5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (514+ words) Mint Mobile is selling the Pixel 11 Pro XL for $874, which is $425 off the $1,299 price its own listing strikes through for the 256GB model. The catch is that the price only exists as a bundle. You buy a year of Mint service…...

1+ week, 46+ min ago   (479+ words) You pick one of the Pixel 11’s stylized Camera Looks, shoot with it all afternoon, close the app — and the next time you open the camera you are back on the standard processing. It looks like a bug. It is not....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (466+ words) Google has started rolling out Battery Usage Summaries on Pixel phones, and its own support documentation now spells out who gets it. The feature puts a short, AI-written recap at the top of the battery usage screen, naming the apps…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (297+ words) Video Boost is the Pro-only feature that uploads a clip to Google’s servers after you record it. Cloud processing then returns an improved version. On the Pixel 11 Pro series, that returned file has been coming back with bursts of static…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (257+ words) Google has published the September Android Drop, and it bundles five new features across Gemini, Find Hub and Google Messages. Two of them are live right now. The other three land on staggered timelines, and each one carries a different…...

2+ week, 51+ min ago   (293+ words) Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is an ARM hardware feature that tags chunks of memory and traps code that reads or writes outside what it was allocated. It exists to catch memory-safety bugs — the category Google itself said in 2022 accounted for…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (259+ words) The account that started the thread came from someone who had just moved to a Pixel 11 Pro XL and filmed a house show to try out the camera. On playback, they found bursts of static repeating roughly every five seconds…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (189+ words) Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4 is rolling out to Pixel phones, and it is the build that matters most in the cycle: this is the one that reaches Platform Stability, meaning app-facing behaviour is now locked ahead of the stable release. The odd…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (448+ words) Android 17’s Motion Assist Reaches Pixels With a Key Overlay Fix AndroidPure Android 17’s Motion Assist Reaches Pixels With a Key Overlay Fix Motion Assist, the Android 17 accessibility feature meant to reduce motion sickness when you use your phone in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (343+ words) Small as it sounds, it is the change with the clearest consumer logic behind it. A status bar is a scarce, permanently visible strip of screen, and an assistant claiming space in it by default is a product decision made…...