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Google Launches New Flagship Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro Smartphones Priced at $599 and $899
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And iPhones use all kinds of parts from Samsung and other manufacturers should we start calling iPhones iSungs as well? Parts don’t = a finished product.
Uhh, this is an apple news website no??
Google today announced its latest flagship smartphones, the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro. The two new devices are already garnering positive reviews for their high-end feature set available at an affordable price tag.
Priced at $599 and $899, respectively, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are Google's first smartphones that are equipped with the Google Tensor system-on-a-chip, which Google designed. Apple has long used mobile chips that it designs in house, and Google's choice to design its own Tensor chips will allow for better integration of hardware and software.
The Pixel 6 features a 6.4-inch OLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate, while the Pixel 6 Pro features a larger, curved-edge 6.7-inch OLED display and a 120Hz refresh rate.
As we saw in photos prior to the launch of the new smartphones, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro have a unique unibody look with a rear camera bar and an edge-to-edge display with hole punch cutout for the front-facing camera.
According to Google, the matte black camera bar is designed to provide a "clean, symmetrical" design. The Pixel 6 devices are available in several colors, each with a two-tone design.
Both the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro have an improved 50-megapixel wide angle camera that lets in 150 percent more light, and both are also equipped with a 12-megapixel ultra wide lens. The Pixel 6 Pro has an additional 48-megapixel telephoto lens that supports 4x optical zoom and "Super Res Zoom" up to 20x.
Google has also introduced new camera features, such as Magic Eraser, which removes unwanted objects from an image. There's a Motion Mode with Action Pan and Long Exposure, and a Real Tone addition that is designed to make photos look more true to life. Google consulted photographers, cinematographers, and colorists to improve its auto enhancement features.
There are differences between the front-facing camera between the two models. The Pixel 6 has an 8-megapixel front-facing lens while the Pixel 6 Pro has an improved 11.1-megapixel lens with a wider field of view.
The Tensor chip allows for AI improvements, with the new smartphones offering better speech recognition and language understanding models. With Live Translate, Pixel 6 users can message people in different languages, with support for English, French, German, Italian, and Japanese. Apple has added a Translate app for these kind of translations, but Google's version works right in the messaging app.
Both smartphones support 5G with mmWave speeds available, and the Pixel 6 Pro also includes an Ultra Wideband chip for better indoor positioning. The Pro also features 12GB RAM compared to 8GB in the Pixel 6, and it supports up to 512GB of storage.
The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro run Android 12, the latest version of the Android operating system. Google has also introduced a new Pixel Pass that bundles several Google services together for $45 (Pixel 6) to $55 (Pixel 6 Pro) per month, similar to the Apple One offering. Pixel Pass includes YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium, Google One with 200GB cloud storage, Google Play Pass for games, and Preferred Care device coverage.
For those interested in a hands-on look at the new Pixel 6 smartphones, several media sites have already done reviews.
The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro can be pre-ordered starting today, and will launch on October 28.
Article Link: Google Launches New Flagship Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro Smartphones Priced at $599 and $899
I’m not really surprised, given Apple’s lead on ARM silicon and by the fact that this is apparently a new SoC (and by the last Gen Pixel’s use of a mid-range SoC). Also, where does Google get off designing its own SoC? Nothing I know about the company suggests that they have any business designing the sorts of high efficiency+high performance hardware a new SoC needs for consumer applications. I suspect battery life while pushing AI heavy workloads is going to be an issue with this phone, since I don’t think Google really has the hardware energy management experience Apple has (or that PA Semi had before Apple).
the new iPhone only has 6 GB of RAM compared to the Pixels' 12GB, not to mention all up until this year Apple was selling 60hz screens in their "flagship" phone.
Google doesn't design their own SoC, the chip in the pixel 6, is a exynos chip with minor tweaks. 🤦♂️
Yet that 6gb ram leaves the pixel for dead 24/7
Oh, the iPhone 13 pro max also has a smaller battery than the pixel 6 pro, yet it will destroy the pixel 6 pro when it comes to battery life.
