Google debuts Pixel phone with built-in Assistant (CNET News) By CNET

Today I'm very excited to introduce you to a new phone made by we call it pixel. We designed everything about pixel from the industrial design to the user experience. Everything is simple and easy to use. Something. Google has always stood for I, really love how this phone looks and feels the rear glass creates a bold iconic element that gives pixel personality and character. The polished aluminum case gives the phone a distinct look and there's a subtle wedge from the top to bottom.

That keeps it thin where your hand most naturally grips it and there's no unsightly camera bump. Let's switch to a demo. The first thing, you'll see with a new pixel launcher, is round icons. Access to all of your apps just to swipe away and a clean polished, look show me my photos from last October. It's pretty cool right with a quick voice command.

My assistant found just the right pictures from a Google photos, collection, and it doesn't just work with dates. You can search for people places and things to show me upcoming events at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. So let's talk about what just happened there. Not only did the assistant recognize the venue I asked about, but it was able to serve up relevant information thanks to Google's knowledge graph play me a song by the Mutineers playing music. Now the assistant knows I like to listen to music on YouTube, so that's the app it opens up.

Watch this. The assistant can also help get information based on what's on my screen, so I'll do the same long, press gesture on home and then swipe up to get contextually relevant information. So here's what just happened- the assistant recognized the restaurant and lists text message and assembled all this useful information into a single card from the apps I have installed on the phone there's actually industry group DXO mark that rates, camera quality and almost all popular DSLR and smartphone cameras on the market. So let me just put that score into context. This isn't only the best camera we've ever made.

It's the best smartphone camera anyone has ever made. For instance, smart burst, is a feature that lets you capture just the right moment. By holding down the shutter button, you can capture a continuous stream of images and let Google intelligence select the sharpest, clearest photo of just the right moment and then there's HDR plus it's built to work in any light. So you get clear vivid pictures as in this example preserving both the dimly lit people in the foreground and the beautiful sunset behind them. And finally, my favorite feature are incredible: video stabilization.

It means that videos turn out smooth, even if you're not so. Let me tell you how this video is captured. We mounted two cameras side-by-side hit record on each and then started walking the one on the left has video stabilization turned off the one on the right? Has it on just look at the difference. This works by sampling, the gyroscopes at 200 times a second to figure out exactly how the camera is moving, even accounting for the rolling shutter and instantaneously, compensating each part of the image. So you can avoid that jello effect, you see with other forms of image stabilization so as a special bonus for pixel owners, we're, including free, unlimited storage for photos and videos.

At original quality, that's all your photos and videos at full resolution, including the rich 4k videos you can take with this phone. Finally, pixel comes in two sizes, a five inch and a 5.5 inch display all the great features you've heard about today. Work on both and both of these sizes come with. All of these amazing hardware. Specs pixel is available in three colors descriptively named quite black, very silver and a limited edition really blue.

Source : CNET