Now, I'll be the first to say that in general, digital assistants have fallen
short of what we were promised. I mean, just last week, I had someone text me,
"Happy birthday." One of the options to respond to them was, "Happy birthday."
You're guessing they're my twin. However, the new Tensor G5 processor in
the Google Pixel 10 along with some of their onboard, that's right, locally
processed AI features actually looks
pretty compelling. I'm talking prompting you with stuff that you might find
useful or interesting. Okay, that we've been promised before, but on device and
more interestingly, live translation of
phone calls processed on device in the
natural voice of the caller. Okay, now you've got my attention. Inside the
eco-friendly packaging, you find a whole lot of not much. A SIM removal tool, a
little bit of documentation. Remember when they used to have audio adapters
and power bricks, phone cases, stickers?
Of course, that's not what you were here for. You were here for the Pixel 10. And
wow, it's a Pixel. On the back, we're greeted with our very first three camera
design for the regular nonpro. Beep beep
beep. I have cameras. They don't have the same resolution as the Pro model.
We're looking at a 48 megapixel wide, a 13 megapixel ultrawide, and a 10.8 8
megap 5x telephoto lens. But what's
refreshing is that that is pretty much the biggest difference going from the
nonpro to the Pro. It has the same allnew Tensor G5 chip as the Pro model
with the main difference from a performance standpoint being that it has
12 gigs of RAM rather than 16 gigs of RAM and is only available with a 128 or
256 gig storage configuration. On the outside, you've got three microphones
that help with noise cancellation. A SIM slot. US customers won't have the tray,
though. It's eim only down there. Got one of those mics and the SIM on the
top. On the left, whole lot of nothing. On the bottom, USB type-C charging port
that supports fast charging up to 30 watts. And then on the right, your
volume rocker as well as a lock button. Oh, and I missed a couple things on the
back. The dedicated flash with no temperature sensor. That's a proton only
feature as well as wireless charging with the new Chi 2 standard which
features not only up to 15 watts of charging power but like Apple MagSafe
alignment magnets. In fact, I've got a charger Google sent over and we can have
a look at how it snaps into place with the Pixel Snap charger. Hello.
Ah, wow. What a great value. It includes a wireless charger and an IQ test. I'm
failing. Oh, that's unfortunate. Non-detachable power cord. Nice little
weighted base though. You ready, folks? This is it. This is a big moment.
Wow. It's like iPhone. Is it quite like
iPhone? Ah, it's all right. Here's an iPhone.
Mhm.
Like, is it just that this Moment accessory has stronger? Oh, it is.
Okay. All right. That was going to be pretty embarrassing. Of course, magnetic
performance isn't the only performance that we want to know about. Hello there.
I'm John Labs, and I'm here to give you mixed news about the Pixel 10. Compared
to last year's phones, the Pixel 10 was able to increase its benchmarking speeds
by 30% in single core performance and nearly 40% in multi-core performance,
which means daily tasks when using your phone will feel mighty zippy if you're
coming from an older Pixel. But in GPU performance, the Pixel 10 actually performs a little bit worse with it only
achieving 93% of the score the Pixel 9 was able to get. Odd. Unfortunately,
when compared with another recently released phone like the S25 Edge, things
fall apart with the Pixel 10 only achieving 87% of the single core
performance, 65% of the multi-core performance, and only 55% of the GPU
performance with the S25 Edge in its light performance mode. In stress tests,
things are even more middling with the Pixel 10 hitting its peak performance
with a 24% increase in score compared to the Pixel 9 series, but only a 5%
increase in average performance overall. And again, when compared to the S25
Edge, it only hits 63% of its score. Ouch. Thanks, guys. Now, before we start
poking around in the software, firing up the camera, listening to Crab Rave, all
that good stuff, there is one more performance conversation that I wanted
to have. In fact, I was so confused by this that I had to check the spec sheet
twice. Instead of keeping Wi-Fi 7 like
we had in the last generation Pixel 9 family, Google's gone back to Wi-Fi 6E,
which to be clear, I don't think is a huge deal in terms of performance. I
mean, I'm not downloading Linux ISOs on my phone. It's just not something that I
recall ever seeing before. And Bluetooth at the same time is getting a big
upgrade from Bluetooth 5.3 with the Pixel 9 to Bluetooth 6.0, to which
offers better security as well as much better location tracking, which is a big
deal because I don't know about you guys, but for me, Apple's Find My
Network for device tracking is kind of a big deal. Now, let's poke around. Yeah,
it's a almost as smooth as I would expect from a 60
>> to 120 Hz display. Nice to at least have
a high refresh rate display on your non-pro device, Apple. and I will open
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there's a few things it wants me to enable in the camera. Motion photos. So
that's the little snippet of motion. This was actually kind of a big deal for
my wife. She loved it about the iPhone. So, it's cool to see Samsung and Google
having those features enabled on their phones, as well as top shot, which takes a few shots when you got a bunch of
people in the shot. And then auto best take, which takes the best one of those
top shots. There's lots of other camera features, including ones that use AI
both in the cloud as well as locally to do things like coaching you to find the
best angle and lighting as well as taking a picture and being in it, too.
