The Pixel 6’s Tensor processor promises to put Google’s machine learning smarts in your pocket
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The Pixel 6’s Tensor processor promises to put Google’s machine learning smarts in your pocket - it’s Google’s first machine learning processor designed to be embedded in a new kind of screen. The Pixel 6 also boasts a bevy of new camera upgrades alongside its new smartphone design and a $749 unlocked version of this year’s model.
Google Pixel 4
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The Pixel 4.
Best smartphones
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The Pixel 4 is an excellent smartphone. It’s got excellent specs, a solid camera, and a sleek metal body with a glass back. The Google Assistant is great, and the Pixel 4’s clean Android interface has been improved since last year. (Note: Some colors look different from our unit at time of publication.) The camera also looks better than it has any right to.
Google Pixel 4 and 5s also
Android smartphones
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The Pixel 4 comes loaded with Google’s latest version of Android, Android 10, so it’ll be compatible with your other apps, including WhatsApp, Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome web apps, Chrome, YouTube, and more. It’s Google’s best smartphone yet.
Google Pixel 4 l
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The Pixel 4 l.
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The Pixel 4 l comes with some nice upgrades over the standard Pixel 4, especially in the camera department. You’ll get the improved Night Sight photography feature, a new autofocus assistant designed to improve hand-held, fast-action photography and a wider 12.2-megapixel array up front (compared to the Pixel 4’s 9-megapixel selfie camera). You’ll also get Face Match and new Live HDR+, a camera feature that highlights “interesting objects and scenes” in your image. You know, stuff you didn’t even notice while taking the photo. Live HDR+ includes multiple modes designed to improve your smartphone selfie and video, including “Smile to Smile” and “Smile to Focus.”
Google Pixel 4 XL
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Google's bigger phone, the Pixel 4 XL, comes with the same Pixel 4 l camera upgrades. You’ll also get Google Lens, which recognizes objects in your photos, or Google Photos, where new features include the ability to scan a QR code in your images to automatically access the photo on your phone’s storage, or the new Google Lens Effect for photos, allowing you to edit your images using Google’s algorithms.
The Pixel 4 brings back some old features—a headphone jack; a USB-C port; wireless charging—and adds a few new ones: Bluetooth for the first time, a “Pixel Imprint” feature that allows for biometric authentication like Touch ID, and the Pixel 4’s first dual-SIM phone. The Pixel 4's rear camera also looks a little neater, with a matte finish and new sensor tech that Google says improves image quality.
The price on the phone starts at $799, though if you want to spring for the Pixel 4 XL, Google is giving buyers an additional $100 off.
Pixel 4 XL
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Pixel 4 l
Android smartphones
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The Google Pixel 4 l is a good buy, especially if you don’t want a fingerprint sensor—the Pixel 4 l lacks one. It has the same camera, processor, and OS as the standard Pixel, but with a few new camera features.
Google Pixel 4 l
Android smartphones
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The Android Pixel 4 l has all of Google’s most useful features, like the Google Assistant. It can perform all the things its phone competitors can too, except for that damn fingerprint sensor.
Pixel 4 and 5s’ camera upgrades
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The standard Pixel 4.
Best smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
Google updated the Pixel 4 with two neat camera features. Night Sight, announced at I/O 2019 in May during Google’s keynote and introduced shortly thereafter, uses Pixel-specific computer vision algorithms to drastically improve the quality of low-light photos at night. Day Sight is a similar feature offered in the Pixel 4 l for daytime photos.
In addition, the Pixel 4’s sensor uses the Pixel Imprint system, which uses a special dot pattern etched into the back of the camera to scan the print itself. That means, among plenty other things, you can get rid of that annoying little camera imprint on your smartphone after a while. It’s not the only fingerprint scanner, but it’s the only one that works in this context.
Google Pixel 4 l
Android smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The camera on the Pixel 4 l is the same one on every other version of the phone, which is to say it has all of the neat camera features you’d expect from a Google phone: Night Sight, HDR+ and Google Lens, not to mention the standard stuff like an accurate and speedy autofocus. That said, there are things you won’t be able to do with the Pixel 4 l’s built-in camera that you can with the Pixel 5, and vice versa. For example, Night Sight is only available on the Pixel 4 l via an update.
Google Pixel 5 l
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The camera on the Pixel 5 l boasts a bunch of new features, especially for the price. (And if you like the phone’s other upgrades, like Live HDR+ and the back cover, you’re likely to want to get it. The Pixel 5 l has a good shot at being one of the top smartphones of the year.) Google brought back the 12-megapixel camera sensor and it sports a f/1.55 lens. That aperture is much smaller than the f/1.8 on the standard Pixel 5, but Google says it lets in more light.
On the rear, a Pixel-branded Super Res Zoom allows for 2x zoom, and on the front, Google added wide-angle f/2.2 bokeh effects and improved autofocus. Night Sight isn’t available on the Pixel 5 l just yet, but Google’s introducing a new Night Sight feature called Zoom Shot, which will take a series of photos and stitch them all into one photo when the light brightens again. In addition, Night Sight will be available for the Pixel 3, 3a, 5, and 6. And, unlike the Pixel 4 l, Pixel 5 owners will get to test out and use the Pixel Imprint before the final release.
Google Pixel 5 l
Android smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
If you want a new and improved Google Camera, you get it with the latest Pixel.
