I Think It's Time To UPGRADE! - Google Pixel 6 Pro
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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3,185 words · ~15 min read
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- Well, well, Mr. Google. (chuckles)
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You gave us one more phone. Let's see if it takes the cake.
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Google's been trying to make Pixel phones a thing for, well, five years is how long Pixels have been around.
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But before that, they were making Nexus phones, I think since 2010?
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And they just really, they've struggled with what the heck a Google phone is.
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Is it a really nice Android experience that's built by another company?
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Is it like an iPhone type thing that's built entirely by Google?
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But now the Pixel is for the first time
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more of a Google phone than ever before, right on down to the silicon.
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They got some sand and they molded it into their little-
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Look, it's the Google logo. For that reason, I've been kind of excited
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about the Pixel 6. I have a Pixel 3 because I'm a Pixel boy,
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and now they're finally here. So, it's time to do it.
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Are you ready? Are you ready, kids? - [David] Aye aye, Riley.
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(Riley laughing) - Whoa, it's a pop-up.
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Google, what are you? What, do you think we're kids? I'm not impressed.
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Just kidding, that's kinda fun. Let's look at the actual phones.
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"Google Pixel 6 for all you are."
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After many years of Google Pixel phones, like the 4, 4A with 5G,
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and then the 5, and then the 5A, it was just kind of like, they were taking the same phone
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and just kind of tweaking it a little bit, and it was never really that impressive.
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So, this is a major change and we are excited.
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Yes, honey. We are excited. Yes, honey. We stan a Pixel.
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I would have loved to have the Pixel 6 here, because if I was gonna buy one,
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I would have probably bought the Pixel 6. The 6 and the 6 Pro are actually pretty different phones:
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different cameras, different display, some other stuff.
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Let's unbox it real quick. They took a bite out of Apple.
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- [David] Oh. - Now Apple is bleeding on the floor.
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Is there stuff under here? Oh, I ripped it.
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(box tumbling) Pixel 6 Pro.
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Black, which is the only proper option. - [David] What?
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- To get for a phone. - Why? - You're gonna put a case on it anyway, Who cares what color it is,
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it's in your pocket most of the time. You want to be like using your phone and be like,
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"I hope everyone else sees how good this color is of my phone."
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Who cares? It's a tool. So right away, we see the most contentious part
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of this phone's design. This giant camera bar with like a sharp,
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can you see that? It's not like there's a smooth gradation
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to go up from the back up to the camera bump. Like it's a bump.
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I feel like if you're gonna do a big camera bump, you might as well make it a bar like this
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because you set it down and it's not wobbly. It's very stable.
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You could build a house on there. Maybe you can't see it so good on the camera,
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but like you can kind of see there's an appearance of depth to it.
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And that's because the telephoto lens, which I think that's the telephoto lens,
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uses these folded optics. It's like the Periscope camera situation.
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It's an op - it's an illusion. Magic.
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David Copperfield made this phone. I wish. It's not a bad width.
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I'm kind of a one-handed phone guy, and that's why I got the Pixel 3 instead of the Pixel 3 XL.
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It's still a bit of a stretch, but maybe I could use it, I don't know. All right, before we get too much into that,
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let's see what else in the box. Not a power adapter, 'cause that's the trend.
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Apple started it, everyone follows. We got a type C cable,
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and then we got a type C to A adapter, which is always appreciated.
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I mean, if you're not gonna have a power adapter, give me a doohickey.
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And then we've got a SIM removal tool and a manual or something, warranty.
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I'm not gonna look at that. Oh, there's a case.
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All right, let's put that in there. Real nice.
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Yeah, overall I liked the feel of the phone. I mean it's a phone.
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They did include this like waterfall edge type of situation.
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Like it's like a Galaxy S7 Edge.
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And I don't know if I love this, I haven't really tried a phone for a long time
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with a curved edge like that. But it's there. The Pixel 6 non-Pro does not have the curved edge,
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so if you're not a fan, that's an option. No headphone Jack, USB type C only,
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hopefully, the headphone jack is coming in the 6A. Maybe I just wait for that one. I don't know.
