In 2022, Google opened its Bay View campus in Mountain View, California after nearly five years of construction. The Google office, which houses employees working on AI, has a striking tent-like design and bad Wi-Fi.

Android 14 first launched a few months ago at this point, but it’s just now finally making its way to the OnePlus Open in the United States.

The service people most want from Google One is YouTube Premium. That is the holy grail for a Google subscription and calls for it will only increase now that Nest Aware and Fitbit Premium are coming — starting in the UK — at no extra cost.

Welcome to the first episode of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google — yes, that is a reference. We talk about our Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2 scoop, the March 2024 Feature Drop, and Google One.

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Your Friday afternoon collection of the best Android game and app deals courtesy of Google Play are now ready to go. Be sure to check out this Charging Speaker Dock for Google Pixel Tablet at $78 as well as iOttie’s Easy One Touch 5 Android car mount and this offer on Pixel 7 Pro, but for now it’s all about the apps. Highlights include titles like Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom, Tempest, The Tiny Bang Story, Doom & Destiny games, Plancon: Space Conflict, and more. Head below for a complete look at today’s best Android game and app deals. 

Like most Google apps, Messages A/B tests many features. However, it takes the RCS/SMS client a rather long time to actually launch these capabilities in stable even after they are announced.

Following the success of Lanebreak, Peloton is preparing to launch a few more games for its Tread and Bike devices and these are unlike anything you could imagine for exercise equipment.

It’s hard to believe it was almost half a year since Google officially unveiled the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. With tons of hype and expectation, just how has the Google Pixel 8 Pro fared? Here’s the full report.

Threads for Android now supports Ultra HDR image and 10-bit HDR video uploads and viewing of this content on selected Google Pixel hardware.

Today’s best deals make Google Pixel 7 Pro more affordable than ever. Who needs Google’s latest when the previous-generation handset is down to $513. It comes joined by the first discount on Samsung’s new Galaxy A25 smartphone at $265, as well as a chance to score an extra Charging Speaker Dock for your Pixel Tablet at $78. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break.

The Galaxy S24 Ultra isn’t even three months old, and Samsung is already offering up boosted trade-in bonuses again. Until Sunday, March 10, users can get up to $1,000 for a traded-in device on top of a $100 Samsung credit if you plan on going through a carrier.

Ahead of its alleged late-March debut, the 2024 edition of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite has leaked, and it appears to only be swapping out its chipset.

The first OnePlus Watch was one of the worst products in the brand’s history, but with a revamped vision, clever tricks, and Wear OS at its core, the OnePlus Watch 2 is drastically improved. It’s still not perfect, but its redeeming qualities make up for its deficiencies.

Following the global debut of the Honor Magic 6 Pro at MWC recently, Honor is now teasing the “Magic 6 Ultimate” which should be announced soon.

Ahead of its likely debut in the next couple of months, the Motorola Edge 50 Pro has surfaced in leaked images which show off multiple colors including a super unique fabric-looking finish.

Setting default apps is commonplace on Android, but over on iOS, Apple has historically made this difficult. Over time, users have been given the ability to set default browser apps and make other tweaks, but starting next year, Apple will apparently allow iPhone users to set their default navigation app as something other than Apple Maps, like Google Maps.

Besides using Live View and your camera for VPS, Google has a new device orientation solution for Android map developers with the Fused Orientation Provider (FOP) API in Play services.

Google’s next preview of Android 14 QPR3 is available today, and we are diving into Beta 2 to find what new features have been introduced.

However, do not install by sideloading.

Thursday afternoon collection of the best Google Play Android game and app deals are now ready and waiting down below. We also have deals on OnePlus Open and the just-released OnePlus Watch 2 as well as Samsung’s new Galaxy A25 smartphones, but for now we are focused on the apps. Highlights include titles like Murders on Budapest, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rotaeno, 7Days, Underworld Office, and more. Hit the jump for a complete look at today’s best Android game and app deals. 

Google Lens is rolling out the highly-requested ability to save your Visual Search History so that you can return to any analyzed image in the future.

There appears to be issues with sideloading Android 14 QPR3 Beta 2 today. Following the release, three Pixel devices we tried installing the release on are stuck at the Google logo.

With QPR2 now stable (and Android 15 DP1 underway), Google is continuing the next quarterly update cycle with Android 14 QPR3 Beta 2.

During The Android Show today, Google shared more about Gemini Nano, including how it won’t be coming to the Pixel 8.

Google has released some overdue “Exclusive Pixel Superfans wallpapers” to celebrate the recent launch of the Mint Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro.

The Google Phone app appears to be testing out support for showing calls from WhatsApp, as well as making it easier to start a video call with someone.