Pixelated - Oh snap, Pixel 10 has magnets

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

Welcome to episode 64 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Abner and Will make up for Damien's absence by discussing the latest crop of Pixel leaks, including US pricing for the phones and watch that seemingly avoids tariff-mania. It's not just prices, though — a new "Pixelsnap" leak all but confirms the native Qi2 support we've been begging for for years, while a new Pixel Buds 2a leak points towards a pretty familiar set of earbuds. Subscribe YouTube Podcasts Pocket Casts Spotify Apple Podcasts Overcast Timecodes 00:00 - Pixel 10 pricing leaks 04:12 - Pixel Watch 4 pricing leaks 07:18 - "Pixelsnap" charging puck leak and Qi2 support 19:02 - Pixel Buds 2a leak 26:37 - "Pixelsnap" branding and the Watch 4's charger 33:58 - Pixel 8 AI Weather Reports Hosts Abner Li Damien Wilde Will Sattelberg Read more US pricing for Pixel 10 and 10 Pro leaks with no changes Pixel Watch 4 price leaks with LTE possibly getting cheaper Pixel Buds 2a leak with updated design, familiar case ‘Pixelsnap’ charging puck leak confirms Qi2 magnets on Pixel 10 Google starts rolling out AI Weather Reports on Pixel 8, Pixel 8a with Gemini Nano update Listen to more 9to5 Podcasts 9to5Mac Happy Hour Electrek The Buzz Podcast Space Explored Rapid Unscheduled Discussions Feedback? Drop us a line at [e-mail], leave a comment on the post, or reach out to our producer.

So, Abner, we are without Damien this week. It is just you and I here to discuss the third week in a row of just a deluge of pixel 10 leaks and pixel leaks in general. It is, you can tell we are entering August because it's nothing but pixel leaks out there. So, yeah, with that deluge in mind, what stood out to you? this week, Will? I mean, let's start with pricing, I think. I think pricing is the most obvious place because we have seen practically all there is to see about the hardware side of Pixel.

And the software side, as we kind of discussed last week, tends to not leak before the event or at the very least, you have to wait until, you know, those last minute leaks that have full product page leaks that highlight some stuff, right? So pricing is sort of the third pillar of. of that and we are now at the point where we are close enough to launch that not only is pricing leaking, but you can, it's a US pricing and you can kind of take it without too much of a grain of salt, right? Like these, these sounds, right? So, and it's really easy because it's, are you familiar with last year's pixel nine prices? You're familiar with this year's pixel 10 prices.

I, I, you know, with one exception in the proxel a little bit, these are effectively unchanged compared to last year, although the only difference being that there's no 128 gigabyte pixel 10 Pro XL. That's just gone. The prices remain the same. But that 1099 model is no longer there. It's the Apple strategy. They did that a few years ago. Yeah.

So I don't think they could have raised the price with it looking the same. which is from it's not psychology but from people's perspectives it's they it's something that looks the same cannot be more so it's good that Google isn't doing that and that tariffs or whatever did not impact the pricing it'll be interesting to see what Apple ends up doing actually because they're rumored to do price increases because of tariffs and their crazy margins but Google isn't and that's a nice change not that, yeah, I don't think they could have raised it 100. Maybe they could have raised it 50, but I don't think a hundred would have been pushing it this generation.

Yeah, I think there's just not enough there in terms of hardware changes to justify to an audience. And you can do that, that, or not marketing, but you can do that messaging of, hey, it's, you know, we've seen Nintendo, for example, do it, right? Like, hey, it's not our fault. It's like we don't know what's going on with tariffs. Exactly. But it's, I think at the end of the day, these devices are so similar with the single exception, kind of being the pixel 10, the base model, that, you know, it's difficult to see how they

would have sold that to consumers. And at the same time, on the pixel 10 side, I don't know, you know, Google's phone lineup is so set where it is right now that I don't even know. what you would, you know, even with the inclusion of a telephoto lens, what do you raise that price to? It's, you know, once it's 850 or 900, you're really bumping up against the Pixel 10 Pro and you start being like, well, okay, like, sure, they both have telephoto lenses, but maybe I just, you know, that $100 spread over 36 months is not a particularly large hurdle to, to clear. So I think this pricing makes sense and is obvious in a way that I would have, I'm not surprised by this, would have been surprised by anything else. I think this is exactly what we all kind of expected. And that's, it looks like that's what we're going to get. Well, I guess this month by the time you're listening to this, but, but next month for us as we record this on Thursday. Yeah. So that phone stuff, that's out of the way. Again, like it will be one rest and not complaint, I guess.

