how's it going guys I just finished watching the live conference stream
the made by Google conference that was announcing their new products that
they have had so many leaks and rumors about over the past few months and they
even coyly played a video accumulating a lot of clips from these youtubers who
have announced who talked about some of those leaks on the pixel 3 which is the
most anticipated out of all of them but Google remained having a few surprises
and if any of you who are watching are diehard Apple fans you might want to
leave because you're probably gonna get mad a few times in this video so right
off the bat if I were to summarize the whole conference in focus primarily on
software on AI and this has been Google's focus for a little while now
but they really brought that home today instead of talking about specs and how
much RAM the new phone has they focused on some of the software additions that
really make this phone stand out and I'm not even going to be focused primarily
on the phone because they mentioned some other things that were truly incredible
but since a lot of you are probably watching this before the pixel 3 let's
get that out of the way and I didn't even think I was gonna care about it
because it you know the phone phone launches now aren't very exciting to me
but this one had a few interesting perks so it's gonna come in two sizes the
regular I wrote everything down on little post-it notes as I was watching
so it has a 5.5 screen for the regular sized one and a 6.3 inch screen that has
a notch and is almost bezel s it's it's a very full screen you know whatever it
screens aren't exciting anymore it's pretty but it's it's no big deal
forty percent louder front-facing speakers instead of downward firing so
it's supposed to be pretty loud and good for music but one of the biggest things
by far is definitely the camera since the pixel twos camera
is still even now the best camera on a smartphone they made the third one even
better and they even jabbed Apple a few times
with some of the pictures that it took and they mentioned that there's seven
photographers that took the pixel three and went and shot seven different covers
for magazines that were gonna see in a week so they're so good that you can use
them for professional photography I mean real magazines like GQ like have
pictures on the front that was taken with the pixel three and most people had
no idea so that's that's pretty cool I also feature something called top shot
which isn't the newest concept but paired with the AI makes it a little
more interesting so in top shot mode you can take a picture and it'll take a lot
of pictures but the cool thing is it will take those pictures also in HDR
which to make HDR you have to on a cell phone anyway you have to take a few
pictures in the process of them together so it's really taking a lot of pictures
and then selects which pictures are the best for you and it uses AI to recognize
you know which ones look better like smiling faces and yada yada yada and
also gets rid of the garbage ones it also has a new feature called super zoom
which takes multiple pictures because you know digital zooming on a camera on
a phone is usually trashed so what it does is it takes a few pictures and
super samples the increment details and the pixels around the subject and learns
how to make a better image when zoomed in rather than this blocky grainy mechs
that you usually get which is cool that's some pretty cool software again
it's software it's not hard with another thing that they featured is nitesite
feature which takes night pictures without using flash and makes them look
incredible and so instead of straining the sensor on the camera and then making
these horrible grainy messes even they showed on the iPhone XS that
it wasn't that great it wasn't terrible but it was a little bit dimmer so they
take the it takes a picture in the software recognizes what's in the scene
and what needs to not just be enhanced but it knows what colors and what things
are in there due to context and creates the picture and that gives you the
colors that is supposed to be there so that's pretty trippy we'll have to see
what that looks like to the average consumer but they showed unedited
pictures on screen and it was really good so we'll see how that looks
later on it also has a very wide angle selfie camera there looked like there
was two cameras on the front and it's a hundred and eighty four percent wider
than the iPhone so that's cool so you don't have to have stupidly long arms
like me and take pictures of all over your friends so I mean cool and also
they have a lot of lens ai features which isn't a new concept but it's
Google's version of it so it makes it good all of these phones are going to
include unlimited storage and that's cloud storage but unlimited storage
lossless qualities to Google photos so if you take lots and lots of photos like
my wife then you don't have to worry about plugging up your phone like pretty
much every phone we've had one of the coolest things though which is going to
eventually be on most Android phones from the look of it is call screening
now this is this is cool because when you get an incoming call normally you
see the the on the caller ID who is calling you and you can either pick up
where you can hang up or you can send them a text message a predetermined one
