Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
You've probably noticed that this isn't our usual set in the office and yes, I know, our
set in the office is renowned for being really cool and it's an awesome space but I'm actually,
well, I'm in Google's offices right now; this is pretty cool - an absolutely awesome opportunity:
Guys, smash that like button for Google giving us this awesome opportunity to take a look
at, well, you've seen the title of the video; this is the Google Pixel XL.
So, I've got the box here...
...I'm not going to show you guys around the box (you guys don't really need to see that).
It's all about this device here and I want to show you some of the cool things that it can do.
I've only spent about 45 minutes with the device so far so I'll show you what I've learned
and a few things that it can do.
We'll have a look around the assistant, have a look around the camera and just generally
have a look at the device.
So, the first thing that I need to tell you guys - the first thing that stood out to me
- is when I set this thing up it said: "Do you want to transfer your device from a phone?"
And I was like: No, it's not going to be able to transfer stuff from my iPhone but it did!
It came with, well, this adapter right here - as you can see I've got it on a lightning cable.
This comes in the box and you put it on to the end of your USB cable like that and then
that plugs into the USB C port on the phone and then, pretty much, it transfers all of
your contacts and photos and all that jazz on to this (even your apps - it downloads
all of the apps that you had on your iPhone from the Google Play store).
And, now, the phone is pretty much a replica of my iPhone.
So, that was absolutely amazing - it took about two minutes to copy over everything.
Now the phone is live, it's on and it's mine which is absolutely awesome.
So let's show you guys around it: Let's unlock it here.
So, you can swipe up and unlock it with the pattern there but it's also got a fingerprint
reader on the back so I'll just show you guys how fast it can read my fingerprint; I just
put my finger on it and it unlocks straightaway which is brilliant.
You can also swipe down on this fingerprint reader and it opens up your notifications
train and it just feels really satisfying to do that.
You can keep opening it and closing it just by swiping up and down on the fingerprint
reader which is absolutely awesome.
So, let's talk about the assistant: This is a big thing about this phone.
Let's just give it a go: Let's just say: "OK Google, What's the time in France?"
ASSISTANT: "The time in France is 3:22 PM."
ALEX: So, the big thing about the assistant in this phone is that it's intelligent as
it knows what you're talking about so I could say now: "Show me flights from Heathrow to France."
ASSISTANT: "Flights from London to France leaving November 3rd and coming back November 7th start at £89."
ALEX: So, it knows that we're talking about these locations so then I could say: "What's
the weather like there?"
ASSISTANT: "It's currently 13 degrees celsius and mostly sunny there..."
ALEX: So, it knows what we're talking about...
ASSISTANT: "...Today, it'll be partly cloudy with a forecast of rain...
ALEX:...And it knows exactly what to give me the results for on the search from that
which is absolutely incredible.
So, it's got intelligent things like that.
This is also really cool - let's talk about the camera.
Let's say: "OK Google: Take a photo."
ASSISTANT: "Opening app..."
ALEX: So it's going to open up the camera app and then guys - watch this - I'm not going
to touch the phone (we'll see if this works); I'm just going to give the phone a little
shake and there we go; we're on the front camera and then you can flip back to the back
camera which is absolutely wicked.
So that is just a few little features of this Google Pixel and I know that you guys are probably going
to be like: "Alex, what's the video quality like?
Come on Alex..."
Right, so let's show you that.
I'm going to start recording here...
OK, we're taking a video now in 4K on the Google Pixel.
I'm going to end this TechFlow video here guys.
I do hope that you've enjoyed this first little, awesome look at this brand new Google Pixel
phone - I wanted to get this up super quick for you guys.
So, yeah, that's it: My name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow and we'll catch you
in the next one.