Speakers accept been an basic allotment of smartphones back the beginning. Razer's abstraction Project Linda alike uses the speakers from the Razer Phone to ability the faux laptop's audio system. But what if Google's abutting Pixel phone didn't alike accept speakers? What if it didn't charge them in the aboriginal place?
At some point in 2017, Google agilely bought a UK Tech Startup alleged Redux. The acquirement was so easygoing that we're not absolutely abiding back it went down, but Crunchbase speculates that the accord was accomplished in August 2017.
Redux "developed technology that eliminates the charge for baby speakers in adaptable phones." Without speakers, Google could use the amplitude for added awning absolute estate, a bigger battery, or a headphone jack — article the Pixel 2 lacked.
Redux had addition key allotment of smartphone tech that could be acclimated for a added focused haptic acknowledgment engine. Their technology has been said to accomplish on-screen buttons feel about as if they're real, concrete buttons. A acceptable accomplishing of this could battling Apple Touch ID, which uses its altered Taptic Engine to accommodate altered home button feedback.
There's been no acceptance that Google affairs to use either of these technologies in their Pixel phones, but it's the alone analytic account for the purchase. Both of Redux's key innovations would acquisition a absolute home in the Pixel 3 if Google could absorb them in time for a abatement 2018 release.
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