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But it looks like dual speakers on the bottom, but we'll find out once we dive into the phone
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and start testing out some of the features. - [Jono] Wait - Huh?
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- [Jono] Sponsor. - Sponsor? (laughing) - [Jono] dbrand, wear this.
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- (Riley laughing) Why? - [Jono] Just wear it. - I'm protected.
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- [Jono] Check this out. (items hitting) - Oh God what.
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- Pastel Orange Pixel 6 Pro back grips skin matte black.
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Our buddy, matte black. Oh, it's a grip case. I like the look of that. These are racing stripes.
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Does this make the phone faster? You didn't even hit me that time.
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(ball bouncing) Come on. Geez, Louise. Alright.
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(ball bouncing) (Jono laughing) Headbutt.
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Oh, it almost, am I even doing it right?
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(ball bouncing) (Riley screaming) - [Jono] Faster. - If you're gonna to put on the skin.
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if you're gonna take the time to do that, it should look perfect. (guys offscreen laughing)
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I mean- (item banging). - Oh. - Whoa, ah, my God
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(Riley yells) (guys offscreen laughing) (item banging)
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Never. (item banging) (sighs) Braced for that one. (item banging)
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There we go. Skins on boom. Alright. There you go. Deeper. (mask hitting mic)
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(balls bouncing) (guys offscreen laughing) (Riley heavy breathing)
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Alright. This thing feels secure now. And look,
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everyone will look at my skin on my case and think that I'm very cool. Thanks dbrand.
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(guys offscreen laughing) Alright, here we go. Let's open it up. One thing that's kind of cool about Android 12 is this new
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mic access and camera access buttons in the quick settings.
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So, you can just like turn that off if you're like, "I don't want, even if my phone does get hacked,
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it's probably hacked right now. But the hackers can't listen or see me,
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thanks to these two toggles." Alright. But the big thing about the Pixels
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is always the camera. And with this one, it's the chip as well.
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Google tensor, but Google tensor is using its machine learning chops
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apparently to enable some kind
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of cool machine learning type photo features.
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And the first one is magic eraser.
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So, magic eraser is basically kind of like Photoshop content aware fill for your phone.
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But now it's gonna be like right in your camera app.
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(camera clicking) Okay. Thanks Jono. (Jono murmuring)
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You can stay back there. Okay. (laughing) You could, I mean, actually you should probably,
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can you see him? You're the best Jono. You're the best Jono anyone knows.
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(ball bouncing) Ah, it wants me to erase the Ellie statue, that's not very nice Google.
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- [David] Let's try it. Try it? Yeah Okay. Let's see what happens.
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Ah, alright. Boom. She's gone.
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(guys surprised gasps) Just like what happened in the game.
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I haven't played it. (David laughing) Don't spoil it.
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- [David] Dumbledore. - Dumbledore kills Ellie (laughing).
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(David laughing) - Well, it's been fun Jono,
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but you're about to enter the Nether zone, the Phantom zone.
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- [David] the Nether regions. - the Nether regions. - [Jono] Don't touch me
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- I'm gonna touch you. (guys offscreen laughing) Don't include that. Alright. It's gonna be-
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(guys offscreen overlap chatter) - [David] It won't do it Its a shelf with complex items-
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- [Riley] Boom. - Whoa. (laughing) (everyone laughing)
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Okay. So like, obviously that's not,
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that's not what the shelf looks like, but, (everyone laughing)
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but if you look from far away, you would have never noticed that a man had just died
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and snapped out of existence. (guys offscreen laughing) I'm gonna raise the shelf. (Riley buzzing)
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Oh, okay. Now it just looks like there's a bunch of black mold there.
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What else should we erase? I feel drunk with power. I can erase anything.
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- Whoa. - See, that's pretty cool. I mean like, okay, I'm a Photoshop guy.
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I make the thumbnails for Tech Link. I'm well aware of what content aware fill can and can't do.
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But I know that when I've recently learned about it a number of years ago, I thought that was really cool.
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And now it's like, we can do the exact same thing on our phone. It takes a second.
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It's so quick. Plants don't need 'em.
