Rick: Hi, everybody.
I'm so glad you decided to join us today.
I'm here in our beautiful Google Store in the heart of New York City,
where we're going to show you a few new things we've been working on,
some of them for quite a long time.
Today, you're going to see real breakthroughs
across many different technologies and teams at Google,
all coming together to create a more helpful,
personal smartphone experience for each person.
We're doing what Google does: developing advanced technologies
and taking on massive scale tech challenges,
which in the end are all about helping you out
and making your day easier.
For so many Google products, from Search to Gmail to Google Photos,
AI is the foundational technology that lets us deliver helpful experiences
to each of our billions of users.
AI is driving our vision for ambient computing as well,
the idea that helpful technology should always be available,
whenever and wherever you need it.
From a Google hardware perspective,
everything we're doing is in pursuit of that vision,
and the smartphone has a huge role to play.
The phone is the most personal technology in people's lives,
so it's only natural that your phone
should be the central control device of an ambient system.
Your phone needs to understand you and your world-
your context, your unique needs and preferences,
how you speak, and what you care about.
That's what we set out to create with Pixel--
the most personal, most helpful phone.
A true Google phone which takes all the helpfulness
and intelligence of Google and adapts it to you.
Now, this approach has led to a lot of groundbreaking smartphone innovation
over the years, from the Pixel Camera
to the Google Assistant, to the speech and translation models we've pioneered.
And we've always done a great job of tuning our software
to get the best real-world performance out of Pixel's hardware.
Now, this year is quite a bit different.
We have state-of-the-art hardware, which means
Pixel can deliver even more impressive real-world performance,
as well as new AI-driven experiences that have never been possible before.
We're getting the most out of leading-edge hardware
and software and AI.
The brains of our new Pixel lineup is Google Tensor,
a mobile system on a chip
that we designed specifically around our ambient
computing vision and Google's work in AI.
Tensor was years in the making.
We worked closely with our AI researchers
to create machine-learning models that run well on Pixel.
And we use those models to power all kinds
of new experiences that you'll see today.
With Tensor, we're connecting Google's AI breakthroughs
directly to Pixel.
So we can push the limits of helpfulness in a smartphone
and turn it from a one-size-fits-all piece of hardware
into a device that's intelligent enough to respect
and accommodate the differences between each person.
Now we can give you Google's best speech recognition in a smartphone.
The speech models are trained to understand
natural speaking patterns, accents, dialects,
and how to translate them accurately into other languages.
We've developed the most advanced smartphone camera ever.
It intuitively understands how to get the best picture for you:
Your life, your friends, your face,
and skin tone, as well as the nuance in the world around you.
We can deliver our most helpful smartphone experience,
one that understands and anticipates what you need, when you need it.
The phone experience is designed for inclusion at its core:
we've taken real steps in hardware, software,
and AI to prioritize historically underserved communities,
particularly in the camera.
And it's a highest-rated phone for security
that keeps your information safe and private.
We can even extend the support window
for security updates so your phone has the most up-to-date protection.
With Tensor, we can pursue our own vision for smartphones.
This vision comes to life right here in the new Pixel 6,
our most helpful, most personal, most Google phone ever.
Pixel 6 is designed inside and out
to understand the nuance of you.
You can see right away, a major evolution
in the phone's design language, with a distinct new color palette.
The new Pixel Camera Bar houses a completely redesigned camera system
with upgraded sensors, lenses, and computational photography
that enables entirely new features and modes.
Here you can see the always-on display,
and the expressive, adaptive new Android 12 UI,
which we call Material You.
Pixel 6 is designed with powerful new security
and privacy features to safeguard your information.
And we've made big improvements to boost every aspect of performance,
from the all-day Adaptive Battery with fast charging speeds, to 5G
connectivity for even faster downloading and streaming.
The product is full of more features that we're gonna show you today.
Pixel 6 is available today starting at $599.
And now we're gonna talk about a first for us...
our first flagship phone, for people who want our most advanced technology,
the new Pixel 6 Pro has everything Pixel 6
has, including our Tensor chip, and a lot more too:
It has a pro triple rear camera system
packed into the Camera Bar, with a new telephoto lens.
And on the front you have an ultra-wide front camera
that shoots 4K video.
It's got a bigger and better 6.7-inch dynamic display,
that goes up to 120Hz for smooth scrolling and fluid animation,
while going down to 10Hz to save power.
Pro includes 12GB of RAM
for speedy performance and seamless app switching and multitasking.
It's our fastest and smartest Pixel yet.
Pro has the biggest battery we've ever put in a Pixel.
And it has a fresh, high-end design
with sophisticated colors and refined finishes.
Pixel 6 Pro is available today, starting at $899.
It sets a new bar for the performance and helpfulness
you can expect from a Pixel phone.