we're at the google pixel event here in new york and i have in my hand the new
pixel 3 and pixel 3 xl like before
they're the exact same phone they have the same internals same RAM same storage
same cameras same body the only difference is the size and the screen as
you can see this one is slightly smaller this one's slightly bigger 5.5 inch screen on this
guy 6.3 inch screen on this guy and the
presence of that wonderful enormous
delicious did you see notch yeah just delicious yeah this is like
you just took a chunk out of it that's why it's it's like there's a lot of
thoughts about it i don't think delicious cal oh hey man that's my truth i'm living it
speaking of internals the one thing that google didn't really talk about in the
event was the actual internals so they didn't talk about what system on a chip
it's running how much RAM how much storage the one thing that they did mention about the internals is the pixel
core imaging chip so that's going to assist with the machine learning
software side of making the photos really really nice one of the software
tweaks that they did talk about was a HDR plus type of mode where it takes a
burst of photos and selects the best one the feature that they're talking about
there is top shot so the system will
automatically suggest to you which shot is the best it'll determine
which who's smiling or who's making horrible horrible faces you can fine tune it
yourself but the system will provide you suggestions they've also made
adjustments to the way that low light works they've got a feature called night
sight which they say basically completely destroys the iphone
10s's low light ability they even had a dedicated slide for that in the event
which was quite rude in my opinion but fair enough another thing that they
shaded the iphone on was the wideness
of their selfie cam so you'll notice that previous pixel generation one
camera on the back one camera on the front these pixels have one camera on
the back and two cameras on the front and that's because it's being used for
their group selfie cam feature which apparently will allow you to get selfies
that are 184 percent wider than the
iphone 10s selfies so the widest selfies this side of the
mississippi now the other huge standout feature for
the pixel 3 and pixel 3 xl is that they're going to get duplex google's ai
calling feature when that launches they're going to be the first to get that but until that comes you can use a
feature called call screen and what that does is
screens calls so you get a call while you're in the middle of something you
don't want to answer it it'll pop up saying oh you want a call screen okay
yeah and google assistant will talk to the person via text and ask them why
they're calling you and the reason they can type in the reason why they're
calling you and it'll show up on screen so
it's basically a built-in telemarketer defense which is pretty
awesome and one thing that i forgot to mention is that the back looks like it's
not glass but guess what you got full because it's glass there's a matte and a
glossy finish but there's actually the
entire piece is one solid piece of glass so that allows them to add wireless
charging one thing that a lot of people are sorely missing with the pixel 2
and wireless charging allows them to make the super cool pixel stand which
we're going to talk about oh and they still got the squeeze to activate google
assistant feature which i'm not used to because i'm not used to squeezing phones
and having things actually happen so the pixel 3 and 3xl is going to come in just
black clearly white and not pink
which is pink a bit confusing and it's going to start at 7.99 obviously that's
for the pixel 3 at the base configuration so they didn't actually
talk about how much this one is yet but i assume it's more so another product
that google has unveiled this year is the pixel slate so last year they had
the pixel book uh that was kind of a laptop tablet
thing it was mostly a laptop and it was trying to also be a tablet and ended up
kind of being not a super great version of either of those product categories so
what google has done is kind of double down on the tablet angle so the slate is
1.7 millimeters thin 1.6 pounds and it
does kind of feel like it would be a great tablet experience that's what
they've really centered it towards dual front firing speakers on the front a 293
pixels per square inch which amounts to 6 million pixels overall which
apparently is the highest amount of pixels in this category large tablet
category i guess it's got two usb-c ports one on either side and a
fingerprint reader on the top which also doubles as the power button no headphone
jack but it comes with a dongle in the box and 8 megapixel cameras on the front
and back now this is something interesting that they've done with the pixel they're kind
of bringing the pixel phone camera
technology onto tablets so it's going to use machine learning
software to kind of try and give that same portrait
experience that we've had in the pixel so it remains to be seen how good it
will actually perform how well it will perform but it's exciting to see them
bring that technology into something else other than the pixel 3 phones so of
course the pixel slate isn't just a tablet they're releasing this keyboard
with it it's an automatic pairing with the golden connectors on the bottom so
you just slide it in and it'll instantly recognize and once it's in the keyboard
dock you can slide it along so that it can be adjusted to be at any angle they
say it's infinitely adjustable although it does lock at the top and bottom so
it's not quite infinite guess let's be serious and google says that
they have retooled chrome os to work
even better for a desktop and a mobile experience so
you can now snap Windows from to either side so it's a little better for
productivity and they have reworked the ui for be to be more a little more touch
friendly as well for the mobile side the slate is supposed to get you 10 hours of
battery life uh and it starts at 5.99
this year last year it started at 9.99 the pixel book started at 9.99 so that's
a pretty big jump and it's nice to see them kind of addressing the fact that
the pixel book was maybe a little too expensive for what it was the keyboard
is 199 and the pen is 99
so uh those will all be available soon unfortunately just like the pixel 3
phones they didn't actually talk much about what the internal specs are but
i'm sure we'll find out very soon it's a lot smaller than i thought it would be
for all the leaks from all the photos it looked like it was like a google max
with a screen on it but that's not what it is it's very it's very tiny it looks
like it's like maybe a seven inch eight inch screen this is the google home hub
and it's basically what it sounds like it's a google home with a screen on it so it's
going to do all the things that your google home does and a bit more you're
going to be able to use those normal google apps to use but apparently google
has redesigned the app interfaces to make it a little easier for
families to use it in kind of obviously the home setting in the
kitchen in the living room in the play area what do homes have i live in
an apartment now one thing that you'll notice is that there's no camera on this
thing you'd think that a device like this would be used for
family video calls but uh that's not gonna happen so it's good for privacy
some people you could say that that means that it's spying on you less but it's not so good
for video calling obviously so that's an interesting choice that google made and
just like the other homes it has the ok google detection switch so you can tell
it not to listen sometimes the home hub apparently has a few smart features that
make just make sense when you think about it like when you uh your nest
doorbell will ring your camera enabled doorbell the home hub will automatically
show the feed from that it will have parental controls so kids just can't go
on there and look up anything they want willy nilly most kids
and when no one's using it at all it'll be in live album mode which means that
it'll go through your google photos or if you can choose albums that it will go
through or you can say hey i want to show pictures of jim billy and sarah and
your google photos will automatically create an album with those people in it
so you can always look at the pretty faces of your family and friends you can
pre-order the google home hub now for 149
and it'll launch october 22nd everywhere
else and that live album mode will also be on the pixel 3 when you set it into
the pixel charging stand so when you dock your pixel it'll
essentially act like a mini google home hub
uh which is already mini more mini than we thought it would be
hey yeah good to meet you too i don't know him riley i don't know
okay yeah good to meet you well yeah i just he's rolling wow
what a special moment i was just trying to say goodbye i was
apologizing for ruining your video yeah you really did
have fun good riddance
i thought i was his favorite i mean he just met me
well guys that's a quick look at what google announced today at the made by
google event here in new york it was very exciting it was my first event it
was tech league's first on location event so let us know what you thought we
didn't get to everything that i wanted to get to but uh i'm assuming that we or
Linus tech tips are going to do some more full fleshed out videos on these
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