Google Unveils the Pixel 2 & Pixel 2 XL (with Commentary) By TWiT Tech Podcast Network

This is tweet pixel time. What is that device Oh powered by Ollie include a pixel at Google. We believe in questioning a status quo asking more from the world around us is in our nature. After all, Google was built on a single question. What if all the information in the world was available to everyone everywhere? A big question for us is what, if smartphones got smarter Mario for us, we set out to design of somebody brought up the image of a woman taking on my Avenue. Oh, that's right.

There's an apple delivered, a clean and fast product management at Google, but the Google Assistant in your pocket and brought she brought you the best camera ever in a smartphone, and we didn't stop asking big questions: we're working to solve big challenges for users. His first job six years ago announced the Nexus One Google Wow. That was only six years ago. It feels so much built-in there is the pixel tool to sizes. They do have that.

It's very much it's exactly what the renders to psychics a five inch and the 6-inch XL with thoughtful design elements and improvements to the design elements. Tell me what is the thing that orange with Google Assistant capabilities? Well, there's an orange. What new, smart experience with a camera I want to know we're introducing some innovative new products to complement your pixel experience. Oh, we do all this by bringing together the best of hardware, software and AI. Let's begin with the design we've evolved, the pixels iconic look to be even bolder.

Your verse word that the last year's pixel was a rush job and not what Google was yeah. This is presumably what Google wants it to be. Soft sculpted back with a distinct sideband feels comfortable and secure. In your hand, I learned to surf either pretty gently curved colored, glass and seamlessly into the metal body below the glass. Where your finger naturally falls.

It's extremely asked the right place to work, or she said I'm not faster than any other smartphone. We also added a small pop of color on the power button for a bit of place. It's playful over on the front, that's also to display front-facing stereo squirrel, our precision, front-facing speakers. That's what HTC it's so well with boom sound! You can comfortably watch videos in landscape mode without muffling. The audio.

With your hand, do you like that, but I'd also don't see a headphone yet, but use your existing analog headphones with the included adapter an adapter, the dongle just call it a dongle all the way to your years or avoid cables altogether, with your upgraded Bluetooth, 5.0 support and hide my code excellent HIFI code. Add the smaller 5-inch pixel to features a full HD OLED display MMM, and it's as smart as it is beautiful. The display intelligently selects, which specifics I believe a smaller one is me, may see in the larger ones, were failed free to 100,000 to 1 contrast ratio talks about the squeeze twice the resolution and more than ten times the contrast ratio of phones in its category with LCDs. Pixel two comes in three colors kind of blue just black and clearly why do is Eric all the leaks were accurate, taking the color names. So let's talk about the display on the XL, the 6-inch pixel 2x on the blue, physically technology.

We elegantly curved the glass to bring the ROG to the edges, its curved, the screen immersive viewing in scenario. This is a Samsung, so he supports 18 by 9 you HD plus resolution with over 1 million pixels, which equals 500 inches to one aspect: ratio we've integrated a circular polarizer which lets you enjoy the interesting note wearing sunglasses, and we've optimized the displays on both phones for virtual reality, wonder whose source of a dream righty displays a pixel to excel comes in two huh I would imagine its LG for this stylish Li, simple, black-and-white feel free to choose whichever size pixel. You prefer! Thank you, because you'll get the same. I will see you both. We don't set aside better features for the large, that's an interesting point by the way single camera lens yeah.

That's the salespeople, the front row of the horizon. Folks, both devices are ip67 water and dust resistant and have an all-day battery. The charge is superfast. You get up to seven hours of charge in just 15 minutes. Now these 3d batteries and I integrated and Ray goes, you point out your pixel to UI and some cool and useful features so no surprises.

Here. All the leaks were accurate. Here comes Sabrina Ellis thanks Mario I, like these new faces, I appreciate it to make this experience. Senior director product management improvements throughout Stanford, University School of Business graduate starts before you even unlock the phone. Let me show you the pixel twos new, always on display who, for my yahoo, messenger, Wow Anna for mercy.

