Google just started selling its new $699 Pixel 8 and $999 Pixel 8 Pro, but a less expensive version is apparently already on the way: OnLeaks and Smartprix have teamed up again to offer unofficial renders of a roughly 6.1-inch Pixel 8A.

Like the Pixel 8, it's a design with two rear cameras and a hole-punch selfie cam, and it's curvy like the other new Pixel phones, too.

And you may not have to satisfy your curiosity with renders alone - because in September, Abhishek Yadav shared photos of this handset too:

Many journalists were a little skeptica …

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The Google Pixel Buds Pro may be getting some nifty new software features that should sound a bit familiar if you were paying attention to the latest tweaks for Apple's AirPods Pro. According to notable leaker Kamila Wojciechowska (@Za_Raczke), Google plans a software update for its flagship earbuds that includes conversation detection, a hearing wellness monitor, and clearer call quality going both ways.

The first feature sounds similar to Apple's Conversation Awareness that just came to all second-gen AirPods Pro earbuds, with Google's implementation automatically pausing your media playback and activating transparency mode once the Pixel …

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The Pixel 8 launch event is just days away, but someone has already gotten their hands on Google's upcoming smartphones. In a pair of unboxing videos posted to YouTube by PBKreviews (via 9to5Google), you can see the packaging for the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, along with a brief glimpse at how they look.

The videos don't really add much to the flood of leaks we've already seen leading up to the event, but they show how both phones come neatly packaged with a USB-C cable, a manual, and a Quick Switch adapter, which you can use to transfer the contents of your old device to the Pixel 8.

We also get a good look at a couple of color variations for the …

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A leaked Pixel 8 "Switch to Pixel" ad posted to X by Arséne Lupin highlights Google's AI features, including Best Take, which lets you swap faces into an image from other pictures (via 9to5Google). Google's Pixel event is just around the corner on October 4th, but there's seemingly very little we don't already know about the phone, considering the steady stream of leaks.

The ad kicks off highlighting the process for transferring data to a Pixel 8, but spends most of its time on the AI features of the phone - some new, like Best Take, and some old, like Magic Eraser:

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If there's one job I'd like AI to take from me, it's my daily email deleting ritual.

Every morning at 8:30AM, Google Calendar pings me with a reminder containing just one word: EMAILS. Thus, my formal workday begins as I speed-delete nearly every email that landed in my inbox overnight. They are largely useless and clog up the space between legitimate emails that I need to read and respond to.

Imagine for a minute, though, if you could just tell an AI assistant to show you your most important emails and delete all the rest. I asked Google Assistant on a Pixel 7 Pro to do this, and it just wordlessly escorted me to my inbox so I could dea …

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Pixel 8 camera specs and a new AI promo video for the phone were posted by 91Mobiles, courtesy of leaker Kamila Wojciechowska, giving us our first real look at how Google will integrate more AI into its flagship smartphones (via 9to5Google).

Magic Editor, which the company said earlier this year would come to "select" Pixel phones, is like a supercharged version of Magic Eraser. It enables you to remake any picture you take so it looks like you want it to. That's shown in a demonstration where a person takes three pictures of a family on a carousel and combines them into one shot so that everyone is smiling and looking at the camera at the …

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Google just released a teaser video of the Pixel Watch 2, and while the smartwatch looks awfully similar to the original, there are some notable differences, such as a new crown, IP68 rating, and a totally different sensor array.

In the run-up to its Made by Google launch event on October 4th in New York, Google's been "leaking" glimpses of its upcoming Pixel lineup, including Thursday's closeup of the Pixel 8 Pro and the much smaller Pixel 8. However, our looks at the Pixel Watch 2 have been relatively fleeting. This new video, while short, is the first time we've been able to confirm some real differences in terms of design. (Yes, I repla …

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