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Google Pixel 2 Launch Live Updates: Google Home Mini Goes Official
Gadgets 360 Staff, 04 October 2017
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Mini is going to all seven Google Home countries, India is not one of them.
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Available in three colours. Priced at $49, pre-orders begin today and will be available in the US from October 19.
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Four LED lights are there under the fabric. You can tap it once to talk to the assistant, adjust the volume, among other things.
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Almost the entire device is made of fabric.
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Google Home Mini it is. A much smaller version of Google Home.
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Isabelle Olsson, lead designer for Google Home hardware is on stage to talk about the device.
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Google Home now has hands-free calling, and it can figure out which business you want to contact, etc.
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Voice Match - how Google Home can now recognise your voice. This way the Google Assistant can bring personal help to each member of your home.
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Google Home first. Rishi Chandra, head of Google Home team, is on stage.
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Here comes the next generation of Google hardware.
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"The next big innovation will happen at the intersection of AI, software, and hardware."
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Osterloh says the smartphone market is levelling off.
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Osterloh says Google Assistant now has over 100 million new answers. Google Pixel had a great year he says, while acknowledging that it had some supply issues.
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The video ends with someone saying, "Okay Google, what's next".
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A promotional video is playing now. News clips about Google's event and hardware products the company makes.
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He mentioned Google's part acquisition of HTC just now.
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More on that later, but now Rick Osterloh, Google's hardware lead is on stage.
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He's talking about two kids who play baseball who were talking to each other using Google Translate.
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Pichai is talking about how Google's machine learning program has progressed and is more efficient in terms of using resources.
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In an AI first world, we can learn and adapt and do privacy and security better for our users, Pichai says.
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"Computing is going to evolve beyond the phone, be there in many screens around you, when you need it."
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I believe computers should adapt to people, instead of the other way round, he says.
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He's moved on to Google Translate and how it has improved over the years. Google once again talks about its motto - shifting from mobile first to an AI first world.
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In 5 months with machine learning, they were able to map 5,000 km of roads in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Pichai is talking about his visit to Nigeria and says it's a very exciting place unless you're a part of Google Maps team and have to map the city. It's a challenging task, he says.
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Pichai is talking about his visit to Nigeria and says it's a very exciting place unless you're a part of Google Maps team and have to map the city. It's a challenging task, he says.
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He's talking about Google's work for hurricane relief in the USA.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now on stage.
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The Google Pixel 2 event begins at 9.30 pm IST on October 4, stay tuned.
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We're at the event in San Francisco and will bring you live updates right here.
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Google is expected to launch the Pixel 2, Pixel XL 2, Google Home Mini smart speaker, and Pixelbook laptop.
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Welcome to Gadgets 360's live blog of the Google Pixel 2 event.
NDTV Gadgets360.com TeamGoogle Pixel 2 launch event – perhaps the last big smartphone launch of year – has commenced, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai taking the stage. Pichai has started the event by talking about the importance of machine learning and the AI-first world, along with the need to make interaction between AI and humans more natural. Rick Osterloh, Google's hardware lead took the stage after Pichai and started off with a mention of the recent HTC acquisition. He said the distinguishing feature of smartphones in the coming generation will be at a conjunction of software, hardware and AI.
Google Home is getting a new feature called Voice Match that allows Google Assistant to recognise your voice to provide personalised help to each member of the family. Voice Match will be released for the seven markets in which Google Home is available. The smart speaker is also getting hands-free calling. Google Home Mini, a smaller smart speaker has also been unveiled at the event. The successors of Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL are being launched at an event in San Francisco, California, and the upcoming smartphones are rumoured to be named the Google Pixel 2 and the Google Pixel 2 XL. The two phones will take on the likes of iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and LG V30, among others.
Google Pixel 2 launch time, live stream
The Pixel 2 event time is 9.30pm IST on October 4, and our live blog is right here to bring you quick bite-sized updates from the event. If you want to watch the Google Pixel 2 live stream, you can just start the video embedded below.
Google Pixel 2 specifications, design, price
As is always the case these days, pretty much every detail about the smartphone has been leaked. This includes Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL specifications, which you can check out if you’d like to see what to expect from these two Google smartphones. Fair warning, take all of these rumours and leaks with a pinch of salt as nothing has been confirmed by Google right now. That’s not all, we also have seen leaked images of the Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel XL 2 that give you an idea of how these two smartphones look.
We’ve also seen rumours about Google Pixel 2’s key features such as an always listening music feature, and details on pricing as well. The Google Pixel 2 might also be waterproof and feature an always-on display if rumours are to be believed. These rumours should give you enough to chew on while you wait for the event.
Sharp at 9.30 pm IST, the Google Pixel event is expected to begin and with it, our live updates will too. You can also follow live updates on our Twitter page.
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