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With Wear OS 6 not available on the Pixel Watch, Google is rolling out an October 2025 update to the original device.

The forthcoming November update for Google Pixel devices has shown up a little early in some leaked images, suggesting that “theme packs” and more are on the way.

Telegram has released a new beta update on Android that adds a bit of Liquid Glass, and users aren’t very happy about it.

Video calls have helped military families feel closer with those serving than ever before, and through a new partnership with the United Service Organizations, Google wants to take that feeling even farther.

The current expected support period for new Android phones is around seven years, but that became commonplace after the Galaxy S20 FE was released. If Samsung holds its promise, the Galaxy S20 FE is going to officially drop from the security update list soon.

As part of the Fitbit Coach preview, Google shared that it will be releasing “new Fitbit hardware” in 2026.

As previewed alongside the Pixel Watch 4 launch in August, Google will begin rolling out a Public Preview of Fitbit Coach “starting tomorrow and over the next week” in the US. The idea is to leverage AI and Gemini models to give you a personal coach, just like how athletes have a team around them providing support.

Google TV might be in your hotel room sometime next year, as Google has just struck a deal with DIRECTV to use Google TV as the underlying experience for a new “Advanced Entertainment Platform” designed for hotels and hospitality.

The near-complete absence of Qi2 magnets in Android phones ended with the launch of the Pixel 10 series, but why did it take so long? In a recent video, Nothing suggested it was partially due to cost, as the company estimated it would cost a company about $10 million to implement Qi2. If that sounds ridiculous… it kind of is, as the WPC has confirmed this is not the case.

Ahead of an expected global launch in the coming weeks, OnePlus is launching its latest flagship device in China first, and it’s giving us a good idea on what to expect.

Nothing has made a couple of big reveals over the past few days, with a new Nothing Phone (3a) Lite coming up quickly, but also the reveal that the company will start pre-installing apps and including lock screen ads on select devices to subsidize their hardware cost.

If there’s one thing Google is good at with Pixel, it’s color. This year, “Indigo” is the standout color, even if it’s not on the flagship series, and my new Pixel Watch band reminded me just how good “Indigo” is.

The rollout of Chrome’s M3 Expressive redesign, which began in late August, is now complete. It comes a few weeks after most first-party apps have received their updates.

Welcome to episode 75 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, we dive into the long-awaited launch of Galaxy XR, the realized name for Project Moohan and our first glimpse at a real Android XR product. But what spot can Google and Samsung claim in a market that hasn’t shown much demand yet for premium hardware? And is the future of Android XR other third-party headsets, or is this a stopgap on the way to glasses? Abner, Damien, and Will try to make sense for this vision of wearable computing.

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Meta’s new Ray-Ban Display smart glasses are impressive, but they’re also hard to get. On top of costing $800, they also require an in-person demo before making the purchase, and you’ll now be able to do that at select Verizon stores that will offer Meta Ray-Ban Display demos.

Gems are custom instances of Gemini with specific instructions suited for particular tasks. The latest premade Gemini Gem by Google is called “wellness.”

Nobody likes ads, and that goes double for ads appearing in more personal, unexpected spaces. Unfortunately, it’s a lesson smartphone companies appear to need to relearn again and again, with Nothing finding itself the latest culprit.