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In abstract:
- Tech Advisor stories that Google’s new Googlebook laptop computer contains a ‘Glowbar’ LED strip that will preview an identical ‘Pixel Glow’ characteristic for the upcoming Pixel 11 smartphone.
- Code mentions recommend Pixel Glow may combine into the Pixel 11’s digicam bar, offering refined gentle and shade notifications when the system is face down.
- This potential characteristic represents Google’s growth of LED notification programs throughout its {hardware} ecosystem, although leaked Pixel 11 renders don’t presently present the implementation.
Whereas revealing numerous bits of Android information final week, Google confirmed off its new class of laptops. Curiously, the Googlebook could give us an early glimpse at a doable new Pixel 11 characteristic.
Forward of the Android Present: I/O Version, it was leaked that Google’s new laptop computer would have some type of lighting system on the lid. We now understand it’s referred to as the ‘Glowbar’, and the Pixel 11 vary of telephones may effectively have one thing very related.
Mentions of a brand new Pixel cellphone characteristic referred to as ‘Pixel Glow’ have been noticed in code. It’s described as “refined gentle and shade on the again of your system to tell you of vital exercise when it’s face down”.
With Pixel Glow and the Googlebook’s Glowbar being seemingly the identical characteristic on totally different units, now we have a greater concept of what the Pixel 11’s new characteristic may seem like.
Visually, we are able to see that the Glowbar is an LED strip gentle that sits close to the sting of the laptop computer’s lid, the place you employ your thumb to open it. The strip transitions from blue to crimson, mixing by way of the spectrum within the center – try the teaser video under.
Google hasn’t mentioned a lot else about it apart from will probably be on all Googlebooks and that it’s “a press release that’s each useful and delightful”.
We predict that the Glowbar is a giant clue as to what Pixel Glow will seem like. I’d say the way in which it seems on the Googlebook means that it’ll be built-in into the cellphone’s digicam bar, reasonably than the ‘G’ emblem on the again.
Actually, earlier than the Googlebook announcement, I requested Gemini to conjure a visible illustration of what it would seem like.
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Leaked CAD-based renders of the Pixel 11 handsets don’t present the Pixel Glow lights, however that might make sense since they’re hidden, although there’s no assure it’s going to debut on this yr’s Pixel flagships.
Nonetheless, I’m hopeful that it’ll, particularly as we all know Googlebooks with the Glowbar are touchdown later in 2026.