Google ran Made by Google 2026 out of New York with former Daily Show host, Trevor Noah, running the room, and the pitch underneath the comedy was simple enough: your phone should do the work, and you should touch it less.

Australian pre-orders opened straight away. Stock lands August 20 in stores.

Here’s what was announced, what it costs here, what the carriers and retailers are actually giving away, and which of the headline features Australians won’t get on day one.

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The Australian prices

Pixel 11 starts at $1,499 for 256GB and $1,699 for 512GB.

Pixel 11 Pro runs $1,849 (256GB), $2,049 (512GB) and $2,399 (1TB).

Pixel 11 Pro XL is $2,099, $2,299 and $2,649 across the same three tiers.

Pixel 11 Pro Fold is $2,799 (256GB), $2,999 (512GB) and $3,349 (1TB).

Pixel Watch 5 is $649 for the 41mm Wi-Fi model, $699 for the 45mm, and $829 and $879 for the LTE versions. Fitbit Air is $199. Pixel Buds Pro 2 are $379 and Pixel Buds 2a are $239.

Every phone in the range now starts at 256GB, which is Google following Apple and Samsung rather than leading anyone.

The RAM cut due to the AI Rampocalypse

This is the part that enterprise buyers need to be aware of, and consumers too.

The base 256GB Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL ship with 12GB of RAM, down from 16GB on the equivalent Pixel 10 models. The 512GB and 1TB tiers keep 16GB. The standard Pixel 11 also sits on 12GB.

Google’s explanation, quoted in Information Age: “The tech industry is navigating a severe, supplier-driven RAM shortage and we will need to adjust Pixel 11 pricing and RAM configurations to mitigate this while delivering maximum value for our customers.”

That’s an honest answer, and it’s the same memory squeeze iTWire has been tracking across the whole handset market this year. It still means the cheapest Pro is the one with the least headroom for the on-device AI that the entire launch was built around.

Price movement here is milder than the US commentary suggests. Like for like on storage, Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro hold last year’s numbers. Pro XL and Pro Fold are both up exactly $100 at every tier. Compare base model to base model, though, and the entry price climbed because the 128GB option is gone.

What Osterloh actually said

Google Senior Vice President, Platforms and Devices, Rick Osterloh, framed the year as one of the rare moments where the relationship with the hardware changes.

“If you think about phones and laptops, they haven’t really changed that much over the last 10 to 15 years. But we’re in one of those rare leaps forward right now,” Osterloh said on stage.

He also dropped the number Google wanted in every headline: “There are now more than a billion people using the Gemini app, and that makes it the fastest growing product in Google history.”

The positioning line was this: “It’s no longer an operating system that helps you use your phone; it’s an intelligent system that gets things done for you.” Google calls the package Gemini Intelligence.

Osterloh also mentioned, almost in passing, that Google will ship “some interesting new devices like intelligent eyewear later this year”. That’s a callback rather than news: Google announced Android XR eyewear at I/O in May, with audio glasses first and Samsung, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker signed up on frames. Still no pricing, and still no Australian commitment.

Tensor G6, and the battery claim that matters

Google Pixel Product Lead, Edward Shi, handled the internals.

Tensor G6 brings 25% faster web browsing, 15% quicker app launches and 50% more TPU compute than G5, with Google claiming AI tasks run up to 3.5 times faster at up to 3.5 times less energy. Security sits on an upgraded Titan M3 chip with post-quantum cryptography.

“Pro gives you 30 hours of battery life,” Shi said. “Just plug it in for 15 minutes before walking out the door, and you’re going to get 15 hours of battery.”

Read the second half of that carefully. The 15-minutes-for-15-hours figure is a Pixel 11 Pro XL spec and it needs the 45W adapter. The Pixel 11 Pro charges at 30W and Google’s own spec sheet claims about 55% in 30 minutes, with no 15-minute number attached.

