Will you skip the Galaxy Tab S10 this year?

I only recently switched to a Pixel 9, and I have to say I love the experience. Android feels more polished, the user experience more cohesive, and I appreciate that. But Pixel’s don’t always have the best reputation, with bugs and other issues typically cropping up after release. But this year seems different, partly because Google has held Android 15 back, which means Pixel 9 users are on a more stable and tested system, at least for the time being. This has certainly worked in Google’s favor, but for some, I’m sure the reputation remains lacking.

So, I have a question for all you Pixel users out there. Why did you choose to buy a Pixel over any of the other OEMs? Is it brand loyalty, do you simply prefer the experience Google offers, or is there another factor why you choose Pixel over the competition?

Many smartphones come out every year, but none of them have convinced me to leave my three-year-old iPhone 13 behind. I imagine this is the case for a lot of people, regardless of their platform allegiances, because why spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a new phone that isn’t radically different from your old one?

This is something Nick Todorov touched on earlier this week, as he wondered if we need new flagship phones every year if the innovation is barely there. The reality is pretty simple, though: if you want the newest, shiniest phone, it’s right there. If you don’t, then hey, you’re not missing much, and you can put that money towards your hobby, your home, or new tires for your car because one went flat at the worst time.

This week has been an absolute whirlwind. After flying across the country to experience Made By Google in-person, I’m back home and ready to hunker down for the incoming storm that is the Pixel review period. With the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro XL set to launch in just a week — and with the Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro Fold following soon after — we want to know what you want our reviewers to focus on by leaving a comment on this very post.

Our Pixel reviews tend to be some of the longest on the site — and considering I tend to write long reviews as it is, that’s saying something. Google’s focus on rolling out countless new software features can make it a real challenge to hit every change in-depth, though I’m always aiming to make sure our readers are as familiar with the experience as possible before they decide to upgrade. After all, the best reviews can help make up your mind for you.

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Our reviews of the Pixel 9 trio might be live, but we’re far from done with talking about new Google hardware. Next up, we’re focusing our attention on Google’s second-gen foldable, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. New name, new design, same overwhelming focus on AI that wound up receiving some mixed feelings from all three of our previous Pixel 9 reviews. We’ll have plenty more to say about the Pixel 9 Pro Fold in the weeks to come — including a full review — but in the meantime, let us know what you’re most curious about, and we’ll be sure to address it just as soon as we can say more.

Did you know the latest Pixel 9s support video out over USB? Neither did I, but not that I know I am eager to get my hands on Google’s USB-C to HDMI cable so I can output video from my phone. As a matter of fact, the cable come from Cable Matters, and is also available on Amazon for less than Google’s pricing, which looks to be the place to snag one (read more about this in the linked coverage).

So here comes the big question. Have you ever needed to output video from your phone to the point you’ll go out of your way to buy a USB-C to HDMI cable? Hit the comments to let us know, as I can confidently say I’ll be ordering one shortly. After all, you may not need to output video from your phone frequently, but the one time you need to, it sure would be handy to have a cable on hand to do so.

Now that Apple is starting to offer more and more of the features that made Android unique, like the recent addition of RCS messaging, it’s getting harder and harder to tell the two systems apart. Where using one operating system over another is becoming less about features and more about looks and branding. Still, there are some areas where Android excels and others where iOS comes out on top. For me, I choose Android because it is still more open than iOS, allowing me to easily sideload whatever I want, and I can even dip into ADB if I really need to change something, like remove a default app. I’ve used iOS plenty, but overall, it just feels locked down, and most workarounds often cost money.

But what about you, what is the major dealbreaker that holds you back from mainlining iOS? Hit the comments to let us know.

We recently learned that the new Google TV Streamer remote works with older Chromecasts (read more about this in the linked article). So now that it is clear the new remote will work with older 4th gen devices, do you plan on picking up a replacement for your aging Chromecast? Sure, the Chromecast 4K and HD came with a remote, but perhaps it stopped working or is showing its age.

But this got me thinking: how many Chromecast owners actually want a replacement remote? So, hit the comments to let us know if you are planning to purchase the Google TV Streamer remote for your 4th gen Chromecast.

Everyone remembers their first phone. It’s the first time you can call your friends from wherever you are, take pics on the go, and play Angry Birds (depending on your era). What was your first phone and what do you remember about it? Do you remember it fondly? Share your memories about your first cellular experience!

Google’s released a boatload of new products this summer, including four phones, two watches, and a smart thermostat. But we’ve still got more look forward to. The Google TV Streamer, heir apparent to the Chromecast legacy, is set to hit store shelves next week. Judging by what we know about the $100 set-top box so far, it’s essentially a souped up Chromecast with Google TV, featuring updated hardware and a new form factor, more storage space, and a built-in Thread radio for smart home hub functionality. 

But with the release date less than a week away, we wanted to ask: what do you want to know about the Google TV Streamer? Drop your questions in the comments here, and we’ll do our best to answer them over the coming weeks.

We’ve had ample time with Google’s latest Pixel phones, and the general consensus here at AP is that they’re all quite good, but Google hardware season isn’t over yet. Personally, I’m pretty excited about the Pixel Watch 3, which is set to hit store shelves next week. It’s the first Pixel Watch to come in two sizes (the 41mm we’re used to and a new, larger 45mm variant), and both sizes feature brighter displays with slimmer bezels than previous generations. So far, it’s looking like Google’s newest wearable is going to tick a lot of our boxes.

We’ll be writing all about it in the coming weeks and months, but I wanted to ask: what do you want to know about the Pixel Watch 3? Drop your questions in the comments and we’ll start answering them as soon as we’re able. 

