{"id":1188689,"date":"2023-10-04T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188689"},"modified":"2023-10-04T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:44:21","slug":"android-14-officially-releases-for-pixel-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188689","title":{"rendered":"Android 14 officially releases for Pixel phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/19-980x696-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n            Google&#8217;s generative AI wallpaper maker. I get why the spaceship image is foggy and grainy, but why does the prompt of a house with flowers look like a washed out image from a horror movie?                          [credit:<br \/>\n                              Google                            ]\n                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/android\/android-14\/\">Android 14 is out today<\/a>, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/10\/the-google-pixel-8-is-official-with-7-years-of-updates\/\">a new Pixel phone<\/a>. The OS is shipping to supported Pixel devices now, which means the Pixel 4a (5G) and every variant of the Pixel 5, 6, and 7, plus the Fold and Tablet.<\/p>\n<p>The big feature this year is a somewhat customizable home screen. You can pick from several different lock screen clock styles and customize the two bottom app shortcuts. This feels like a response to iOS 16&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/09\/ios-16-review-customization-unlocked\/#h1\">lock screen widgets<\/a> (a feature Android <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2016\/10\/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os\/22\/\">used to have<\/a> back in the 4.2 days) but not nearly as customizable. It&#8217;s honestly hard to highlight a second Android 14 feature because this is one of the smallest Android releases ever.<\/p>\n<p>The first feature Google mentions in its blog post is a new wallpaper picker. On the Pixel 8, Android now has a built-in text-to-image AI wallpaper maker, presumably a feature that lets the Android team adhere to Google&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/google\/2023\/05\/google-at-i-o-2023-weve-been-doing-ai-since-before-it-was-cool\/\">mandatory AI<\/a>&#8221; company mandate. There&#8217;s also a new monochrome theme if you&#8217;re tired of all those &#8220;Material You&#8221; colors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973123#p3\">Read 2 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973123&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Android 14 officially releases for Pixel phones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s generative AI wallpaper maker. I get why the spaceship image is foggy and grainy, but why does the prompt of a house with flowers look like a washed out image from a horror movie? 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