We’re practically a month away from the following Made By Google occasion, however the firm’s already gone forward and revealed the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Professional and Pixel Watch 2. The explanations are easy:
- That’s simply how Google does issues now, and as a advertising and marketing technique it actually works fairly effectively. We’re all going to be tuned into the occasion regardless.
- Apple’s acquired its personal little occasion developing subsequent week.
Thoughts you, Google isn’t disclosing specs or pricing or any of that great things — that’s for the rumor mill to untangle. As an alternative, it supplied a teaser video with the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional giving us the full-body 360 over on YouTube. Oh, and when you head over to Google’s retailer to, say, purchase a Pixel 7, the 2 new handsets are sitting on the high, with the Pixel Watch 2 out entrance for good measure.
Clearly we knew all of them have been coming, however with the iPhone 15 occasion kicking off in a number of days, why the hell not? Whenever you’re coping with the sort of market share Google is at present preventing for within the smartphone house, each little constructed helps.
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Not sufficient? How about a whole touchdown web page? Once more, there are nonetheless loads of unanswered questions, however we get a more in-depth take a look at the rounder telephones, together with a rehash of some older (however nonetheless excellent) options like Magic Eraser for picture modifying and Stay Translate. As for the Pixel Watch 2, Google notes, “Pair it together with your new Pixel telephone to get much more customized assist, security options and well being insights.”
Past the extra rounded edges, the Pixel 8 isn’t an enormous departure from its predecessor’s design — comprehensible, given how huge a leap the Pixel 7 was. The second iteration of the Pixel Watch additionally appears to be like comparable. Google’s long-awaited debut smartwatch was good, nevertheless it left plenty of room for enchancment.
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All will probably be revealed on October 4 in NYC. See you there.