She deployed wants to bury this from her resume. Oh no senior, director of product manager, yeah male still, cool and there's more than just notifications on your always-on display. Have you ever heard a song? You love there, you go now. They're going to tell us about the song thing: what's the soundtrack it'll show you what a spoiler alert you can just glance down to see the song name and artist on your phone. This is the OS on the features so special everybody does.

But now it'll tell you what listen. Oh, yeah music is playing. This is going to end up being controversial, but we were. There was controversy when we had to say: okay gee, but that's that's a trigger that then it goes after the surgery. What's triggering it.

I can add the song to my library and my favorite music service, like google play music or Spotify search the web for the song or even watch the video on YouTube. These features brought me some delightful moments over the past whose gonna race, some things, my favorite songs, okay and I. Don't let's go to a lot of Millennials one because I, don't care, yeah, I, know I'm launching assistant and saying what is this here we are on the new I think it's a bridge just something greater I think it's a bridge to Google papers. This is from our new collection called pixel Ventura meeting, and if you look closely, why are they doing this? What's the pixel ultra? Why are they doing this secret conference room X everyone's asking now on Twitter we're starting with calendar events. Today, it's an it's a hoax Wow.

It's doing this is in this case. This is weird. This is an ongoing joke by the way worth noting the search bar is now on the bottom, by the way turn that off right away, I, don't even I, don't use them. I know we had that discussion waste all that space. It's a quick tap into the search box can help me find anything that I need, I'm jealous whoever it's known to just have five fancy web icons page all their contacts and apps from my phone I love seek.

Is it secret College of X or secret conference right I? Think it's X for Google also made it faster and easier to get to the Google Assistant on pixel to Oh, with a new feature called active edge. Oh, yeah! This is the squeeze that really holds the phone, and how is this on the Excel as well or just the HTC mall? Here's a quick demo! Let's take this idea. Have you used this on the yeah kind of its kind of cool for, like launching the camera? Selfie one hand, no buttons help me out front row, that's pretty cool, that's good! That's the quickest way to selfie! That was really quick. Quicker than a double tap of the power button, actually the most natural satisfying, and I squeezed my phone every morning after a lot of work and machine learning, we're able to accurately identify an intentional squeeze really proud of how it's been done, an intentional squeeze that was it accidental, squeeze Florence I swear to God fast and easy from calling and texting your friends to controlling your smart home going to be a favorite music and videos and having I guess it has to be at home. I mean it's an HTC thing, yeah I'm thinking it's only, but she did it with the larger 1g, so shoot it's hard to tell I'm almost home with the pizza so get ready for dinner, and my voice message is shared with my family through the Google home in our.

How annoying is that the routines racing- that's gonna, be used a lot in my household well, and we've also customized routine, specifically from when you're on the go. The one I use most is when I'm on my commute, I jump in my car drop, my thorn in the upholder and say: okay Google, let's go home. Sure, let's go! Your commute home is currently 27 minutes with heavy traffic. If you take us 101 south, you have one unread text message it's from mom. It says we'll bring dessert to dinner tonight.

Here's where you left off in fresh air Wow have a safe drive. Oh, I love! That's what I need, I take like ten minutes before I can drive off. Oh my god set everything up command, I love how it resumed it's my podcast right yeah, but we got to see how it is in person because. When you really know if I send a message to my husband, letting him know I'm on my see something Apple added in iOS 11. This is a really important feature to see both do not disturb mode while you're driving so with a quick squeeze useful routines on the go and an assistant that keeps getting smarter pixel continues to be the most helpful phone around.

This is where Apple really is your Android series? Doesn't get more sorry if you already know use picture in the picture by the way. It's like you know how much traffic user you'll always be the first to get OS and security updates good reason to get one to do anything, your phone, be. They now have change logs, but more security say you know. What's going on yeah next, up like apart, is going to share some smart, helpful new ways to use your pixel to they're, really bringing in a lot of different ways. I'd like it well, I think it's great.

