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New smart home devices and features by Google
This is a quick summary of what Google has announced for Home related things:
Gemini for Home
- Voice assistant: 10 new natural-sounding voices, powered by Gemini
- Gemini Live: Talk, pause, interrupt whenever you like without the hotword
- AI cameras: Describe what's happening in the camera feed, get descriptions in alerts and video history, ask to find any clip
- Early access to be opened at the end of October
- Available for all smart home devices released by Google in the last decade

Google Home app redesign
- Ask Home: Find a device or automation name quickly by typing, control devices with natural language, create automations by describing
- Tabs: Home, Activity (check all history), Automations (manage your device automations)
- New gradient app icon, more fluent animations while navigating in the app, full support for Nest devices, view previews from event notifications
- Available with version 4.0 or higher (required for signing up Gemini for Home early access)

Google Home Premium
- Standard: $10/month, $100/year (included with AI Pro plan)
- Standard: 30 days of event-based video history, intelligent alerts for familiar faces and package collection, Gemini Live, generate Automations with voice
- Advanced: $20/month, $200/year (included with AI Ultra plan, additional $10 for AI Pro)
- Advanced: All features of Standard, 60 days of event-based video history, 10 days of 24/7 video history, descriptive notifications, search video history, event descriptions, daily summaries

Google Home Speaker
- Color: Berry, Hazel, Jade, Porcelain
- Price: $99.99 (coming in 2026)
- Availablity: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Australia, New Zealand

Nest Cams and Doorbell
- Nest Cam Indoor: $99,99
- Nest Cam Outdoor: $149.99, two-pack $249.99
- Availability (Nest Cams): United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland
- Nest Doorbell: $179.99
- Availability: (Nest Doorbell): United States, Canada
- Gemini for Home rolling out first in: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia (other regions receive it in early 2026)

More info: Google Blog (2, 3)
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Google AI Mode: Images in result, shop improvement, better visual search
- Now results will show images for a richer experience
- Get the ideal shopping results from Google's Shopping Graph by describing the products with details, all without needing filters
- "Visual search fan-out" can recognise the subtle details of what's in an image, which helps to to deliver highly relevant visual results (rolling out in English in the U.S. this week)

More info: Google Blog
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Google Pixel Call Recording available in more places
- Available on Pixel 6 and newer, in countries where Pixel is supported
- Rolling out through the rest of the year

Miscellaneous (available later this year)
- Access Call Screen and activate Call Notes from Android Auto
- Scam Detection: Expanding to Australia, Canada, Great Britain, India, and Ireland
- Call Notes (beta preview): Expanding to Australia, Canada, India and Ireland
- Call Screen: Expanding to Australia, Canada, India and Ireland
- For Pixel 10 users in India, a beta version of Manual Call Screen will be available with English and Hindi support, more languages and dialects are coming soon

More info: Google Blog
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YouTube Premium Lite: Now available in India
- A cheaper plan to remove ads in YouTube videos (not including Shorts, music content and platform-wide)
- Price: ₹89/month (~$1/month)

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Google New Logo
- Previously first appeared on the app icon and favicon back in May, the logo is now officially being used company-wide, as announced.
- Fun fact: Google just recently celebrated its 27th birthday on September 27.

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YouTube Premium: Enhanced audio, 4x playback speed, and more
- All these features are rolling out to all YouTube Premium subscribers on eligible devices
- Hiqh-quality audio: For official/premium music videos and Art Tracks, now on Android and iOS (previously on YT Music)
- Wider playback speed range: Up to 4x with 0.05 increments, now on Android, iOS, and web
- Jump Ahead: Skip to a video’s most interesting parts and other key moments, now on smart TVs and gaming consoles
- Shorts Smart Downloads: Automatically download your favourite Shorts based on your previous watch history, now on iOS (previously on Android)
- Shorts Picture-in-Picture: Watch in a small window while doing other things, now on iOS (previously on Android)

More info: YouTube Community
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Android Canary 2509 (Released: 25/9/2025)
- Build ID: ZP11.250829.007, ZP11.250829.008 (Pixel Tablet)
- New animations for the lock screen clock and live effects
- Minor adjustment for the transition between the Always-on-Display and the lock screen
- Re-added Live Caption button to the volume slider
- Back and forward buttons for media controls (when there is more one media session)
- Tabbed design Widgets drawer
- Added Remove option in the long-press app menu
- Adjusted header spacing for Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 series
- New accessibility feature to disable blur effects

Download: Android Flash Tool | Pixel Factory Images Tracker
More info: Android Developers | BetaWiki
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Search Live
- Launching in English in the U.S. to everyone, powered by Google Lens
- Ask anything that your camera captures with instant conversation

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Google AI Plus: Now in 40 more countries
- A cheaper AI plan from Google that was initially made available in Indonesia
- Most countries should have a plan cost of less than $5/month, with some as low as $2.50/month
- Newly added countries: Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, El Salvador, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mali, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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Conversational editing in Google Photos
- Previously available on Pixel 10, this feature is starting to roll out to all Android users in the U.S.
- Required U.S. English as account language, Face Groups and location estimate enabled

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Gemini on Google TV
- A more capable assistant is coming to Google TV devices soon
- Available starting today: TCL QM9K series
- Available later this year: Google TV Streamer, Walmart onn. 4K Pro, 2025 Hisense U7, U8, and UX models, and 2025 TCL QM7K, QM8K, and X11K models.

