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Google element 4’s Soli gestures can add the USA, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, and Europe
September 4, 2019 2:58pm4Joe Fedewa
Google Pixel 4’s Soli gestures will work in the US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, and Europe
Earlier these days, we wrote about the Pixel 4 (possibly) passing through the FCC.
One of the items that creates that listing possible for the element four is that the mention of the 60GHz (58-63.5GHz) transmitter, which ties nicely with the frequencies used by Project Soli.
These new gestures use the Soli radar chip located in the top bezel to let you skip songs, snooze alarms, or silence phone calls with a wave of your hand. When Google talked about Soli on the Pixel 4, they said it would be available in “select Pixel countries.” We’re now learning more about what countries will get Soli thanks to a U.S. retailer.
The Best get landing page for the element four talks concerning Motion Sense:
Wave hello to Motion Sense* — You no longer have to touch your phone to make things happen. Motion Sense is a new technology in Pixel 4 that can detect your gestures without you having to touch the screen.
You probably noticed the asterisk next to “Motion Sense.” Best Buy says Motion Sense is “Not functional in Japan.
Motion Sense purposeful within the USA, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, and most European countries.
Not all phone options ar controlled by Motion Sense.
For more information see g.co/pixel/motionsense.”
Although the URL currently doesn’t go anywhere, the description is enough to tell us which countries will and will not be able to use the Pixel 4’s Motion Sense gestures. Given that the description says “most European countries,” there’s bound to be a few countries in Europe that don’t support Motion Sense gestures, but we won’t know until Google confirms the exact availability. We’ll have to wait and see what those features all entail and how big of a selling point they are for the Pixel 4. We reached out to Google for confirmation on the countries that will support the new Soli gestures and will update this article if we hear back.
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Thanks to Disqus commenter rrnyc1 for the tip!
Update 1 (9/5/19 @ 12:07AM EST): The Best Buy landing page was updated to remove the wording on geographical restrictions of the Motion Sense feature.
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