“Vodafone plans to expand the availability of Pixel smartphones and wearables to other markets in 2023 ,” wrote the carrier in a press release for European markets. This gives Pixel fans hope, as despite Google expanding sales to 2023 markets in the Old Continent, many regions still don’t offer Serving the search giant.
Unfortunately, Vodafone did not say which markets it will cover. The operator has networks in several countries and has partnerships with operators in many other countries. Wikipedia has a handy list. We’ve marked in bold the countries where the Pixel is already available, and the others are possibilities for expansion.
Vodafone network in Europe | majority stake | Partnerships | Albania | Czech Republic | Austria Belgium |
Bulgaria |
Germany | Greece | Channel Islands | CROATIA | Cyprus
(indirect ownership) |
Lithuania Luxembourg |
North Macedonia | Romania | Spain | Norway | Russia | Serbia |
turkey | U.K | Slovenia | Sweden | Switzerland |
Ukraine | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Montenegro |
Even better, this expansion pack That includes not only the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro phones, but also the Pixel Watch and Pixel Buds. Vodafone and Google are also partnering to improve default text messaging on all Android phones by adopting the RCS-based Messages by Google app, powered by Google’s Jibe Cloud. Compared with the old SMS/MMS, RCS allows sending high-quality photos and videos, enhances group messaging, supports encryption of one-to-one chats, and has many functions that provide businesses with richer communication channels with customers . The operator has also made Android TV the platform of choice for its Vodafone TV set-top boxes. This will provide users with additional entertainment options by giving them access to apps and games available on the Google Play Store. A “Chromecast built-in” feature will also be enabled, so users will be able to easily cast photos, videos and music from their phones to their TVs. Source 10 |