https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/pixel-market-share-tiny.html >Google is expected to announce a new, upgraded Pixel 2 smartphone at an event today in California. Anticipated improvements include longer battery life and even higher quality photos. Our colleagues at the Verge are covering it live here. >Google insists it has ambitious plans to create "compelling hardware products" and recently announced it would be hiring about 2,000 engineers from Taiwanese phone maker HTC to help achieve them. You can imagine future Pixels and other projects as part of that partnership (today's is reportedly a partnership with LG).