Shi made a similar claim on stage for the watch, saying 15 minutes gives you “almost a full day”. Google’s actual number is 15 hours in 15 minutes on the Quick Charge Dock, against 30 hours rated on the 41mm and 40 hours on the 45mm. Useful if you sleep-track and wake up flat. Not a full day.

Shi also committed to “seven years of automatic security updates”, which is the single most under-appreciated spec on the page for anyone running a fleet.

The scam angle, which matters here and globally, as Google clearly realises

Shi listed 3 protections, and the first one lands as hard in Australia as it does in a New York theatre.

“Your phone automatically blocks those annoying spam texts and phone calls for you, and it’s going to warn you if a phone call or message might look a little fishy and be a scam,” Shi said.

Australians lost $2.18 billion to scams in 2025, up 7.8% on 2024, according to the National Anti-Scam Centre’s Targeting Scams report. Investment scams took $837.7 million of that. Online-based scam losses rose 21%.

On-device scam detection that flags a suspicious call while it’s happening is worth more to an Australian buyer than any amount of 120x zoom. Google gave it a short amount of stage time, presumably because “your phone will stop you being robbed” is a harder ad to cut than a basketball highlight reel.

Shi’s other claim, that “your AI experience on Pixel has the most privacy protection on any phone”, is unfalsifiable marketing. The controls underneath it are real enough: per-feature AI toggles, and a visible indicator of what the AI is doing while it does it.

Cameras, and a mode that shoots 400 frames so you don’t have to

Pixel 11 gets a new 48MP main sensor with 56% better light sensitivity and a 5x telephoto reaching 30x Super Zoom. Pro and Pro XL get a redesigned main camera, a 48MP telephoto with 30% more light sensitivity, portrait mode at 5x, and Pro Zoom to 120x. Instant Night Sight is up to 4.5 times faster.

The new mode is Magic Capture, and it’s on every Pixel 11.

Google Pixel Camera Product Manager, Kenny Sulaimon, demonstrated it on a Brooklyn basketball court with USC Trojans Guard, JuJu Watkins, and Bucketsquad Founder, Jesser.

“Magic Capture looks through around 400 different frames to find those perfect moments when everyone is looking at the camera, or the action is at its peak,” Sulaimon said.

Point the phone, start the mode, and it hands back stills and video from the same burst. The pitch is that you watch the thing happening instead of watching the thing happening on a screen.

HiLight, or the notification you can see face down

Google Pixel Product Manager, Toni Urban, showed the feature I suspect will get copied fastest – even if it is a modern re-invention of the notification light that used to be on plenty of earlier Androids 10-15 years ago. 

HiLight uses the LED ring around the camera flash. Assign a person or group one of 5 colours and the back of the phone glows when they call, even with the screen down and the ringer off. Gemini activity gets its own cue.

Trevor Noah’s summary of the problem was better than the slide: “They started off ringing, then it was too loud, then we made them silent. But then we missed the call, so then we introduced vibration, which worked until you put it on a table, and now the whole table is vibrating.”

South Korean DJ and producer, Peggy Gou, rang Urban live to demonstrate. He declined the call, which was awkward television and a working feature.

“Sometimes it’s the simplest features that are the most powerful,” Urban said. Message notifications are coming later.

Google hasn’t published which 5 colours you get. A pre-launch teardown of Google Contacts turned up a 9-colour palette with no red in it, and Urban told Noah on stage that red wasn’t an option, so plan your scheme accordingly.

HiLight runs on Pixel 11 Pro, Pro XL and Pro Fold, globally. The standard Pixel 11 misses out. You do have to keep some features for the Pro line, after all. 

If it’s popular, and it should be, then the standard Pixel 12 line should get it, too. 

Gemini books the table, you press pay

Google Pixel Product Manager, Stephanie Scott, ran the agentic demo: booking a table for 3 at a New York restaurant by voice, with Gemini walking through Google Maps and then OpenTable on screen.

