We're making a Google Pixel model of the iPhone sock

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Apple and Google are tech heavyweights that every have their very own strengths, however survey just a few individuals about who’s higher at product design — not less than aesthetically — and Apple’s most likely going to face out as the favourite. The corporate’s had some actual successes over time difficult our expectations about how issues ought to look, and this week it’s as much as extra of the identical with one in every of its oddest launches in years: an iPhone… sock?

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<img class="e_Gg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" sizes="9.375rem" title="google preferred source badge light@2x" srcset="https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w" alt="google preferred source badge light@2x" src="https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png"/><img class="e_Gg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" sizes="9.375rem" title="google preferred source badge dark@2x" srcset="https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w" alt="google preferred source badge dark@2x" src="https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png"/> Personally, I actually dig it, however I’m additionally somebody who already shops telephones in socks for safekeeping whereas touring — so this was clearly designed with me in thoughts. I’m additionally a stalwart Android man, although, and if I’m going to outfit my telephone with a weird new carrying resolution, I’m going to need it to be Google to the core. That’s why I’m firing up Gemini (with a little bit assist from Nano Banana) and seeing what we are able to give you that may work for Google’s response to the iPhone Sock Pocket.

Let’s see, the place to start out? Effectively, the vacations are developing, and I can simply consider one thing sock-adjacent that could be cool to have in a tiny smartphone dimension: a Pixel stocking!

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OK, that’s fairly cute, and whereas we’re firmly in “sock” territory, it’s additionally not precisely one thing nice for carrying round.

What about sticking with that winter theme however dialing issues in a little bit nearer to Apple’s knit method? A shawl!

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That really appears very nice, if not a little bit large. Nearly like a smartphone bib, greater than scarf?

Gemini likes to play quick and unfastened with its depiction of Pixel telephones, so we’ll attempt to not get too hung up on these digicam bar hallucinations. You may preserve importing Pixel 10 photos to Gemini in an try to remind it what it’s capturing for — and its outcomes briefly get higher, however are inclined to shortly lose coherence.

, let’s again as much as my “bib” commentary a second in the past. What’s the grownup model of that? An apron, in fact:

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Oh my god, take my cash, already! Android inexperienced? Bugdroid up entrance? And smartphone-friendly pockets? It’s every little thing the fashionable chef wants.

As a lot as I like my apron right here, I really feel like I’m beginning to drift a bit away from my preliminary goal. It’s nonetheless a wearable phone-holder, don’t get me fallacious, however it’s not fairly that strappy vibe Apple obtained us began with. Let’s refocus our efforts.

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Alright, now that appears like a pleasant and sensible resolution. Battery working low? Simply pull out your subsequent telephone!

OK, perhaps “sensible” is pushing it, however I like what we’re seeing right here. Let’s preserve iterating alongside this line and…

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Oh. Hmm. That, um. Effectively, not less than the telephones are good and accessible? And you can use it like a bodycam, I suppose?

Enjoyable as that one could be, I’m steering this ship again in a extra smart route.

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This one completely appears like one thing you can choose up at the moment on Google’s merch store, and whereas it’s passing the believability check, I've to concede — this isn’t actually trendy, or not less than not in any means near Apple’s resolution. Possibly that’s the trick right here: putting a stability between practicality and novelty.

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