Philip Houska Yesterday, during the expected keynote, Google introduced a whole range of hardware products. However, the biggest buzz is the new Pixel smartphones, flagship phones from the Mountain View workshops that are set to become direct competitors new iPhones 7.
It has long been speculated that Google will enter the smartphone market somewhat more seriously, especially in terms of being the author of both hardware and software itself. This was not met, for example, by the phones of the Nexus series, which were produced for Google by Huawei, LG, HTC and others. Now, however, Google is boasting its own smartphone, namely two: Pixel and Pixel XL.
According to the technical parameters, these are some of the best-equipped phones on the market, which is why Google was not afraid to compare its new products with the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus several times. We can consider the mention as a clear shot at Apple regarding the 3,5mm jack, which both Pixels have on the top. On the other hand, perhaps because of this, the new Pixels are by no means waterproof, which the iPhone 7 (and most other high-end smartphones) are.
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The Pixel and Pixel XL models are equipped with an AMOLED display, which in the smaller variant is fitted into a 5-inch diagonal with a Full HD resolution. The Pixel XL comes with a 5,5-inch screen and 2K resolution. Under the aluminum-glass body, on which you can recognize HTC's handwriting (according to Google, however, its cooperation with HTC is now on the same basis as Apple's with Foxconn), beats the powerful Snapdragon 821 chip from Qualcomm, which is only supplemented with 4GB of RAM memory.
A significant benefit of Google's new flagships is - at least according to the manufacturer - the most advanced camera system ever implemented in a smartphone. It has a 12,3-megapixel resolution, 1,55-micron pixels and f/2.0 aperture. According to the photo quality test of a recognized server DxOMark Pixels received a score of 89. For comparison, the new iPhone 7 was measured at 86.
Other Pixel features include support for the Google Assistant virtual assistance service (known from the Google Allo communicator), unlimited Google Drive cloud storage where the user can upload any number of photos and videos in full resolution, or support for the Daydream virtual reality project.
Pixels are offered in two capacities (32 and 128 GB) and three colors – black, silver and blue. The cheapest smaller Pixel with 32GB capacity costs $649 (15 crowns), on the other hand, the most expensive larger Pixel XL with 600GB capacity costs $128 (869 crowns). In the Czech Republic, however, we will most likely not see them at least this year.
Apart from the mentioned smartphones, it is interesting to observe where Google is going in general with these steps. The Pixels are the first phones with the aforementioned Google Assistant built-in, which is followed by another new product, Google Home, a competitor to the Amazon Echo. The new Chromecast supports 4K, and the Daydream virtual headset also saw further progress. Google is largely trying to get control not only of software development, but finally of hardware, as Apple does.
Just wait a year and buy from 8k ;-). Same as the previous model :-).
The previous model originally cost 12K, the Nexus6P still costs 17k to 19k for the 128GB variant.
That's not true, a colleague from work bought it brand new for just over 15000 NOK. I just told him at the time that he had already separated them from my iPhone quite minimally ;-).
There are iPhones on the market for 99 thousand and more... Necus 5X is a lower mid-end reference... if it was sold somewhere for 15K it's a total no-brainer, no one would buy it at that price, even if the sheep are used to paying even more for worse hardware.
Jager and becher ala nitro doubt. Chuji both of them!
Nexus6P 32GB – €390 (CZK 10500)
It's on sale in Slovakia, it's also cheaper in our country, although not so much.
I certainly wouldn't buy the 32GB version without a memory card slot today.
So I don't write anywhere that it's on sale, so he doesn't know :-/
Just wait for Heureka.
But it is true that the 32GB version is not enough for such a camera. Although it can be solved via the cloud. The woman has 32 GB and still 9 GB free :-D
It also depends on how one uses it. For example, I have such crazy people in my neighborhood who watch movies on their mobile phones, and even 128 GB wouldn't be enough for them :-D
For eleven pieces of paper, the OnePlus3 64GB is much more powerful, so the Nexus 6P with the Snape810 doesn't make much sense, even if it's an excellent phone. If you want the Snap810, I think the Z5 Premium is better for about 15K, it has a memory card slot, also a stereo speaker, but the best among mobile phones and the Z5 camera is also one of the best. For those who want full support directly from Google and the fastest updates, the 6P is currently the best buy for that price.
Each of these phones has something in it. The LG G5 is also slightly cheaper with you at a similar price to the 6P and has the Snap820 just like the OP3.
Yesterday I played with a Huawei Mate 8 (maxi paddle) with Kirin950 in store and I was surprised how fast and snappy the phone is, I read in discussions that users praise it but I didn't expect it to be so much faster than mine the current iPhone 6 Plus, so it's already a two-year-old model.
That exact price will drop every month.
Tvl, those are the prices…
I agree, if I wanted to spend that much money on a phone, I would definitely go for the iphone.
Otherwise, the ad for that phone is pathetic. That's not the way to do it!!!
That's what you say, I say it's a good ad, let them keep doing it.
she's weird, but definitely not bad
"For comparison with the new iPhones, the number 86 was measured." - correct that - only the iPhone 7 was tested. The iPhone7 Plus was not tested on dxoMark.
Corrected. Thank you.