“You can already automate actions in over 40 apps, everything from restaurant reservations, retail, travel, and even event tickets,” Scott said.

The guardrail is the useful bit. “It’ll do pretty much everything, but hitting pay and confirm is up to me,” she said. You can watch the task, interrupt it, or kill it.

Google’s own published material is vaguer than the stage was, describing agentic actions across select food, grocery and rideshare apps with availability varying by device, app and region. Assume the Australian app list is shorter than the American one until Google says otherwise.

Scott also showed inline RSVP handling: a text invite that pulls your calendar into the thread so you can answer without app-switching, mirrored to Pixel Watch 5 with a pinch gesture to send.

Rambler, and speaking the way people actually speak

Google DeepMind Senior Product Manager, Joel Yawili, demonstrated the new voice typing, which Google internally calls Rambler.

Trevor Noah dictated a rambling message full of self-corrections and mid-sentence changes of mind, and the keyboard cleaned it into a coherent text.

“Your phone understood what you meant, not just what you said,” Yawili said. Whether this kills the Wispr Flow app is yet to be seen, but features that can be subsumed by operating systems are always ripe for Sherlocking, while forcing feature-based companies to innovate harder. 

Rambler handles mid-sentence language switching without touching settings, and it picks emoji skin tone from context. It lives in the Pixel keyboard, so it works anywhere you’d otherwise type.

The stage framing was “rolling out globally”. Google’s own launch post is narrower, saying Rambler is available on Gboard for select countries and languages, and the support page lists 11 languages and requires an internet connection for the full experience. English is one of them, so Australians should be fine. Check before you buy on the strength of it.

For anyone who has ever fought a voice assistant with a non-American accent, this is the feature to test first in a shop.

Sign to Text, and the Auslan gap

Google Head of Product Inclusion and Equity, Annie Jean-Baptiste, introduced Sign to Text with CODA actor, Daniel Durant.

“We’ve been working on a new capability called Sign to Text that lets your Pixel understand American Sign Language. We’re developing it with the Deaf and hard of hearing community, and it’s in its early days,” Jean-Baptiste said.

Durant, signing, described what the phone picked up: “This phone understands my one-handed and two-handed signing, and it can recognise my facial expressions for grammar and tone.” He added that it “helps me every day when I don’t have an interpreter”.

The engineering underneath is worth a look. Google DeepMind’s SL2T model was trained on more than 100,000 hours of video across 50-plus sign languages, with roughly a quarter of that in ASL. An on-device MediaPipe model converts video to pose landmarks, and only those coordinates go to the server. The original video is discarded.

Here’s the Australian catch. It launches in American Sign Language only, into English.

Auslan is a different language with different grammar and a different fingerspelling system, closer to British Sign Language than American. The 2021 Census counted 16,242 people using Auslan at home, the first time it appeared as a prompted option.

So the feature ships on Australian hardware and does nothing useful for Australian signers on day one. Google says more sign languages are coming. No timeline, and no indication of where Auslan sits in the queue, but future Auslan compatibility will mean an Auslan signer will be able to speak to an American or British sign language user, even if a Pixel 11 or better is needed to do the translating. 

Pixel Watch 5 and Health Guardian

Google Wearables Lead, Sandeep Waraich, and Google Senior Clinical Lead, Dr Jacqueline Shreibati, announced the feature set Google is calling Health Guardian.

Four things sit under it: insulin resistance trends, blood pressure trends, sleep breathing quality trends, and breathing emergency detection. Loss of Pulse Detection and satellite SOS get folded into the same umbrella.

“The Pixel Watch 5 is the first and only smartwatch to track insulin resistance trends, and it’s a big deal,” Waraich said. “It’s a true industry first, representing 10 years of work, training our foundational models on more than a billion minutes of clinical data, and we have published our research in top-tier scientific journals.”

