Pixel 4... for real this time
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·2020-05-05
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back in new york with a new phone
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can't complain wow we finally got our hands on the new
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iphone 11 i mean pixel 4.
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don't know why i said that yes this is the new pixel 4 xl google finally took
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the wraps off after months and months of leaks we basically knew everything about
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the phone or we thought we did anyways um turns out
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a lot of it was true uh so the big things we have an extra camera on the
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back now they added a telephoto camera we got a 90 hertz display and let me
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tell you it's real smooth
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i like my mustache so the google pixel 4 this is the 4xl i
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don't have the pixel 4 normal one but it's about the same size
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as this one and the bezels are about the same as well so it's launching at the
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same price so 7.99 for the pixel 4. 8.99
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for the pixel xl 5.7 inch screen on the
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pixel 4. 6.3 inch on the pixel 4 xl
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snapdragon 855 inside i've already talked about that guys we'll have more
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details about it coming soon but for now that's
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it's oh so orange last year they didn't really talk about
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the specs up front but this year i was talking to a guy and he's like yep yeah
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it's got a snapdragon 855 you know
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six gigs of RAM they upped the RAM uh this year they was they stuck with four
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for too long so they updated not quite to the amount of like eight gigs and 12
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gigs that we saw with other flagship phones that we're seeing right now but
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it's something thanks google now obviously one of the biggest changes
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with this pixel 4 is that it now has what they're calling motion sense so
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that's i think their their term for all of the kind of like air gesture sort
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of stuff that's enabled by the project solely chip
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inside that's uh contained by this big sensor bar at the top you might not like
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the fact that there's no notch we're going back to forehead bezels but
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you know i'm okay with that because there's a lot of technology stuffed in
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there uh the motion sense is going to allow you to do stuff like face unlock
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which is apparently always running so it should be super fast when you pick up
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your phone you shouldn't have to like wait for it to unlock it should just be
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like boom bam boom and that also enables stuff like the motion gestures we saw it
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will also allow you to dismiss alarms and to dismiss calls so they took the
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call protection thing a little further last year they had the screen call to
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protect yourself from telemarketers now you can just swipe it away it's like get
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out of there now the zoom lens that i've
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mentioned earlier is roughly two times they say that you will get a sharper
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zoom if you zoom in beforehand than if
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you take a photo and crop it so um
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for future reference the one thing that i was disappointed
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not to see that i really want to see maybe they'll add it later is the
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potential of projects solely to kind of detect fine gestures uh when they first
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showed projects solely like you know last year the year before i forget what
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it was they showed its potential to kind of like you know turn volume up by like
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doing this with your fingers or like turn virtual knobs or like slide things
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up or down so i would really like to see that come to this phone i feel like the
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potential is there with the project solely sensors but we'll have to see whether they have that they didn't say
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anything about it but they did show that picture of the guy twiddling his fingers
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google add some add some finger twinly i want to use my phone like this
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okay now in terms of the camera one of the
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features that leaked before this was the dual exposure controls so you'll be able
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to take a photo and not only trust google's computational photography which
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they say is a lot better this year and is incorporating things like machine
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learning to inform the color of the photos they say that like we know that
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people's skin isn't supposed to be blue so if you take a photo and it's super
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blue we'll tune it based on the person's face
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color that might sound weird night sight
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is also getting a huge upgrade uh you'll be able to do you know the
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astrophotography thing leaked beforehand but they showed it and it actually is
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really impressive i'm not sure whether like night sight is going to be the
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exact same strength on like previous pixel phones and the pixel 4 especially
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since they have the dual cameras on the back now but we'll have to see it looks
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more impressive now one of the main things that google kind of emphasized
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during this event was ambient technology
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so they're really trying to make uh things like the google assistant and
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these camera features just kind of work without you really thinking too much
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about it the new google assistant has
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more contextual abilities so they talked about that at
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google i o last year and now we're
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seeing it come to the phones uh we haven't really played around with it a
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ton but you should be able to do things like say an initial thing to google and
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then just kind of keep talking as if you were talking to a a real person like
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there's a tiny little person inside and isn't that the dream i should
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mention real quick the guy at the pixel booth told me that oh we got live
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caption on the pixel 4 xl now i thought that was coming to the pixel 3 with
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Android 10 and he says it's a pixel 4 feature so i
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don't know what that means i don't know if it's coming to pixel 3. i i assume that it's coming to pixel 3's later but
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maybe we'll see that finally launch with the pixel 4 when it launches
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soon apparently it's going to be shipping by october 22nd
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so the other kind of big hardware announcement that they're announcing today is the pixelbook go so a couple
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years ago or three years ago i forget we had the pixel book the original one it's
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a laptop and then last year we got the pixel slate which was kind of you know a
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flagship two-in-one tablet device with a keyboard attachment now they're going
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back to a regular clamshell laptop so
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this is a chromebook it starts at 6 49.
