{"id":181718,"date":"2016-10-06T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=181718"},"modified":"2016-10-06T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T10:10:49","slug":"the-new-android-features-you-can-only-get-on-the-google-pixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/181718-the-new-android-features-you-can-only-get-on-the-google-pixel.html","title":{"rendered":"The new Android features you can only get on the Google Pixel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently unveiled its new <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/181438-googles-pixel-smartphone-unveiled.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones<\/strong><\/a>, which are set to\u00a0compete against the likes of Apple&#8217;s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.<\/p>\n<p>A key difference between the Apple devices and the Google handsets is the operating system &#8211; with the Pixel set to run a custom version of Android 7.1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2016\/10\/04\/android-7-1-nougats-changelog-includes-pixel-exclusive-non-pixel-exclusive-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Android Police<\/strong><\/a> has detailed the\u00a0change log for Android 7.1, which shows the\u00a0features which will be exclusive to the Pixel devices.<\/p>\n<p>The main features are detailed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pixel Launcher \u2013 swipe up for all apps, new Search Box, date\/weather header on home.<\/li>\n<li>Google Assistant.<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited original quality photo\/video backup to Google Photos.<\/li>\n<li>Smart Storage \u2013 automatically removes old backed-up files.<\/li>\n<li>Phone\/Chat support, screen-share functionality.<\/li>\n<li>Quick switch adapter for wired setup from Android or iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Pixel Camera.<\/li>\n<li>Sensor Hub processor with tightly-integrated sensors.<\/li>\n<li>New set-up look and feel.<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic calendar date icon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/181616-google-pixel-pre-registrations-in-south-africa.html\">Google Pixel pre-registrations in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/181508-google-chromecast-ultra-revealed.html\">Google Chromecast Ultra revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed which Android features will be exclusive to its new Pixel devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":181440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,39220,39160],"class_list":["post-181718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-android-7-1","tag-google-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181726,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181718\/revisions\/181726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}