They all seem relatable women yep normal humans. Well, these are the people who work on these products. You should know who they are I want pattern. I do to our phones can help us in many ways know the questions we have are difficult to describe into a search pass. As you heard, Sunday talked about.

We believe that, as computers can understand what you see, it unleashes a whole new kind of assistance. That's why we started working on Google Lens a way to do Mary go. Google Lens originally announced at I/o. Microsoft has a lens as well. Yes, guess you can't own lens yeah, you see this flyer for piano lessons as a guilty.

Mum I've done this. As you know, the email addresses on them are always, so you still find your kid learn piano now you can simply tap on the lens icon, grab the right information and fire off that email. Oh I, like does that work? Have you used it? Does it work? They've promised this for some time. Yeah I, remember this. It does I owe here's another example.

You're at your friend's place at a party, you see this nice print, and you wonder who's the artist. Now you can just lens it. You can also follow up with what else did he paint? Amazon tried this with the fire? Yes, many more questions like is this movie worth watching? It totally is yes, Wonder Woman is totally worth watching. I finally saw it this last weekend, I've been saving. It's an amazing right.

Yeah, screenshot saw what was the temple from our trip five years ago. No look across all these examples. There are a lot of things happening under the hood they're all coming together, I'm going to geek out for a moment and call out a few things. Let's do it. Computer vision systems you've had some major breakthroughs in deep learning, and now they go from pixels in the photo sky nary.

This is where Google could really speed ahead of everybody with its billions of facts about people place things we put it all together, and now you know this Buddhist temple in Kyoto was built in the year twelve thirty-six. Eighty, it's a very hard thing for other companies to do now. They all have to work in the noisiest of conditions. You know these photos can be basically what angles replicating you get the picture to be clear. Sometimes computers do trip up, especially when things kind of look similar, but again they got a delivery.

They've promised. This is what Google Goggles do this moment is just a mouthful I. Have that problem. You tell me funny next contain about 25 million pages. Now it's in the trillions when we started working on wise recognition, our algorithms couldn't always catch what you were saying, especially with an accent like mine.

Now we have an accuracy rate of more than 95%, that's as good as humans, we're just getting started with helping you do more with what you see be the photo from five years ago, or something right in front of you in time. We want to bring lens everywhere, but super excited to bring a preview of lens to pixel users. First, so you'll start to see this icon appear in Google photos and soon Google Assistant. They promise this. You just talked about how the phone can help.

You understand the world, but it can also help you place things into the world. That's right, that's augmented reality. We see it as a powerful way to bring the physical and the digital together. This is where Google actually has a hardware head start with. They had a hardware here, a head start, but I felt like apples, more user-friendly, I think Apple owned the name, but I, don't think Apple delivery with it.

Surprisingly, with its iPhones, the IKEA ARK ITT feature that you see on the iPhone games. This is, this is I, would say parody with Apple's, not using special hardware. Yeah, go stop hardware, but neither is Google unless they've done something with the pixel. We at Google are also making some fun things, and our teams have been working hard to create this new experience. We call it an are stickers, it's a light into the camera.

This is gonna, be their animated. Emoji Sony's been doing this on Xperia phones for years, yes, they're downloadable and that you can take pictures with our partners are also. These are probably gonna, be a tiny thank you and I want to show some of them to you right I mean come on. Let's start answer the meet coffee cup, my face, Oh, Oh, stranger, things, integration and wait for season, two ready to see it. Okay time to set the mood lights, please, okay, you get an exclusive or something on camera, we're looking at the a stickers we're in the stranger things: collection, oh boy, yes, okay, live demos are as fun, let's peek Demi Garden and place him right next to me.

Okay, oh no! No, move backwards, Demi, Demi, Demi, step back, okay, jeez! You need to have a cup of coffee. Do you notice how the creatures not just sitting around where you put it, and it's not a dead sticker? It's moving! It's reacting to! What's around if it's alive! This! Is there an emotion, yeah the motion, the physics, the lighting we want to make it feel like it's actually here is it let's have some fun. This is a great photo or video by the way, but let's have some fun here there can be done in my experience, you take one photo you post on the Internet. Oh, what's that, and then you never do it again. But oh wait a minute! Look at this and notice how they're not just reacting to you, the surrounding environment they're reacting to each other right.

