Wednesday October 4, 2023; 9:58 AM EDT
- Good morning, it's Google Pixel day! The event starts at 10 AM. It's a live event, which is becoming a novelty. #
- Mobile first to AI first. Everything that Pixel has been doing has all been AI, yeah, we will claim that! (It's true in a way, they have been calling it Machine Learning before.) Every. single. tech. event. must. now. talk. AI. The tech industry basically plays an expensive game of follow the leader.#
- No irony in the fact that I am listening to the Pixel event using my Airpods connected to my iPad. Would be nice if Google had Pixel Buds Pro working with Chromebooks. Of course, that's too much to expect from a company that doesn't understand how product ecosystems are supposed to work, despite Apple showing them for many years.#
- Pixel Wearables#
- The Pixel Watch will have more durable cover glass, aluminum housing to make the case lighter. Didn't Google claim we could get 24 hours of use on a single battery charge with the original Pixel Watch? #
- Fitbit enhancements include three new sensors. Heart rate sensor is redesigned, claims 40% improvement in heart rate tracking. Does Google enable us to control when heart tracking is running? #
- Costs $349; pre-order today, ships next week. Reports I've seen say that Google is providing $150 for trade-in of the original Pixel Watch. #
- Pixel Phones#
- Next evolution of AI in your hand. Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 8. Applause.#
- Google, "See Frank, we get ecosystems, see how all the hardware looks nice together!" But dude, can I use the Pixel Buds Pro with a Chromebook? Oh, and by the way, why no Chromebooks in that display of devices you just showed? #
- Actua Display 2000 nits and Super Actua Display, 2400 nits, 1 to 120 MHz refresh. #
- Temperature sensor on the back. Submitted request to FDA for approval to use to check skin temperature.#
- Tensor G3 chip is inside. (G2 is in my Pixel 7a). Can run 2x more machine learning models on device, and can run more complex models. #
- Speech to text will automatically detect which language is being used and tra nslate accordingly. Call screening is coming to Pixel Watch in a future feature drop. #
- Upgraded ultra wide and new wide lenses. #
- Audio magic eraser to remove background noise in a video recording. An example is removing a barking dog from a video clip of a baby babbling. #
- Going to be able to run Googles Foundational LLM direction on the device. Lots of emphasis on the integration of Bard with Google Assistant.,#
- Pixel 8, available in three colors, will cost $699, pre-order now, ships next week. Pixel 8 Pro will cost $999. Both devices will be provided 7 years of OS and security updates, along with feature drops. (Hey Google, what about the Pixel 7a I just bought this year?) The expansion of this support time is going to be very big news. #