Google’s published detail goes further than the stage did: the insulin resistance model was trained on more than a trillion minutes of sensor data from 5 million opted-in users, with clinical validation published in Nature. Blood pressure trends run on a separate model, WavesFM, validated through the Fitbit Hypertension Labs study.

Shreibati, a practising cardiologist who was Chief Medical Officer at AliveCor before Google, made the case for why anyone should care.

“Insulin resistance is the earliest sign that your body is struggling to pull energy from food, and 40% of adults live with it without ever knowing,” Shreibati said.

On blood pressure: “It’s a signal you can’t always feel. I see so many patients in clinic who had no idea theirs had crept up.”

Waraich called the pairing “a check engine light for your body”, which is the framing Google wants you to leave with.

One thing the stage framing obscures, and it saves you money. Insulin resistance and blood pressure trends aren’t Pixel Watch 5 exclusives. Google’s own announcement covers Pixel Watch and Fitbit Air, and Engadget reports the pair landing on Pixel Watch 3, 4 and 5 plus the $199 Fitbit Air. If those two features are the reason you’re shopping, you may not need to buy anything at all.

The regulatory small print Australians need

This is where the Australian read diverges sharply from the American one.

Breathing emergency detection, which watches for oxygen desaturation from choking, drug toxicity or severe pneumonia and can call emergency services if you don’t respond, is opt-in and launching in selected European countries only. It’s CE marked in the EU. It is not FDA cleared, and it is not coming to Australia at launch.

“Think of it like an airbag on your wrist,” Waraich said. “It’s coming first to Europe and more countries soon.”

Loss of Pulse Detection, which Google has been shipping since the Pixel Watch 3, still isn’t available in Australia. Google’s own support page lists 16 countries. Australia isn’t one of them, and the page notes additional countries get added “as regulatory clearance is obtained”. Translation: it’s sitting somewhere in the Therapeutic Goods Administration process, or it hasn’t been lodged.

Insulin resistance and blood pressure trends are positioned as wellness trends rather than diagnostics, which is how they clear the regulatory bar. Google is explicit that neither replaces a cuff or a blood test, and neither diagnoses anything. Both arrive in September, so they’re not on the watch you buy on August 20.

Google’s fine print also says Health Guardian availability varies by region and by device, and it doesn’t name Australia anywhere. Until Google confirms it, treat a local September arrival as an assumption rather than a promise.

If you’re buying a Pixel Watch 5 in Australia specifically for the emergency features, understand that the two that could actually save a life, are the two you can’t have. Yet.

The fitness side, and a GPS claim aimed squarely at Garmin

Google Pixel Watch and Fitbit Group Product Manager, Noah Presler, ran the workout demo with USA Track and Field Heptathlete, Chari Hawkins.

Hawkins has been on Fitbit since 2021 and made the Paris team in 2024 at 33, on her third attempt, which makes her one of the oldest American heptathletes to compete at an Olympics.

“During my career, I have made a USA team by a single centimetre. So that’s what we mean when we say that every 1% counts,” Hawkins said.

Presler’s specific claims: heart rate accuracy at chest-strap level, the most accurate sleep tracking Google has shipped against clinical gold standards, and route tracking twice as accurate as the previous generation.

The route tracking method is the interesting engineering. Pixel Watch 5 traces satellite signals through the 3D building models behind Google Maps to triangulate position in city canyons, then corrects for atmospheric error using weather station networks.

“It outperforms the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro,” Presler said.

That is a big claim aimed at two devices that cost considerably more than $699, and it’s exactly the sort of claim that gets tested by people with a lot of time and a running club. iTWire will be watching for independent numbers.

Google Health Coach builds strength workouts around your equipment, your sleep and your injuries, and can swap a hot-day run for indoor yoga on its own initiative. It’s been available in Australia since May, bundled with Google Health Premium at $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year, and included free for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Google Performance Advisor, Stephen Curry, appears in a filmed segment putting his father Dell through a synced workout. Curry also gets a special edition 45mm Pixel Watch 5 at US$579 from 3 September. There’s no confirmed Australian price or availability for it.

