Jun 11, 2024
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Gemini comes to much Pixel phones, Pixel Watches get Car Crash Detection and upgrades to Wear OS.
Mikaela Kraft
Product Marketing Manager, Pixel
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June Feature Drop for Pixel Devices
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New features and upgrades for Pixel phones, watches, and tablets.
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Pixel Phones: Gemini Nano, improved transcripts, large surface display, Find My Device upgrade, amended camera features, and speedy telephone fig lookup.
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Pixel Watches: Car Crash Detection, improved Fall Detection, easier payments with PayPal, and enhanced Google Home app.
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Pixel Tablet: Richer doorbell notifications, caller Google Home Favorites widget, and speedy entree to astute location devices.
Summaries were generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental.
Our latest Feature Drop is here, and it’s packed with unthinkable caller capabilities for your device, including Gemini Nano coming to Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a arsenic a developer option, and Car Crash Detection to Pixel Watch 2, positive truthful overmuch more. These features statesman rolling retired to devices contiguous and volition proceed implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.
For Pixel Phones
Gemini Nano expands to Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a
Gemini Nano is Google’s astir businesslike AI exemplary built for on-device tasks,1 and starting today, you tin usage Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a to entree Gemini Nano arsenic a developer option. You tin enable developer options successful your Pixel’s settings.
Take your transcripts to the adjacent level
Gemini powers Summarize successful Recorder to tally on-device connected Pixel 8 and 8a – and the Recorder app2now delivers much detailed, downloadable summaries3to Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 8a. It’s capable to observe and see the names of speakers truthful conversational transcripts are improved. And with the quality to export transcripts into substance files oregon Google Docs,4keeping way of things similar interviews and people lectures is made easy.
Find your phone, adjacent erstwhile the artillery dies
Find My Device is getting a adjuvant upgrade that enables you to find your telephone adjacent erstwhile it’s disconnected oregon the artillery is dead,7all portion keeping your determination information encrypted and backstage from Google.
Put your champion faces forward
The Pixel camera tin present automatically place the champion infinitesimal from your photograph successful HDR+ with conscionable a azygous shutter press, truthful it’s easier to drawback a photograph wherever your look is successful absorption and smiling.8
Quickly look up a enigma telephone number
Don’t admit a telephone number? With conscionable a fewer taps, you tin present bash a reverse telephone fig hunt straight from your telephone log.9
Save and entree your mundane essentials from Google Wallet
Google Wallet recently expanded to India, truthful adjacent much radical tin securely store and entree mundane items, similar boarding passes, loyalty cards, lawsuit tickets, nationalist transport tickets, acquisition cards, and more.
Additional telephone improvements
Pixel’s camera present lets you manually prime which camera lens you privation to usage portion taking photos, giving you much power implicit capturing the cleanable shot.10
For Pixel Watches
Extra bid of caput erstwhile you’re connected the go
In clip for National Safety Month, Car Crash Detection11is launching arsenic a marque caller information diagnostic connected Pixel Watch 2 that gives you much ways to enactment harmless and get assistance erstwhile you mightiness request it most, adjacent erstwhile you don’t person your Pixel phone. If you’re successful a terrible car accident, your ticker tin present cheque successful to marque definite you’re okay. If you request assistance oregon don’t respond, it volition automatically dial exigency services. Car Crash Detection integrates with Emergency Sharing connected your watch,12 truthful your exigency contacts volition beryllium notified and get your real-time determination if you’ve been successful an accident. We’ve besides improved Fall Detection to amended observe falls from bicycles.13
Make beingness easier with improved app experiences
Now you person much ways to wage from your Pixel Watch erstwhile you’re retired and astir without taking your carnal wallet out. You tin present nexus your PayPal relationship to Google Wallet14on your ticker for easiness the adjacent clip you permission your wallet astatine location oregon your hands are full.
Your Google Home app is getting a revamp and you tin present entree your astute location devices faster and easier straight from your watch:1516
- Access your Google Home Favorites with conscionable a swipe connected your watch. Tap the instrumentality icon to unfastened the Home app and set the temperature, dim the lights, and more.
- You tin present entree a astute location instrumentality from your ticker look connected Wear OS. Tap the instrumentality shortcut and marque adjustments, close connected your wrist.
- The Google Home app connected Wear OS gives you much ways to power your astute location devices. Adjust the rotation of your blinds oregon instrumentality speed, each from your watch.
For Pixel Tablet
See who’s there
Is idiosyncratic ringing your doorbell? Your Pixel Tablet volition present person richer doorbell notifications17when docked successful hub mode, giving you a snapshot of who is astatine your beforehand door. You tin speech to them with two-way talk, oregon nonstop a Quick Response.
Smart location favorites
The caller Google Home Favorites widget18gives you adjacent quicker entree to your compatible astute location devices. You’ll get quick, customizable astute location controls connected your telephone and tablet location screen, truthful you tin entree your thermostat oregon crook connected your lights with conscionable a speedy tap.
All of these features squad up to marque your Pixel devices adjacent better. Whether you’re astatine location oregon traveling, your Pixel devices are must-haves for this summer.