Google could be bringing an iPhone feature to its Pixel 6 - Android

A recent rumor is claiming that for the upcoming Google Pixel 6, the company could be looking to bring the UWB feature found in devices like the iPhone to the handset.

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One of the new hardware features that we can probably expect to see in future smartphones would probably be ultra-wideband. This feature first made an appearance in Apple’s iPhones before it was eventually adopted by Samsung, and now a tweet by XDA’s Mishaal Rahman claims that Google’s Pixel 6 could adopt it as well.

According to Rahman’s tweet, he has learnt that Google is apparently testing support for Android 12’s UWB API on a device codenamed “Raven”, which has been speculated to be the codename for the next-gen Pixel phone (the Pixel 6, not the Pixel 5a 5G). Not much is known about the feature on the Pixel 6 for now and what Google plans to use it for, but several purposes do come to mind.

I've just been informed that Google is testing support for Android 12's Ultra-wideband (UWB) API on "raven", one of the code-names that could belong to the GS101-powered next-gen Pixels.

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) April 30, 2021