Design, durability and the repair detail worth applauding

Google Vice President of Design, Isabelle Olsson, has been designing Google hardware since the beginning and handled the physical side.

On colours: “We don’t really pick the colours; we create them, and it’s an art and a science.” Her team collects objects from around the world for reference. “It could be a Japanese candy, a butterfly’s wing, a bar of soap from Italy. We have really weird stuff in our studio.”

Pixel 11 comes in Frost, Pistachio, Hibiscus and Obsidian. Pro and Pro XL get Canyon, Fog, Olive and a matte Obsidian. Pro Fold is Olive or Obsidian.

The camera bar is 40% thinner across the range. Pro displays hit 3,600 nits peak with a coating Google says is more than twice as scratch resistant.

The Pro Fold is the more interesting engineering story. It’s 239g, about 10% lighter and 1mm thinner than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with a gearless hinge, a glass fibre composite back Google describes as nearly impossible to crack, ceramic outer cover glass, and IP68 dust and water protection. Google claims 3 times the durability of last year’s model. Both screens run 3,600 nits.

Olsson said Google’s reliability lab opened and closed the hinge “83,552,000 times”, which Trevor Noah correctly noted sounds absurd. Take it as a cumulative lab total rather than a single-unit figure, because Google hasn’t published a per-device cycle rating to go with it.

Two details deserve more attention than they got. Every Pixel phone for 5 years has used 100% recycled aluminium frames, and the Pixel 11 series uses recycled content across 10 materials including lithium and rare earth elements.

And this, from Olsson: “We use these green screws and guides inside the phone to make repairs easier.”

Colour-coded internal fasteners for third-party repairers is a small, cheap, deliberate decision that saves handsets from landfill. In a market where right-to-repair keeps getting talked about and rarely designed for, it’s the most quietly useful thing on the whole spec sheet.

Pixel Tag, Fitbit Air and the buds

Pixel Tag is Google’s first-party tracker: UWB plus Bluetooth, precision finding to 50 metres, a replaceable CR2032 good for over a year, IP67, and a speaker. It’s US$29 single and US$99 for a 4-pack, arriving November. Australian reporting has it at $49 single and $169 for a multipack, though Google hasn’t published local pricing and it isn’t part of the August 20 launch.

Fitbit Air is the $199 screenless band, already on sale here since May, with 24/7 heart rate, AFib alerts, SpO2 and sleep staging, a week of battery and 5-minute fast charging for a full day.

Google Australia and New Zealand Director of Device and Services Business, Rory Charlston, described it on Google’s Australian blog as “simple, affordable and comfortable enough to wear 24/7”.

Pixel Buds Pro 2 get a new Olive colourway now and a software update in September: dynamic noise cancellation that compensates when the seal breaks during exercise, Gemini EQ adjustment by ear, Pixel Tag ringing by voice, and sleep sync that pauses audio when your Pixel Watch decides you’ve nodded off on the flight.

Switching from iPhone, and what Apple actually helped with

Call Her Daddy Host, Alex Cooper, handled the migration segment with a Google product manager introduced on stage as Jake.

“We love to pretend that switching is logical. It is never logical,” Cooper said, which is the truest sentence anyone said all day.

The substance: Google says it worked with Apple this year to upgrade the transfer process. Photos, videos, text message history, eSIMs, Wi-Fi credentials, passwords and logins now move across automatically. Order online and you get a link that starts pulling photos and videos into Google Photos before the handset arrives.

RCS group chats carry emoji reactions and typing indicators. Location sharing with iOS friends runs through Google Maps.

Quick Share talking to MacBooks and iPhones got stage time too, and it’s worth correcting the impression that left. That shipped back in November 2025 starting with the Pixel 10, and Google built it without Apple’s help. It works, it’s a functional AirDrop bridge, and it isn’t new.

For anyone doing a mixed-fleet rollout, that AirDrop bridge is still worth more than most of the AI features.