I think it's good that Google came up with something like that. There is no harm in healthy competition, and in the end, the consumer mostly benefits from it. The question remains who will the Pixel compete with in the end. I would say that iPhones are not at risk as much as the "top" models of the last Android phone manufacturers.
It's enough that every other droid competes like this (un)healthily, but you can't expect anything else from Goggle when they beat iOS right from the start
after the first click I thought there was an iPhone in the picture!
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To think is to know.
I certainly wouldn't pay that much for a pure android. I'd rather go for Samsung. But I don't understand how someone can always say what the competition is like. If it doesn't have iOS, it simply can't compete with the iPhone and certainly not the Google Pixel, which only certain types of people buy.
He is nothing exceptional, he is also terribly ugly. What did he bring innovatively? What sets it apart from the rest of the 1000 models from other manufacturers? After all, there is nothing on that phone to say that this is really great! And the price... oh my!
The resemblance to the iPhone 7 is purely coincidental.
Perhaps because the iPhone copied HTC's design for the six-series, given that the Pixel is made by HTC, it's no wonder it's similar to its Cupertino copycat.
Note that the stereo speakers of the iPhone 7 have been copied to the letter from the HTC10, which has them implemented in an identical way.
The use of the dual camera is copied from the LG G5/Xiaomi Redmi Pro and especially from the HTC M8... which had it with a bokeh effect years ago.
Apple is most inspired by HTC, the design of the six series was a hundred for HTC copiers.
Beats purchased the headphones only after HTC cooperated with them.
The design of the first iPhone was stolen by Apple with the HTC Himalaya from 2003.
Himalaya 2003 vs iPhone 2007
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The difference between HTC and Apple was that in the HTC Wallaby they were able to make a high-end phone that could install its own applications more than five years before Apple, the first iPhone could not do that, Jobs initially claimed that the iPhone did not need 3rd party applications, so the AppStore came later (probably like third-party keyboards, the sheep also got one), in a few years there will be alternative launchers for iOS, but those "innovations" must be dosed little by little.
Himalaya 2003 vs iPhone 2007,
where is the similarity in design??
The only similarity is the color.
Otherwise I agree with you. Kopčia all that can be done in recent years.
But again, it should be noted that since Apple, EVERYONE has started picking up touchscreen LCDs. Until then, there were only PDAs with pressure and only Apple introduced the first usable capacitive one. So, if Jobs didn't come with the team, God knows when someone else would come with the team. So Apple deserves a lot of credit. It's just a pity that they rested on their laurels and the others are already firmly elsewhere.
Again, it didn't bring that much capacitive LCD, the HTC Wallaby had a resistive display just like the iPaqy (the similarity with the later introduced iPad is purely coincidental) and you could also control it with your fingers.
So everyone started copying HTC according to you? :D
To question apple's contribution to the mobile phone revolution is pure madness :-D
That's the same as claiming that Ford didn't introduce assembly line production, because even then people made cars by hand, only there weren't as many of them :-D
Please, the HTC was like a classic PDA, unusable.
So everyone started copying Apple according to you? :D
To question HTC's contribution to the mobile phone revolution is pure madness :-D
That's the same as claiming that Ford didn't introduce assembly line production, because even then people made cars by hand, only there weren't as many of them :-D
Please, the first iPhone was unusable as a PDA, it didn't even have 3rd party applications.
In principle, you are probably right. HTC is a real innovator, Apple is only copying, what cannot be denied to Apple is the highest profitability in the segment, even if it currently covers barely 12% of the global market.
From the customer's point of view, it is of course the least suitable choice, because for the iPhone you pay the most money of all brands, while today's iPhones are at best mid-end devices, in some respects even low-end, e.g. the HD resolution of the iPhone 7/SE display is at the level iPhone 4 from 2010, when the competition has much better quality and energy-saving QHD OLED panels.
In 2010 under Jobs, the iPhone was the phone with the best display on the market, today it is positioned among the flagship models with the worst panels. What good is a wider gamut on a poor HD resolution, even the display in the cheap Honor7Lite will provide higher user comfort and a better experience.
The iPhone has degraded terribly since the days of Jobs, the once top-of-the-line phones have become an average mainstream manufacturer, and the position of technological leader has been occupied by Korea's Samsung.
Of course they started copying iPhones. Weren't you on this planet at that time?
I'm not saying Apple has the best stuff, I'd have to be a blind sheep. I'm just telling it like it is. Apple has been dormant for the past few years.
And regarding OLED technology, I have a different opinion, I personally do not prefer this technology (brightness, unrealistic colors), but I understand that it is a matter of opinion. 100 people, 100 tastes.
It was hard for HTC to copy the iPhone when HTC was making smartphones a few years before Apple, regardless of the fact that Apple has historically copied most things from HTC (touch screen, stereo speakers, live photos, 3rd party applications, 3rd party keyboards, bokeh...).
Dude, you still don't understand me and you're mixing apples and pears.
PDAs have been around for x years and no one bought them en masse until Jobs arrived with the iPhone and his business talent and revolutionized the mobile industry from mobile phones with large touch screens. At that time, I was using Symbian, which was also not a mass-marketed platform. But denying that everyone started mass-marketing mobile phones with a large touch screen because Apple knew how to sell them and they wanted to get their money's worth and get on the starting train is blindness.