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This week, an immersive vibration function was noticed on the Pixel Climate app, Google launches a Gemini app for iPhones, the Put on OS 5 replace resumes on the Pixel Watch, YouTube Premium ditches grandfathered pricing for subscribers, and the RedMagic 10 Professional sequence is right here.
Really feel the rain with Pixel Climate
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Pixel Climate launched with the Pixel 9 sequence, and now customers are discovering an Immersive Climate Vibrations function for the app. It is a enjoyable little setting that brings your climate to life by including delicate vibrations that correlate with the animations within the app. For example, if it is raining, the telephone’s haptics will kick in and mimic the pitter-patter of rain falling onto the machine, matching up with the animation throughout the app. Mishaal Rahman notes that it must also work with thunderstorms and snow, amongst different climate situations.
The function is obtainable now on through a server aspect replace and you may allow or disable it within the Pixel Climate settings menu. We have seen it on our Pixel 9 fashions, and in keeping with Android Authority, it is out there on model 1.0.20240910.678970266.launch.
Put on OS 5: Return of the replace
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After a little bit of a delay, Put on OS 5 started rolling out once more on the unique Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2. The replace, which initially began rolling out in September, features a new app grid, the Pixel Recorder app, extra digicam controls, and extra. Nevertheless, customers bumped into points with their smartwatches after putting in the replace, with units caught on a clean display screen and successfully bricking their watches.
Because of the issues, Google pulled the replace because it labored to determine what should be blamed for the difficulty. Now, it appears like Google has discovered an answer, with the Put on OS 5 replace arriving alongside the November safety patch.
The Pixel Watch 3 has additionally acquired the November replace, but it surely solely brings the brand new safety patch and bug fixes. Moreover, Google has acknowledged that the following replace for Pixel smartwatches will not arrive till March 2025, going away from what has been a comparatively month-to-month cadence of updates.
Gemini will get the iPhone therapy
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Till now, Gemini Dwell has been an Android-only affair, with iPhone customers overlooked of the generative AI enjoyable. Now, Google is throwing them a bone by launching the conversational AI bot inside a brand new standalone Gemini app.
The expertise is kind of what you may get with the Gemini app on Android, with the usual Gemini expertise, which is actually a alternative for Google Assistant. Nevertheless, now there’s entry to Gemini Dwell for extra pure conversations, and it comes with entry to Imagen 3 for high-quality picture era. Dwell will even seem on the Dynamic Island whereas in use and can hook up with different Google apps, which means you’ll be able to ask it to play music, discover instructions, and extra.
In fact, iOS customers can nonetheless entry the usual Gemini expertise on the internet or through the Google app, however Dwell is simply out there on the app. It is also potential so as to add it as a shortcut through the Motion Button on newer units just like the iTelephone 16 Professional Max.
No extra early adopter pricing for YouTube Premium
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Earlier than YouTube Premium was a factor, there was the YouTube Music Key, which charged $7.99 for ad-free music streaming means again in 2014. Now, these early adopters who received to maintain their pricing by means of the YouTube Premium launch at the moment are being informed they must pay extra.
Customers in Europe have been receiving emails in regards to the change, with a YouTube communications supervisor confirming the worth change for legacy members, principally inside Europe, Central America, and South America. One person in Spain notes that the worth of their YouTube Music Premium subscription is growing to €10.99, matching present pricing for brand new members.
Nonetheless, legacy subscribers have slightly time earlier than the change occurs and can hold their present pricing for an additional three months.
A robust new gaming telephone
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Following the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Elite in October, Nubia has revealed its newest flagship units to compete with the finest gaming telephones: the RedMagic 10 Professional and 10 Professional Plus. The telephones are largely an identical and solely differ of their inside specs.
Each telephones function 6.85-inch AMOLED shows with 144Hz refresh charges, peak brightness of two,000 nits, and a contact sampling fee of 960Hz for responsive gaming. Beneath are large batteries, with 6,500mAh for the ten Professional and seven,050mAh for the Professional Plus. Moreover, the Professional helps 60W wired charging whereas the Professional Plus helps 120W charging, which ought to assist given the large battery sizes.
The ten Professional comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB or 512GB of storage. In the meantime, the ten Professional Plus will get 16GB or 24GB of RAM and double the storage sizes, using the UFS 4.1 normal.
On the again are 50MP triple digicam methods, with 16MP under-display cameras on the entrance, giving customers an uninterrupted gaming expertise with a greater than 93% screen-to-body ratio. Each telephones additionally include spectacular thermal administration and cooling methods to deal with all that energy.
The telephones can be found now in China and can launch internationally on December 3.
Extra tales this week
These are a few of the largest tales from this week. In the meantime, listed here are another tales which might be price catching up on: