6+ day, 21+ hour 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, 6+ day 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, 13+ 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…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (369+ words) Pixel Camera 11, the version shipping on the Pixel 11 series, has quietly rebuilt the app’s manual controls — and then hidden them behind two separate walls. The redesigned Quick access controls are switched off out of the box, and even after you…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (202+ words) DXOMARK has published its camera test of the Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Google’s flagship lands on 168 points — fifth place in the lab’s global camera ranking. The score, dated 21 August, puts the Pixel behind a group of flagships that hold the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (203+ words) That 80% split is the genuinely useful part. Pixels slow the last stretch of charging deliberately to protect the battery, which is why a phone that hit 80% in half an hour can take another 40 minutes to top out. Seeing the two…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (184+ words) What the app builds on top of it, per the same feature list: Functionally this is the notification LED that Android phones quietly dropped years ago, reconstructed on hardware that was shipped for something else. Before anyone sideloads this, the…...