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Pixel information is leaking left and proper as Google’s developer convention quick approaches. Yesterday, we discovered concerning the Pixel Fold and its obvious arrival date. At present, the delayed Pixel Pill’s charging dock popped up on Amazon, full with pricing and launch date information.
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9to5Google experiences it noticed an Amazon itemizing for a “Pixel Pill Standalone Charging Dock” earlier at the moment. The Amazon retailer description says the “distinctive Pixel Pill Charging Speaker Dock retains your pill charged and prepared 24/7″ and that “it’s simple to dock and undock.”
The corresponding photograph appears to be like precisely like what we’ve seen in Google’s renderings to date. It’s a dock akin to the present crop of Nest Hub units, proper right down to the soft-colored cloth protecting. 4 connection pins can be found for a pill to dock, and there’s seemingly a magnet embedded beneath to maintain the system positioned upward.
Earlier than it was scrubbed, the Amazon itemizing talked about the system would launch on Could 10, the day of the Google I/O 2023 keynote. It appears Google would possibly simply drop the Pixel Pill on the day of the occasion. The itemizing additionally metioned the steep value for the dock: $130. We nonetheless want to find out how a lot the Pixel Pill will price, regardless that somebody’s already tried to promote the Pixel Pill by way of Fb Market. This week, we additionally discovered the Pixel Pill would are available 4 colours, together with the “Hazel” talked about on this Amazon itemizing.
Admittedly, the final time I thought of an Android pill was the Google Nexus 9, a 9-inch system launched in 2014 and manufactured by HTC. The place will the Pixel Pill match within the lineup of Google-made units? Will people discover it extra user-friendly as a result of it isn’t closed-off software program like what’s working on the Nest Hub units? Is that this a substitute for the Nest Hub Max? Will it nonetheless be positioned as a wise residence controller as Google launched it when it introduced the system ultimately yr’s developer convention?
We’ll discover out quickly sufficient. Google I/O 2023 begins on Could 10. Gizmodo can be protecting all of the information popping out of the developer convention.
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