Yeah. So then there is Pixel Watch 4 pricing, which is the same starting price, 349 and 449 and 449 for the 41 and 45 mm-meter respectively. But according to the latest week, the LTE version is going back to $50 off. So with the original and the Pixel Watch 2, going from Wi-Fi to LTE, it was just $50.

But with the Pixel Watch 3, it went to 100. And that was a pretty big jump, especially if you got the 45mm, then you were paying $4.99 for a watch. So if that $50 holds, that's a nice price savings on Google's part. And honest, encourages people to get... Where are you on LTE watches? Because I find that it's pretty nice on exercising. That's my biggest use case. Same boat. I have, I have, I use LTE on whether I'm on a Pixel Watch or, you know, if I'm on an iPhone on the Apple Watch, I, I always keep a, uh, uh, LTE plan active for that because, um, I, I, it's, it's not for, you know, I've never left my phone at home, uh, you know, just, just going out to dinner or something. I could, it would maybe be relaxing, but, I could note. I absolutely could not do that too much dress.

I could. I would, I'm certain I would be, you know, I'd start to scratch to the back of my head after a while and be like, where? I'm missing something. But, but no, for going out running, it's, you cannot beat not having a phone on you. It is so nice to like, you know, essentially carry a water bottle. And that's it. I carry, I carry like a little collapsible water bottle on a run. And then otherwise I have my watch and my earbuds and I'm good to go.

And it's great. I still get notifications. I can, you know, switch playlists on the fly without having to worry about whether I downloaded them. And I find that no matter what music streaming platform or watch you're using, downloading playlists can often be straight, surprisingly finicky. We're more than a decade into smart watches.

And it's still like, man, this still kind of sucks. Like, it's still like I hit bugs all the time. Yeah, it's wild. tell that it's so it's so resource constrained though these chips are getting pretty good and the ram is getting pretty good yeah it all actions processes on the watch just have to happen so quickly

or they gated after a few seconds so that's the that's the thing that still needs improvement and honestly it's a battery thing it'll always be a battery thing oh yeah until we get a breakthrough on that front speaking of I think we got a really big confirmation on the phone that there are Chi magnets, Chi two magnets, and that pixel snap is going to look like a MagSafe puck, basically. Yeah, I mean, this is everything I've wanted. I truly, I think this might cement that I am upgrading to my person.

Oh, I've seen that sentiment all over the place. I've seen that this is literally the one thing that is getting people to upgrade. And I don't, none of the previous features that have wreaked have caused this level of excitement or straight out, I'm upgrading. But so this is it. So yeah, you have a charging puck that's, it's basically a large version of the pixel watch three charger. It's, it's rounded, it's white. It's such a, it's such a Google move to like make, make it look like the watch charger the year that they appear to be. switching to a new style of

Charger. It's like, you guys, it was the same thing last year where it's like, we've unified around the camera bar, dot, dot, dot, except for on the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. That one has its own camera design. It's like, guys. So close. You're so close. It's so far away.

Yeah, so magnets, that's, it's going to be a boon for case. Yeah. Accessories. But I'm thrilled as someone who doesn't typically, I actually have a case of my pixel eight right now, but someone who doesn't typically use cases,

at least all the time, I'm really happy that there is finally going to be like a mainstream Android device that has these magnets built in because, you know, I've been begging, I believe the Chitou standard was, was finalized almost two years ago.