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There's too many on the Earth already. Get rid of all the plants I'd say.
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Look at that. (Riley laughing) Oh, did you see that?
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I was like doing stuff there and Jono on the shelf was like, boom (everyone laughing)
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Oh, if I just tap and hold it shows the original.
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(guys offscreen oohing) That's pretty cool. Let's- Real quick, we're gonna erase basically everything
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we can see and see- (everyone laughing) See at which point things start looking real bad.
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(speed up reel sound effect)
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- Whoa dude. - It's taking- (everyone laughing)
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And done. (everyone laughing)
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We made art today people. Nice job.
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Nice job everybody. - [Jono] Sell it as an NFT - (Riley laughing) We should sell this as an NFT.
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I mean, hey, that was pretty good. I mean, when I saw it demoed on the live stream,
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I was kind of like, "Okay, but is it gonna be that good? It's a phone."
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But like I would never have expected a mobile chip could
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do this this fast and this well. So, that's actually really impressive.
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Now, there are a couple other camera features.
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Let's do face unblur. Pretend you're possessed (groaning)
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Now jump. Jump. Yeah.
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- [David] Now take off your shirt. - Alright (Riley laughing) (David laughing)
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Okay great. You're face in all of these photos was perfectly clear. (laughing)
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- [Jono] Are you serious? - So, I mean, Hey, that's saying something about the camera right there.
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Alright. Well, face deblur was like the least impressive one anyways.
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Motion mode. So like, instead of unblurring things,
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you can add blur to things, and that's supposed to like make things kind of like a,
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you can make like an artsy waterfall with the waterfall go on, cool.
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I don't know. So, let's see if it does anything with this.
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This is probably the best photo I think of you in a while Jono.
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Tools. There's just blur, which I guess is like,
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makes it a portrait thing. Oh, you need to take the photo.
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Wait, what? Use motion mode to take an action pan
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or long exposure photo. Well, that's kind of annoying (laughing).
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So like in order to use these modes,
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you have to activate the mode and then take the photo. From the photos that we took during
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this whole testing process that turned out not to be that useful. (guys offscreen laughing)
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The photos looked pretty good. I mean, they're Pixel photos
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and I think you're gonna need a deeper dive
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in order to find out whether the photos that this is gonna take is significantly better
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than an iPhone 13 Pro Max or whatever.
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I don't want to say that I'm like not expecting this camera to be good because I expect this one to be really good,
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especially with the new Google tensor stuff.
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But one of the other things that was pretty impressive in the keynote is the fact
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that they had Marie Kondo come on and talk about live translate
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because apparently the Google tensor chip isn't just good for machine learning with photos and stuff.
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It's also better at doing this live translate stuff
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on device, I think. I think it's supposed to not use the internet
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for any of this stuff. But we need someone to- Hey, Andy. (laughing) speaking of someone
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who speaks a different language. Andy, would you ever consider buying a Google phone?
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(Google phone speaks foreign language)
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(beep sound) (Andy speaks foreign language)
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- Only Apple. Why is that, what's wrong with Google?
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- [Jono] It doesn't dictate it? - What? Wait.
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- [Google Phone] I will consider buying an Apple mobile phone only.
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(beep sound) - That was so confusing. It came up with the translation right away,
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but then it like processed some more. And then the lady talked (laughing)
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(guys offscreen laughing) Why do you love Apple so much?
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(Google phone speaks foreign language) (beep sound)
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(Andy speaks foreign language)
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[Google Phone] Because you need to subscribe to messages.
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(everyone laughing) - [Riley] Okay that's understandable though because I didn't know what Mac Address was.
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(Google phone speaks foreign language) Yeah, alright, alright. This is frustrating.
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(everyone laughing) - [Andy] So it works?
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- [Riley] It works. Are you a big fan of Marie Kondo?
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(Google phone speaks foreign language)
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(beep sound) (Andy speaks foreign language)
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- [Google Phone] May I ask who is horsepower? - Horsepower? - [Andy] What?
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(everyone laughing) - Now someone's trying to connect.
