Were The Pixel 3 Rumors True!?
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·2019-05-06
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we're at the google pixel event here in new york and i have in my hand the new
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pixel 3 and pixel 3 xl like before
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they're the exact same phone they have the same internals same RAM same storage
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same cameras same body the only difference is the size and the screen as
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you can see this one is slightly smaller this one's slightly bigger 5.5 inch screen on this
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guy 6.3 inch screen on this guy and the
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presence of that wonderful enormous
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delicious did you see notch yeah just delicious yeah this is like
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you just took a chunk out of it that's why it's it's like there's a lot of
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thoughts about it i don't think delicious cal oh hey man that's my truth i'm living it
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speaking of internals the one thing that google didn't really talk about in the
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event was the actual internals so they didn't talk about what system on a chip
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it's running how much RAM how much storage the one thing that they did mention about the internals is the pixel
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core imaging chip so that's going to assist with the machine learning
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software side of making the photos really really nice one of the software
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tweaks that they did talk about was a HDR plus type of mode where it takes a
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burst of photos and selects the best one the feature that they're talking about
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there is top shot so the system will
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automatically suggest to you which shot is the best it'll determine
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which who's smiling or who's making horrible horrible faces you can fine tune it
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yourself but the system will provide you suggestions they've also made
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adjustments to the way that low light works they've got a feature called night
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sight which they say basically completely destroys the iphone
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10s's low light ability they even had a dedicated slide for that in the event
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which was quite rude in my opinion but fair enough another thing that they
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shaded the iphone on was the wideness
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of their selfie cam so you'll notice that previous pixel generation one
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camera on the back one camera on the front these pixels have one camera on
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the back and two cameras on the front and that's because it's being used for
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their group selfie cam feature which apparently will allow you to get selfies
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that are 184 percent wider than the
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iphone 10s selfies so the widest selfies this side of the
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mississippi now the other huge standout feature for
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the pixel 3 and pixel 3 xl is that they're going to get duplex google's ai
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calling feature when that launches they're going to be the first to get that but until that comes you can use a
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feature called call screen and what that does is
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screens calls so you get a call while you're in the middle of something you
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don't want to answer it it'll pop up saying oh you want a call screen okay
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yeah and google assistant will talk to the person via text and ask them why
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they're calling you and the reason they can type in the reason why they're
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calling you and it'll show up on screen so
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it's basically a built-in telemarketer defense which is pretty
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awesome and one thing that i forgot to mention is that the back looks like it's
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not glass but guess what you got full because it's glass there's a matte and a
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glossy finish but there's actually the
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entire piece is one solid piece of glass so that allows them to add wireless
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charging one thing that a lot of people are sorely missing with the pixel 2
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and wireless charging allows them to make the super cool pixel stand which
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we're going to talk about oh and they still got the squeeze to activate google
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assistant feature which i'm not used to because i'm not used to squeezing phones
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and having things actually happen so the pixel 3 and 3xl is going to come in just
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black clearly white and not pink
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which is pink a bit confusing and it's going to start at 7.99 obviously that's
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for the pixel 3 at the base configuration so they didn't actually
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talk about how much this one is yet but i assume it's more so another product
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that google has unveiled this year is the pixel slate so last year they had
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the pixel book uh that was kind of a laptop tablet
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thing it was mostly a laptop and it was trying to also be a tablet and ended up
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kind of being not a super great version of either of those product categories so
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what google has done is kind of double down on the tablet angle so the slate is
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1.7 millimeters thin 1.6 pounds and it
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does kind of feel like it would be a great tablet experience that's what
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they've really centered it towards dual front firing speakers on the front a 293
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pixels per square inch which amounts to 6 million pixels overall which
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apparently is the highest amount of pixels in this category large tablet
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category i guess it's got two usb-c ports one on either side and a
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fingerprint reader on the top which also doubles as the power button no headphone
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jack but it comes with a dongle in the box and 8 megapixel cameras on the front
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and back now this is something interesting that they've done with the pixel they're kind
