The new Google Pixel smartphone, shown with the company's Google Home smart speaker. That’s the take-away from Google’s recent spate of hardware products, easily seen with its new Pixel, available for sale on Thursday. The Pixel is really good as an Android smartphone, and great as a showcase for Google’s software, and what can happen when the company tries to optimize both to work together. With the Pixel — similar to Google’s Nexus line — users are promised that they will get software upgrades when Google provides them. Google’s plan has been about using what it learns about you, and acting on it.

Source: thestar October 19, 2016 17:26 UTC