They know each other's presence. That's a big reaction, he's floating I'm. Sorry, he is not on the ground fascinating moments here. Tango hardware would be fantastic, it is fun, but it's obviously all kinds of and share. We share these with your friends.

If Google's not gonna, do it no more you to play with your favorite characters from SNL YouTube, the NBA and just yeah I can hang out with LeBron and augmented reality see how tall he really is. Oh, I want to hang out with a Disney I just got to drive Apple, then again, how can you avoid Disney, though, but Apple should have the inside track? It also supports 60 frames per second rendering of a content. You saw how the camera can help us, so they're saying the cameras optimized, how the camera can the bridge physical and is it anything about megapixels for the camera, not there yet time to talk about all about it. You have Mario back on stage. This is Larry.

This is the focus, but Chris is arguably the most important Thank You finances. We hear every day from users of the first pixel phone that the camera is one of their favorite features is it is you can see why and the amazing photos that people post with yeah pixel hashtag last year, pixel received a DXO score of 89. That was the highest rating that DXO mark had every smartphone got a hundred reimagined smartphone photography, your great hardware and unparalleled, maybe I read it's out of a hundred, maybe that's right engineers and researchers today, we're proud to announce that DXO mark has issued pixel to an unprecedented score of 98. That does be bossy, iPhone, 8 Wow. What nice timing after yesterday's a little news bit about that? Let's talk about how we achieve this almost as if they planned rate Hardware, the pixel 2 has a 12 megapixel F 1.8 aperture rear cam. So people are buzzing about accessibility for every photo.

We take a burst of shots with short exposure times to avoid blowing out the highlights within a line, and this is how they handle the lack of to do it with me on track. All of this happen, I was gonna, say I feel like the pixel phone of the first live shot within the last year is the best day of range, so I can do more with it afterwards. This year, we've increased the dynamic range and improved texture and sharpness incoming does have a new and stay to make the sky very blue, though you can see it right here to reduce blur from shaky hands. Lon get amazing shots. Every time like this, and this point being here, the dark are still visible with uprights, oh I'm, so excited learning I could do have to like what you might capture with an SLR camera.

Other smartphones do this by combining the images from two cameras. Yes excel to do portrait mode with just one glioma: do it with hahaha? What's unique about pixel to use all copies, it doesn't really hard work, it's less yeah, so you get beautiful portrait shots. You have to say apples, portrait stuff to switch. The new stuff is terrible. Wait! It's work, I liked it I like the novelty of it.

Let me take a picture of you, and you'll see until somebody uses it on you. The difference in perspective from those pixels combined with machine learning models trained on almost a million photos, means that this works on really hard cases like a busy colorful background a and yes, this does work with objects too, and there's more portrait mode doesn't just work on the main camera because of the quality of Google's computational photography with a portrait selfies through the front camera on both the pixel 2 and the pixel to excel the V 30 Spurs have a very good camera.2Fc does production right now stabilization simultaneously with video stabilization? Well, do we have? Oh, is now optical or digital. We do, but don't do both at the same time. During video respects, interesting too, the IS Hardware actively corrects shake artifacts, while at the same time the software based video stabilization uses intelligent frame, look ahead to stabilize the overall video. We call this fused video stabilization, and it's another example of Google's hardware, plus software plus AI working together.

At this point, a result is less motion or the flagship, perfect camera and professional. The differences are minor. Also, the future could in motion photo. You have to have at least that looks like you've done that before you take your pixel captures up to three seconds of video. This is the live, removing and applying our unique fuse video stabilization technology to the results.