Looks like an ugly version of the Nexus 6P. I bought that phone and a few months later, Google cancelled the complete Nexus program and long term updates. Google always cancels anything they do at any time anyway, so no way I will be getting any more Google phones except if all other phone makers would suddenly cease to exist.
So much power yet wasted by stupid Siri, and an OS that takes no advantage of it. All that "extra power" is irrelevant 99% of the time.
The Pixel actually does "smart" things, like being able to take calls and wait on hold on your behalf. The iPhone is a "dumb" phone.
I didn’t know, it wasn’t mentioned in the article, and I didn’t closely read every comment, the thread was already 5 pages long. My point still stands about the AI workload, though, as that seems to be unique to Tensor.
And, apart from the AI stuff, it seems to be based on a mid-range-ish Exynos, based on the benchpressing scores. Also not surprising given Google’s tendency to stick mid-range CPUs in their flagship phones over the past couple years (since the Pixel 4 at least if not the Pixel 3).
Don’t listen to him. It’s way more than that.
Doesn’t need to be. Even Apple’s software is way too limited to utilize the power anyway. Google, on the other hand, will leverage every bit of power that chip (and Tensor) has to offer and there will be no difference in day to day usage. Unless, of course, you actually want a smart assistant.
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Google's customer support is famously awful.
I will never buy a flagship phone that I cannot get serviced while I travel.
I will never buy a flagship phone that I cannot get serviced while I travel.
Oops, disregard. He doesn’t need anymore air-time for such ridiculousness.
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Could be phone of the year contender for sure
I expect the cameras will blow every other phone away with their new sensors and amazing software
I expect the cameras will blow every other phone away with their new sensors and amazing software
The big problem with Pixel phones, as far as I can tell, isn’t so much that they’re not terribly compelling vs an iPhone, it’s that they’re not terribly compelling vs other Android flagship phones. The “better camera” angle hasn’t given Google phones much market share, nor has the “stock Android” angle. I’m not sure whether on-device AI really will, either (especially since Google’s AI software has mostly been cloud-based before this, which brings up issues with differences in bottlenecks and constraints between cloud/server based AI workflows and local AI workflows).
The Android users I know tend not to like Pixel phones because of things like fixed memory storage (that is, they want the option of using SD cards). And I don’t think Google’s phones really appeal to iPhone partisans all that well, either. I suspect they sell to mostly the same pool of Android users who care more about the camera features (and are happy to pay for extra storage on Google Photos). Most phones take pictures that seem to be good enough for most users these days, so most people don’t seem to see the need for Google’s photography features (which are the primary value-add on top of Android).
The Android users I know tend not to like Pixel phones because of things like fixed memory storage (that is, they want the option of using SD cards). And I don’t think Google’s phones really appeal to iPhone partisans all that well, either. I suspect they sell to mostly the same pool of Android users who care more about the camera features (and are happy to pay for extra storage on Google Photos). Most phones take pictures that seem to be good enough for most users these days, so most people don’t seem to see the need for Google’s photography features (which are the primary value-add on top of Android).
Lol, wut?
1) It's distinctive, which is more than can be said for most phones nowadays. 2) That will lay nice and evenly on a table when you set it down, unlike pretty much every other company's approach to the camera bump.
Hardcore Apple fans are hilarious.
You guys doth protest too much - if you really believed Apple was the best, you wouldn't need to crap on every other company the moment they put out anything that dare compete with Cupertino.
PS - I'd absolutely buy a Pixel 6 if I were still in the Google ecosystem (happy 13 Mini owner here).
You guys doth protest too much - if you really believed Apple was the best, you wouldn't need to crap on every other company the moment they put out anything that dare compete with Cupertino.
PS - I'd absolutely buy a Pixel 6 if I were still in the Google ecosystem (happy 13 Mini owner here).
Excited to see if this will be able to run e/OS (likely to be renamed Murena), have some real privacy, and a high spec device.
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Yea and? Apple iPhones are the Rolls Royce of phones and Google Pixels are the Hondas of phones. What’s your point. If you can’t afford a Rolls then don’t look at it.
When they have a feature called "Magic Eraser", the first thing came to mind is this...🤔
Wondering why is it not trademarked. 🤣
Wondering why is it not trademarked. 🤣