It is in new smartphonelanceringen now cliché to say that a unit on a previous smartphone seems to be.
At the Pixel and Pixel XL can this cliché again of the shed to be removed. The devices are made of aluminum and glass, as almost all the smartphones of the past few years. The back of the Pixel and Pixel XL is partially made of aluminium and partly covered with a shiny surface of the windshield.
In that shiny piece is the finger print scanner, that just as with the last generation of Nexus phones on the back of the phone. The shiny material seems to be fairly quickly covered with fingerprints.
The combination of shiny and matkleurig material on the back looks curious, but can not designdoorbraak be called. Ultimately, it’s just a mix of familiar elements. The phones are very nice in the hand and are quite light.
The Pixel, with a 5-inch screen, compared to many other Android devices are quite compact. The XL 5.5-inch is more reminiscent of the phablets that other manufacturers are recently in great numbers on the market.
it is Notable that Google the camera inside the relatively thin housing has managed to keep. So there is no protruding bulge. However, present is a headphones port, so the listening of music with an old set of headphones no dongle needed.
View first video of the Pixel, and Pixel XL:
First impression: Google’s new smartphones Pixel and Pixel XL
Assistant
The casing and specifications are probably not why most people the purchase of a Pixel will be considered. One important advantage of the device is the fact that the smartphones run on the latest version of Android. Also the security updates come directly on the Pixels; that is when other Android devices are still quite different, with vulnerable smartphones can be the result.
The software on the Pixel-phones contains a number of unique tricks, which won’t on other Android devices to find will be. (It is still unclear whether and when the Pixel software to Nexus phones or other Android-powered smartphones will be rolled out.)
the Main novelty is the presence of the Assistant, the smart assistant from Google that can be addressed by ‘OK, Google’ to say, or long-click the home button to press. People who are interested in have can the assistant all try to be in the chat-app Allo of Google, but the Pixel-phones is he really in the operating system handles.
That provides a number of handy features, such as the ability to quickly pass information on to search about places in the neighborhood, or to agree to plans.
A large part of the functions of the Assistant, incidentally, was already present in Android via the service Google Now, but the new assistant is more comprehensive and can better learn the context in which a user is located. He takes into account not only your location, but also with the apps you’re using and what you have previously asked.
The demonstrations that Google showed were impressive, though it is always to wait to see if the assistant’s questions in the real world as well as smooth answer.
Unfortunately the software is not yet in English. Who is the Assistant wants to use, will be in his best American English need to speak.
Shortcuts
The Pixel-software has a number of other features not found on other Android smartphones available. This allows app icons to be long pressed, a context menu appears on screen. Long press on Maps makes it possible, for example, to direct a route to the house plans.
That works exactly the same as a hard pressing with 3D Touch on an app icon in iOS. Difference is that the Pixel is a shortcut to a particular part of an app can be stored as a separate app icon.
The overview of all apps is not behind an icon, but is called up by an upward swipe on the screen. That is a nice find, to create more space on the home screen, but the handy app overview however, also to preserve.
Camera
The Pixel and Pixel XL get a new camera app, which is the 12 megapixel camera on the back. Google says that tests of the keuringswebsite DxOMark shows that this camera is the best on the smartphone market.
That was a short first test is not to conclude, but in the relatively dark test room were photos impressive. Colors were accurate and there was relatively little noise. To a somewhat lesser degree gold which is also, for the 8 megapixel camera on the front.
Photo with Pixel XL
Nice side-effect is, in any case, that Pixel owners their pictures without limit and can store it in the handy cloud-app Google Photos. That also makes the lack of MicroSD storage is a lot more acceptable.
More tests need to show whether or not the camera of the Pixel and Pixel XL is indeed so great. The same goes for the battery life, and the claim of Google that the phones fast charging.
Preliminary conclusion
It remains remarkable that Google the step from a software vendor to hardwaremaker want to convert. The company is going to directly compete with partners like Samsung and LG, which use Android.
The earlier Nexus hardware Google in conjunction with these companies, it was was always seen as a kind of hobby, intended to new functions of Android to show. The Nexus devices were never prominent in the shops or providers offered and were therefore never make any real sales success.
If Google that else wants to deal with are Pixel-based phones, will that in any event for followers of the smartphone market interesting scenes deliver.
But high prices will increase the attractiveness of the Pixels for consumers with limit; in Germany, the cost of the small Pixel at least 759 euros and the XL at least 899 euro. (Dutch prices and a release date are not yet known.)
The Google phones are Android devices, for iPhone prices. In the market for more expensive Android phones until now, really only Samsung success. It is still the question of whether the relatively small add-ons of Google there change.
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