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Apple's iPhone Duo pre-orders showed January 2027 or later on every configuration within an hour of opening, 9to5Google reported. Teams with a foldable rollout before then have to pick a device they can actually get.
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Google's free AI Pro trials omit Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity and YouTube Premium Lite that $19.99-a-month subscribers get, 9to5Google reports. Trials bundled with Pixel, Chromebook and Galaxy purchases are affected, so a buyer can spend months testing a narrower product than the one they would pay for.
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Samsung began pushing One UI 9 (Android 17) to the Galaxy S23 family in South Korea on Oct. 14 and has announced no schedule for other markets. Security support runs into 2028, so IT teams can wait for the build that matches their region.
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Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Argon in its Antigravity coding agent to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers on a separate weekly-only quota. Teams now have to decide which tasks justify spending it, and Google's own examples point to sorting them by what a miss would cost.
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Google says inline links will appear higher up in AI Overviews and AI Mode responses more frequently, with a separate test of a top slot for official sources. Site owners who depend on search referrals will need their own click data to see whether prominence turns into visits.
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OnePlus launched the OnePlus 16 in China with a 9,000mAh battery, 4,000mAh more than Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, after leaving the US and Europe. The runtime figures are OnePlus's own, and Gizmodo has not verified any benchmarks.
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9to5Google's reviewer used Googlebook OS for over a week and says it is more optimized than any earlier large-screen Android. The reviewer still calls it a rough first take, and the headline makes the verdict conditional on Google keeping it.
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Google's Android-based Googlebook launched without Adobe's suite or the Linux support ChromeOS had, 9to5Google found in nearly a week of use. For teams buying work laptops, the Android apps it does run were the bigger problem in that testing.
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Google is moving free Gemini app accounts to Flash-Lite only and taking the Pro model out of AI Plus, its cheapest paid plan, according to its help page. In the US, keeping Pro now means AI Pro at $19.99 a month, against $4.99 for AI Plus, 9to5Google reported.
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Google is testing payments to dozens of invited publishers whose content meaningfully contributes to answers in AI Mode, AI Overviews and Gemini. Because the payout formula is unpublished, a citation count is only a proxy for what Google pays on.
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Google's Fitbit Edge will sell for €179 in Europe and £159 in the UK, according to a Dealabs leak, or about $180 in the US by 9to5Google's estimate. The roughly $80 premium over the screen-free Fitbit Air buys a display with Google Play access.
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Google's Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1 installs on 23 Pixel models, but its new Notes Quick Settings tile appears only on the four Pixel 11 phones. For app teams preparing for March 2027, the build's bug fixes touch more of their own code than the tile does.
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Google is replacing ChromeOS with a laptop brand that other companies build, and the part it supplies is the Gemini software layer. That makes the app surface the thing product teams have to judge.
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Google says about 70% of what people do on a laptop happens in the browser. 9to5Google's poll writer says the other 30% is what broke him on ChromeOS, and on Googlebook, Photoshop is still the mobile app.
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9to5Google's hands-on finds an Android shell down to the Pixel launcher and the desktop widgets, while the first-party apps a new user reaches for first are Trusted Web Activities the Workspace team picked over its own Android build.
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On hands-on units, Gmail and Calendar open as Trusted Web Activities distributed through the Play Store, with Gemini Nano doing the on-device work. Google says each app team picks its own format.
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9to5Google's Ben Schoon says misuse of the Ray-Ban camera, and Meta's slow response to it, has put him off wearing smart glasses at all. Samsung and Google are close to shipping their own, cameras included.
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The @messages connector turned up at the bottom of Connected Apps in version 1.116.5.889 of the Mac app. It can send plain text to any contact and search the local conversation history, under five documented limits.
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Google's Home MCP connects outside coding agents to a user's home devices, with Claude and Codex among the five named clients. Eligibility starts and ends with US subscribers on the Premium Advanced tier.
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Google shipped fifteen separate fixes to the Home app and Gemini for Home on September 16, ten of them in the app itself. The most consequential pauses the widget's polling while the phone screen is locked, where no user will ever see it happen.
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