They are all making smart phones, and who has not yet entered the high-end "careful thinking".
The news about Google's latest mobile phone Pixel 6 series has been warming up for a long time, and just this morning, the new machine was officially unveiled.
Judging from the whole conference, whether it is a self-developed Tensor chip or a new Pixel 6 series machine, it has brought good performance.
But at the same time, it is a bit disappointing, because Google only brought mobile phones and self-developed chips, other hardware in the product ecosystem did not appear, and as for the rumored foldable mobile phones, there was no shadow.
Next, let's see how tensor chips and Pixel 6 series new machines perform as the only two protagonists of the whole conference.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" >Pixel 6/Pro – official seal: the first truly high-end phone</h1>
In terms of screen, the standard version of pixel 6 adopts a 6.4-inch FHD+ OLED screen, which is designed for mid-position hollowing, with a resolution of 2400*1080 and supports high brush rate of 90Hz.
Different from the standard version, the Pixel 6 Pro uses a 6.7-inch QHD+ OLED screen, the same mid-mounted knockout design, resolution of 3120 * 1440, support 120Hz adaptive high brush rate.
In terms of appearance design, this time Google abandoned the past design style, and the back used a sleek glass cover, and a black part spanned about a third of the top of the back, which is what Google calls the "camera bar".
It's true that this design allows the Pixel 6 series to be recognizable at first glance, but at the same time, the raised design makes it difficult to lay flat on the table.
In terms of processors, the Pixel 6 series uses Google's self-developed processor Tensor, which uses 5nm and the CPU is an 8-core design, divided into three cores, large, medium and small - 2 ARM Cortex-X1 cores running at 2.8GHz, 2 Cortex A76 cores running at 2.25GHz, and 4 1.8GHz A55 cores. The GPU is designed for 20 cores.
As for how much "wonderful" this chip has brought to the Pixel 6 series, so much so that Google will call the Pixel 6 Pro its "first true high-end phone", we will leave it to continue.
In terms of camera, the Pixel 6 is a dual-camera module, which is a 50-megapixel wide-angle camera, a 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera, and a front-facing camera of 8 million pixels.
The Pixel 6 Pro adds a 48-megapixel telephoto lens (4x optical zoom) to the rear module. The front camera has also been boosted to 11 MEGApixels.
In terms of battery life, the Pixel 6 adopts type-C interface, the maximum charging speed is 30W, and it supports wireless and reverse charging. In terms of specific battery capacity, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are 4614mAh and 5004mAh respectively.
In addition, the Pixel 6 series of built-in Android 12 system, the original back fingerprint recognition has also been changed to under-screen fingerprint recognition, with IP68 waterproof and dustproof, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, Sub-6 and millimeter wave 5G and other functions.
To the price link that everyone is most concerned about.
The Pixel 6 starts at $599 (about 3823 yuan) and has 2 memory specifications: 8GB+128GB/256GB;
The Pixel 6Pro starts at $899 (about 5738 yuan) and has 3 memory specifications: 12GB+128GB/256GB/512GB.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > self-developed chip, how much "extra points" is given to the Pixel 6 series? </h1>
At the press conference, around how tensor chips empower Pixel mobile phones, Google can be said to have spent a lot of effort.
Specifically, the innovation and improvement brought by Tensor to the Pixel 6 mobile phone is mainly reflected in three major application directions, namely intelligent voice, computational photography and security privacy.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" >· intelligent voice</h1>
In view of the improvement of intelligent voice, Google still used a lot of space to introduce it at the press conference, and invited the "queen of storage" Marie Kondo to demonstrate a Google real-time translation dialogue.
Specifically, in terms of intelligent voice, Google first emphasized its improvement in speech recognition ability.
For example, "Bryan" is often mistakenly recognized by the system as "Brian", and after several corrections, when you hear "Bryan", the Pixel phone will no longer hear it wrong.
In addition to technology, implemented into specific applications, Google showed us the SMS dictation function, in addition to text input, you can even use voice to enter emoji, just need to say an extra "emoji" after the keyword. At the same time, you can also say "send" to send, "clear" to clear the message, or when you see a typo in the content of the listening, you can directly click on the typo, and then repeat, without cutting in and out of the listening mode.
And if you don't speak the language of the person you're communicating with, Google can also translate the chat content in real time, whether it's in the text exchange in the infobox or in the real-life voice communication.
In addition, Tensor has improved the "Call Screen" feature for mobile phones, allowing you to know the average wait time of the top 5,000 companies in the United States when making a call, or convert automated voice content into text and display it on the screen.
Alternatively, you can give the call to Google Assistant, which will send you a notification once it's connected.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > computational photography</h1>
In this area, Google mainly showed us the power of Tensor through several newly added camera features, the most basic ones including using HDRnet to record 4K video at 60 frames and so on.
Other features, such as Magic Eraser, suggest "delete" to you when someone else stumbles into the camera, after identifying people or things that probably shouldn't be there, and you can choose to tap Delete when prompted by the system. Of course, you can also manually choose what you want to delete at other times.
Another example is Face Unblur (face de-blurring), the system will automatically detect the faces in the picture, if the system finds a blurry face in it (such as moving the head, etc.), the phone will automatically start the second shot and let you take two photos at a time. The AI will then paste the clear faces in the wide-angle camera onto the photos taken in the main lens to form a clear mixed photo.
In addition, tensor chips also give mobile phone cameras no more different ways to play, including but not limited to Action Pan (dynamic lens), Long Exposure (long exposure) and so on.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" >· security and privacy</h1>
According to Google, the Tensor chip will be used with the Titan M2 chip in the phone to prevent malware and other potential attacks.
In addition, tensor chips also support security updates for 5 years, which is the first time in Google mobile phones. It should be noted, though, that its update speed is not necessarily synchronized with Android.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > last</h1>
Looking at the full conference, Google still attaches great importance to the new Pixel 6 series machine.
It can be noted that Google with the Pixel 6 series, especially the Pixel 6 Pro model, is trying to enter the high-end camp in various aspects, such as self-developed core processors, design makeovers, and even only $100 lower in pricing than Apple's equivalent positioning models.
Looking at the attitude of foreign netizens, it is also given a high evaluation, and some people think:
Tensor chips seem to offer everything we want: fast speeds and plenty of forward-looking AI features. It could eventually make the Pixel phone Google's true iPhone equivalent: flagship hardware works with custom mobile chips.
Some people also said that after 5 generations, the Pixel 6 series is the Pixel he has been hoping to make with Google for many years.
It is worth noting that just before the official start of the conference, some sources said that Google has asked suppliers to produce more than 7 million Pixel 6 smartphones, and this figure is twice the company's shipments last year.
There is also news that Google has also asked suppliers to produce more than 5 million economical Pixel 5A phones launched this spring.
Regarding these developments, it has been pointed out that this is the most positive measure taken by Google to increase smartphone production.
It is not difficult to see from this that Google still has "a lot of confidence" in the sales of new machines. I just don't know whether in the current environment, where there are strong enemies inside and troubles outside, can we really do what I want?