In a demonstration on stage today, Google Assistant brought up (and rattled off) a list of events from the Hearst Greek Theatre in response to a query about what's happening there. Then, when asked to play music by The Lumineers, the Assistant brought up a YouTube video of the band's music and automatically started playback. You can also ask it to do things like show you pictures you took on a specific day.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off today's keynote by emphasizing the company's shift in focus from "mobile first" to "AI first," saying it wants to create a personal Google for each user. The company demonstrated the fruit of its efforts earlier this year by giving us a taste of its AI "Assistant" in its Allo messaging app. But that wasn't enough, according to Google. Pichai said for Assistant to be truly helpful, it needs to be available universally, and so the company today showed how it plans to bring the helper to a wide range of products, including phones and items for your living room.
Google Pixel/Pixel XL: A phone made by Google inside out
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£599 for the 5in, 32GB model; higher for the 5.5in and for the 128GB models, and higher still for the 5.5in, 128GB model. Three colours.
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Attempt #3 at Google selling its own phones, after Nexus and Motorola, the Pixel is a high-end competitor to flagship devices like the iPhone and Galaxy S-series.
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Key selling points: built in Google Assistant, great camera, ‘Daydream VR ready’.
Google Home: Hands-free help from Google Assistant
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Google Home will cost $129 (with a free six-month trial of YouTube red) and go on sale on Google’s online store today. It will ship on November 4.
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Google’s Amazon Echo competitor.
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So like the Echo, Google Home combines a wireless speaker with a set of microphones that listen for your voice commands. There is a mute button on the Home and four LEDs on top of the device so you know when it’s listening to you; otherwise, you won’t find any other physical buttons on it.
Chromecast Ultra
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You’ll also pay double the price for it as previous Chromecasts: At $69, it’s a significant bump from the $35 you may be used to.
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It now supports 4K content in both Dolby Vision and HDR10 formats. It’s designed to stream Ultra HD content from Netflix, Vudu, YouTube, and the new tack-sharp coffers of Google Play Movies, which will start bulking up its 4K offerings in November.
Those colour names and the design of Pixel phone are tragic. Everything else seems interesting and kinda intrusive tbh but that's future I guess.
Siri needs to get her **** together tbh because this Assistant is superior in every way.
The Pixel phone looks ugly and I thought the iPhone's bezels were too much. But I bet this phone will be insanely fast since Google is optimizing software similar to Apple. I heard it has the best camera, but it doesn't even have OIS?...
The Pixel phone looks ugly and I thought the iPhone's bezels were too much. But I bet this phone will be insanely fast since Google is optimizing software similar to Apple. I heard it has the best camera, but it doesn't even have OIS?...
i thought they showed the OIS in the presentation?
Whewwwwww Pixel will slay but I HATE Android (as I program an android app)
I don't like the underlying implementations and high thread usage due to garbage collection and tons of apps spawning Daemons/Zombies
It's so ****ing ugly, I have NO idea what Google was thinking. $650 for the 32gb model with NO SD CARD SLOT? Um, excuse me no. A decent model that could fit your HQ vids and pictures would be 64gb, but that's not available. So the only decent option is 128gb. Which is $750.
$750 for an ugly phone with basic specs. SD 821 could have been SD 820, no one will notice. They could have upped the camera megapixels. Yes, it's probably one of the best, but we still need a higher resolution. "Really blue" is **** too. Are they seriously that proud that it's totally designed by them? I'd be so embarrassed with this ugly looking M E S S.
Can't wait for them to FLOP. They never learn, they did this with the Nexus 6 and FLOPPED, then balanced it out with the 6P, but then came up with this FLOP. A $750 Android flagship with 1080P screen and no OIS?
Obviously my phone obsession is the same as ATRL's pop girls obsession.
i thought they showed the OIS in the presentation?
They did and it actually works great. As for the camera it has the highest rating some camera organization has ever given. It's a 12.3MPX shooter with HDR+, Smart Burst and insanely fast start time.