I think it was the fall of 2023. And obviously that doesn't mean that it's ready to go and ready to be put into a phone. You know, maybe looking back anyone, including myself, who was hoping it would be in the S-24, was maybe getting a little ahead of themselves. But certainly it could have been in the S-25. You know, certainly it could have been in the Pixel 9. And I'm just happy to see it's here.

And I think with just one company, like, making the jump into having it built into the phone rather than relying on cases, I think, you know, I'm really hoping we'll see Samsung and one-plus, these companies we've seen. This is going to cause such a huge upgrade cycle for charges. That too. Yeah, it's it's so ingenious. And I really, you know, the less techy people in my life, like, even they have like, especially obviously if they have an iPhone, like have really fallen in love with with MagSafe accessories in a way that like other quote unquote nerdy, you know, relatively niche features or even just like wireless charging in general have not convinced people.

the ability to swap in and out of accessories. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, no, wireless charging is not that prevalent. People are fine with wires, which I've always found to be an interesting thing. But yeah, it's the, I'm thinking of like car dock accessories, being able to easily dock your phone to a next to your steering wheel or whatever. that's like vents accessories that go into vents that kind of stuff that's going to be a big upgrade cycle for android and i think the nice upside is how it can leverage existing apple stuff so like exactly even though there's no like a pixel snap or no android stuff out of the gate being able to leverage that existing ecosystem is going to be really really nice and or a proponent for standards for cross-platform standards.

Yeah. Oh, my, it's, well, and, you know, so let's, let's say you buy a pixel 10 and you buy a bunch of MagSafe accessories, pixel snap accessories and someone. And then, you know, in a couple years, two to three years, you decide you're ready to upgrade and you want to go to the Galaxy S-28 that has G2 built in. Like, I love that all of those accessories you can keep, like, you won't have to replace those after this. Like,

unless, unless they eventually fully redo both, like, the magnet alignment for both MagSafe and, and Chi3 or whatever. Like, in theory, like,

this is what the magnet arrangement is. And so, you know, it might, you know, maybe your charging puck grows outdated because we support faster charging speeds now or something. But largely speaking,

like, you know, once, if you buy a MagSafe battery bank for your pixel 10, it should work on your pixel 12, assuming it still has G2 built in or an, like a future galaxy device. Yeah, it's great.

Battery packs. They're the best. I also forgot. Yes, they are. That's also going to do. I kind of not Google to make one. I'm curious what they design would look like. Can I tell you my dream thing?

And they'll never do it because it's, it's, they don't, they don't do this anymore. But I would, I would have loved back in the day a magnetic battery bank covered in like the old, like, the material they made the fabricated out of. That would have been so nice. It would have been so cool. Oh, this is so dumb. But charge it, like, battery packs that have screens are causing me to upgrade all my battery packs. I don't know what. It's such as going from, like, the five tiny lights or whatever to a screen with a percentage is actually kind of nice.

That has caused a personal upgrade. No, it's great. Anchor, when I was at their booth at CES, they were like, hey, I was checking out that, like, that bigger battery bank they have that's like retractable and has like a lanyard cable. And and they were like, hey, we don't, I don't really want to carry this home. Like I don't want to pack this and put it on the plane because it's a pain. It's a pain to do. Yes.

If you come back tomorrow, we'll just give you this unit that we've been showing everybody. And so I have this like $130 anchor battery bank that they just gave me at CES. And I use it never have enough battery packs. It's so, it's so nice. Like I genuinely will just throw it in my backpack if I'm going somewhere because like it can top up anything. Switch. Steam deck. Labtop.

Anything is and it's like 20,000 milliamps or something. It is like maybe my favorite gadget in years. It has passed through power. So if you just plug it into a USBC port, it's now you've got a bunch of different USBC ports. It's great. I love nerding out about battery banks. And like again, you know, to bring it back to pixel, we're going to get so many cool things. out of this like, you know, like futuristic battery banks and stuff that I think will like

make the Pixel 10 series feel like much more of a leap forward hardware-wise than I think it otherwise would. Yeah. They needed one big hardware change. Exactly. And it's, I think, to the detriment of you, it's not something you see in weeks, in just renders, it's magnets and invisible, of course. but it really changed the narrative in a significant way

