- Pixel has always been a leader in smartphone innovation,
and we take it as a compliment
when others in the industry follow our lead,
like the always-on display and At a Glance
introduced with Pixel 2,
and there's Night Sight, which launched with Pixel 3,
and astrophotography,
and we introduced car crash detection three years ago.
(car windshield shattering)
Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro's front camera
uses our advanced machine learning models
for face recognition to power face unlock.
- iPhone X, your iPhone is locked until you look at it
and it recognizes you.
We call this Face ID.
- We're introducing Cinematic Blur to the Pixel camera.
- And iPhone 13 brings a brand-new feature, Cinematic mode.
- Starting at 2x, Super Res Zoom crops
Pixel 7 Pro's main 50-megapixel camera
using a high-resolution mode
to provide a 12.5-megapixel image.
- [Presenter] 12 megapixels of the new sensor
to deliver a full resolution photo and 4K video
with optical quality.
- Yeah, I kind of just love how tech companies
just throw subtle shots at each other on stage,
even though we all know at this point
they're just copying each other in a giant circle
till we have the same features across everything.
Anyway, today was Google's event
and we got our first look and impressions
and our hands-on time
with the Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro
and the Pixel Watch, which is really interesting.
And we also got a preview
of a really interesting look at the new Pixel Tablet.
So this video's everything you need to know
about all that stuff.
So the phones, there's a big phone and a small phone again.
The Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro.
They very much look like the Pixel 6
now that it's an established, recognizable visor identity,
but this time the visor is metal instead of glass,
and I don't love it but I also don't hate it.
Like, I guess I was one of the few people
that really got to liking the glass visor.
But I will say,
this time it is one continuous piece of metal
all the way around with no seam
and that is better than before.
And it just feels really well built.
But you can also see the Pixel 7 visor is matte
while the Pixel 7 Pro visor is glossy,
which I can already tell
I'm gonna get this 7 Pro covered in fingerprints.
Also, I'm just gonna say
I miss accented color power buttons.
Just throwing that out there.
Anyway, no other real design surprises here.
But then on the inside, there is an updated set of specs.
So there they are.
You can pause this if you need to,
but, basically, the bigger phone has a telephoto lens,
more RAM and a bigger battery
and a bigger, higher res LTPO display.
That's the deal.
But here's something I noticed
that wasn't really mentioned
even out loud during the keynote,
which is the Pixel 7 display is flat again
and you can see the cutout at the top
for the new ultrawide 11-megapixel selfie camera
that they both share.
It's pretty sweet.
But the Pixel 7 Pro display curves over the edges
a bit less than before.
It's just a subtle curve now.
I'm really happy to see that.
But then as I mentioned in the last video,
which was about the iPhone 14 Plus and benchmarks
and how the big general benchmark improvements
are probably going to be pretty slight,
I was more interested just to see features,
just new interesting features
that they enable on these new phones, right?
And we got some
and they range from kind of cool, seen that already,
all the way to possibly incredible.
So yeah, I'm gonna keep my eye out
on the overall performance
of this next-generation Tensor G2 chip,
efficiency, smoothness, all that.
But it also enables a few things.
A new cinematic video mode,
which basically appears to be doing the same thing
Apple's new Cinematic mode does,
which is track subjects and artificially blur backgrounds.
It also enables transcribed audio messages
right in the Google Messages app.
So if someone sends you a voice memo,
you don't have to find a place to listen to it.
You can just read it in text form.
And it makes Night Sight twice as fast.
It enables face unlock from just the new selfie camera.
And it should be able to do all of this
with 20% lower power consumption than the first Tensor chip.
But the coolest feature to me easily
is Unblur is what it's called.
So say you have a picture that's slightly blurry,
you know, maybe your hands were kind of shaky
or it was slightly out of focus
or you just had a slow shutter speed
or something happened, it's blurry, it's soft.
Normally you'd throw the photo out,
but you don't have any other pictures of that moment
and it was just too perfect
and you kind of just wanna save it or fix it.
So you can open that picture on the Pixel 7 or 7 Pro
and you hit that button
and the Tensor chip goes to work
and it basically fixes the picture.
It uses AI,
it recognizes subjects and sharpens things up,
and it does a really good job.
You can see a before and after here
of some of the preloaded photos I was trying at the event
and they are genuinely impressive.
And the cherry on top is,
so you have to have a Pixel 7 or 7 Pro to do this for now,
but you can do this with any picture
in your entire Google Photos library,
any photo you've ever taken
or even any photo you just save or have on your phone.
Anything.
I can see people, like, remastering old Polaroids
or, like, 30-year-old yearbook photos,
just whatever else is in your library
that you wanna save.
Seems pretty cool.
I'm gonna be testing it for the full review
to see how well it actually works
with non-pre-supplied photos.
But I was impressed.
But then really most of the other changes
that were interesting about these phones
came in the camera department on the Pro phone.
So there's a new ultrawide with auto focus
just on the Pro phone
that is 21% wider
and should be able to take
some pretty decent macro photos now with these focus pixels.
And there's a new 5x telephoto camera that's also huge,
48 megapixels again.
And then they've worked a lot of software magic
with making the in-between marks much more usable.
So for example, the 2x button here
will crop in to the middle 12 megapixels of the main camera
for a nice clean zoom.
Sound familiar?
But then the 10x does the same thing.
So the 10x zoom is really just cropping in
to the middle 12 megapixels of the 5x telephoto camera.
So again, hopefully a nice clean zoom.
