Google 2017 in review: Hits, misses, and WTF moments

After jumping head first into the hardware game last year with the Pixel phones and Home smart speaker, Google seriously picked up the pace in 2017. Not only were there two awesome new Pixel phones, but also smaller and larger Google Home devices, as well as a pair of Pixel-branded earbuds. And through it all, Google's AI-powered Assistant got smarter and smarter. Google took its share of lumps over the past 12 months, and proved that making great hardware isn't as easy as it looks. The Pixel 2 is a gret follow-up to Google's first handset.