Pixel Buds 2a is here, the newest member of the Pixel Buds family. Our latest edition of A-series buds has a comfortable, lightweight design and is the first in our A-series to offer Active Noise Cancellation. Powered by Tensor A1 and enhanced with Google AI, these buds offer impressive sound and the added helpfulness of Gemini, all at an incredible value.

Find your perfect fit

Designed for a comfortable and secure fit, Pixel Buds 2a are smaller and lighter than Pixel Buds A-series. Inspired by the design of Pixel Buds Pro 2, they feature a twist-to-adjust stabilizer and four eartips so you can find the fit that’s best for you. And they have an IP54 sweat and water resistance rating, so don’t worry if you get caught in the rain while you’re going for a run. Pixel Buds 2a come in two colors — Iris and Hazel — that beautifully complement your other Pixel devices and your style.

Experience impressive sound powered by Tensor A1

At the heart of Pixel Buds 2a is Tensor A1, purpose-built for audio processing. This chip brings a first for our A-series buds: Active Noise Cancellation with Silent Seal 1.5 (ANC).

Our audio performance takes a significant leap forward with a custom-designed speaker driver and new high-frequency chamber, ensuring your music and podcasts sound incredible. And thanks to wind-blocking mesh covers and Google AI, you can expect clear call quality for both you and your caller.

You’ll also get twice the listening time of the first-generation Pixel Buds A-series when noise cancellation is off. Even with Active Noise Cancellation on, Pixel Buds 2a provide 7 hours of listening on a single charge, extending to 20 hours total with the charging case. These Pixel Buds are built to last — from getting better overtime with software updates to extending its life with a replaceable case battery for the first time. More battery and more bass.

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Get help from Gemini — without taking out your phone

Pixel Buds 2a come with your new smart companion: Gemini. With hands-free help from AI, you can get things done, summarize messages, and even ask for coffee recommendations during your walk — all without taking out your phone. Just say, “Hey Google” or customize press and hold gestures to reach your digital assistant.

Perfectly pair with your Pixel phone

Pixel Buds 2a is also the perfect complement to your Pixel phone. Seamlessly switch between devices, with Multipoint, which lets you connect with multiple devices at the same time or quickly pair with Fast Pair, so you can stay productive, even when your hands are full.

And with Find Hub, your buds won’t stay missing for long. This app lets you find the precise location of your earbuds (and other devices) on a map, and you can even ring the buds when you’re nearby to find them faster.

Pre-order today

Pixel Buds 2a offer all the things you love about Pixel Buds at an unbelievable value. You can pre-order a pair today for $129, and they’ll be on shelves at the Google Store and our retail partners on October 9

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Today we introduced Pixel Watch 4, our biggest update to the Pixel Watch yet. It’s completely redesigned to help you live a healthier life, stay connected and stay ahead of your day. It’s filled with industry firsts, like a first-of-its-kind domed Actua 360 display; it’s the first smartwatch ever to support standalone Satellite Communication. And for the first time, Gemini is just a raise of your wrist away for on-the-go assistance. Plus Pixel Watch remains the only smartwatch to detect a loss of pulse.

Exquisite design, unrivaled performance

We’ve completely redesigned Pixel Watch 4 while maintaining the iconic circular shape.

• A new, domed display: It’s not just the glass that’s curved. Pixel Watch 4 features a first-of-its-kind Actua 360 display that’s physically curved to deliver a 10% larger active area and an edgeless appearance with 16% smaller bezels. Plus, it’s easier to see, even in direct sunlight, thanks to a 50% brighter 3000 nit display.

• A more personalized, responsive feel: Material 3 Expressive brings the display to life, making it even more dynamic and personalized, with richer colors, eye-catching clock faces and more glanceable UIs. A new custom haptic engine is 15% stronger, and an upgraded custom speaker makes every interaction with Gemini feel even more delightful.

• The longest-lasting, fastest-charging battery: Pixel Watch 4 has a 25% longer battery life — that’s 30 hours on the 41mm and 40 hours on the 45mm! And with Battery Saver mode, you can extend that to two (41mm) and three days (45mm). Plus, the thoughtfully designed Quick Charge Dock allows Pixel Watch 4 to charge 25% faster than before, going from 0-50% in just 15 minutes.

• More powerful compute under the hood: This generation features our most advanced hybrid compute architecture yet with the new Snapdragon® W5 Gen 2 Wearable Platform, and our next-gen ML-powered co-processor that’s 25% faster at half the power.
• A durable, serviceable design: Pixel Watch 4 features durable custom Corning Gorilla Glass and an Aerospace-grade aluminum housing, and it’s water-resistant up to 50 meters. For the first time ever, it’s serviceable — with a replaceable battery and display.

Satellite communications on your wrist

Pixel Watch 4 LTE is the first-ever smartwatch with standalone emergency satellite communications. Powered by the Snapdragon® W5 Gen 2, it can connect you to emergency services through a series of geo-stationary satellites, dispatching help to your location, even when you’re off the grid.