Also Google is offering unlimited photo and video storage in original quality on Google Photos.
PS: My thread is superior and I spent like half an hour making it so let's use this one
It's so ****ing ugly, I have NO idea what Google was thinking. $650 for the 32gb model with NO SD CARD SLOT? Um, excuse me no. A decent model that could fit your HQ vids and pictures would be 64gb, but that's not available. So the only decent option is 128gb. Which is $750.
$750 for an ugly phone with basic specs. SD 821 could have been SD 820, no one will notice. They could have upped the camera megapixels. Yes, it's probably one of the best, but we still need a higher resolution. "Really blue" is **** too. Are they seriously that proud that it's totally designed by them? I'd be so embarrassed with this ugly looking M E S S.
Can't wait for them to FLOP. They never learn, they did this with the Nexus 6 and FLOPPED, then balanced it out with the 6P, but then came up with this FLOP. A $750 Android flagship with 1080P screen and no OIS?
Obviously my phone obsession is the same as ATRL's pop girls obsession.
You have a valid point that the phone is ugly as hell and that the price point is too high.
I don't agree on anything else. For storage you get unlimited cloud storage and this number of pixels is optimal for a camera to keep high performance and good image quality, also there is OIS. 1080P resolution on a display this big is actually all you need since you wont be able to see beyond that with bare eye and it saves battery. 4K displays on phones just don't make sense.
You have a valid point that the phone is ugly as hell and that the price point is too high.
I don't agree on anything else. For storage you get unlimited cloud storage and this number of pixels is optimal for a camera to keep high performance and good image quality, also there is OIS. 1080P resolution on a display this big is actually all you need since you wont be able to see beyond that with bare eye and it saves battery. 4K displays on phones just don't make sense.
I remember when Sony thought they would grab some sales pulling out the "first 4k smartphone" and Samsung came out on top with the best display despite being 1440p. At the end of the day, resolution beyond 400 ppi is pointless unless you're using your phone 1 cm from your face. It all comes down to screen brightness, reflectiveness, contrast/color accuracy and efficiency at that point.
I remember when Sony thought they would grab some sales pulling out the "first 4k smartphone" and Samsung came out on top with the best display despite being 1440p. At the end of the day, resolution beyond 400 ppi is pointless unless you're using your phone 1 cm from your face. It all comes down to screen brightness, reflectiveness, contrast/color accuracy and efficiency at that point.
Also technology is really important. Samsung uses OLED (AMOLED) which is the best display technology currently on the market.
It's so ****ing ugly, I have NO idea what Google was thinking. $650 for the 32gb model with NO SD CARD SLOT? Um, excuse me no. A decent model that could fit your HQ vids and pictures would be 64gb, but that's not available. So the only decent option is 128gb. Which is $750.
$750 for an ugly phone with basic specs. SD 821 could have been SD 820, no one will notice. They could have upped the camera megapixels. Yes, it's probably one of the best, but we still need a higher resolution. "Really blue" is **** too. Are they seriously that proud that it's totally designed by them? I'd be so embarrassed with this ugly looking M E S S.
Can't wait for them to FLOP. They never learn, they did this with the Nexus 6 and FLOPPED, then balanced it out with the 6P, but then came up with this FLOP. A $750 Android flagship with 1080P screen and no OIS?
Obviously my phone obsession is the same as ATRL's pop girls obsession.
Megapixels aren't everything. Like my phone has a 20mp camera and it's not that great - because of the lack of low light photos, etc. Their camera was rated the best smartphone camera by a camera site.
I had heard the rumors of pricing before today -- and I am a little blown away. I know the option to finance is there but my last phone [moto x pure] was 470 dollars if I recall correctly. it has an SD slot. I can't believe Google would drop the Nexus title and "reintroduce" a new phone line to the world without an SD card. I can understand where the cloud might be the future but a lot of people still load **** onto their sd cards for offline. travelling, listening to music without a data connection etc.
the note 7 is nearly the same price and has far more to offer imo.
poor every other phone assistant.