I, for one, usually run my phones free of cases, but after a recent drop that obliterated my Redmagic 9s Pro, I decided to pick up a Pixel 9 as a replacement. With that new purchase came a strong sense that I should probably splurge on a case this time around. So I went all out. I wanted something that looked good, made of leather, so a Bellroy case is what I purchased. It wasn’t cheap, but I’m pretty happy with it, so feel my money was spent well. 

But what about you? What kind of case do you normally go for when you purchase a new phone? What’s your go-to? Is it leather, plastic, rubber, colorful, muted, expensive, or cheap?

You read the title right; we want to see your tech drawer, and the sloppier, the better. After all, I know my tech drawer isn’t a bastion of neatness; it’s a mess, even my drawer of Game Boys and games. Sure, I’ll clean up my stockpiles of gadgets every once in a while and, for a few weeks, live in the lavish luxury of order and cleanliness, but soon enough, after attaining too much gear, the pile in the drawer grows again. And that’s just my device drawer, you don’t want to know what my cable drawer looks like.

But what about you? Do you live in a constant state of messiness when it comes to storing your gadgets, or are you one of the few people who keep things tidy? Hit the comments with your images to let us know what you’re sporting, as I have a feeling many live with a mess just like me.

Let’s imagine for a second that you can only choose one type of secondary camera lens for your phone. The choices are either a telephoto lens or an ultrawide lens; you can’t have both. Which do you choose?

For me, I’d go with telephoto, as I have pets and enjoy taking pictures of them from a distance so that I can capture their excitement without interrupting their fun. Of course, ultrawide is handy if you enjoy taking images of landscapes and the like. So it’s a tough call all around. Still, you can only choose one, so which will it be? Hit the comments to let us know, as I have a feeling one will be more popular than the other.

It seems like having a stylus for your phone has stuck around. It didn’t land permanently for gaming (things like the 3DS stylus have faded away). Phones like the recent Samsung S24 Ultra having complete stylus support, it seems like it’s not going anywhere. Tablets seem to be built with them in mind now, especially for artistic productivity. Have you started using one? Is there something that holds you back from using it?

Thanks to Unpacked this week, both Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Motorola’s Razr+ have been unveiled. The Razr+ packs a bigger cover screen, the Z Flip 6 a faster chipset, but which flip phone would get your hard-earned money this year?

Okay, so Nubia isn’t the biggest name in the smartphone space. But its new Z60 Ultra Leading Version makes up for that with a solid play for longest name in the smartphone space, and that has to count for something, right?

More importantly, according to our reviewer Jon Gilbert, this is Nubia’s best phone yet. It packs an overclocked ‘Leading Version’ take on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with that extra oomph directed at improving output from the phone’s high-end camera hardware, including a 64MP telephoto. It’s not perfect (MyOS can, frankly, get in the sea) but there’s a lot of power for the price.

If we travel back in time to September 11th, 1977, that would be the day the Atari 2600 launched, bringing with it cartridge games that were sold on their own, one of the first consoles to do so, only predated by the Fairchild Channel F a year earlier, the originator of cartridge-based games. Still, it’s safe to say the Atari 2600 is the more memorable console. Heck, I was born in 80, and by the time I was five, there were still plenty of people playing on the Atari 2600, a console near and dear to my heart, having grown up playing on it. After all, it wasn’t until 86 that the NES appeared on shelves, so if you weren’t playing the Atari 2600 in the early 80s, you probably weren’t gaming at home. Sure, the US had the TI-99 during that time, but just like the Fairchild, you’ve probably never heard of it, as Atari was the king before Nintendo came knocking.

While Atari didn’t have the longevity of its competitor, Nintendo, fizzling out with the Atari Jaguar in 93, it has had something of

Today is a monumental day when it comes to Android. Way back in 2008, on September 23rd, HTC officially announced the Dream. For those of you unsure which phone the Dream was, it was the very first commercially available Android phone, and it launched a month later, in October, on the T-Mobile network, known as the T-Mobile G1. Europe didn’t get the phone until November. While the HTC Dream had a short life, discontinued in July of 2010 to be replaced in the US with the G2, the two years it was available enshrined the phone in the history books, not only as the first Android phone, but one with a wicked chin and navigation ball that easily set it apart from anything Apple was doing at the time.

Did you get a chance to use the HTC Dream all those years ago, or did you jump into the Android ecosystem much later? For me, I wanted the Dream but didn’t want to switch carriers to get one. So my first Android was the HTC Hero on Sprint, which also rocked a chin and nav ball. Good times indee

I was out on vacation last week, recovering from what ended up being a pretty busy summer chock-full of smartphone launches. The world didn’t stop turning while I was gone, though. In addition to an excellent appearance from Becca Farsace on the Android Police Podcast, my fellow AP writer Stephen Radochia wrote a fantastic piece on OnePlus missing out by not launching a successor to the Open in 2024. I was — and still am — a huge fan of the OnePlus Open, and I think whenever a follow-up does launch, it’s primed to totally knock my socks off. But in the shadow of the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, it’s a tricky phone to go back to, one that feels simultaneously stuck in the past and the future. Check out Stephen’s piece from a week ago if you haven’t, and fingers crossed we don’t have to wait too long for an Open 2 in 2025.

Google has had a rocky road through its official phone cases, which have historically sucked more often than not. Manufacturing flaws, dodgy designs, or simply an aggressive tendency to gather pocket lint have all gotten in the way of us truly loving a Google phone case, which is why it’s such a relief that Taylor genuinely likes the official case for this year’s Pixel 9 series.

It still likes lint, and after one week we can’t promise it’ll age well, but the simple design looks great and feels tough, meaning this year you can go first-party without fear.