Advanced health and fitness capabilities

Pixel Watch 4 delivers our most comprehensive and accurate health and fitness tracking to date:

• Smarter sleep tracking: Pixel Watch 4 delivers our most accurate sleep tracking yet. Using new advanced machine learning models, it’s 18% more accurate at classifying your complete sleep cycle, tracking time spent in each stage of sleep.
• Enhanced skin temperature sensing: With a new Skin Temperature sensor, the watch detects when you’re out of your personal range. This helps indicate changes in your wellbeing, like when you might be falling under the weather.
• Our most accurate route tracking: New dual-frequency GPS unlocks enables our most accurate route tracking in even the toughest environments, like a downtown city run or tree-dense hike.
• Real-time bike stats: Plus, enjoy real-time streaming of your metrics from your wrist to the Fitbit app as a heads-up display on your handlebars for cycling.
• New exercise options: We’ve added new Exercise modes (bringing the watch to 50+ options), including pickleball and basketball.
• Personalized, automatic tracking: And now, even when you forget to start a workout, your watch will use AI to automatically detect and classify your activity and send you a recap so you never miss out on your stats.

This is all in addition to our robust suite of advanced health and fitness tools, like stress management, Cardio and Target Load, ECG assessment, Health Metrics Dashboard, Morning Brief and more.

Your new, personal AI health coach

Together with our team of experts, we’re introducing a personal AI health coach, built with Gemini. It provides proactive fitness and sleep coaching and on-demand guidance, uniquely tailored to your goals and real-life circumstances based on metrics from your Pixel Watch. This effectively gives you a 24/7 health coach on your wrist.

We’re launching a preview of the personal health coach for users who use any Fitbit device or Pixel Watch in the U.S. this October in a completely reimagined Fitbit app. You can sign up now to be notified when the preview is available in October and help us shape it as we make regular improvements.

Seamless, intelligent connectivity

With Pixel Watch 4, added on-device AI capabilities help you communicate while staying in the moment — like Smart Replies, which offer AI-powered responses, contextually tailored to your conversation.

And now Gemini, your on-wrist AI assistant, helps you get more done, hands-free. With Raise to Talk you can access Gemini by simply raising your wrist — so you can still get help or answers even when you’re carrying groceries or a coffee, or walking the dog.

Available for preorder now

Pixel Watch 4 is available for preorder today and on shelves starting October 9. Pricing for Pixel Watch 4 remains the same as Pixel Watch 3:

• 41mm: Starting at $349 for Wi-Fi and $449 for LTE.
• 45mm: Starting at $399 for Wi-Fi and $499 for LTE.

Available in colors that complement Pixel phones while also standing out on their own, you can personalize your watch with a wide variety of new accessory bands.

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Today, we’re announcing Pixel 10 Pro Fold, our most durable foldable yet. Pixel 10 Pro Fold represents the best of Google engineering and features a new gearless hinge, significant camera improvements, incredible performance and new helpful AI tools powered by our Tensor G5 processor.

Upgraded hardware

This phone’s sleek new design is crafted from aerospace-grade aluminum, and comes in Moonstone and Jade. It features a new gearless hinge that’s twice as durable as Pixel 9 Pro Fold’s, and it even has an IP68 water and dust resistance rating — a first for a foldable device. This means your phone will have the same protection as the other Pixel 10 phones.

We also reengineered the Super Actua Flex Display to be more durable. The screen is built with ultra-thin glass and two layers of anti-impact film for added drop protection. These upgrades combined with the new hinge ensures that Pixel 10 Pro Fold can handle over 10 years of folding.

Both displays are also getting an upgrade. Pixel 10 Pro Fold has the largest inner display on a foldable ¹ at 8 inches, plus a bigger 6.4-inch outer display thanks to smaller bezels. Both screens go up to 3000 nits, so whether you’re indoors or out in the sun, your display will be crystal clear.

A bigger battery to keep you charged longer

This phone has our biggest battery on a foldable device yet, with a battery life of up to 30+ hours. When you do need a quick charge, faster wired charging gets you to 50% battery in just 30 minutes. Pixel 10 Pro Fold is also the first foldable with Qi2 charging built-in. With Pixelsnap, magnetic technology built right into the phone, you can pop the Pixelsnap Charger with Stand onto your phone even when it’s unfolded, or prop your phone up with the Pixelsnap Ring Stand for hands-free streaming.

Better AI with Tensor G5

Like our other Pixel 10 phones, Pixel 10 Pro Fold is powered by our new custom Tensor G5 chip. This powerful processor delivers exceptional performance, advanced camera intelligence and leading-edge AI to make your life easier.

You’ll also get the same helpful AI features as the other Pixel 10 phones, including Gemini Live, Magic Cue and Daily Hub, plus powerful photography features including Add Me, Best Take and Camera Coach.

A new and improved foldable camera

It wouldn’t be a Pixel phone without our outstanding camera features. We’ve made significant improvements to level up your photography on the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, including a new 48MP main camera as part of the advanced triple rear camera system. Together, this trio of cameras lets you get up close and personal with Macro Focus, zoom into faraway details with Super Res Zoom up to 20x and take amazing selfies with Rear Camera Selfie.

