Google is launching "Call for Me," a Gemini feature that makes phone calls to businesses on users' behalf, initially available to Pixel 11 subscribers in the U.S. The AI can handle complex tasks like checking product availability, making reservations, and rescheduling appointments while users watch via live transcript and can take over at any time.
Google is rolling out blood pressure trends, insulin resistance trends, and sleep breathing quality metrics to Pixel Watch 3, 4, and 5 users through its Health Guardian suite. These features use passive sensor data and machine learning to track cardiovascular and metabolic health without requiring manual calibration or blood draws, with trend reports available starting early October.
Google is introducing 'Call for Me,' a Gemini feature on Pixel 11 devices that allows AI to make routine phone calls on users' behalf for tasks like booking appointments and checking store inventory. The feature, currently in early testing for US-based Gemini subscribers, provides live transcripts and user control to override the AI at any time.
Google is testing a feature to bring the Pixel 11's color-matched My Pixel app icon to older Pixel 9 phones, though support is incomplete and doesn't yet extend to Pixel 10 models. The company is also planning a design update to the app icon, shifting to a lighter blue shade with a white Google logo.
Google's Pixel 11 Pro XL is a large flagship smartphone with a 6.8-inch OLED screen, Tensor G6 processor, and excellent camera system featuring improved Night Sight and new Magic Capture modes. Priced at £1,279, it competes with Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max, offering two-day battery life and advanced AI features including Gemini Omni access.
Google is rolling out Pixel VIPs 2.0, which replaces the bottom sheet interface with a fullscreen layout when tapping contacts, adds a pill-shaped VIP switcher for quick access, and redesigns the widget with outline-style icons and reorganized card placement. The update removes media and place recommendations while introducing a pencil icon for quick editing in Google Contacts.
Google Pixel phones have been compromised in zero-click attacks, a security vulnerability allowing attackers to gain access without user interaction. The attack method exploits previously unknown flaws in the device's systems.
A security analysis captured 72 hours of network traffic from three factory-default Google Pixel 8 phones using an external pfSense firewall and found that idle Android devices transmitted approximately 8,300 telemetry packets daily to Google servers, revealing location data, device fingerprints, notification heartbeats, photo sync tokens, and search queries without user interaction.
Google updated the Pixel Weather app with a refresh button on home screen widgets to manually fetch the latest forecast, and removed arrow buttons for scrolling hourly and daily predictions, now requiring users to swipe instead.
GrapheneOS accuses Google of withholding Android 17 QPR1 APIs and security fixes from other Android manufacturers and AOSP-based projects, claiming Google is gatekeeping features that were previously made available across the ecosystem. The project says it cannot release its own Android 17 QPR1 build without permission and that security patches affecting standard Android components won't reach other OEMs until December's QPR2 release.