Welcome to the Virge Cast, the flagship podcast of the correct height to width

ratio of a foldable phone. I'm your friend David Pierce and I'm back. I was on

vacation for the last two weeks up in New England looking at leaves and

Frolicking in fields and drinking fancy coffee and doing all the things that you normally do on vacation.

I missed a shocking

amount of news for like late July and early August truly bonkers how much stuff is

going on but now I'm back the team did an awesome job while I was. Thank you to everybody who sent us feedback on the pilots we've been doing. We have lots more fun stuff coming up on that front, but it's gadget season friends. So we have a lot to do.

Today on the show, we are going to talk all pixel all the time. The reason this episode is coming out a little bit late is because Google is having an event today, potentially right now as you're listening to this, announcing all of its hardware for the year. We've gotten some of the hardware already

the new nest thermostat the new TV streamer but all the phones all the

everything that's been leaked and talked about for months it's all coming out

right now. A couple of folks on our team have seen this stuff,

they've been briefed on the news, they know what's coming, so we are going to talk about all the new stuff

coming from Google and what it means. I really can't figure out Google as a hardware company.

I've spent a long time trying to figure it out and we're going to try and do it all at once on this

episode.

So that's what this episode is.

It's all Google, all the time.

It's the Pixel Special. We're going to get into it. But first, I just

have one quick PSA for you. And I learned this again, I've learned this a hundred times, and I keep

forgetting every time I go on vacation, the buffer day is everything.

When you get home from a trip, make sure there is one whole day between the end of that trip

and whatever thing you have to do next, back to school, back to work, whatever it is you're doing,

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