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Gemini for Home is the umbrella term for Google’s renewed smart home effort with several distinct aspects: app, camera, and voice assistant. From what the company has shared so far, here’s when Gemini for Home is rolling out.

Following new announcements this week, the future of Google Home is brighter than ever, and that’s exciting.

The Google Home team is answering the “top questions” it has received from users since Wednesday’s Gemini for Home launch. 

Xiaomi, one of the world’s leading consumer electronics and smart manufacturing companies, officially launched its 2025 Xiaomi Creativity Competition. 

With the Pixel 10 just over a month old, rumors about its successor are beginning to pick up. The Tensor G6 for the Pixel 11 is said to switch to a MediaTek modem.

Welcome to episode 72 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. Abner, Damien, and Will reconvene to talk all about Google’s recent smart home announcements. From Gemini for Home and Google’s revised subscription service to the new Home Speaker and that very, very red Nest 2K smart cam, it’s feeling like a fully revitalized smart home platform, and we’re here to talk you through every announcement.

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Ahead of the Pixel Watch 4 launching next week, the majority of Google’s Wear OS apps now have Material 3 Expressive redesigns, with Home and Keep being the most recent updates.

Alongside Google’s Gemini for Home push this week, the company also unveiled its Google Home Speaker, but it’s not coming until next year. That “delay” has drawn some criticism, but it’s actually a good thing.

Genuine repair parts for the Pixel 10 series are now available on iFixit with some interesting differences.

Besides other incoming updates, the Google Play Store now lets you directly buy digital gift cards on Android.

Google has updated its store and stopped selling refurbished Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro devices, but without a newer replacement stepping in.

Ultra-thin phones: they’re back, and in a big way. On the heels of Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge and the newly-released iPhone Air, Motorola is looking like the next smartphone maker looking to maximize a slim chassis over all else.

According to a new report, Samsung’s Android XR headset “Project Moohan” will see a release date of October 22, and it may be revealed a week prior to that.

ADT has confirmed that its subscribers will have to wait a bit longer to access Google Home’s new Gemini features, but nothing is breaking for the time being.

The Material 3 Expressive redesign of Google Wallet for Android is finally seeing a wider rollout today. 

Earlier this week, Amazon held its annual fall hardware event, unveiling its next-gen lineup of smart speakers, smart displays, and streaming devices. Alongside the launch of a new $40 Fire TV Stick Select, the company took this opportunity to finally unveil Vega OS, a long-in-the-works move away from its Android-based Fire OS platform. If you’ve been wondering how Amazon managed to score deals with every major platform publisher for streaming apps, however, the company’s solution might make you raise an eyebrow.

After heated negotiations, YouTube TV and NBC Universal have officially signed a long-term deal to continue offering NBC channels on the live service, while also expanding Peacock’s reach to YouTube Primetime Channels.

After AI notification summaries were a bit of a disaster for Apple, Samsung is appartently preparing support in its next big Galaxy update.

The fullscreen Google Account switcher started rolling out earlier this year, and the menu redesign is now coming to the remaining first-party apps.