Google finally did it. They built a profile of what an iPhone user wants.
Performance, battery life, a great camera, and Magafe. And they've
delivered all of that with the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL. They even
nailed the pricing. The small one starts at $1,000. Apple users have lots of
money, right? That's part of the profile. Let's start with an unboxing.
And I hear you. I hear you, Lionus. That's two boxings. You can't call it an
unboxing, but I kind of can because very
rarely do we have two devices that are as similar as the Pixel 10 Pro and the
Pixel 10 Pro XL. Everything from the
Tensor G5 processor, which is all new for this family of 10th generation
Pixels down to the cameras is basically the same. Obviously, the screens are not
quite the same. We're talking 6.8 8 versus 6.3 in with a slightly larger
battery in the XL in order to accommodate that extra screen real estate. But that is about it. Included
in both of them, you'll find a USB 2 cable that supports up to 45 watt
charging. Google claims it can reach up to about a 70% charge in just about 30
minutes, which is pretty freaking cool. But that's all you get for accessories.
You'll have to buy your own charging brick that's capable of that. Speaking
of things you'll have to buy, if you're into wireless charging, you're going to
want to buy a Gi 2 charging stand. Check
this out. This is the Pixel Snap charger. That's right, G2 support, baby.
Which means up to 15 watts of charging on both of these devices and on the
regular 10. And
took a couple attempts on the larger phone. It's a little easier to align on
the smaller one. magnetic alignment, which on the phones themselves, when I
was checking this out on the Pixel 10, seems to use about the same strength of
magnet as MagSafe, even though the Pixel Snap case isn't necessarily quite as
strong as some other cases might be. Either way, if this was the thing that
was keeping you on the iPhone, no more excuses. Come try this side. The water's
warm, and there's lots to like about the Pixel 10 family in general. Well, Google
now offers 7 years of software updates, starting with Android 16 out of the box,
and they're shipping the entire Pixel 10 family with their new massively AI
boosted Tensor G5 processor with 16 gigs of RAM and up to a terabyte of storage
on the Pro line. I'm going to hand off to the Labs to talk performance.
>> Thanks, Lionus. John Labs here. And though Google boasts about their
improved AI performance, when it comes to the Pixel 10 Pro CPU and GPU
performance, things don't seem to be all that impressive with around a 17%
increase in single core performance and around a 36% increase in multi-core
performance compared to the Pixel 9 Pro XL. But it was only able to hit 93% of
the GPU benchmark results. Though you may be thinking that doesn't sound too
bad. When you look at the competition, the Pixel significantly falls behind in
benchmarks compared to the Galaxy S25 Edge with both the 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL
getting around 88% of the single core performance, 67% of the multi-core
performance, and just 55% of the GPU performance. Yesesh. In our stress test,
the story is pretty much the same with minor gains over the Pixel 9 series and
only 50% of the S25 Edg's max output in
its standard performance mode. When it comes to battery life, things are
equally as disappointing with the 10 Pro lasting 17 hours and 11 minutes and the
10 Pro XL lasting 18 hours and 3 minutes, which falls behind the last gen
results of around 19 hours for the Pixel 9 and 18 hours and 45 minutes for the 9
Pro XL. For comparison, Samsung's ultra thin S25 Edge was able to last around 20
hours and 27 minutes in our tests.
Back to you, Lionus. >> Thanks, guys. Now, let's take a closer
look at the outside. Unlike the Pixel 10, which Google advertises as using
recycled aluminum, the Pixel 10 Pro has a polished frame that, okay, they copied
Apple, they didn't copy Apple, whatever. It looks and feels extremely premium
along with, what are they calling this? Like a silky smooth glass finish on the
back. It manages to feel silky, but not
too smooth. It's actually not that slippery. I really quite like it. The
front uses Gorilla Glass Victus 2. So, this should be an extremely durable
phone, just like the regular 10, but uh shinier. On the bottom, we've got a USB
3-speed type-C port along with our microphone and speaker grills. On this
side, we got a whole heck of a lot of nothing. On the top, SIM tray, at least
if you're in a territory that has them, as well as a noise cancelling microphone. There's a total of three on
the outside of the device. And then finally on the other side, we've got our
volume rocker as well as our lock button. On the back, okay, I guess uh
you know what? Let's get to the cameras in a sec. First, we've got our dedicated
flash. And that's right, guys. Thank goodness it's back. Our temperature
sensor. Wow, both sizes get it. Not the
10, though. Those Pixel 10 plebs,
they're missing out big. Actually,
that's one of the I don't know if I'd call it a controversy, but it's
certainly one of the things people are talking about with the Pixel 10 lineup
is that there doesn't really seem to be much of a difference, at least for the
non XL, between the Pixel 10 Pro and the Pixel 10. You got the temperature
sensor, ever so slightly increased
brightness on the Pro up to 3,300 nits peak, and then I think they say HDR up
to 2200 nits. We'll have more detailed testing for that for you guys later. But
other than that, it basically comes down to the cameras. You'll still get three
cameras on the regular 10, but what you won't get is a 50 megapixel main shooter
that has, according to Google, dramatically improved image
stabilization while shooting video. And this is somewhere that the entire
Android ecosystem really does have a lot of ground to make up compared to Apple.
