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I think what completes the puzzle is that the Pixel 2 phone omits a headphone jack. Without a headphone jack wireless earbuds are required. Normally wireless ea
by syphilis2 9y ago
I think what completes the puzzle is that the Pixel 2 phone omits a headphone jack. Without a headphone jack wireless earbuds are required. Normally wireless earbuds would be superfluous, so they're introduced with a use case that highlights their advantages.
That's to say, I don't believe the Pixel Buds are necessary at all for real time translation. But I think they're presented with the real time translation to give people some positive and cool imagery to associate with the earbuds. It's advertising as far as I can tell.
- djrogers 9y agoSo any old bluetooth headset will work, or have they artificially limited it to pixel buds?
- CamelCaseName 9y agoOnly Pixel Buds will work. You can read this comment chain by someone who worked on the project to learn more about why they made that decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15404395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15404395
- scott_karana 9y agoWhy is this Google Translate an advantage that's exclusive to Bluetooth headsets? (Other than their choosing it to be so, of course. ;)