This is a placeholder thread that will eventually discuss the Pixel 2, to be announced on October 4.

Meanwhile, Google is announcing other things, including the Android One Moto X4 for $399 as part of Google Fi. (Related coverage.) You get what looks to be an entirely reasonable smartphone with dual rear cameras and for an entirely reasonable price, albeit not as outrageously cheap as the Nexus 5 and 5X. Still, the reviews of the phone itself place it solidly in the "mid-tier", which two years ago would be outrageously beyond the top tier, and now it's supported directly by Google. This is the phone I'd get for my kid if her phone died tomorrow.

There's some kind of trade-in deal, but I don't have the numbers yet. Clicking through required me to go through all the "sure, convert my Google Voice to Google Fi" stuff, which I am most certainly not doing right now.