ICYMI: here's the week's 7 biggest tech news stories from the Google Pixel 11 launch to Honor's revolutionary Robot Phone
The week's biggest tech news stories from Google, Garmin, Spotify and more for August 15, 2026.
This week, Google presented the Pixel 11, while Honor unveiled a remarkable Robot Phone. However, it seems that the robot phone won't become the next iPhone. To stay updated on all these and other tech news stories, check out the following seven biggest stories of the week. Before that, test your knowledge with our quiz about last week's biggest tech news.
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- T-Mobile is giving away the new Google Pixel 11 for free — how to claim mashable.com
- Google Pixel 11 series hands-on: few design changes, a HiLight status light on the rear camera bar, new colors, and small camera and performance improvements (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut) theshortcut.com
- Google's Pixel 11 introduces Camera Looks, a total rethink of how the camera captures and styles an image, as users seek "more authentic or traditional" photos (David Imel/The Verge) theverge.com
- Google DeepMind launches SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model debuting on the Pixel 11 in Gboard and Live Transcribe, first for ASL to English text (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) siliconangle.com
- Google says the Pixel Buds Pro 2 will get new features, including dynamic ANC and sleep sync, via a software update in September, and adds a new Olive color (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google) 9to5google.com
- Preorder a Google Pixel 11 Smartphone and Get Up to $350 in Amazon Gift Cards ign.com
- Google says the Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL are its most durable Pixel phones yet, using spacecraft-grade aluminum frames and a twice as scratch-resistant coating (Mariella Moon/Engadget) engadget.com
- The Pixel 11 Pro's best feature is broken; Google already has the tools to fix it androidpolice.com