What the deals are actually worth in Australia

Every offer below has a different deadline, so read the dates.

Google Store Australia is running bonuses that expire 27 August. Pixel 11 gets a free Fitbit Air or $199 store credit. Pixel 11 Pro gets $449 off a Pixel Watch 5 or $449 credit. Pro XL gets $599 either way. Pro Fold gets a free Pixel Watch 5 or $699 credit. Trade-in runs separately until 4 September, at up to $500 for an eligible Pixel 10, up to $700 for a Pixel 10 Pro or Pro XL, and up to $900 for a Pixel 10 Pro Fold. All models include 3 months of YouTube Premium, with 6 months of Google AI Pro on the Pro tiers.

Telstra is doing $400 off the Pixel 11 and $600 off the Pro Fold on a payment plan, with reporting putting the Pro and Pro XL discount at $650. Stack $400 bonus trade-in credit on any model and Telstra’s headline numbers become up to $800 on the Pixel 11, up to $1,050 on the Pro and Pro XL, and up to $1,000 on the Pro Fold. Device discounts end 20 August. Trade-ins must complete by 21 September. A PROMO code takes $5 a month off a new Basic Mobile Plan for 12 months until 7 September.

Optus has $500 off the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro, and $1,000 off the Pro XL and Pro Fold, on 12, 24 or 36-month terms. The Pro XL and Pro Fold offers end 6 September. The standard models run to 6 October. Cancel early and you forfeit the discount.

Vodafone has $650 off the Pixel 11 on 24 or 36-month plans until 30 September, plus $13 a month off the Small plan for the first year. The eye-catcher is a bundled PlayStation 5 Slim Digital with an extra DualSense controller, valued at $1,009.90, with a Pixel 11 Pro XL. That one closes 19 August. Vodafone has nothing listed for the Pro or Pro Fold.

JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman are bundling accessories until 26 August: Fitbit Air with the Pixel 11, Fitbit Air plus Pixel Buds 2a with the Pro, Fitbit Air plus Pixel Buds Pro 2 with the Pro XL, and a 45mm Wi-Fi Pixel Watch 5 in Olive with the Pro Fold. That last one is a $699 accessory attached to a $2,799 phone.

The Good Guys is doing Fitbit Air plus Pixel Buds Pro 2 on the Pro XL only, until 27 August.

Officeworks is taking pre-orders with no bonus attached.

Add it all up and the gap between RRP and what you’d actually pay runs from a couple of hundred dollars to over $1,000, depending on what you’re trading in and how long you’re willing to be contracted. The carrier discounts assume you stay connected for the full term, so read the contract before the discount reads it for you.

The competition, and the September problem

Australia is an unusually hard market for Google.

StatCounter’s latest Australian numbers, for July 2026, put Apple on 63.7% of mobile vendor share, Samsung on 20.99% and Google on 5.93%. That’s usage data from web traffic rather than sales, so treat it as directional.

The direction is still hard on Google. Pixel has grown here, from under 4% in February to nearly 6% in July, and it’s still a fraction of what the brand does in the US or Japan.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip and Fold 8 series, priced for Australia from $1,949, has now officially hit shelves, with pre-order deals now closed. The book-style Fold8 runs $2,699 to $3,599 and the Fold8 Ultra $2,999 to $3,899, with the Flip8 down at $1,949.

That puts the passport-shaped Fold8 at $2,699 right on top of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold at $2,799, and Samsung already owns the Australian foldable market and the retail relationships that go with it.

Then there’s Apple. The keynote is expected 8 or 9 September, with iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max and a first foldable iPhone tipped to go on sale 18 September – although the latest rumours suggest it will only launch in the US first, and might not arrive in Australia and the rest of the world until sometime in 2027. 

At best, that’s about 4 weeks after Pixel 11 reaches Australian shelves, and Apple’s first foldable will suck most of the oxygen out of the category regardless of whether it’s any good, although if it’s only available in the US first, that’s good news for sales of the Fold 8 series and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, too.

