Google Unveils Pixel and Pixel XL, the First Phones It 'Designed Inside and Out' (www.bgr.in)

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Google Unveils Pixel and Pixel XL, the First Phones It 'Designed Inside and Out' (www.bgr.in)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 4, 2016 @04:40AM from the google-pixel dept.

At an event on Tuesday, Google unveiled the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, the first phones "designed inside and out by Google." Focusing less on the hardware, the company says the biggest selling point of the phones is Google Assistant, which will be available to users wherever they go. Both Pixels have a quad-core 2.15GHz 64-bit processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB or 128GB of storage, a 12.3MP rear camera, an 8MP front camera, a fingerprint scanner on the back, and a USB-C port on the bottom. The major differences between the two are in size, display (5-inch vs 5.5-inch), and battery (2770mAh vs 3450mAh). The company says the rear camera on both phones is top-notch as well, scoring 89 on DxO, the highest ever for a smartphone. Both phones also come with "endless cloud storage," the company said. It will let users backup unlimited storage in full-resolution images and videos shot with the Pixel. Pricing starts at $649 for the smaller 5-inch Pixel, available for preorder today. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg shares the inside story of how these phones were conceived.

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#madebygoogle by sexconker · 2016-10-04 04:47 · Score: 4, Informative

It's not made by Google, it's made by HTC. And they just rejiggered the HTC 10. http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_10...
Re:End of AOSP? by known_coward_69 · 2016-10-04 04:48 · Score: 4, Informative

AOSP has been dead since Google Play Services became the good part of android
Price... by Espectr0 · 2016-10-04 05:02 · Score: 5, Informative

Let's see what happens when sales remain flat. Nexus had good prices (except for the nexus 6) with decent hardware. Selling the pixels starting at 649$ seems arrogant at best. For that price most people will choose the iPhone and get a faster phone to boot (1 year old iPhone 6S even beats the Note 7)
I just hope the Nexus program lives on. If android is about choice, we should be able to have a phone with google-provided updates for 350$. I don't want to switch to Samsung, LG, or even custom roms

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1. Re:Price... by wbr1 · 2016-10-04 05:28 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  The video showed stabilization. They said the software sampled the gyros and the position of the rolling shutter to compensate for movement. They showed video with two cameras mounted side by side with stabilization off and on. It seemed very effective.
  
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Re:Project Fi by wbr1 · 2016-10-04 05:29 · Score: 3, Informative

Yes it supports Fi.

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Re:89 by Anonymous Coward · 2016-10-04 05:31 · Score: 0, Informative

http://dxomark.com/
who has mysteriously NOT reviewed the iPhone 7 yet, even though it has been released.
Re:This is why Pixels will fail by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · 2016-10-04 05:42 · Score: 5, Informative
Here's an incomplete list of devices which our-Androided Google who used to say, "Nexus is the benchmark for Android at an affordable price". Nope, this is not a benchmark, this is pure greed which will fail just like Nexus 6 failed (it was introduced for $650 and proved to be wildly meh for people who wanted to buy a pure Android phablet).
- OnePlus 3, $400
- ZTE Axon 7, $400
- Lenovo ZUK Z2 Pro, $389
Re:89 by Albanach · 2016-10-04 06:01 · Score: 4, Informative

who has mysteriously NOT reviewed the iPhone 7 yet, even though it has been released.
Strange, since they gave it an 86.