and I feel like if Google talks about the design like the hardware change is needed to put in those magnets I think people will be much more appreciative it's of like yeah it looks the same but there's a lot of work went into supporting these magnets again that's to the detriment of weeks so yeah one thing I hoped is that that Che2 or if like made for Google certification or whatever is that we get we start we are able to see uh the

the percentage status of battery packs in like the battery widget or in settings yeah i think that go a long way like apple to uh make the battery pack experience on android a bit more uh cohesive yeah i mean i don't know i i really think that this opens up like you know not just better existing accessories as you're saying like ability for it's not just a dumb power bank with four LEDs on the side now it's a it's a smarter power bank that can either either has a screen on the back or can just communicate with your phone as you're saying uh what the what the rating percentage is um i also just it just makes it it makes the accessory library library so much larger i i've been staring at this render of this of this

blue pixel 10 with the with the puck right while we've been talking and it occurred to me that like they could do like a a motomod style because of the way the pixel 9 and 10 is like laid out they could they could have backplates like they don't do anything else they're just protective backplates

we've not seen this in a leak I don't think this is happening but like I'm staring at it and I was like wouldn't it be so cool if it was like you could buy like you know you don't like you don't like your boring blue pixel you know 10 but you can slap like a bunch of different like backplates on that both help protect the phone and so on. Like, it's the perfect shape for it.

No, I was just this weekend on cleaning stuff, last weekend or whatever. I was just looking at the motor mods. So my original MotoZ has a swollen battery, which is a rip. Such a shame. Yeah. I ended up putting it in the original box and not touching it because I don't want to open the box to see how bad it is. So that's probably an active hazard, like, packed away. Oh, yeah.

But it is. I have them, too. I cleaned up my closet a few months ago, and I was like, oh, four of these have swollen batteries, huh? Just sitting in my closet. Yeah. I don't want to throw it away either. Yeah.

At the same time, I, yeah, that's a problem for another day. But anyways, I have a Z2 or whatever. Yeah. And I was, the motor mods, they are, had one with a nice floral pattern and wood grain and, et cetera. They, they are nice from a flattening, if you don't, if you didn't like the camera circle on those and on the pixels, it's a good way to flatten it out.

Yeah. I, you, like, it doesn't fit any battery. Like, it would be amazing if battery cells got, so small and you could fit an extra, I know, 10, 15% safely. Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. But even just the back plate, yeah, would be cool. Wow. I might have to write about this actually.

It might have to make my pitch to Google because I've now thought of this. And it's, it's, I hadn't even thought about the fact that the, the, the Z series had that circle puck, but it's, it's so similar. Like, it's got like, yeah, I don't know. I'm really into this now. Like that would, I would absolutely use, use one of those instead of a case because it adds just as much, just as much bulk as a case or actually even a little less. Less, less bulk.

Yeah. And so it's not even like it's going to make. Exactly. I'm and it's, oh, if Google's not doing this, you know, they're leaving money on the table. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, they should absolutely do this for future generation. I know the mods. It would be, it's right there.

Ideas on the table. Speaking of pixel leaks, we also saw right before we started recording the pixel buds 2A leaked. And I don't have a ton to sand these mostly because they look like pixel buds. They look like a cross between the A series and the last year's Pro 2. Yeah. Yeah. I think the thing I've add is so I like the original PixelBuds Pro, the shape. the fit was fine for me

but they were admittedly they were pretty heavy so much so that like I would at times I would use the original A series the pixel buds pro two fixes that issue for me though I still find the original pixel buds pro design

that I'm being shaped to be a bit more comfortable so I'm curious to see where the 2A goes especially in terms of like stripping features out. I assume it won't have a gesture pad that you just only be able to tap and you can't do anything with volume,

which is really all earbuds need volume controls. It's a baseline. Yeah, I fully agree. It is interesting, and not that we expected this to change, but Google's kind of the last, or not the last, but certainly the last like Android OEM company making headphones that hasn't like adopted that stem shape that we've

seen. Yeah. First with the AirPods and then Samsung has it and One Plus has it. Like I, you know, obviously there are other earbuds that don't. Sony. I, you know, on and on, Bose kind of Bose. Bowes has a stem design, but it's much, it's very different than like the AirPods stems. And, and I think that's interesting. Like obviously we've seen that kind of happened because not just because of the volume controls you're talking about, but also like it just the mic, it improves the mic placement. Like it just makes for it better. Slightly closer. Yeah.