Google’s counter is that the software does something the others don’t yet – and you may well wonder why you need to get the Siri trained on Gemini when you can just get the real Gemini instead. On the evidence of the demos, Google certainly does have some AI agent advantages. Whether that’s worth walking away from an ecosystem is a different question, and Alex Cooper was right that the answer isn’t a logical one.

What I’d do

If you want a Pixel and you know which one, the Vodafone PlayStation bundle on the Pro XL is the single most concrete piece of value on the table and it closes on 19 August. The Google Store and JB Hi-Fi bonuses run a week or so longer, and don’t force you to become a Vodafone customer. 

If you’re buying for the health features, wait and read the fine print. Insulin resistance and blood pressure trends don’t arrive until September, Google hasn’t confirmed Australia is in that rollout. Breathing emergency detection is Europe-only, and Loss of Pulse Detection still isn’t cleared here. The watch is a good watch. It’s a smaller watch in Australia than the keynote implied – at least, for now. 

And if it’s the insulin resistance and blood pressure tracking you actually want, check whether your existing Pixel Watch 3 or 4 is getting them before you spend $649. A $199 Fitbit Air is also on the list.

If you’re in enterprise procurement, spec the 512GB tier. The extra $200 buys you 16GB of RAM instead of 12GB on a device whose entire value proposition is running AI models locally, and a 3-year refresh cycle will feel that difference well before the 7 years of security updates run out.

And if you’re deaf or hard of hearing in Australia, Sign to Text is not for you yet. Worth saying plainly – and by the time any Auslan compatibility arrives, you might well be look at the Pixel 12 series, instead. 

But for most people, if you need a new phone, and you’re an Android fan, the purest experience comes with the fastest Android OS updates comes from Pixel phones, now in their 11th generation. 

They’re a solid choice and popular for good reason, and whether you’re an Android user needing to upgrade, or an iPhone user who is curious to switch, your life may well soon become Pixellated – with pre-order offers always the best time to buy for the best deal. 

People and links

  • Google Senior Vice President, Platforms and Devices, Rick Osterloh, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google Vice President of Design, Isabelle Olsson, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google Pixel Product Lead, Edward Shi, presented the Tensor G6, camera and privacy segments.
  • Google Pixel Product Manager, Toni Urban, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google Pixel Camera Product Manager, Kenny Sulaimon, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google Pixel Product Manager, Stephanie Scott, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google DeepMind Senior Product Manager, Joel Yawili, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google Head of Product Inclusion and Equity, Annie Jean-Baptiste, is on LinkedIn and is the author of Building for Everyone.
  • Google Wearables lead, Sandeep Waraich, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google Senior Clinical Lead, Dr Jacqueline Shreibati, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google Pixel Watch and Fitbit Group Product Manager, Noah Presler, is on LinkedIn.
  • Google Health Intelligence Product Management Director, Florence Thng, authored Google’s Health Guardian announcement. No public LinkedIn profile located.
  • Google Australia and New Zealand Director of Device and Services Business, Rory Charlston, is on LinkedIn.
  • USA Track and Field heptathlete, Chari Hawkins, is on LinkedIn.
  • Bucketsquad founder and YouTube creator, Jesser (Jesse Riedel), is on LinkedIn.
  • Google is on LinkedIn, with an Australian view of the same page here.
  • Guests without verified LinkedIn profiles: host Trevor Noah, actor Daniel Durant, Google Performance Advisor Stephen Curry, podcaster Alex Cooper, DJ Peggy Gou, musician PinkPantheress, actor and model Ayami Nakajo, India cricket captain Shubman Gill, USC guard JuJu Watkins, and former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.
  • The Googler who presented the iPhone switching segment with Alex Cooper was introduced on stage only as Jake. Google has not published a surname or title, and no outlet covering the event has named him.

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