.
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Today we’ve got details on how Google might use AI to transcribe podcasts for search, Google app 8.1 with ‘At a glance’ for all Android phones, Fuchsia Friday, some great deals, and more.
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Today we’ve got the release of the Google I/O 2018 app, I explain the basics of Material Design 2, and our Kyle Bradshaw notes recently-added Fuchsia support for Android Runtime in AOSP.
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If you follow Google at all, you’ve probably heard this “Material Design 2” buzzword that’s been going around since February. At that point it was little more than just number, but as I mentioned, we had rudimentary evidence that there was really something to this. Long story short, we’d heard whispers as far back as early last year that Google was working on a spiritual successor to Material Design, but didn’t have any tangible evidence to back that up.
Now, there’s lots of evidence, enough so in fact that we can start to piece together exactly what it is Google’s doing here. Whatever you want to call it, Google’s reimagining its approach to design, so let’s tear this apart…
Today we’ve got a new Material Design refresh that we enabled in the Google Account settings in Play services, the death of Play Music (RIP), Google adopts a new water pistol for the gun emoji.
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Update: A source tells us that Google is currently planning to stick with the “YouTube Music” brand for the forthcoming music service. Remix, as has been previously reported, is only the internal codename.
A tipster told us recently that Google has lately been “preparing to shut down Google Play Music,” something that I hinted at early today in a tweet listing the service among a couple of other current Google products that I think are about to get cut. While we couldn’t corroborate the tip, it appears Droid-Life has — Play Music subscription streaming is likely shutting down soon.
Today we’ve got a refreshed Material Design look for Google Chrome is available in Canary, Assistant continuity of podcasts across devices, and Alphabet Q1 2018 earnings.
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This week, we talk about Google’s RCS rebrand “Chat” and what it means for messaging on Android and iOS, more chatter about the controversy around gesture-based navigation in Android, Google potentially acquiring Nokia Health, and much more.
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Today we’ve got Chat, which is Google’s new name for its RCS initiative, LG news — please stop referring to the LG G7 as LG G7 ThinQ, please and ThinQ — and Fuchsia Friday from our Kyle Bradshaw. We also have some great deals on Google stuff from 9to5Toys.
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Today we’ve got a slew of new phones added to the already cluttered lineup of Motorola phones, my thoughts on why this is sad, and Google making a cool change to Chrome OS.
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Motorola used to be great. And no, I’m not talking about the company’s Motorola RAZR heyday — I’m talking about a much more recent period of greatness. Earlier this decade, under the blessing and curse that was Google ownership, Motorola set out to redefine the Android phone. With its Moto E, Moto G, and Moto X, the company presented a clear vision for products that would meet customers’ needs and, better yet, brought thoughtful design decisions that captivated many, including me…
Today we’ve got Android P will remember volume levels for every individual Bluetooth device you use, Pixelbook might get a feature called “AltOS” that could let you run Windows, and Play Store 9.7 bring a nearly all-white UI.
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While the Pixelbook only runs Chrome OS, its hardware isn’t — technically speaking — entirely locked in to the lightweight laptop (and lately, tablet) OS from Google. In fact, according to some new commits discovered by a Redditor over at /r/ChromeOS, Google is working on an “AltOS” mode that might allow it a bit more flexibility, although for now things are still muddy at best…
Today we’ve got an opinion that outlines why an Android TV interface would be great if it merged with affordable Chromecast hardware, Pixelbook bugs fixed, and Safe Browsing coming to WebViews.
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Casio has long been on the Android Wear (and lately, Wear OS) train, and now the company is doubling down with the release of yet another Pro Trek smartwatch. This one, called the WSD-F20A (good luck remembering that name), brings the slew of unique Pro Trek features at a lower price point.
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Today we’ve got renders of the new navigation and Recents UI coming in a future version of Android P, Android Things OS is nearing public launch, and Google is interested in acquiring Withings (aka Nokia Health).
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We’ve been talking about Android P’s forthcoming navigation revamp here at 9to5Google for about a month, and just last week Google finally let the cat out of the bag itself in a leaked navigation bar in a screenshot on one of the company’s official blogs. Now, based on information from a source who has used the new UI, we have details on how it works and what it looks like.
This week, we talk all about what we’ve heard about forthcoming changes to navigation in Android P, a mystery Android TV dongle that passed through the FCC, and Google’s ongoing design changes that many refer to as “Material Design 2”.
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Today we’ve got Android Auto Wireless which is now live for Pixel and Nexus phones, Android P’s new navigation bar is confirmed in a new leaked screenshot, and Fuchsia Friday.
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Today we’ve got some Android OEMs that are reportedly lying about implementing security patches, AR Stickers 1.2 which brings a new live carousel preview, and the best Android phones you can for April.
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Today we’ve got news that Google is planning to roll out its long-awaited redesign for the web Gmail client, a leak of that design, Google I/O schedule updates, and Google app news — a new design in testing, and cat and dog breeds in Lens.
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Today we’ve got a suspicious Android TV dongle that looks too real to dismiss, Google Assistant works on Pixel C, and Material Design 2-inspired redesign of the Play Store app.
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Today we’ve got the very first detachable Chromebook, Google is testing a ‘more results’ button in mobile search instead of paginated results, and we have more notch chatter.
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