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Last month, AI Mode gained Google Lens integration (as depicted above) to power multimodal search. Google is now working on “Live for AI Mode.” 

YouTube Premium has been expanding in a couple of ways over the last years, including adding tiers for families and students. A new YouTube Premium tier has appeared in select regions for groups of just two people, coming in at a lower cost than the full-fledged five-person offering.

After over two decades of ups and downs for the video call platform, Microsoft is officially shutting down Skype. The platform boomed in the 2010s and has since become less appealing as an option among competitors like Zoom and other messaging tools.

New leaks show that Samsung is still refusing to put a bigger battery in its book-style Galaxy Z Fold 7, even though the Galaxy Z Flip 7 is rapidly catching up in capacity.

Ahead of Material 3 Expressive’s debut at I/O 2025 later this month, a redesign of the Google Clock app has emerged.

After a lengthy wait, Motorola Razr+ (2024) owners are finally getting an Android 15 update.

The AI hype train is in full swing, and it dominates the conversation around smartphones. I truly do think that AI can make smartphones better and more interesting, but there’s a right way to go about it… and a wrong way.

Welcome to episode 52 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, we talk about the upcoming “Android Show” and the Android 16 leaks.

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Samsung has long offered the ability for your phone (or tablet) to power a desktop OS experience when connected to an external display. Google is now working on a DeX-like desktop mode experience for Android.

Samsung’s RAM Plus is essentially a solution to a limited amount of memory by offering virtual RAM. In One UI 8, the amount of RAM Plus each device will be allowed is going to be increased, which means faster and more capable devices.

Google is rolling out a redesign of the Gemini web app’s side panel with some nice quality-of-life improvements.

The initial reboot of the Pebble smartwatch — Core 2 Duo – is still on track to ship in July and a new video both offers a first look at the device, while also revealing how much tariffs may end up costing you as a buyer.

After a false start, Samsung is opening the floodgates to its One UI 7 update in the United States, with the update now widely available for a ton of different devices, including some older Galaxy generations.

Besides the widget shortcut, Google is making AI Mode faster to access with one-tap search on Android and iOS.

After teasing last month, Google today unveiled the design of the native NotebookLM app for Android and iPhone users.