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They say that first impressions matter, and I have to say, the Pixel 7 Pro has made a great first impression. Which is interesting given how similar it is to its predecessor.

In early October, Google announced the Pixel 7 series smartphones, which are by all accounts fairly minor upgrades over the Pixel 6 series.

I’d been waiting on Google’s Black Friday sale to pull the trigger on two personal technology upgrades, one long overdue. Here goes nothing.

DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection is now available to all Android users in open beta after a full year in private beta.

Google is reportedly working on a new Pixel foldable phone that could be released next year, and the first design renders have leaked.

Google announced today that over one dozen health and fitness apps on Android now support its Health Connect service for secure data sharing.

The attorneys general for 40 U.S. states announced today that Google will pay almost $400 million in fines related to user privacy abuses.

Bowing to antitrust complaints, Google has rolled out the first implementation of user choice billing with Spotify for Android.

In yet another step towards our passwordless futures, Microsoft this past week unveiled a public preview of Azure AD Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) on mobile.

If you’ve been holding off on a new Pixel smartphone, Chromecast with Google TV, Nest Hub, or other Google hardware, the online giant has some good news.

Qualcomm reported that it earned a net income of $2.9 billion on revenues of $11.4 billion in the most recent quarter, missing expectations.

Five years after Apple made this shift with the iPhone, Google admitted today that the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro are the first 64-bit-only Android phones.

Samsung reported this morning that it earned an operating profit of $7.7 billion on revenues of $54.1 billion in the quarter ending September 30.

Microsoft announced today that it is bringing Android 12L and some Windows 11-like theming to Surface Duo and Duo 2.

Google announced today that its Jetpack Compose UI toolkit for Android now supports Material Design 3, WearOS, and Android TV (in alpha).

Pocket Cast announced that it has open sourced the mobile versions of its popular podcast apps using the Mozilla Public License.

Google's Messages app on Android is getting support for voice message transcription, creating reminders from messages, and more intelligent features.

Android 13 Go Edition brings Google’s new Material You UI as well as a couple of key Android 13 features to low-end Android devices.

Ahead of the release of its Pixel Tablet, Google announced that it is adding new productivity features to Chrome for Android on tablets.

There are different ways for smartphone makers to differentiate their flagship models. But size shouldn't be a prerequisite for other features, as it is so often.

Google today announced even deeper integration between its Pixel smartphone lineup and its Google Fi mobile carrier service.

Google has confirmed that some marquee Pixel 7 features, like Clear Calling and Guided Frame, are coming to the Pixel 6 series as well.

This past week, Google claimed that the Pixel 6 series was its “fastest-selling” smartphone lineup ever. Maybe. But it’s not Google’s best-selling smartphone lineup ever.

Google's upcoming Pixel Tablet will have an optional charging speaker dock that almost turns the device into a Nest Hub.

As expected, Google announced its new-generation Pixel smartphones at its Made by Google ’22 event today in New York City.

I was transfixed by Google’s Pixel 4 launch presentation, which featured an incredible lecture on smartphone photography by distinguished engineer Marc Levoy.

Intel announced today Unison, the company’s own alternative to Microsoft’s Phone Link app on Windows PCs.