Pixel 10 Pro Fold also introduces Instant View, a new feature designed to help you make sure you get the perfect shot. When your phone is unfolded, you can preview your photos instantly, giving you a chance to quickly re-take a picture before the moment passes. This new addition joins other foldable camera features like Made You Look, Dual Screen Preview and Tabletop Mode.

The best of Pixel on the big screen

Pixel 10 Pro Fold’s large inner screen and unique form factor gives you new ways to multitask. With Split Screen, you can use two apps at once, and now you can adjust the size of each app to your liking. You can also use Drag and Drop to move media and other files across different apps.

We’re continuously working with developers across the Android ecosystem to optimize apps on your foldable. With a new game controller functionality on your outer display, you can now enjoy even more immersive gaming in titles like Asphalt Legends and Disney Speedstorm. We’ve also optimized streaming on Netflix and Disney+ for immersive streaming on the go.

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Today we introduced our 10th generation of phones: Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL. Powered by the all-new Google Tensor G5 chip and our newest Gemini Nano model, they’re our most personalized, proactive and helpful Pixels ever — and they come with a refreshed design and plenty of hardware updates.

A modern design and impressive build

Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL refine the iconic camera bar, come with Pixelsnap for built in Qi2 wireless charging — and a range of new magnetic accessories — and are made with the most recycled materials yet for a Pixel.

These phones will be the first to feature Material 3 Expressive, our latest UI that brings more personalization and fluidity to your phone with springy animations and smooth interactions — a perfect complement to our refreshed Pixel 10 design. And your phone will continue to feel fresh and secure with seven years of Pixel Drops as well as OS and security updates.

Pixel 10 features a satin-finish metal frame, polished glass back and our iconic camera bar. You’ll have four expressive color options to choose from, too: Obsidian, Frost, Indigo and Lemongrass. Its 6.3-inch Actua display is now even brighter at 3000 nits making for easy viewing. That’s paired with improved audio, including exceptional bass so your favorite shows sound and look better than ever.

Pixel 10 also comes with huge camera improvements. That includes the first 5x telephoto lens on this tier of Pixel with fast autofocus, 10x optical quality and up to 20x zoom with Super Res Zoom — so it’s easier to shoot from a distance.

Pixel 10 Pro delivers the ultimate Pixel experience with our most premium design, brightest Super Actua displays and our best triple rear camera system yet. Available in two sizes (6.3-inches) and Pixel 10 Pro XL (6.8-inches) for an uncompromised choice of size. You can grab them in Obsidian and Porcelain as well as new colors: Moonstone and Jade. And with Pro Res Zoom, you can reach up to 100x zoom only on Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL.

Our pro phone upgrades extend across nearly every area of these devices. They feature our biggest batteries, upgraded speakers, 16 GB of RAM and faster wired charging while Pixel 10 Pro XL supports 25W Qi2.2 wireless charging.

Our most powerful silicon yet

Tensor G5, our new custom silicon, is the most significant upgrade to our chip since Tensor’s debut. It delivers snappy performance while bringing deeply helpful experiences to Pixel users first. And thanks to co-design with Google DeepMind, the newest Gemini Nano model will run first on Tensor G5 to unlock many on-device generative AI experiences that make everyday life easier.

AI at your fingertips

With Pixel 10, we’re introducing Magic Cue. It meets you in some of your favorite apps — like Google Messages and the Phone app — to proactively offer the right information at the right time— like finding those perfect cat photos whenever mom asks me. Magic Cue isn’t just a single app or feature, it’s proactive support, tightly woven across your phone to offer relevant info and helpful actions, saving you time and effort.

For instance, when you’re calling an airline, it can automatically find your flight details from your email and display it during your phone call. It helps you both recall information and take action, too — whether it’s providing an address for dinner or finding the right photos to share with a friend, all without leaving your chat. With your permission, Tensor G5 and the latest version of Gemini Nano work together to run Magic Cue privately and securely on your phone.

A camera with Gemini on tap

Pixel 10 is more than a great camera; it will make you a better photographer, too.

Camera Coach uses Gemini models to suggest ways to improve your photos — like choosing different framing and composition for a shot. Built for those of us early on in our photography journey, Camera Coach will teach foundational concepts while inspiring you to capture images in entirely new ways.

Pixel cameras have always been known for their zoom, but the new Pro Res Zoom gets you really close. Exclusive to the Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL, Pro Res Zoom captures astonishing detail at up to 100x zoom. It isn’t just a simple crop; Pro Res Zoom uses Tensor G5 and an all-new generative imaging model to intelligently recover and refine intricate details.

This is a major leap forward in generative AI, built specifically for Pixel Camera’s imaging pipeline and optimized to take full advantage of the new Tensor G5 chip. Pro Res Zoom is the largest AI model ever used on Pixel Camera, helping deliver the highest-quality zoom on a smartphone. ¹

Available for preorder today

Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL are all available for preorder today starting at $799, $999 and $1199. Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL owners will also get a full year of Google AI Pro.

All three phones will be on shelves at the Google Store and our retail partners on August 28. Find out where each product will be available and sign up for product updates on the Google Store.

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