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Google Pixel 2 and Pixel XL first Impression

The modern smartphone era has lot to offer. The launch of new iPhone 8 and iPhone X earlier this month marked the beginning for upcoming new Smartphones. And the first one in the race is Google Pixel 2 and Pixel XL. Mark way for the sequel: Google on Wednesday announced its two new phones in its Pixel series it is follow up devices to last year’s Pixel smart phones.

According to Google CEO Sunder Pichi “It is hard to develop exciting new products based on the hardware alone “. According to Google it is in a transition from a” mobile first” company to an “AI (artificial intelligence)” business.

Like the previous Pixel phone, Google is leveraging the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence” infused with Google Assistant. Real time language translation and object recognition that provides immediate contextual information will going to change everything.

Specification
Both the Pixel and Pixel XL will run on latest version of Android i.e. Android 8.0 OREO. the XL has 6 inch pOLED display with an 18:9 display format whereas Pixel 2 comes with 5 inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080*1920 pixels and both the devices are Dust and Water resistant. Both the variant comes with Snapdragon 825 processor with 4 GB ram and comes in two storage variant 64 and 128 GB.

Battery
Even though the battery of Google Pixel2 is 2700 mah ,Yet, according to Google new Pixel will feature “all day battery life” with fast charging with a claim of 7 hours in “ 15 minutes” Which is very promising.

Camera
Both the version support one lens 12 MP shooter which is very sharp and capable of providing Quality photos and comes with an F/18 aperture . A new Auto focus mechanism is there and is fused with Video stabilization that incorporates both optical and electronic image stabilization, promises to keep the shake out of videos.

In the Announcement event CEO Sunder Pichai promises lots of new features like that of real time photos and real time emoji just like in iPhone X. This is not all of it, Google lens is also fused with AI and when a picture is shot , Google lens will give results based on the object it is pointed at . For example, taking a picture of a dog will tell you what kind of dog it is.

Overall
These two Google smart phone will going to give iPhone some hard times, even though iPhone stands out in some better ways like wireless charging and face recognition dot feature will pixel 2 and Pixel XL clearly lacks. Google rather than focused and putting efforts on looks of the phone , Focused on main hardware and machine learning AI functionality of the phone will give rise to the new era. It is clearly indicated that there will be AI and improved camera. These tow phones did look promising but we will soon know how they stand against Apple and Samsung’s top end offering only after its release.

 

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