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Gemini in Chrome
- Rolling out to everyone on Mac and Windows desktop in the U.S. with English (iOS support coming soon)
- Agentic browsing assistant: Perform tasks automatically on your behalf
- Compare and summarise multiple information from multiple tabs
- Find previously visited webpages more easily
- Deep integration across Google products (schedule meetings in Calendar, find the specific spot of a YouTube video, etc.)

More info: Google Blog
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Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2
- Build ID: BP41.250822.010
- September 2025 Security Patch
- Play Services: 25.29.32
- Testing developer verification with new APIs and tools
- SMS OTP Protection: Delay SMS retriever hash messages for three hours
- Custom app icon shapes
- More efficient garbage collection
- Automatic step tracking and expanded exercise data in Health Connect

Download: Factory Images | OTA Images | GSI
Changes: Android Developers
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Google Discover: Follow publishers and creators you like
- Follow: Get more content from your preferred sources, with social links and description in profile page (if available, sign in required)
- More types of content: Social media posts from Instagram, X and YouTube Shorts to be featured in the feed

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Made on YouTube 2025 (Highlights)
This is just a non-exhaustive summary list of features that indirectly affect the viewers:
Live
- Stream in horizontal and vertical formats simultaneously with a single unified chat
- React to live events with a vertical livestream on mobile
- Side-by-side ads interruption, now on desktop and TV, soon on other devices

Studio
- Three different titles and thumbnails respectively for A/B testing
- Auto-dubbing with lip sync
- Add collaborators to videos

Music
- New release countdown timer and pre-save upcoming albums
- Exclusive videos and merchandise offer experiments for top fans

Video
- Dynamic sponsored segments (removable) with automatic timestamps and tags
- Add a link to the brand's site on Shorts

More info: YouTube Community
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Audio file support in Gemini
- Up to 10 minutes of any audio file can be uploaded, 3 hours with AI Pro or AI Ultra
- Transcription output within seconds
- Personal note: Music recognition isn't supported (yet), but it can roughly get the lyrics

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Google AI Plus
- 200GB storage
- More prompts for Gemini 2.5 Pro and access to Veo 3 Fast, context windows of up to 128k
- Higher limits and more features for NotebookLM
- Access to Gemini in most Workspace apps
- Google Flow and Whisk with 200 monthly AI credits (top-up AI credits not available)
- Now available in Indonesia, more countries to come soon
- Price: Rp 75,000/month (approximately $4.55/month, 50% discount for the first six months)

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NotebookLM: Flashcards, Quizzes, Upgraded Reports
Flashcards and quizzes
- Flashcards: Important information summarised for easier memorisation from the provided sources
- Quizzes: Test your knowledge with custom questions based on the provided material
- Customise the topic and set difficulty, with explanation and citation provided

Upgraded reports
- Redesigned reports with dynamic suggestions based on the theme and topic mentioned in the sources
- Blog post (new format for Reports): Insightful takeaways that are distilled into a highly readable article
- Customise the prompts for any reports

Miscellaneous
- New conversation style: Learning Guide
- Six free textbooks in interactive Notebooks format

More info: Google Blog
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Gemini app limits
- Previously unmentioned, Google has finally listed out the exact numbers on what you can do with Gemini
- Free: 5 prompts for 2.5 Pro, 20 audio overviews and up to 100 images generation per day; 5 reports per month for Deep Research
- AI Pro: 100 prompts for 2.5 Pro, 20 reports for Deep Research, 1,000 images, 3 videos per day
- AI Ultra: 500 prompts for 2.5 Pro, 200 reports for Deep Research, 10 prompts for Deep Think, 5 videos per day

More info: Gemini Apps Help
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Google Photos media viewer and editor redesign
Viewer
- Dynamic light mode: When viewing photos or videos, the background is now white with light theme enabled
- Details in preview: Taken time and location are shown on the top directly
- Three-dot menu: Execute actions with a few clicks instead of having to scroll

Photo Editor
- Search editing tools: All the tools in one page and find the tool you want with a few words
- Direct access to basic and AI tools: Select the part you want to modify, do basic adjustments to the photo right away

Miscellaneous changes
- Photo to video feature, powered by Veo 3
- Create tab in bottom bar
- New backup indicator

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