Exactly. It's the thing I don't like about the STEM design is when you put it in the case, when you take it in and out of the case, you're inherent retouching the part that touches your oily ear. Yeah. It's and that you have to wipe your hands afterwards. That's rather than the back of it, the like rubberized back. Yeah.

Yeah. That seems like I'm pretty sure that's unsolvable Unless you have like some kind of design Like yeah like a lift some up or something Like you push the bottom and they pop out or something I don't know how you would do that But it would be no me either

No I think I mean And it makes the case it would make the case so much bigger too So I doubt whatever happens Yeah I guess it's a tradeoff for For that improved mic placement But I don't know I I've um The only pixel buds

I've used were the only pixel buds I've used were the original A series which I got free with something. I don't remember one. Maybe my pixel 6. Are they using myself?

Right now I have a pair of whatever the most recent Bose earbuds are that I don't know. I had some issues with previous Bose Quiet Comfort earbuds with the offer, but these have been pretty rock solid in the A&C is good. And then I also have a one plus

Bud's 3 pro or whatever somewhere around here and a pair of AirPods pro around here somewhere. And I switch between them kind of at a based on what I'm using and whatever is charged. But, but yeah, I like I like the Bose ones a lot because they are like they have really good A&C and they're super comfortable, but they, and grippy. And actually, that's, that's a device that doesn't have the stem thing at all. They are, they are very pixel bud shaped, I would say. So those are, those are not terrible. But I don't know.

I always really liked the A series because, like you said, they're very light. I haven't used the pros, but it's good to know that those are, those are now as light as those. But I always had issues with the, with the rubber, the little rubber tip on them, never quite for my ear right and would like after an hour I wouldn't my ears wouldn't feel heavy but the that little rubber tip would start to kind of give my ears like a whatever the equivalent of a I don't really earache but you know what I feel that yeah I still feel that the again like I feel like the the bean shape of the original pixel buds pro yeah that rested in your ear much more comfortably

versus the current pro two way it's there is something a half circle semi circle but So, but in general, it's interesting that they, they still see value in the A series and the Pro 2, which they work to be offering a new color and nothing in the middle. Like the original PixelBuds approach. It's either super cheap or something a bit more premium. It's an interesting space they've got it. But, yeah, the 2A, they should continue with the A series. people know what it is, but I'm surprised there isn't a base or what, what would the base pixel buds even look like?

Like a theoretical bait, like something even though. A theoretical base, yeah. I don't know, like, I, they should keep the older A, like the A series one around and just, like the pixel buds A, the first gen around and just sell those at like $50. something. Yeah, it's a very interesting way to get into Google's ecosystem and you get Gemini. Yeah, I mean, there's, yeah, there's real advantages to getting, uh, getting these over like, well, like any of the, the earbuds I just mentioned. Um, uh, yeah, I don't know. Like I, I, I think these are interesting. I think, I wonder if we'll start to see more frequent buds releases

because of Gemini. Like, I do wonder if, um, you know, because, I, Again, when was the first A series? Are those like four years old? Am I? Those are very old. No, those are very old. I feel like I got them with my pixel six. Like, I think that's where I got them.

And maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't pay money for them. I know that. I got them as an inclusion from something. And I don't know. Like, I think we're long overdue for a refresh for these. And I do think with Gemini being, the future of Google, like straight up. I wonder if we start seeing more frequent releases,

if only just to like either push, you know, maybe give Gemini more processing power or something. Like I wonder if we just lean into, you know, in addition to better, better audio quality, like leaning into these as like Gemini first earbuds, assistant, lowercase A earbuds, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

So, yeah, that's, those are the latest, weeks this week it will absolutely continue oh we've got we've got like 20 days to go you better get ready for a week a day probably absolutely

everything is going to come out oh one more thing I would say about the pixel watch on charging so it appears alongside the same week as the pixel snap which

the name is interesting. Let's touch on the name for a hot minute. I assume it'll be camel-case, but the fact, yes, they should brand it in the first place, like MagSafe. G2 is not something that will be recognizable to most people. So yes, it's good they're branding it. But on the flip side, it's going to be weird

when like Samsung gets into the space and they branded something else. it's the I guess as long as people know they think magnets and they know it works but the fragmentation there might be harmful for the Android ecosystem. Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I would be surprised. I think really only Google and Samsung are going to, because I do think Samsung will chase Google on this and run kind of headfirst into additional accessories.

And I do think we're headed towards Samsung building. if not into the S-26 series, and certainly the S-27 series will have magnets natively in the phone with a first-party lineup of accessories that I'm going to assume are called Galaxy Mag. That's my desk right now. Galaxy Macs. Pixel Knapp and Galaxy Meg. Oh, gosh. Listen, you know it's possible.

I do. I do. Because I think... It reminds me of Nintendo. Like the Nintendo... Yes, I was going to say the same thing. thing. If they if they advertise it right, they can do the same like snap of the of the of the, um, switch commercials with the like accessories of the pixel. Like I think that's a really good way to get

people's attention. And I think maybe the smartest piece of branding Nintendo ever did was that snap sound with the first switch. Uh, uh, it's a company with good, that knows, typically knows how to advertise maybe the Wii U era assigned. So, you know, that says a lot. But, um, uh, Yeah, I don't know. I kind of like it. I agree with you that I would expect this to be Camel case and not be like one full word lowercase as we're seeing it right now. But either way, I think it's good branding and I think you're right. It's really smart for Google to not just do like, oh, we've got Chi 2 accessories. Like we support Chi 2, but to make it its own thing to make it, you know, to make it feel like Pixel is an ecosystem, which it is. But I think this is a. another really good way to be like, we are an ecosystem. If you're buying this phone, you get an ecosystem. Yeah. So yeah, that that's the name. But with the Pixel Watch 4, with the renders, we've seen like there's a protrusion. There are two protrusions. Yes. To allow for this side charging, this side dock or whatever. And I think it's mostly fine, though that said, I am somebody

that wears the speaker side out. The speaker south is facing the world versus it facing me. So I'm pretty sure there won't be any durability issues there. It doesn't get bumped a lot. But it's, I mean, like Google, we'll see what the official renders and advertisements look like. But it's going to be noticeable, and it's something

that people will absolutely notice. Yeah, I think it's kind of a, you know, we talked a lot about the charging dock last week. And I still think there's like smart ideas out of, out of that. But at the same time, it does like, you know, for more reasons than just the placement of the dock, it really gives Moto 365s, in which I mean that like in the way that the Moto 360 looked really good until you turned the screen on and you saw the flat tire aesthetic, which never bothered me, but I know bothered a lot of people,

and I had the first two generations of that watch. But I feel like it's going to be similar with this where, like, you know, it's kind of a perfect round circle, except if you look it at the right angle, you see these, like, sort of unsightly. So you have to cloud. But that gives such a, such a watch aesthetic.

I don't know. I feel like these are, this is the one thing that really inter, like, it screams smartwatch in a way that like maybe the side button doesn't so much you know i i i don't know and i i know obviously ben shown uh as also uh focused on this a bit he wrote a piece about it yesterday as we record this uh but um you know i don't think it's going to bother me too much but i need i would need to see it in person uh on on at least somebody's wrist if not if not And this doesn't appear to be color matching, which is one render so far shows us.

Maybe it looks perfectly fine if you get the silver, ruin the shiny case. But it appears that it's always going to be silver regardless of color. And if it's silver and black or silver and whatever, that might be stick out a bit more. But exactly. As you pointed out last week, it's three-generated. four generations of watches, three different charging mechanisms. Yeah. So I do think they have to stick with this one.