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uh last year the pixel slate started at 5.99
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so they're getting a little more confident with this laptop
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idea um a bit more powerful specs than we
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expected than we saw last year we got some Intel core m processors but you're
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still seeing this kind of like more accessible specs is a nice way to put it
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uh it is a chromebook so you know it's not a Windows machine but
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google's done a lot of work with chrome os to make it more of a desktop type
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operating system they got this grippable texture on the back that's what they're
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calling it these keys are what they're calling hush keys so you should be able
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to type without you know alerting the whole room to
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your uh your essay you're writing a single usbc
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port on both sides so two total and a headphone jack
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and uh it comes in black and a not pink
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version which is not in my hand currently but there's there's one over there now
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this is an interesting setup because i came up to it and it was plugged into
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a display hub it's got a usbc uh cable running to
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a hub on the back which is outputting to HDMI which is powering this samsung uhd
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screen complete with some wireless peripherals
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so uh they're kind of like making the case here that this could be you know
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your full desktop machine instead of kind of you know like a
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chromebook so i just talked to one of the google reps and he did say that the
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lowest processor available is an Intel core m3 but there also is core i5s and
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i7s available so you know that's gonna be a bit more expensive eight gigs of
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RAM at the base level you can go up to 16 gigs and uh the screen 13.3 inch
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display 1080p it's very light i didn't mention that
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that's partially because of the magnesium frame and despite it being so
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light it's got apparently 12 hours of battery
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life uh all together so i like it it's very i could i could go
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with this pixel book go
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uh go to the store now and buy one i don't think you can you gotta you gotta
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pre-order it google has finally uh given an update on the pixel buds we got the
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originals with the tethered version a while back but now we have the fully
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wireless versions very exciting they're going to last for 5 hours
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battery life by themselves with the case 24 hours all together they've got beam
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forming mics combined with a
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voice accelerometer to detect jaw movements so uh even when you're on
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the go like on the bike or something in a loud environment it should be able to hear you on device controls we got the
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tap to play and pause double tap and trickle tap for this next song in
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previous song they also have swipeable volume controls and
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you can talk to the google assistant while you're to control things that way they said
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that the tip itself will do an excellent job of sealing in the base but they
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don't want to give you that uh sealed in feeling so they have a spatial vent on
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the bottom that lets in a bit of ambient sound uh so you don't feel like you're
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underwater they also said that the volume would
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dynamically adjust to the environment so you don't need to constantly volume up
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volume down if things are changing that sounds pretty interesting and they say
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the google assistant is going to be faster than ever because there is some
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dedicated machine learning hardware on this for voice recognition so you can do
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that on device instead of sending it to the cloud every time it also features
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long range bluetooth so you will be able to use these buds
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as much as as many as three rooms away from your phone indoors and as long as a
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football field away outdoors if it works properly when it launches in
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2020 for 179 so that's pretty exciting i
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did done some wireless bluetooth earbuds reviews
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recently and these seem like a pretty exciting pair 179
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is a little steep for my taste but uh it
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seems like they might be if they deliver on the promises they
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might be one of the better ones so we'll have to see
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later so i'm here with the google home mini just kidding google nest mini it's
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a the next generation of the device but it's essentially the exact same design
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they said that people love the home mini size and the form factor so why change
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it you know except this version they say is now made the fabric on top is made of
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100 recycled plastic bottles which is more
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environmentally friendly while still sounding
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good i've never tried to play music through a plastic bottle but
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there's a first time for everything the main difference here is a wall mount a
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third microphone to hear you the better to hear you my dear and on-device
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hardware for voice recognition so saying
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things like hey g-o-o-g-l-e
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turn on the light it should happen like bam gonna launch for 49 similar price to
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the original home mini now the other thing they're doing with kind of home hardware is the new nest wi-fi router
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and point system so the next wi-fi router is
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a router you can use that as part of a mesh wi-fi system with the other point
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devices now this is interesting because the point devices have the google
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assistant baked in so they're essentially like little nest minis uh so
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you can get a router and then kind of dot these
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uh nest wi-fi points around your house and get wi-fi coverage and the google
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assistant following you everywhere you go so it can know everything about you
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and those are launching i think 269 for a two pack of a router and a point but
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you can also buy them individually that's pretty interesting i want to get
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my hands on that those nest wi-fi devices all also have something called
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nest aware which will allow you to
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configure security for your network and you can even do things like prioritize
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traffic for some devices over others and you can
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you know turn the kids wi-fi off by just telling google to do that i don't know
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if you should be giving google power over your children but that's a
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discussion for another day and uh overall seems like pretty
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interesting moves taken by google on the home i mean nest
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front well i think that's what they call a
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google we got the pixel 4 pixelbook go nest
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mini nest wi-fi routers and points uh some
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interesting new products i hope you guys enjoyed watching and uh mark and i are
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gonna get out of here we gotta fly home we gotta edit this and then fly home
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are you excited editing at the airport
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love it all right thanks for watching guys we'll see you tomorrow because well
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i don't know what day this is going to come out on hopefully tuesday if it's wednesday
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love you if it's tuesday see you tomorrow and
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happy google
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i gotta get i gotta get my get the bag smart
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okay yeah there you go yeah let's go
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jeez