Tech Advisor - UK (2020-02)

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 41

• Detect when you reach for your phone and light
  up the lock screen


• Skip to the next or previous track


• Snooze an alarm


• Dismiss a timer


• Silence the ringtone on an incoming call

That’s it. You can’t raise the volume, pause a song,

hang up on an incoming call, dismiss a notification,

launch an app, flip the camera, take a picture, or

anything else you could conceivably want to do without

touching your phone. Some of those things are surely

Even without a notch, the Pixel 4 XL (right) is

essentially the size as the Pixel 3 XL. But the new

phone has some futuristic tech in the top bezel

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 41

• Detectwhenyoureach for your phone and light
  upthelockscreen


• Skiptothenextorprevious track


• Snoozeanalarm


• Dismissa timer


• Silence the ringtone on an incoming call

That’s it. You can’t raise the volume, pause a song,

hang up on an incoming call, dismiss a notification,

launch an app, flip the camera, take a picture, or

anything else you could conceivably want to do without

touching your phone. Some of those things are surely

Even without a notch, the Pixel 4 XL (right) is
essentially the size as the Pixel 3 XL. But the new
phone has some futuristic tech in the top bezel