google unveiled the pixel 6 and 6 pro today but
we already knew everything about it because they let everything leak months
before they even announced the date for the launch event but google's desperate
attempts to drum up hype for the pixel 6 make more sense when you realize that
after five years of trying to make google phones a thing
eleven if you count the nexi google phones still account for only
around two to four percent of the smartphone market but the pixel six is
going to change everything it's got tensor google's first mobile chip
designed in-house apple made their own chips and look at them everybody loves
them so let's look at what google announced today and see whether the pixel 6 is
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the pixel 2 3 and 4 were all more or less the same phone as their xl
counterparts with a few minor differences like battery and display
size but at 8.99 the pixel 6 pro has a
number of notable upgrades over the 599 pixel six including a slightly bigger
and higher resolution curved edge display smaller bezels and an adaptive
refresh rate up to 120 hertz instead of 90. both phones have a 50 megapixel wide
and 12 megapixel ultra wide on the back but the pro has an additional 48
megapixel telephoto lens using what they call folded optics but i'm going to
continue calling it a periscope lens until they learn we want an actual
little periscope to come out of the camera can we make i'm tired of waiting
google make it happen the pro also has a better front camera
11.1 megapixels instead of eight and inside it's got more RAM and higher
capacity storage options which are bafflingly limited by color
what's that you'd like to order a 512 gig pixel six pro in sorta sunny
you idiot that amount of storage is obviously incompatible with that color
and with cloudy white but cloudy white can do 256 it unlocked that storage tier
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but it's what the two pixel sixes share that's more important google tensor the
brand new chip designed by google and custom made for pixel by samsung who may
have also designed it because tensor might actually be that samsung exynos
9855 that was spotted in leaks and maybe that's not true but the chip diagram
google showed off today had the same number of high performance mid tier and
high efficiency cores as an xda developer's leak the same one that
claimed google was confusingly using two ARM cortex a76 cores from 2018 instead
of the more recent a7 or a78 look
regardless of whether google bore most of the load and making this chip or not
it's clear that they're standing behind it claiming it packs 80 percent faster
CPU performance and 370 percent faster
graphics than the pixel 5 thanks to a new 20 core GPU
those are some apple silicon numbers especially when it was compared to its
own predecessor and not its current competition for that you'd have to ask
gamersnexus steve the only other indicators we saw today
of tensor's performance were the new camera software features available in
the pixel 6 and 6 pro that take advantage of tensor's machine learning
chops and i gotta say they look pretty cool
magic eraser is like photoshop's content aware fill but baked right into the
Android camera app it's not something that was impossible to do on phones but
being able to quickly squiggle a guy out of existence for having the audacity to
obscure your photograph seems satisfying
i'm an artist there are also a couple features for both blurring and unblurring photos face
unblur combines images from the wide and ultra wide rear cameras so you can save
a smudgy photo you otherwise would have immediately deleted in frustration and
shame while motion mode lets you add motion blur to elements of a photo on
purpose the results apparently end up looking like a long exposure photo
except you didn't have to tell your friends to remain perfectly still in front of a ferris wheel or train for a
long time which is great news because my friends are tired of me doing this to
them again artist it's a struggle it's my
burden another thing tenser's machine learning abilities help with is
analyzing a scene to make sure that photo subjects of all skin colors and
complexions are accurately represented it's an issue that has been highlighted
in the media production industry for a long time so it's cool to see google
trying to make sure photos capture what people actually look like which i think
is the whole idea of a photo
so there was one thing in today's keynote that i hadn't seen referenced in
any leaks and which i was actually quite happy about developers will be able to
incorporate google's camera features into non-google apps so you won't have
to switch to your camera app take a photo and then attach it to a whatsapp
message to avoid using the built-in whatsapp camera which looks like ass
on my phone anyway but tensor isn't all about photos the chip will also be using
its power to make voice dictation a lot faster and contextual doing things like
remembering how to spell difficult names like katherine is it a c a k question
mark just kidding you don't even have to say question mark anymore an Android's
live caption feature is being expanded with live translate google's been
showing off some form of real-time translation or another for years now but
this time they got marie condo remember her the spark joy lady from 2019
the year that ended up sparking anything but joy
anyways i got her to come on and try out the feature and she said it was really
good so i mean she would have thrown it out if it was bad right
but no it's here inside your chat app
most importantly though we're getting a kind of successor to screen call the
coolest pixel feature in my recent memory direct my call will listen to
automated phone menu systems and give you an on-screen ui to navigate instead
while hold for me will stay on hold for you so should you stay
on hold while google restocks the pixel 6 and 6 pro on their store which crashed
repeatedly during the live stream that remains to be seen since even though we
have the google pixel 6 here and we're allowed to tell you that we have it we
can't directly show you anything that it can actually do yet so nice job on these
google but unless our tests show some real promise
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