Kyle Bradshaw joined 9to5Google in 2018 with a special interest in Google’s Fuchsia OS, rooted in his experience of being the first to offer a visual preview of the revolutionary design of the in-development operating system. Since then, his attention has broadened to include the secrets hidden within other areas of Google’s public codebases.
By reading the public Fuchsia code, Kyle was able to prove the existence of the Nest Mini and the Nest Hub Max months ahead of their respective announcements. With evidence from Chromium, he reported on Google’s since-canceled efforts to create an offshoot of Android designed for “touchless” feature phones.
In 2018, Kyle reported on three distinct Made by Google Chromebooks in development, the Pixel Slate, the Pixelbook Go — a full year before its release — and “Meowth,” the original version of the Pixel Slate that was canceled due to Intel’s delays that year. For ChromeOS itself, Kyle was the first to demonstrate the upcoming light theme redesign in action.
Looking at the early evidence of the Pixel 5’s specs, Kyle accurately predicted in February 2020 that the Pixel 5 might not be a traditional “flagship” phone. In 2021, he reported that Google’s next headset would be the “Pixel Buds A.”
Kyle was the first to report that the Pixel 6 would mark the debut of Google’s in-house processors, later revealed to be the Tensor chips.
Kyle contributes to the APK Insight column at 9to5Google, discovering the hidden changes in Google’s apps. These efforts have revealed hotly anticipated features, details about upcoming devices, and unexpected connections between companies.
He can be reached for tips or just friendly chat by Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky, or email. If you’re looking for his other works or side projects, head over to Kyle’s personal portfolio.
If you find yourself in or around Chicago this weekend, you might want to take a detour over to the Wonderful Weekends Festival being hosted by Google from September 27th through the 29th.
From time to time, Google places a small promotional message on their homepage, and these promos are often also shown on Chrome’s New Tab Page. Google has created a way for you to dismiss promos from the Google Chrome New Tab Page.
Today is the annual Firebase Summit where developers gather to learn more about the latest advancements to Google’s app development suite, and the biggest announcement of the event is Firebase Extensions, which allow you to quickly and easily add new capabilities to your app.
The leak cycle for the Google Pixel 4 has been running non-stop for the past few months, and while we’ve meticulously cataloged every Pixel 4 leak so far, it’s sometimes easier to think about what we don’t know yet. So here are the main lingering questions we have about the Google Pixel 4 ahead of its launch.
The Made by Google 2019 event is less than a month away, and yet it feels like we already know everything there is to know about the Pixel 4. That being the case, there’s no better time to take stock of what we know about the Google Pixelbook Go, being developed under the codename “Atlas.”
Google’s Pixelbook is arguably the best Chromebook ever made, and also one of the best laptops in general, too. Now, it’s looking like Google has a new laptop, the Pixelbook Go, in the works for later this year. Based on what we know so far, will the newer Pixelbook Go be worth the upgrade over Google’s original offering? Let’s weigh things out.
Today’s Google homepage doodle offers a friendly, leafy reminder that today is the first day of the fall season, for the northern half of the world.
In this week’s top stories: we reveal the names Google has chosen for the Pixel 4’s colors including “Oh So Orange,” Apple catches up to the Pixel 3’s camera prowess with the iPhone 11 Pro, the story of the first failed attempt at a Pixel Watch is told, and more.
For the past few months, we’ve been following the progress of OnePlus’s version of Android 10. As of today, OxygenOS version 10.0, complete with Android 10, is beginning to roll out to OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro devices.
Google’s tastiest looking Doodle in recent memory is celebrating the beginning of Oktoberfest by making sure everyone knows just how good pretzels are.
Twitter tests a new way to keep conversations healthy in the U.S. Meanwhile in gaming news, Minecraft picks up a Character Creation tool, and the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra is reportedly coming to Android.
Last week, we saw that Google was seemingly scrapping their work on Chrome for Android-based feature phones. As this was the only publicly visible work, we believe Google may have scrapped Android feature phones altogether. Now we have an in-depth look at what could have been, as a leaked video of an Android-based feature phone made by Nokia has surfaced. Our in-depth analysis has revealed new apps and interesting details about the project.
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While the Samsung Galaxy Fold is not the first foldable phone on the market, it’s without a doubt the biggest, and it will be the device that sets the example for other companies. Unfortunately, a newly released care guide shows that the Samsung Galaxy Fold is an example of a fragile, impractical device that you may need to adjust your life around.
Since they’ve gotten back into the business of making Android phones, Nokia has been accepted as creating some of the best (if not the best) affordable Android devices on the market. Now their latest addition, the Nokia 7.2, is going on sale at the end of this month.
Last month, our APK Insight team uncovered that Files by Google would soon be picking up the ability to use Chromecast to display your files on a television. As of this week’s beta update, Files by Google is rolling out Chromecast support for some people.
Google released Android 10 on its Pixel devices earlier this month, but it will be some time before many other OEMs catch up, because they each want to bring their own look and feel to Android. LG, one of the many phone makers working on an update, has had multiple Android 10 screenshots leak out, showing their progress.
Landing between last week’s iPhone 11 event and next month’s Made by Google hardware event, Huawei is launching a variety of products including the thoroughly leaked Mate 30 Pro at a hardware event this Thursday. Ahead of that event, full details and images have leaked about almost every device Huawei intends to unveil.
In July, a device hit the FCC that had all the markings of a Made by Google Chromebook, but we couldn’t be 100% sure. This morning, that same device has appeared a second time in FCC listings, all but confirming that it is a laptop-style “Pixelbook 2.”
Just yesterday, the journalistic world was informed of the Made by Google event coming on October 15. Today, Google is letting the rest of the world know by launching new advertisements in Times Square that feature our first official look at the orange/coral Pixel 4.
For years now, Google has offered mobile developers access to handy APIs that many different kinds of games would need as part of Play Games Services. Two of these Play Games APIs, real-time and turn-based multiplayer services, will be shutting down in March.
All attention for the past few weeks has been on the Google Pixel 4, but we believe that there are more Made by Google devices to be debuted at next month’s event. One candidate, the Google Pixelbook 2, has reappeared once more in new images, giving us yet another look at its 4K display and bezels.
Today would have been the 94th birthday of B.B. King, aka The King of Blues, and Google is honoring his memory with a homepage doodle video visually telling the story of his life.
As we’ve seen in recent Pixel 4 leaks, Google has a number of design changes in mind in the near future for the Google Assistant on Pixel phones. For those of us who won’t be getting the “next-generation” Assistant right away, Google is also testing out a new UI for its proactive suggestions on Android.
In this week’s top stories: Gmail and the Google Assistant get a dark mode, we discuss how easily Apple could kill Wear OS, the Pixel 4 gets leaked beyond our expectations, and more.