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- Here's the Pixel 4 and the Pixel 4 XL.
Are you surprised?
Of course you're not surprised.
These are probably the most leaked phones in the history
of phone leaks.
What could possible be surprising here?
Well, I played around with them a little bit
and I think there might be a couple of things
that I've learned from using them
that you couldn't actually know just from following
all the leaks.
So, let's get into it.
You know the basics, they're Android phones
that are made by Google and they come in two sizes,
there's a 5.7 inch screen and 6.3 inch screen.
There's no notch on that screen
but that's because the bezel up top is extra big
so that Google can fit a ton of sensors up there
including face unlock sensors and a literal radar chip.
But let's start with just how they look.
Every single Pixel phones has looked terrible
in leaked photos but better in person.
And that's true again here.
The aluminum rails around the Gorilla Glass
are kind of prominent but in a good way.
They're like the phone equivalent
of big chunky eyeglass frames.
The white one and the orange one, and the orange one
is limited edition by the way, have matte glass backs
but the black one is all glossy.
And they're all IP60 water resistant.
They've got that big square camera bump
just like the iPhone but the Pixel only has two cameras
on it, a regular and a 2x telephoto.
Okay, so every Pixel phone up to now
has been known mainly for its great camera
plus clean Google software but the Pixel 4
wants to be known for a lot of things.
It's seriously has so many new features
and they've all leaked so much that it's easy to forget
how much is new here.
Let's start with Motion Sense which is the brand name
for Soli which is that radar chip.
Google isn't using it to its full potential yet
but it is using it for some pretty cool things.
It forms a sort of virtual radar bubble over your phone
and it can detect your presence.
So for example, if you reach for your phone,
it turns on and starts looking for your face automatically.
If you walk away from your phone, it realizes
that you're gone and it turns off the always on display.
If a call comes in or an alarm goes off,
as soon as your hand gets near the phone,
it automatically gets quieter and then you can just wave
to dismiss the call or the alarm.
And if music is playing, you can swipe left or right
to change songs.
That's actually pretty much it,
so it could all seem I don't know, kinda gimmicky?
I haven't decided yet.
But there is one gimmick that everybody is going to love,
you can have a Pokemon wallpaper that you can wave at,
and the Pokemon will wave back at you.
Or you can tickle the Pokemon by waggling
your fingers at it, just be like,
tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle!
It's fun.
In addition to the radar, the top bezel
also has those face unlock IR sensors
which were just a little differently on a technical level
from Apple's Face ID system
but it's basically the same idea.
You set it up in a similar way and then it just works
like it really works and it's really fast.
Did you catch it?
It just unlocked.
Here, let's show you again.
I don't know how secure this new system is,
but holy hell it is fast.
Motion Sense detects when you're reaching for the phone
and then it's unlocked and back to whatever you're doing
before you can even tap the screen.
It's so fast that Google had to put a setting in for people
who actually wanna see their locked screen
because otherwise you'd never actually get a chance
to see it.
And hey, since we're actually talking about the screen,
let's talk about the screen.
It's OLED in both phones and they should be about the same
quality as each other but I don't know
if it's gonna be a good year or a bad Pixel 2 kind of year
for screen quality.
But it is gonna be a spec heavy year because this screen
has a 90 hertz refresh rate which makes
all the movement super smooth.
Now, Google says that it's a dynamic refresh rate
so you can ratchet it back down to 60 hertz
when you don't need it.
And I gotta say, you can definitely see it in person,
I love how it looks.
Google says that it supports HDR
using the UHDA Certification which okay, sure.
The screen can also change its color temperature
to match the room just like the iPhone.
Now, the thing about fancy 90 hertz screen
is they can take up a lot of battery
and I'm worried about the battery in the small one.
It's only 2800 milliamps.
That variable refresh rate will help
but we're gonna have to see.
The bigger one is 3700 milliamps which is better
but it's not massive.
At the very least, they both support wireless charging
and fast charging.
And heck, since we're halfway through,
let's just round up the specs.
They've got a Snapdragon 855 processor,
six gigs of RAM, which that should be enough
and they come with 64 gigs of storage
which ain't much and the max you can get
is only 128.
There's also a Titan security chip and one more chip,
the new Pixel Neural Core.
It handles the photography stuff but it also handles
voice and Google has loaded
its entire machine learning model for English
onto the phone, no internet needed.
That means that the Assistant is super fast
at doing stuff like opening apps or even searching
inside apps like Twitter or YouTube.
And there's a new voice recording app
that transcribes your voice in real time
without having to put anything on the internet at all.
Okay, finally, made you wait long enough.
Let's talk about the camera.
Up until the iPhone 11 Pro,
the Pixel 3 was still the best camera on the market
and the Pixel 4 now is, well, actually,
I can't tell you that yet.
We haven't really used it yet
but there are a few new features to talk about.
Google is excited to tell you that it can do
astrophotography which sure, that seems neat
but I'm more interested in the improve portrait mode
because it can use data from the second camera.
And now, in addition to adjusting brightness,
you can also adjust the shadows to get more control
over the HDR processing.
Plus, that Neural Core means that you can see
the preview of what HDR looks like right in the view finder
instead of having to wait for it to process.
The main sensor is 12 megapixels and the telephoto is 16.
And my big question is why did Google go with telephoto
instead of ultra wide?
Especially since it's only a 2x telephoto.
Well, Google answers is that they've got
this fancy super zoom tech from last year
and it gets even better where it can use data
from the second telephoto lens.
So they think people get more used out of it
than they would out of an ultra wide.
Okay.
There's only one selfie camera this time around,
but it does have a 90 degree field of view
so that is pretty wide.
Also, last thing, there's this neat feature
where you can take a photo and then jump
right to sending it to another app right
from the view finder by sliding on the preview bubble.
But here's an important thing, I don't know video
is gonna be much better this year.
It still maxes out at 4k 30, and when I asked Google
if they changed much about their computational
photography models overall, their answers
are more about tweaks than they were about leaps.
Look, we're gonna have to test the camera as always,
and we definitely will.
The Pixel 4 will be an all four major carriers
in the US and Google promises me
they're not gonna put too much crap where on 'em.
Looking at you AT&T, don't mess this up.
Anyway, there is a lot more to say about the Pixel 4,
I didn't even get into like automatic car crash detection
but the big stuff is face unlock, a 90 hertz screen,
Motion Sense and hopefully, a better camera.
It's a little bit more than I expected from the rumors
but these aren't huge surprises.
Oh, right, you probably want to know
how much it's gonna cost.
It's gonna start at $799 for the small one
and $899 for the big one
and then it's a hundred bucks more
for a 128 gigs of storage.
They're available for pre-order right now
and they should ship on October 24th.
Is that the right price for this set of features?
Well, I'm not gonna tell you that right now
but what I will tell you is that I cannot wait to review it.
Hey everybody, thank you so much for watching.
Have you been waiting for the Pixel 4?
Did Google live up to your expectations
after all those leaks?
Let's talk about that down in the comments
and also keep an eye out for many more videos
from this Google hardware event.