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Nexus Player. Photo: Google

Nexus Player. Photo: Google

As Apple’s preparing for its second big event in as many months, Google just quietly unleashed an arsenal of new products to push it past Cupertino, including the first real Android TV that will have you ready to ditch your Chromecast, and your Apple TV — at least for a day.

Google’s first Android TV set-box, Nexus Player, is a four-inch hockey puck shaped device that not only plays all your favorite movies and TV shows like on Apple TV and Amazon’s Fire TV, it also plays games.

nexus6

Google’s long-awaited flagship smartphone, the Nexus 6, has finally been announced, and it’s a 5.9-inch gorgeous monster.

Nexus 6 will be the first device to ship with the new Android operating system Lollipop, so that you know you’re getting the the purest Android experience on the new phablet that’s so big, even the iPhone 6 Plus just got size envy.

A Nexus 9 mockup by Android Police.

A Nexus 9 mockup by Android Police.

Google will announce its new Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 devices tomorrow, Forbes reports, and they will be the first to run its new Android L operating system. The search giant has decided against a “big reveal,” one source claims, instead opting to make the devices official in a blog post.

The Nexus 6 has to be close now. Image: @evleaks

The Nexus 6 has to be close now. Image: @evleaks

We’ve seen a number of Nexus 6 mockups so far, and even some blurry shots of the device out in the wild, but none of them do the device’s gorgeous new design justice like its first leaked press render does.

Skype Qik on iPhone. Screenshot: Cult of Android

Skype Qik on iPhone. Screenshot: Cult of Android

Others have tried and failed to knock Snapchat off its perch, and now Microsoft is throwing its hat into the ring with a new service that uses Skype as its backbone. It’s called Skype Qik, and it allows users on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone to send self-destructing videos up to 42 seconds long.

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