Providing a sneak preview of the Pixel 7 wasn’t sufficient, so Google’s in point of fact leaning in. Lately at I/O, the corporate introduced that it’s returning to the pill trade with a brand new software set for, get this, a 2023 release.
“Most often we wouldn’t tease a brand new product ahead of it’s in a position,” stated Google’s {hardware} leader Rick Osterloh, “however there’s such a lot superb power round pills within the developer neighborhood that we needed to deliver you all into the loop.”
The Pixel Pill goes to be one thing of a non secular successor to 2018’s Pixel Slate, which the corporate quietly discontinued closing 12 months. Just like the Pixel Ebook, the {hardware} was once great, however in an international stuffed with tremendous affordable Chromebooks, Google by no means in point of fact nailed the “why.”
The Pixel Pill does spoil from the ones merchandise in a single key approach: it’s in fact an Android software. In an international of ChromeOS dominance, the corporate is trying to reinvigorate the Android pill marketplace.
Possibly a part of the considering right here was once to seek out any other house for Google’s customized Tensor processors, which debuted in closing 12 months’s Pixel 6. On the very least, using the similar chip approach the telephones and Pill must play in combination properly, as the corporate slowly builds out a {hardware} ecosystem that still contains Pixel Buds and the approaching Pixel Watch.
Past that, main points are unsurprisingly scarce for a tool that’s now not due out for any other 12 months. Because the above picture suggests, we’ve were given a rear-facing digicam, some side-facing speaker slits and, I assume some buttons? Meet us again right here for Google I/O 2023, I assume.
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The announcement follows information that Google is reinvigorating the Android revel in for pills, in addition to rolling out further variations of apps for the shape issue. The ones will probably be to be had in a unique tab within the Google Play Retailer.