You'll also get dramatically improved resolution on both your ultrawide which
is now 48 megapixels as well as your
telephoto which is also 48 megapixels
allowing up to 100 time zoom um with
software image enhancements on it. They're even boasting 8K video recording
which quite frankly I don't think anybody needs to do on a phone but I
can't speak for everybody. If you need your 8K video phone recording. All
right, I get it. Maybe you could use it to record this segue to our sponsor
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put aside the regular 10 Pro and I'm going to focus on the XL because from a
dimensional standpoint, the 10 and the 10 Pro are identical to the point where
they just even fit in the same cases. Let's go ahead and fire up the camera
and see just how good it is. Oh, look at that. Camera shortcuts. Yeah, we can do
that. Oh, we can update the camera. All right. Well, we'll look at the camera in
a moment. How does Google still not enable the back button on the right for
three button navigation? That drives me absolutely insane. Oo,
motion pro, which captures a few seconds of video like on an iPhone. Top shot and
auto best take, so it'll take a few shots when you got a big group. Pretty
handy. 100x pro zoom. There's no way
they didn't know what they were doing, calling it ProRes. AI imaging models for
enhanced quality. But why don't we start without the AI imaging models and let's
just see how good this camera is. It's one of the cleaner shots I've had.
What's interesting though is like it is doing a lot of processing. Like it's
doing a good job of it. You are surprisingly not that noisy and you
almost look too good. See how it looks like you're just kind of photoshopped in
there. >> What? No, I don't mean that. I just mean you look like you're on a green screen
like behind you. It's all It's all dark. Like look how bright that looks. That
wasn't even at 50 megapixels. Now hold on just a gosh darn second here. Let's
turn Let's turn things up a little bit, shall we? You still look like you're
photoshopped in there. That is so weird.
This is outstanding, though. This is one
of the best zooms that I've ever had of this. There's a ton of detail in there.
And the dynamic range is still excellent. Like, you can see every fold
in this white bounce here. And even the light overprocessing, no doubt, but when
it comes to resolution and dynamic range, they're clearly doing a great job
here. Okay, this is a great example of
how you can see things are kind of overboosted. See how pink that pink is?
That's what it's supposed to look like. Whoopsy doodles. You know what is also
possible though? The screen might be shipping in a vibrant display mode,
which drives me crazy when they Okay, natural. That definitely helps.
Immediately closer to the actual color. So, let me have a look at let me have a
look at Reese again here. Nope. He still
looks like he's photoshopped in there. All right, let's have a look at the ultra wide. I'll take an ultra wide
picture. Why not, right? Okay, this is how dark the place he's sitting is. So,
the ultra wide gets it. And then this one's like boom. Let's try the
telephoto. Wo, that stabilization,
though. See, I didn't know you had this. I thought you were more about the fancy
shoes. You're about the knowledge. >> The knowledge.
>> You're Reese. True. >> Do you Do you forget whose laptop that
is or let's try the 100x zoom or do I
have to do I have to download the model? Model download. Here we go. Here we go.
ProRes zoom. Let's get it. Oh, wait. Oh, I uninstalled it. Damn it. Oh, it's a
gig.
Okay, our ProRes Zoom is done. I can make out the phone number to contact our
like fire sign management company
almost. Like if I need you to know that phone number, you realize I'm a short
guy, right? 42 million pixels.
42 million million. Like you could
probably see every last bit of food stuck in my braces. Nobody wants that. I
think they should market a lower resolution front-facing camera. Why are
you doing all this processing? You know, to make us look younger, you could just
give us like a potato.3 megapixel like we had on our old camera phones, our old
flip phones. Then then we'd look young.
Anyway, nice selfie camera, Google. Good job. Ooh, we can use macro for that.
Wow. You really can't tell. There's so many little shirt fibers on there until
you take a macro shot of it. Let's listen to the speaker, shall we?
It's okay. It's just okay. Not the best that I've heard. Far from the worst that
I've ever heard. It's okay. As for the HDR viewing experience, much like pretty
much any modern phone, it's probably going to be one of, if not the best
displays in your house. But the Labs hasn't finished their testing yet. So,
I'm going to hand off to them to talk in more detail about how the display looks.
