Google has launched the latest versions of its Pixel smartphone, as well as a new tablet computer and a smart home controller.The new products were announced during an event Tuesday in New York.Google launched the first Pixel smartphone two years ago as part of a major new effort to develop hardware.The company is better known for building software to power internet search technology and the Android smartphone operating system.Over the past two years, Google has sold about 7 million Pixel phones, the technology research company IDC estimates.Those sales are a very small part of the estimated 3.6 billion phones sold by all manufacturers during that same two-year period.Apple, for example, sold about 388 million iPhones during the two years.Google's new smartphones ― the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL ― appear aimed at providing iPhone-like features at a lower price.