That's interesting, but of course the proof is in the photos and videos, so we invited some photographers and producers test drive the camera to, and they were son, but what they can do with the since he can't call my photos me, McGee, better known as what color should I get on Instagram and uh I'm, really partial to the kind of blue to kind of blues. Definitely don't for about to see. We can pre-order now I'm supposed to do it before panel blue only comes in 64 gigs. It looks like two phones. Without payment, no I'm, sorry I misunderstood how it works.

All right, I might have to join you on this train. I'm going to go with the clearly white, clearly traded up to four to ten dollars. When you trade in your old phone, which I will do tossing off my pixel to my husband, he's on a Nexus 6p right now wait a minute.5-Inch pixel, ? Oh looks like there are limitations, 200 extra dollars for the pixel to excel. We want the larger you don't have the choices and colors it looks like just have black and white, and if you want an unlocked phone, it looks like you can't choose the blue one. You can only choose between white and black yeah.

That's unfortunate. So there are some limitations, 950 dollars for the top-of-the-line Excel 130 dollars. Now for the preferred care which includes extra protection for your device, you get that um I, don't! But that's because I try to be I. Try to just buy the Letterbox, which is 60, bucks, delivery, November, 14th, 15th, all right, I'm gonna, join you Leo I got the black and white I'm gonna, get the smaller one, yeah I'm going to go smallest I wanted the orange knob. Coral I want to call it coral, so the pixel choose photo.

Experience doesn't end when you take a photo or shoot a video. We want users to be able to easily find them and store them securely without having to worry about running out of storage. It's not very bad, simple storage and search some hundred. So we're happy to announce that pixel to users. They are the highest resolution, including 4k videos and motion photos: okay, yeah, it's the r18, oh I got mine soon, and you waited too long.

Yeah, man. You got to push that button, average of 23 gigabytes of photos and videos per year. I'm gonna wait on the smart home stuff, though, because I think I have my eye on that big speaker, but I, don't know yet pixel you can safely and effortless effortlessly store all of your memories for free. With your permission, google photos automatically tags and categorizes those thousands of photos and videos will take with your pixel too. You can search for photos of your friends of a specific location of ROG love photos so much as soon as I got back from New York City a couple of weeks ago.

It gave me all those photos, I needed to share with my friend newer email address. She can view them because she has a Gmail address. So, unlike the rumors, these are Qualcomm 835 processors, not this rumored 8:36, just fine. It's this year. Oh, it's water-resistant! Now 12.2 megapixel, camera, 101, 8, 4, micron, pixels, I'm, gonna, love, taking pictures with this quad on the six-inch 2880 by 1440. That's an 18 by 9 aspect ratio which understands you and gets smarter and more helpful to will be 5 inches, finding useful way to twenty-fifth aura, like google lands and AR, and the best photography for a many find as rumored no headphones.

Just a dongle I, don't know how I'm going to do with that. This will be interesting. I think we got all users will be able to transfer their stuff from their old phone in less than 10 minutes. Second offer a USB to go. Those things are fantastic by the way.

Samsung's phones come with that, or they can with a little adapter pixel to when you fly a pixel to you, get a Google home many for free promo code, yep, they'll email it to you soon has a six-inch full screen. P OLED display and starts at eight hundred and forty-nine dollars both fallen. P gentile is that what they're saying when they say plastic, plastic? Yeah? You don't do people anymore in the U. S. we're teaming up with Verizon to bring you pixel to, and you can also buy it on the Google store and for project 5.

So it looks like it. What I probably should have bought it for 500 did I blow it. It is a fight, well good change, your due date or your shipping day, no more mess or that this year, and we have a new family of cases that make your pixel yes new family of cases to solve. This can customize a live case. You know, I have the essential phone and that's my problem.

I. Nobody makes our case for one of your. Oh, that has an issue they're only sold five sounds also launching a rent, a range of sauce, pretty put a burr cases in four colors and more than 250 pixels to accessories from 25 popular brands will be made available through our made for Google program. Finally, to make sure your most out of your new phone and the Google Assistant we're including a Google Home Mini with each purchase of a pixel to and pixel to excel you're the guest. It's 50 bucks guys come it's not that much of an expenditure, but it's good.

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