Google is giving the Pixel Thermometer app some long-overdue attention
Thermometer's update adds presets, new measurement UI.
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- Even after ignoring the hardware at the Pixel 9 launch, Google’s got a new Pixel Thermometer update incoming.
- Presets will let you quickly take measurements of frequently encountered objects.
- A new measurement UI adds a camera view and a handy distance guide.
Google’s not a smartphone maker that’s afraid to experiment with some weird hardware — remember the Soli radar-based gesture control we got on the Pixel 4? That’s one practice it was certainly back into last year, when the company saw fit to give the Pixel 8 Pro a temperature sensor on the phone’s back. The whole thing was weird, feeling like a holdover from the bad old days of high pandemic, and what’s worse is that it didn’t even make very accurate measurements. Perhaps the future will prove a little kinder, as today we’re checking out some updates coming to the Pixel Thermometer app.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that even Google had written off its temperature sensor experiment, as the company couldn’t even be bothered to mention it when launching the Pixel 9 Pro earlier this week. But over on Telegram, the unofficial Google News channel reports finding a couple useful and interesting changes in version 1.0.654975759 of Pixel Thermometer.
