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Final week Amazon dropped its annual armada of new products on us — now it is Google’s flip. The corporate’s Launch Night In stream Wednesday follows its unveiling of the Pixel 4A budget phone in August. That occasion confirmed the existence of its next flagship phone, the Pixel 5, and the Pixel 4A 5G. They had been launched immediately, together with a brand new Chromecast and a new Nest-branded smart speaker, the Nest Audio. There have been few surprises, nevertheless, apart from the Maintain for Me cellphone function, which places these terrible you’re-on-hold-forever calls in Google Assistant’s palms.
The Pixel 5 announcement, as with Google’s previous flagship phones, has been leakier than historical plumbing (or maybe, as CNET’s Lynn La suspects, the “leaks” are a part of Google’s advertising and marketing technique).
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Google’s newest flagship provides 5G assist to Google’s rota, and it went dwell on Google’s retailer earlier than the announcement. It begins at $699 (£599, AU$999). The digicam provides Portrait LIght and Night time Sight in portrait to the digicam. And with the brand new cellphone, Google’s added an enormous bundle of companies known as Google One, a la Apple One.
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The $50 (£60, AU$99) up to date Chromecast has a brand new distant with an Assistant button, plus devoted buttons for high-profile streaming companies. “A extra useful TV” is Google’s tagline for Google TV, which appears to be Android TV: The Subsequent Technology. It updates the advice engine and delivers higher search outcomes, plus aggregates your streaming subscriptions.
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Extra bass, worth and skinniness appear to be the hallmark adjustments to the Nest good speaker. It will run you $100 (£90, AU$149).
