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

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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This is why Pixels will fail

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

The features you'll get:

• The biggest bezel to dollar ratio in the industry
• Insane prices only rivaled by Apple which actually has a premium status
• Very strange nerdy names, much much worse than Nexus
• Look too much like iPhone 5(s)

Now at the same price bracket as Note 7/SGS7 here's the list of features you will not get:

• Wireless charging
• Dual front speakers
• Dual lens cameras
• Optical image stabilization
• Rapid laser focus/Dual Pixel autofocus
• Hardware HDR
• Dual SIM slot
• SD card slot
• Meaningful support of any kind: a phone line, brick and mortar stores to examine the device before buying, etc.

Updates to new major Android versions will be ceased just 24 months after the release. Google is out of their minds.