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The Vergecast

Google's gadgets, ranked

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Google is on a bit of a heater when it comes to gadgets. The Pixel 10 lineup is one of the best Android phone options; the Pixel Watch 4 is suddenly a winner; the Pixel Buds are an excellent accessory; even the Pixel Fold got some welcome upgrades this year! With the help of The Verge’s Victoria Song and Allison Johnson, we do the impossible: we rank all six of Google’s Pixel gadgets, from worst to best. Are headphones better than smartphones? Can you really compare a tablet to a smartwatch? Who knows, but we try. After that, Allison and David answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email [email protected]!) about whether the dumbphone movement is a real one. Further reading: Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold review: finally, a more durable foldable Google Pixel Buds 2A review: the right kind of compromise The Google Pixel Watch 4 is the Android watch to beat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Google Pixelbook.

0:06.2

My maybe favorite computer of all time that is now long gone and Google refuses to keep making new ones.

0:12.1

We're not going to talk at all about the pixel book on this episode, but I miss it dearly.

0:16.8

And I just, Pixelbook, if you're out there, just know that I loved you.

0:20.5

Anyway, I'm your friend David Pierce. And today on the podcast, we're going to do something

0:24.8

a little new. We have a bunch of Google reviews over the last few days and really the last

0:29.6

couple of months, and we've seen a theme among the Google reviews, which is that they're all

0:33.9

very good. Google made some good gadgets. So we're going to talk about Google's good gadgets, and then we're going to play a little bit of a new game about them and see if we can figure out which of Google's good new gadgets is the best of Google's good new gadgets. It's going to be a good time. All that is coming up in just a second, but first, I just realized I have three pairs of headphones

0:54.7

connected to my computer right now, and I need to go disconnect those before something horrible

0:59.0

happens. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back. All right. We're back. Let's talk

1:07.4

Google. Allison Johnson's here. Hi, Allison. Hello. V Song and many cats. Hello.

1:13.4

Hello. For the folks on YouTube, teach us about the cats. Who are the cats?

1:19.5

This is Petey. He is the younger baby cat, and he loves to disrupt my work. Hence why I bought a cat bed that attaches to my desk so he can feel like he's part of my day while staying out of the way.

1:34.8

And then back here, we have my big boy, Pablo, who is currently taking a nap.

1:40.7

This is the dream. This is the life.

1:42.6

All right. I have brought you guys here because I want to try a new thing that I've been wanting to do for a while. But first, all three of us reviewed Google products this week. And I just want to, I want to quickly breeze through them because they all have in common that they're all very good. And they're all very good in kind of the same way, which I think is really fun and really interesting.

2:02.1

So, Alison, let's start with you.

2:03.5

You reviewed the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, the worst named phone in phones, and really liked it.

2:11.2

I would say for like the one big specific reason you really liked it, right?

2:15.7

Yeah.

2:16.2

You can kind of boil down the changes to two

2:19.0

major things. One is the new hinge, which is hard to tell from the outside, but you can appreciate it

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