or whatever saying I can't come to the phone right now I'm gonna read with call
screening you can have google answer the phone for you and it says hello I'm
Google the person sent me to talk to you because they're busy and you can view on
screen the entire conversation that Google has
that person and they can choose whether to continue to say who they are and the
reason for their call and then you can still pick up during that conversation -
if it turns out to be important so if you don't recognize the number and
you're trying to filter out telemarketers they'll tell you you know
with a free cruise and you can screen that out so that is pretty cool and
that's coming out next month - the pixel three first before so with all this AI
one of the biggest things that people are worried about is security and Google
is pretty much on all new products incorporating the Titan security chip so
instead of just relying on software as your antivirus or yours anti hacking
security this has actual hardware which acts as a barrier between what is
software and what is your home so it's added security I won't get into
how that works but it's gonna be really good and very helpful eventually hackers
will figure it out but right now it's ahead of the game so you'll be good
what's the price it's gonna be $7.99 so you know not cheap but cheaper than some
of its competitors and from what I've seen of it it's gonna be a better fun
now I'm not gonna get into the specs because it's pretty much gonna be what
you would expect in any phone but all phones have you know either eight 45s
now with Snapdragon or you know four gigs to six gigs of rams for the bigger
one so it's it's probably gonna be around there again they didn't focus on
it so you it'll probably be out in a couple minutes
and then whatever I just said is outdated
so whatever again not the main focus everything was focused on software again
so that was took nearly ten minutes for me to explain everything that's gonna be
in the pixel 3 so I'm running out of time so what were some of the other
things that they feature what were the big deals and some
more kept secrets well not quite a replacement but definitely a step-up
they're releasing the Google hub now that's kind of it kind of acts like a
Google home but with a screen and right off the bat I'll say there is no camera
in it so you don't they said it for you to feel comfortable around it you know
like to say you're in the bathroom and you don't want that thing to go off so
that's a thing so what makes it different well as you're talking to it
you can see the things on the screen to interact with you can say hey you know
what's my day looking like and it'll show you all your calendar appointments
everything is very fast very seamless and it's pretty cool it they've changed
a few things about it so that you can see the status of your home with all of
your smart devices in there so really encourages entering into the smart
device world so you can be like is my door locked if you have a smart lock you
know you can see that it's locked or unlocked and then you can promptly lock
it a lot of cool functions for cooking so you don't have to touch any screens
or anything like that but you can still visualize because I found a lot of times
when I use Google home that I have to have it repeat it because I may not have
been paying exclusive attention when it said what it was saying or the volume
may have been down when I didn't know it and then I have to have it repeat it but
with a screen you can kind of get past some of that without having to touch it
on everything since it's always active it's not like you have to press a thing
to get it ready so it does a good job of simplifying all the controls that you
would typically have on any Google device and you can use your phone as a
remote control or some of those features too so it's kind of simplifying the home
app into more of a hub and without necessarily changing it and having to
use multiple apps for absolutely everything so do you want a big glowing
screen in your home at all time probably not but you don't have to worry about
that because it's smartly smartly smart Akali smarta fied it intelligently
adapts to the lighting environment of your homes
at night it shuts the screen off so you don't have this blowing screen your
bedroom but of course if you talk to it you can activate it again during the
mornings and through the afternoon it will adjust the light settings into the
evening will warm the screen and dim the lights so that you can always feel
comfortable having it there it also features a live album mode so that all
the pictures from your Google photos can be displayed on there including specific
people and faces so if you want only certain people to be displayed say
you're having a dinner party and those friends are coming over and you want
only pictures of them to show so you can make them feel like you love them you
can have that play there but what if some of those pictures were rather
cruddy and blurry and some of the album's include random pictures of
receipts will Google will know which ones are good and which ones are bad and
will filter those out so you don't have to show them on the screen so that's
pretty cool now what is that going to cost is that I I immediately thought
yeah it's gonna be 300 for 250 at least and to know it was going to be only $149
so it makes a nice upgrade to the Google home without being ridiculously
