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Google’s Wear OS 7 update is starting to roll out today for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4, adding a new Live Updates feature that tracks live events from your Android smartwatch. Live Updates will now sync with Wear OS devices, so updates like sports scores or an ongoing meal delivery will show up on both your watch and your phone.
Android 17 does not position itself as a foldable-first operating system. There is little content allocated to optimizations for folding phones in the official feature list by Google. A gaming mode that equally splits the screen between a game display and the virtual gamepad interface.
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Google’s latest Pixel update introduces smarter multitasking, upgraded security, AI-powered creativity tools, and improved smartwatch experiences.
Android 17 introduces AI at its core, transforming your smartphone into a smart assistant with features like task-centric multitasking, Gemini Intelligence, enhanced security, and improved content creation tools.
Now, Google is moving to unify ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop platform, currently operating under the codename "Aluminium OS." (Or, depending on who you ask, Aluminum OS.) As far as we know — thanks to reporting from Android Authority — Aluminium OS is the internal codename for Google’s unified Android/ChromeOS desktop platform.
Amazon has updated its developers page to confirm Fire OS 16, based on Android 16, will be its next OS for Fire TV devices.
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