They have to decide. Honestly, the puck was perfectly fine for me. Yeah, I agree. I guess this gives it a bit of a differentiator. Yeah, I mean, exactly like the motor 360, which had a dock too, the side dock. Yeah, it's so funny that I, like, I fully forgot. I wore those watches for, you know, years. And I fully forgot about the charging dock until we talked about it last week where I was like, oh, yeah, I fully, I completely forgot that like, you know, through most of college, that was like my bedside, my bedside clock was the Voto 360. And I had, I had forgotten. So I am kind of looking forward to that design coming back. Although this is not enough to make me upgrade from my Pixel Watch 3, if I'm, if I'm being honest. Like, I would need to see.

some more. I'm not sure this is my generation. You know, hopefully this is on the charger in a couple years. So that when I eventually upgrade, it's still there. All you in time is skip it. I might, you know, who knows?

The Pixel Watch 5 might come with. Maybe they adopt pixel snap for the Pixel Watch 5. Who knows? I don't know. Probably not, but anything's possible at this point. I know the sizing doesn't fit,

but I'm just, You know, I don't feel, I don't feel, I wouldn't bet money on, on future pixel watches using this doc, because as we have seen, Google will change its, it's charging decisions on a whim. Hmm. Yeah. I'll tell you, you know, we can, we can end on this. Yeah. I, um, I got AI weather reports on my, on my pixel eight this week. And, and Google did not make a big deal out of it. It just kind of happened. I, I opened my, my pixel eight, uh, my weather. happened like there was like uh it was trying originally trying to just like load a uh a um uh it was trying to load the a i weather report yeah the jimini yeah the jimini that exactly exactly it was like it was like a blank space where it couldn't quite get it so i had to force close the app a couple times uh which is my favorite android hobby and then uh and then yeah suddenly it was there um i i just i want to call this out because we're talking obviously a lot

about new pixel hardware, right, that we're going to get in a few weeks, right? And I just think it's very cool that Google will kind of extend, you know, features back to older hardware without much of a, without much fanfare, right? Like, I do appreciate that even, even though I'm on, like, two-year-old hardware at the moment, like, it is nice to open up my device and be like, oh, that thing that is on the pixel 9 is, or the, you know, the pixel 9 pro is suddenly on my, like, older device that Google figured out a way to make it work, you know, and feel native. And, yeah, I don't know. This is, that's not a thing that is unique to Google, but I, I appreciate it nonetheless.

As we are so caught up in pixel hype cycle territory, I'm happy to see attention still given to some of these older devices that, you know, you don't need to upgrade from. And more broadly, I'm very curious what the 9, the 9 pro especially, what it gets from the 10 series, because I do think that, I do think that 9 pro especially needs to get more new features backported, whether it's whatever the way the version of pixel screenshots is

or what. Yeah. I think it's to really continue the pixel drops to make them meaningful. And if you buy, basically, if you buy a modern pixel, you get AI features for more than just the latest AI features for more than just one year. I think that's a critical thing. Google will probably not talk about it in August, but come the next, well, the December feature drop. I think that's when they need to backport some of these old. features to really, just even for existing customer. Like, if you buy the 10, you want, when

you haven't comes out, you want to know you still have the latest. Yeah, they're pretty, as you said, they're pretty good about that. Like, I do think that that December feature drop always is always a big part of it is always like last year's Hardberg, it's 80% of the stuff we introduced, you know, two to four months ago. And I don't know, I appreciate that they don't keep you waiting that long and it's pretty, it's pretty standard. And even when you do have to wait a year for something like AI weather reports, you know, it's obvious that they are working on like trying to make the stuff work on hardware as old as they can. And, and, you know, I don't know, I, I appreciate it as a pixel user without the latest hardware. But, yeah, that's a, I think

that'll do it for us this week. Abner, thank you for joining me. I hope Damien is back with us next week. He is he is in travel hell. I would say he is trapped in travel hell. So we wish him the best. But yeah, thank you for joining me, Abner. And to everyone else, thank you for listening. We will catch you again next week. Bye.