expensive so sweet and lastly what we're going to talk about today is the Google
slate now lately tablets have been sort of not on anyone's minds when it comes
to development it's been a very stale market you could go into any Best Buy or
Walmart and see tablets that literally came out two to three years ago and it's
kind of a shame because tablets are really cool they're a nice medium for
productivity and entertainment there I mean I've always loved them I need them
on the regular so not seeing that developed is kind of sad to me but that
is removed with the Google slate and it's much more interesting tablet
because it's not just running on Android in fact it doesn't run on Android it
runs on Google Chrome it's a Chrome OS and
that's not to say that you can't run the same apps because now Google Chrome can
run all of androids apps but it's a more desktop version of an OS oh so it's it's
like if you took Android and made it into a desktop operating system so it
kind of thins the line because they mentioned you know it's most tablets now
either our phones trying to be laptops and some of the higher-end tablets are
laptops pretending to be tablets and you got
fans and you they're heavy and they're dirt they're trying to run more than
they can within the system but chrome is a very sleek very efficient software
that can run on slightly lower specs but with a much more I mean that's what
Apple does so I mean chrome is doing it now and it's really nice and they showed
a few of the features it's it is really good it's a much more productive version
and it feels more like a desktop which I have always been partial to Windows
tablets it's just they never make them powerful enough to run properly so I've
always kind of held back chrome slate will also feature the Titan security
chip so you can see that Google is really caring about security right now
especially with how many leaks and breaches there have been in security
with multiple companies lately and they're gonna have speakers in the front
and apparently they're gonna be very loud they haven't really specified how
loud or how good what they're saying that that is one of the key features and
how good it is they didn't understate it so we will be watching that once we
actually get to try one so the cameras that will be on the slate are two eight
megapixel cameras and apparently they're supposed to be pretty good uh since
tablets aren't really focusing on cameras per se they didn't have to go
too crazy but apparently they've optimized it so that it works really
good with video chatting which is pretty much all you would really want to use on
a tablet anyway being more of a desktop operating system though we're starting
to see some more development in it which is kind of exciting because for
operating systems over the past couple of years there's
only been three options the ever-so-popular windows 10 the Mac OS in
its variant forms and Linux for the smart people but with some of these
operating systems becoming slightly more antiquated and showing their age in how
they operate seeing Chrome's start to creep up on the
competition is becoming interesting and all it really needs at this point is
more support which it's getting from Adobe
so Adobe's releasing a more full version of Adobe Acrobat and I really like in
the near future to see some of the Creative Suite coming out port which is
not out of the question a lot of a lot of software companies I'm sure we're
gonna start developing more for Chrome OS so that we can have an actual desktop
experience because that's one of the only things that has prevented me from
using Chrome is because I mean I use steam and I use the Adobe Creative Suite
very heavily and other than that I don't really care about too many other
programs that I wouldn't be able to somehow use on Chrome so being able to
see that come in the near future would be pretty cool and I think this might be
the start so how much is the Google slate going to costume it's gonna be
$5.99 out of the gate and with an additional 199 for the keyboard I mean I
don't really see that being justifiable that's expensive $200 for a keyboard I
mean other companies have done it but come on that's that's bad although that
we don't know too much else spec wise about this tablet other than the fact
that it has 6 megapixel screen which they boasted heavily about about how
everything looks beautiful in it and how its brighter and faster and yada yada
yada I mean they didn't even translate that into a refresh rate so we'll have
to find out a little bit more soon but as a 293 PPI and it's pretty much the
equivalent of a 3k screen not quite 4k it's like a 3k screen because 4k is 8
megapixels and this is 6 megapixels so 3k is good it's not unheard of it's been
done but apparently this one is better so
we'll see soon anyway wrapping things up it's definitely the goal of a lot of
tech company since the advances in specs and the advances in specs and technology
are starting to slow down then one they once were
so it's makes sense that company is focus on software to optimize what you
can do with this specs that do exist and make things run a little bit smoother
which is what Google is actually really good at it right now
so be exciting to actually test these in the near future and yeah that's what I
got out of today's huh that's it for me guys I'll see you around