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Alright. (laughing) - It works. - We got the idea. (laughing)
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Thanks, Andy. (laughing) (Google phone speaks foreign language)
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- Absolutely, I agree with you (laughing)
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I mean, that seemed like a little bit faster than I've seen it go before,
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but like it wasn't life-changing. So, the Pixel 6 Pro starts at $899,
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the Pixel 6 non-Pro starts at $599, which is actually really impressive.
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Google is trying to do the same thing that Apple is doing with the iPhone, where there is like a regular iPhone for most people.
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And then there's a Pro iPhone that is more expensive and it actually has a lot more interesting features.
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Like, there's a QHD plus display on this thing. And there's a FHD, like 1080P to be on the non-Pro.
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There's 12 gigs of RAMs instead of 8 gigs of RAM. So, the 6 non-Pro has a 90 Hertz display,
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just like the Pixel 5, but the Pro has a 120 Hertz display which I kind of,
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I said earlier, I'm not sure if we talked about it, but go it just like scrolling through the settings is,
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I feel like it's very noticeable. There's also better gorilla glass,
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but a little bit bigger battery. But other than that, they haven't indicated that the actual processor
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in the 6 Pro is gonna be any better than the one in the 6. They're not going full Apple yet with like,
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this is a 100% completely different phone than the lower tier one.
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But they are starting to kind of get into that territory of "We're making a normal phone
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and then we're making a balls to the wall phone."
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Crab rave. (upbeat clacking music) I gotta say the stupidest thing about the bezel
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on the whole screen bit has been the loss of the front-facing speakers.
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When phones used to have speakers on both sides of the top and bottom of the phone.
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That was in my opinion, that was better. Let's keep going. (laughing) (upbeat music)
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Sounds pretty tinny for this part. (upbeat music)
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If I put it right next to my ear it sounds a lot better, but like when you put it on a table,
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that doesn't, bleh. (phone hitting table) Comparison to what, what is this?
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- [Jono] iPhone 13 Pro. (upbeat music) I feel like that's better, right?
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(music pauses) (music resumes) Oh, that's way better. (guys offscreen laughing)
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That sounds a little better at max volume.
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Huh, that might change things a bit.
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At max volume, the 6 Pro has more bass,
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I feel like it's fleshed out a little bit more with the base and mids.
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But at lower volumes, this sounds pretty tinny, and this one sounds better.
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If you buy phones solely based on how they sound at max volume, get the 6 Pro.
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- [David] Hell yeah. We are watching HDR content on Squid Game on Netflix.
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One second. - [David] No, then we can't see it. - I'll let you see you in one second.
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Have a determination. This is way darker. - Oh yeah. - That's a huge difference.
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(guys offscreen oohing) Is that just overall brightness or is that HDR?
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I think it is overall brightness. The iPhone's just brighter.
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- [Jono] Has a better screen. - I think everything is just darker here than this one. If you never compare your phone to another phone,
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it'll look great. (guys offscreen laughing) Also, there might be something with the settings
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or something. We might've screwed that up. So again, that's LDT territory.
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This is a ShortCircuit. (Riley banging table) Dammit. Last thing I wanted to check out was the fingerprint sensor.
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This is the first Pixel phone, I believe with an under screen fingerprint reader,
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which is pretty standard among a lot of flagship phones these days.
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So, I trained it on my thumb and that was pretty quick.
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I mean, not much to complain about there.
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I still prefer the back mounted one just
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because it's so much easier to like, take it out of your pocket and unlock it as you take your phone,
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like to pick your phone up. - No. - Yeah. It's the most exciting Pixel in my opinion.
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For many years, just because of the fact that we've got this new processor,
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they've shaken up the design a lot. They've got some really interesting camera features
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where in the past, they've just kind of been like, "Oh, it's better. You can take photos of stars."
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But overall, very impressed.
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And I feel like I'm still gonna wait
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for the 6A though for the headphone jack. (laughing) Alright. Well, that's it for this ShortCircuit.
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Thanks for watching everybody. Hey, why don't you subscribe to They're Just Movies.
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- Yeah. - Just kidding. Subscribe to TechLinked. (Jono laughing)