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of bringing the pixel phone camera
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technology onto tablets so it's going to use machine learning
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software to kind of try and give that same portrait
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experience that we've had in the pixel so it remains to be seen how good it
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will actually perform how well it will perform but it's exciting to see them
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bring that technology into something else other than the pixel 3 phones so of
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course the pixel slate isn't just a tablet they're releasing this keyboard
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with it it's an automatic pairing with the golden connectors on the bottom so
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you just slide it in and it'll instantly recognize and once it's in the keyboard
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dock you can slide it along so that it can be adjusted to be at any angle they
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say it's infinitely adjustable although it does lock at the top and bottom so
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it's not quite infinite guess let's be serious and google says that
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they have retooled chrome os to work
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even better for a desktop and a mobile experience so
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you can now snap Windows from to either side so it's a little better for
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productivity and they have reworked the ui for be to be more a little more touch
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friendly as well for the mobile side the slate is supposed to get you 10 hours of
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battery life uh and it starts at 5.99
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this year last year it started at 9.99 the pixel book started at 9.99 so that's
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a pretty big jump and it's nice to see them kind of addressing the fact that
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the pixel book was maybe a little too expensive for what it was the keyboard
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is 199 and the pen is 99
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so uh those will all be available soon unfortunately just like the pixel 3
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phones they didn't actually talk much about what the internal specs are but
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i'm sure we'll find out very soon it's a lot smaller than i thought it would be
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for all the leaks from all the photos it looked like it was like a google max
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with a screen on it but that's not what it is it's very it's very tiny it looks
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like it's like maybe a seven inch eight inch screen this is the google home hub
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and it's basically what it sounds like it's a google home with a screen on it so it's
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going to do all the things that your google home does and a bit more you're
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going to be able to use those normal google apps to use but apparently google
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has redesigned the app interfaces to make it a little easier for
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families to use it in kind of obviously the home setting in the
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kitchen in the living room in the play area what do homes have i live in
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an apartment now one thing that you'll notice is that there's no camera on this
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thing you'd think that a device like this would be used for
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family video calls but uh that's not gonna happen so it's good for privacy
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some people you could say that that means that it's spying on you less but it's not so good
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for video calling obviously so that's an interesting choice that google made and
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just like the other homes it has the ok google detection switch so you can tell
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it not to listen sometimes the home hub apparently has a few smart features that
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make just make sense when you think about it like when you uh your nest
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doorbell will ring your camera enabled doorbell the home hub will automatically
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show the feed from that it will have parental controls so kids just can't go
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on there and look up anything they want willy nilly most kids
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and when no one's using it at all it'll be in live album mode which means that
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it'll go through your google photos or if you can choose albums that it will go
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through or you can say hey i want to show pictures of jim billy and sarah and
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your google photos will automatically create an album with those people in it
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so you can always look at the pretty faces of your family and friends you can
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pre-order the google home hub now for 149
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and it'll launch october 22nd everywhere
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else and that live album mode will also be on the pixel 3 when you set it into
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the pixel charging stand so when you dock your pixel it'll
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essentially act like a mini google home hub
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uh which is already mini more mini than we thought it would be
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hey yeah good to meet you too i don't know him riley i don't know
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okay yeah good to meet you well yeah i just he's rolling wow
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what a special moment i was just trying to say goodbye i was
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apologizing for ruining your video yeah you really did
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have fun good riddance
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i thought i was his favorite i mean he just met me
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well guys that's a quick look at what google announced today at the made by
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google event here in new york it was very exciting it was my first event it
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was tech league's first on location event so let us know what you thought we
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didn't get to everything that i wanted to get to but uh i'm assuming that we or
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Linus tech tips are going to do some more full fleshed out videos on these
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that isn't necessarily like this and janice will love you forever
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i'm not filming now yeah he's done he's off duty so am i gonna stay in new york
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see you later