One of the perks of doing this job is that some brand-new phones land on my doorstep a few days before they become available to everyone. That was the case with the Google Pixel 10 Pro, which dropped at Casa El Khoury a week ago in its sexy Moonstone color. After sliding it into a cheap magnetic case I bought from Amazon to avoid the disaster of my perpetually slippery hands, I set up the phone and applied all the available updates. Then I opened up the Google doc I’ve been keeping for a few weeks to check the list of everything I wanted to try. And there was a lot to dig into!
I knew some features may not be available on my Pixel 10 Pro in France. Google often announces some US-only options, and it’s always a toss-up as to whether that means US English (i.e., they’ll work anywhere if your phone, like mine, is set to US English), a Google account based in the US, or your phone’s location being set in the US. After playing Google’s location lottery, I realized that Magic Cue, Ask Photos, and Help me Edit in Photos, and the impressive new voice translation were all nowhere to be found.
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