>> John Labs here again, and luckily, I'm back with better news. The Pixel 10 Pro
and 10 Pro XL both surpassed their advertised screen brightness claims with
us measuring a peak luminance of 3,378
nits for the Pixel 10 Pro and 3344 nits
for the Pro XL. This is considerably brighter than last gen Pixel phones with
the 10 Pro series measuring 10% brighter than the Pixel 9 Pro XL in SDR and 15%
brighter in HDR. Back to you, Lionus.
>> Now, it's time for the big fat elephant in the room. One of Google's main
focuses marketing the Pixel 10 family was the Tensor G5 processor,
specifically its neural processing. It's enabling a I got to admit some pretty
exciting ondevice AI features that
unfortunately in an unboxing in Canada,
I don't have a ton of ways to demo for you guys. We tried to show the live
phone call translation that's supported in a handful of languages um in our
Pixel 10 unboxing and we weren't able to get it working. So, your mileage may
vary with that. And as for Magic Q, which is supposed to kind of monitor
what you're doing and then provide helpful suggestions like, "Oh, hey, your
friend wants to know where you're meeting for dinner. Why don't you just send them where you're going for
dinner?" Because I know all of that stuff. legitimately kind of neat and I'm
a lot more comfortable with it knowing that it's running locally. The thing I
don't know is that Google, a marketing company, is not, you know, packaging all
of that monitoring and kind of creating a profile of me. But we'll let the
courts decide how all that's going to work, I suppose. As for Gemini features,
there's a new Gemini widget right on the home screen. And there's a couple of things I didn't try in the Pixel 10
video. So, why don't we try out Live, which supposedly allows you to just
interact with Gemini naturally as Gemini sees what you see. Hey, can you tell me
where to get this watch?
>> That's a Garmin Instinct 2 Solar. You can usually find them at major
electronics retailers, sporting goods stores, or online through Garmin's
website or Amazon. >> Huh. >> Are you looking for a specific color or
style? I'm looking for you to give me the right answer because Garmin does not make this
smartwatch. >> You're totally right, my bad. That's the Cororo's Verdict 2. You can find it on
their website and it's also sold at some major online retailers. Should I find
you a link? >> You could try, but if you find a link
for the Verdict 2, you're going to have the wrong smartwatch. That is not what
this is. >> Ah, my mistake. This is actually the Huawei Watch GT3 Pro. It looks like you
can buy it directly from Huawei's website or from major online retailers.
Do you want me to find you a link? >> At this point, I think you're just
guessing because that's not what it is either. >> I see it's the OnePlus Watch 2.
>> It's actually the 2R. >> It's available on their website and
through major online retailers. Do you want me to find a link for you?
>> Is there a reason it took you so long to tell me the correct model of watch?
That's four guesses. How am I supposed to believe a word you say? >> I understand your frustration. I
apologize for the multiple incorrect guesses. I am still under development
and learning to identify objects more accurately. I'm glad we finally got it
right. >> It's actually the 2R. So, you're basically useless, but thank you.
>> So, it's the 2 R. Got it. Are you looking to buy one, >> dude? I'm pointing this at my own wrist.
I already have one. Pretty responsive, though. Yeah. You got to give it credit
for that. This is 2.5 flash, though. So, am I am I able to change it to Pro? I'm
not on my corporate account that has uh Gemini Pro. So, Gemini could also help
you frame your photos to take better photos. So, that's a feature that they
advertise. If it works as well as the live feature does, then I don't know,
your mileage may vary. And apparently, you can ask Gemini to perform actions
across apps. Can you fire up Crab Rave for me in YouTube and turn my volume up
to max? >> Playing Crab Rave on YouTube. I've also
turned your volume up to the maximum level. Here is the link to the video.
Link to YouTube. Okay, one click.
And it is at max volume. You know what?
That's something. Uh,
I didn't know if it would be able to do that. It's just it's something I thought
I might want to do. Well, good try, Gemini. Keep improving. Realistically,
at least you're one step better than Apple, who's still struggling to launch
Apple Intelligence. So, you're launched
and it'll only cost you $1,200 for the XL and $1,000 for the non XL, which I I
think really has raised some very reasonable questions from people of uh
well, why wouldn't I just get the regular 10? Cuz that does seem to be the
best bang for the buck out of this family starting at more like $800. It's
just no question looking at all three of these that boy have phones ever gotten
very very expensive. Which is why I'm rocking the 9A. Look at this. No camera
bump. Isn't that cool? It's like going back in time, but in like a good way.
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