{"id":164739,"date":"2025-08-21T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164739\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:02:09","slug":"google-reveals-it-isnt-making-tablets-smart-rings-flip-phones-or-glasses-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164739\/","title":{"rendered":"Google reveals it isn\u2019t making tablets, smart rings, flip phones, or glasses (yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote ewrhy30 _1xwtict9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">Despite its partners Samsung and Motorola getting into flip-style phones where the screens opens up vertically like an old school Motorola Razr, Google says it intends to sit out that race. It\u2019s also not currently working on a smart ring and has paused development on a tablet overhaul until it figures out a meaningful future for the category, executives said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote ewrhy30 _1xwtict9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">Osterloh says it\u2019s still \u201cTBD\u201d whether Google itself will release glasses again, but he\u2019s intent on the category being part of the company\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If Google were to release glasses again, though, Bloomberg did get one interesting hint about how they might work. Osterloh and his deputy Shakil Barkat suggested in the interview that display-free glasses might pair nicely with a smaller phone, one that could unfold for your entertainment needs as well. But, again, it sounds like Google wants to \u201csit out\u201d Razr-style folding flip phones for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google would hesitate before announcing glasses, I bet, because of its infamous fails with the original Google Glass. We ranked it near the very top of the list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/20\/21029499\/decade-fails-flops-tech-science-culture-apple-google-data-kickstarter-2010-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in our 84 biggest flops of the past decade in tech<\/a>, though I imagine a modern version would get a less frosty reception in the post Meta Ray-Ban world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Lastly, if you\u2019re curious when Pixel phone design might change again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24220359\/google-pixel-9-camera-bar-small-phones-claude-zellweger-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perhaps away from big camera bumps<\/a>, design chief Ivy Ross told Bloomberg that the company tries on new design languages \u201cevery two to three years.\u201d That means it\u2019s due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite its partners Samsung and Motorola getting into flip-style phones where the screens opens up vertically like an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[705,2722,15882,611,50,2161,242,158,67,132,68,3075],"class_list":{"0":"post-164739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-pixel","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-samsung","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wearable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115068780146125472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}