The 10 best Google products you can buy - Android
Google may be best known for its search engine, but the company also makes a slew of hardware products. These include high-end as well as midrange smartphones, smart speakers, streaming devices, and even thermostats, among many others. Here are the 10 best Google products you can spend your money on.
Editor’s note: We will update our list of the best Google products as new devices launch.
The Pixel 4 family smartphones pack high-end specs like the Snapdragon 855 (paired with 6GB of RAM), but that’s not what makes these phones stand out. The Pixel series has always been great at photography and this continues with the Pixel 4 and 4 XL. Their camera captures more detail than the Pixel 3 series, handles white balance even better, and improves on HDR, portrait mode, and selfies. Night Sight (Google’s name for night mode) is also better this time around.
On the downside, there’s no ultra-wide sensor on board. Google also doesn’t prioritize video. While the iPhone 11 has 4K at 60fps on its front-facing camera, the Pixel 4 still doesn’t even support it on its primary camera. Google’s flagships shoot decent-looking 1080p video at 30, 60, and 120fps, but you can only shoot 4K at 30fps. Bottom-line, if video is important to you, the Pixel 4 XL might not be the best option.
As for the rest of the experience? The Pixel 4 and 4 XL would be nearly perfect but suffer from well below-average battery life.
The cheaper siblings of the Pixel 3 and 3 XL, the Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL, accomplish something no other mid-range smartphone has done: they both offer stunning image quality. Add the surprisingly-smooth performance from the Snapdragon 670 and the guarantee of three years of updates, and you have two of the best mid-range smartphones available.
As with the Pixel 3 and 3 XL, the differences here boil down to the display and battery. The Pixel 3a features a 5.6-inch display, while the Pixel 3a XL’s display is 6 inches on the diagonal. When it comes to battery, the Pixel 3a and 3a XL feature a 3,000 and 3,700mAh cell.
The Google Nest Hub Max has everything you look for in a smart display and then some. Large 10-inch display? Check. Stereo speaker system with above-average sound quality? Sure. Camera sensing and face match technology? Yup. A front-facing camera that doubles as an indoor security camera? Uh-huh.
Most importantly, the Nest Hub Max brings together all of your smart home products and provides an easy way to control them. Did we mention it even doubles as a fancy digital photo frame?
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The Google Nest Learning Thermostat’s key feature is right in the name. Within a week of recording your preferences, it learns your routine and adjusts accordingly. For example, it’ll automatically cool your room at night once it knows that’s what you do every night.
The Nest Learning Thermostat also knows when you leave your home from your routine or from your phone’s GPS. Because of that flexibility, you can control the Nest Learning Thermostat and monitor its energy usage from your phone.
The Google Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS device that doubles as a tablet. The tablet maintains one key advantage over the competing iPad Pro: it has a “real” browser. Apple powered up the iPad’s browser with iPadOS, but the Chrome browser in Chrome OS is a full-fledged browser with extensions and more.
As a nice bonus, Chrome OS has official access to the Play Store. That means you can download and use Android apps on the Pixel Slate when you want to kick back and relax. Other Chrome OS devices have access to the Play Store, but the Pixel Slate’s tablet-first design makes it easier and better to use Android apps on it.
This could be used as a PC replacement if your needs are simple and mostly rely on the web.
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