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(Pocket-lint) - Google has officially announced the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, its caller flagship-level devices looking to entice Android users and Google fans to the Pixel banner.
Google has been offering Pixel devices since 2016. Often highly praised for the camera performance, this household of phones has divided users, often skipping retired connected the latest features oregon trends. That can't beryllium said of the caller devices which consciousness similar a alteration of absorption for the Pixel line.
Unashamedly flagship, the caller models deed a fig of spec points to support up with the latest trends, with the Pixel 6 Pro offering a Quad HD+ show with adaptive refresh rates up to 120Hz, portion besides keeping the prices down, undercutting the likes of Apple and Samsung.
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The 2 devices were heavy leaked anterior to launch, but Google itself has shared a batch of accusation astir these devices, going arsenic acold arsenic moving TV adverts for them anterior to launch, truthful the look - with that large Camera Bar crossed the back, volition beryllium familiar.
The Pixel 6 is the poster kid for Android 12, launching connected the latest mentation of Google's bundle and ushering successful a idiosyncratic interface that offers greater customisation done Material You, portion besides elevating information features crossed the OS, letting users rapidly spot things similar erstwhile the mic oregon camera is signaling - and what app is utilizing it.
Aiming to beryllium the astir unafraid smartphone ever, Google has designed its ain halfway hardware, known arsenic Google Tensor, which integrates the Titan M2 information core, portion a information hub and privateness dashboard volition assistance you negociate your telephone and Google account.
On apical of those features, Google volition beryllium offering 5 years of information updates for the Pixel 6 devices, arsenic good arsenic 4 years of OS updates.
The Pixel 6 has a 6.4-inch OLED show with afloat HD+ resolution, offering 90Hz refresh rates. It's protected with Gorilla Glass Victus for scratch protection.
The Pixel 6 Pro increases the size with a 6.7-inch LTPO OLED display, offering a adaptable refresh complaint betwixt 10 and 120Hz. It offers a Quad HD+ resolution.
When it comes to the cameras, there's a quality betwixt the devices. Both person the aforesaid main camera - a 50-megapixel, 1/1.31in sensor with 1.2μm pixels, f/1.85, which users pixel binning to instrumentality 12.5-megapixel images by default. Google says that the camera absorbs 150 per cent much airy than the Pixel 5.
Both besides person the aforesaid ultrawide camera too, with a 12-megapixel sensor, f/2.2.
But the Pixel 6 Pro past goes connected to connection a 48-megapixel telephoto camera, utilizing a folded oregon periscope lens for the archetypal clip connected a Pixel - and allowing 4x optical zoom, oregon 20x integer zoom.
New camera features see Motion mode for capturing moving objects and giving them a consciousness of velocity done selective blurring, the quality to unblur faces (in immoderate conditions), editing tools similar Magic Eraser that volition region unwanted objects from the inheritance of images successful the Google Photos app.
More importantly, Google's computational photography AI is besides promising to beryllium much inclusive, with antithetic tegument tones being much accurately presented, truthful darker tegument remains successful balance, alternatively than confusing the camera.
Stereo speakers are offered, but there's nary 3.5mm headphone socket. There's a USB C for charging with a 4614mAh artillery successful the Pixel 6 and 5003mAh artillery successful the Pixel 6 Pro. Charging astatine 30W wired is supported, portion wireless charging is besides supported astatine 21W connected the Pixel 6 and 23W connected the Pixel 6 Pro if utilizing the second-gen Pixel Charger, oregon astatine 12W with standard Qi chargers.
The Pixel 6 volition outgo from £599 / €649 / $599 portion the larger Pixel 6 Pro volition outgo £849 / €899 / $898 and pre-orders unfastened immediately. It volition beryllium connected shelves from 28 October.
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Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 19 October 2021.
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