As always, my expectations of the camera are extremely high. I mean, it might not
be the pro, but it is a Pixel. Processing, excellent.
Dynamic range, excellent. I mean, look at how well it handles the studio light
and the dark background. Resolution, not
amazing, but hey, if you don't like that, maybe you should have bought a
Pro. Let's see how she does with the telephoto lens. Wow, Google, like pretty
much everyone. It's kind of struggling with color in this environment.
When adequately lit, it's a lot better.
But again, not the resolution of the Pro. Hey, Reys, want to be in a picture
with me? >> Boy, do I. >> Stand uh more that way.
>> Now, you have to align the photo or align the frame and do the thing.
>> I hate this.
Okay. Okay. You know what? There's a couple little things that I can notice
about this. One is that it wasn't quite
sure what to do with the changing colors
of the RGB lighting that we had behind us. So, it got a little confused there.
Also, I definitely have my hand on Reese's junk.
I'm not 100% sure if this is quite to
size scale. >> Scale is perfect. >> You think so? You think so? But hey,
we're both in the picture. If I was just looking at it real quick styles, I think
I'd think I'd probably mostly believe it. Does it have Android jutdder when
you pan? It looks like it. Oh, this is a nice
little feature I've been enjoying lately on my Android phones. Even when you have the portrait lock enabled, if it detects
that you're watching video, it'll give you a little, "Hey, would you like to
rotate it?" When you do that, yes, I would. Apple might have it, too. I
literally don't know, but I do like that. Why is nothing as good as an
iPhone? But overall, this is pretty decent given what a challenging
situation this is. They've found a really good balance of maintaining
stability, but also allowing the camera to pan rather than kind of trying to
lock it on and then going, "Oh, oh, shoot. We're moving."
Actually, not bad. How's the selfie camera, though? 10 1/2 megapixels. Is
that enough megapixels? The answer is yes. That's as close as I need to get to
my wrinkles. Good job, Google. Oh, yeah. It's pretty wide, too. You could fit all
kinds of other people in there. Like if you had friends. I don't, but you might.
Let's fire up some YouTube that I have.
Amplified earpiece. And already very
full rich sound. Tier 1 mobile devices have truly gotten remarkable in terms of
their audio quality. Like why do people buy Bluetooth speakers anymore?
Did I say tier one? I meant tier
2.9. Maybe the Bluetooth speaker manufacturers are safe for now. I'm
watching this before the Labs team has actually had a chance to measure the
display. But what I do know is that Google claims 2,000 nits of brightness
in HDR and 3,000 nits peak brightness using auto brightness outside of video
playback, which is very good, very modern, and looks fantastic under their
Victus 2 glass cover. Let's have a look at how the lab's results came in. Hello
again. When it comes to screens, Google clearly likes to flex as we were
regularly able to surpass their claimed peak brightness with us measuring a peak
luminance of 3,49 nits in HDR, which is
29% brighter than last year's Pixel 9. Sheesh. Don't worry if you're not into
that new fangled HDR technology, you'll still see 3,32 nits in SDR, which is a
20% increase over the Pixel 9. Both of these results also totally trounce the
S25 Edge, if you're wondering. So, if you only watch videos outside in the sun, maybe this phone's for you. When it
comes to battery life, the Pixel 10 was able to get 17 and 12 hours of battery
life, which sounds like plenty, but is actually an hour and a half less than
last year's phone and is not really competitive with phones like the S25
Edge, which is much thinner. And that's all for me. Now, it's time to talk about
AI. Obviously, there's the incloud AI features. You've got an Ask Gemini
button right front and center on the home screen. Seriously? Oh,
it's for ShortCircuit.
AI really is getting smart. Anyway, the point is it's packed full of AI features
that Google's shown already, like their theft detection, as well as their
ability to detect suspicious calls and text. But one of the ones that I am most
interested in is the new live translation feature that apparently
happens on device. Are we able to like try that?
>> Hello. >> Is that really how you say hello in Japanese?
Hello. Use live translate. Live translate. This is what I hate
about features that are supposed to work automatically.
>> What's the point of this damn thing? >> As for Magic Q, unless I'm daily driving
the phone, I don't really see how it's going to do anything useful. It's supposed to do stuff like what? When a
friend texts asking the location for dinner, it's supposed to like surface
the answer and share it with a tab. Well, that sounds like the subject of
another less unboxing video. For now, it starts at $800 and you guys can check it
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