And then a lot of Super Res Zoom software magic
and hopefully sharpening the photos
of in between those numbers.
But there's also haptic stops in the camera UI
to make it easy
to hopefully hit those nice clean magic numbers.
And they also added a zoom preview thing
for the furthest extremes of zoom like Samsung did.
So now when you're taking those super creeper shots
at like 30x,
it'll be nice and stable and easy to frame.
My biggest question is did they price these correctly?
Because they went with the same prices as last year,
which is 599 for the small phone
and 899 for the big one,
which, okay, it's the same...
(sighs) I have a feeling $300
is gonna feel like a big gap again.
Like, this is what we were saying last year.
For 300 extra dollars over the small phone,
you're getting bigger screen, nicer battery,
and a telephoto camera,
and that's kind of it.
This year, it feels like a tiny bit more.
It's screen, battery,
and then like a whole pro camera system
with a better ultrawide
and a better telephoto with lots of zoom stuff.
But is that enough?
$300?
I don't know. We'll see.
I have a feeling that the 7 will feel like a good deal
and then the 7 Pro will feel like a tougher sell again.
But then we also finally got to see the Google Pixel Watch.
This is the thing that's been kind of hyped a lot.
I got to spend a little less time with it,
but I'm very interested in reviewing this particular watch.
So this might be a hot take
but I think they did a B+ job on the design.
I think it's really nice.
The full circle is great.
It's just one size, which is pretty small,
and very lightweight.
There's three colors: black, silver, and gold.
And it definitely doesn't look like a computer on your wrist
like some others can.
It can be a super inconspicuous
little puck of a smartwatch.
There's just two buttons:
the crown, which can also scroll,
and then a button right above it.
And the way the watch bands connect to the watch
is pretty neat.
It's a little bit finicky to me at first
but I suspect that just takes some getting used to.
And the result is just this super seamless look
with no lugs where it looks like the band
just kind of pops out the top and the bottom of the circle.
Now, here's why I say B+ and not A+:
bezels and battery.
So they curved the glass right over all the edges
and kept the UI mostly black,
which is really thoughtful
because most of the time,
especially in lower lighting,
it looks like it's basically a seamless display
on your wrist.
Most of the backgrounds are black.
Most of the UI elements look
like they're designed around sort of fading in
and not overlapping the edges too much.
And even when they do overlap,
they have this nice little gradient.
Even the flashlight app has a fade all the way around.
So you don't really think too hard about the bezel.
It's smart.
But if you catch the light just right
or maybe you're outside a lot,
then, yeah, you can see the bezel,
which is clearly not the smallest thing in the world.
Okay, fine.
But I'm actually a little bit more worried
about battery life.
So they said on stage up to 24 hours of battery,
which, you know, knowing these companies
is probably generous.
Like, that's probably maybe best-case scenario
without the always-on display, maybe one workout.
And, I mean, this watch is truly tiny.
It's very compact and light.
Like, there's just no way it can have a huge battery in it.
But I think it's a good idea to subscribe
to be among the first to see the full review
when it goes live
and I get a chance to really test it.
Functionality-wise, though,
it is very much a Fitbit smartwatch.
Like, I think it might be more of a Fitbit
than a lot of people were expecting.
But, you know, smartwatch-wise,
it does all the normal stuff.
Notifications, custom watch faces,
Google Pay with Wallet, Google Maps directions,
Google Assistant to set timers, play some music, et cetera.
It's Wear OS.
But then it's Fitbit for all the fitness stuff,
which there's plenty of.
So if you've used a Fitbit,
you already know about the workouts
and mindfulness content and health metrics
and sleep tracking and a sleep score
and it has some really high-frequency heart rate monitoring,
one reading every single second.
But other than specifically the heart rate monitoring stuff,
it uses the Fitbit app for all of that stuff.
So not Google Fit.
What happens to Google fit?
Unclear, actually.
But the watch comes
with six months of Fitbit Premium for free
and you just interact with all this data
just like it's a Fitbit.
So yeah, it's a Fitbit smartwatch,
or it's a smartwatch with Fitbit on top
for all the fitness stuff.
So it's 349 for the Wi-Fi only
and $400 for cellular.
So that means it's more expensive than the Apple Watch SE.
It's more expensive than the Samsung Galaxy Watch5.
It's interesting.
Let me know which one of those smartwatches
you would consider for that money.
But lastly, we did get a preview of the tablet, another one.
But this time,
it was basically just one, one really cool feature,
which is that it docks to a magnetic speaker dock
and becomes basically a Nest Hub Max.
And I think this is brilliant.
Most tablets are just, like, around the house
most of the time,
and Google knows this,
so they just built the ultimate house tablet, I guess.
I do think, though, that this is a bit of a clue
that this isn't going to be a super high-end,
like iPad Pro, Galaxy Tab Pro,
super crazy premium tablet.
This is definitely not competing with those.
Like, this thing will have a 10-inch screen,
single camera, white bezels.
It's like this thing is designed for the 80% of tablets
that just sit around the house and don't do too much.
Like, not the top few percent
that are doing peak performance
and productivity and media stuff.
I'm guessing, and this is pure speculation,
and you can quote this,
I'm gonna guess that this will be a 499 tablet.
Like, that's how I see this.
And then you'll buy the dock extra.
But we'll come back to this clip and see if I was right.
But yeah, stay tuned for the reviews.
Happy Techtober.
Thanks for watching this one,
and I'll catch you guys later.
Peace.
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