Things are finally heating up for Google’s Pixel Thermometer app

• Pixel Thermometer body temperature measurements are coming to Pixel Pro owners in Europe.
• Google initially brought support to the Pixel 8 Pro for users in the US back in January.
• Only the Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL have the required infrared sensor hardware.

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There’s lots of stuff you rely on your Pixel phone for every day, from keeping track of your schedule, to navigating you to appointments, to even keeping you safe with a little help from satellites. But how often are you using your phone to measure temperatures? Last year’s Pixel 8 Pro introduced a weird new feature, as it picked up infrared thermometer hardware able to measure temperatures at a distance. Now some important new functionality for it is on its way to a lot more people, as Google gets ready to bring body temperature measurement to users in Europe.

When it first debuted on the Pixel 8 Pro, Google’s temperature sensor was a little underwhelming. Besides not delivering particularly accurate measurements, Google was still waiting for regulatory sign-off for it to be used to measure human body temperature — arguably one of its more important uses (especially with its development spinning up during the pandemic, when quickly assessing people for fever was a big deal). With the release of the January 2024 Pixel Feature Drop, that support finally arrived… for people in the US.

from Android Authority https://ift.tt/2n3xhtY