Google Lens
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
We’ve covered Google Lens before, but it’s worth repeating how useful this little camera feature can be. For starters, you can Google your images and search for places, movies, TV shows, products, services, and other stuff. If you find something, you can use the Lens to automatically edit your photo using the same algorithm Google uses for Google Photos.
Google Lens
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
With a Pixel 5, you get full access to the Google Lens database with 10 million products. You’ll also get to use Lens in a couple of ways with the latest Pixel, too. The first is a new Pixel Imprint capability. This Google technology uses special dot patterns etched onto the back of the camera to scan the printed part of a document or receipt, among other things. Once Google confirms that it is what it is, the back of the phone’s camera can read your print and automatically activate a series of functions. That includes opening apps, taking a photo, or even using other Google services like Google Maps, and more.
In other words, with this new Imprint feature, you can skip that annoying bit of paper and ink you’re always using now. Pixel 4 l is the second one ever to include the feature.
Gotta go back to the Google Lens
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
Google Pixel 4 l has a new screen technology that promises to be super smooth.
Google Assistant
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Google Assistant is getting smarter. The Pixel 4’s assistant will offer more proactive suggestions and a broader scope, according to Google. The Pixel 4’s assistant is available through just about every app for the phone, and Google says it’s made it easier to use Google Assistant on other devices through the Google Play Store, too. It works in a bunch of new ways without requiring an explicit phrase—you say “Hey Google” while your screen is off and the phrase will launch Assistant without any prompting. For instance, you can ask Google for a link to a movie showing on any streaming platform, which will pull you the right page from Google Play Movies or Netflix, or ask it to give you a weather forecast for your hometown, which will launch the Google Weather app.
Google Pixel 4
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The Pixel 4.
Best smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The Pixel 4 is an excellent smartphone. It’s got excellent specs, a solid camera, and a sleek metal body with a glass back. The Google Assistant is great, and the Pixel 4’s clean Android interface has been improved since last year. (Note: Some colors look different from our unit at time of publication.) The camera also looks better than it has any right to.
Google Pixel 4 and 5s also
Android smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The Pixel 4 comes loaded with Google’s latest version of Android, Android 10, so it’ll be compatible with your other apps, including WhatsApp, Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome web apps, Chrome, YouTube, and more. It’s Google’s best smartphone yet.
Google Pixel 4 l
Android smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The Pixel 4 l.
Best smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The Pixel 4 l comes with some nice upgrades over the standard Pixel 4, especially in the camera department. You’ll get the improved Night Sight photography feature, a new autofocus assistant designed to improve hand-held, fast-action photography and a wider 12.2-megapixel array up front (compared to the Pixel 4’s 9-megapixel selfie camera). You’ll also get Face Match and new Live HDR+, a camera feature that highlights “interesting objects and scenes” in your image. You know, stuff you didn’t even notice while taking the photo. Live HDR+ includes multiple modes designed to improve your smartphone selfie and video, including “Smile to Smile” and “Smile to Focus.”
Google Pixel 4 XL
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
Google's bigger phone, the Pixel 4 XL, comes with the same Pixel 4 l camera upgrades. You’ll also get Google Lens, which recognizes objects in your photos, or Google Photos, where new features include the ability to scan a QR code in your images to automatically access the photo on your phone’s storage, or the new Google Lens Effect for photos, allowing you to edit your images using Google’s algorithms.
The Pixel 4 brings back some old features—a headphone jack; a USB-C port; wireless charging—and adds a few new ones: Bluetooth for the first time, a “Pixel Imprint” feature that allows for biometric authentication like Touch ID, and the Pixel 4’s first dual-SIM phone. The Pixel 4's rear camera also looks a little neater, with a matte finish and new sensor tech that Google says improves image quality.
The price on the phone starts at $799, though if you want to spring for the Pixel 4 XL, Google is giving buyers an additional $100 off.
Pixel 4 XL
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
Pixel 4 l
Android smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The Google Pixel 4 l is a good buy, especially if you don’t want a fingerprint sensor—the Pixel 4 l lacks one. It has the same camera, processor, and OS as the standard Pixel, but with a few new camera features.
Google Pixel 4 l
Android smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The Android Pixel 4 l has all of Google’s most useful features, like the Google Assistant. It can perform all the things its phone competitors can too, except for that damn fingerprint sensor.
Pixel 4 and 5s’ camera upgrades
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The standard Pixel 4.
Best smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
Google updated the Pixel 4 with two neat camera features. Night Sight, announced at I/O 2019 in May during Google’s keynote and introduced shortly thereafter, uses Pixel-specific computer vision algorithms to drastically improve the quality of low-light photos at night. Day Sight is a similar feature offered in the Pixel 4 l for daytime photos.
In addition, the Pixel 4’s sensor uses the Pixel Imprint system, which uses a special dot pattern etched into the back of the camera to scan the print itself. That means, among plenty other things, you can get rid of that annoying little camera imprint on your smartphone after a while. It’s not the only fingerprint scanner, but it’s the only one that works in this context.
Google Pixel 4 l
Android smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The camera on the Pixel 4 l is the same one on every other version of the phone, which is to say it has all of the neat camera features you’d expect from a Google phone: Night Sight, HDR+ and Google Lens, not to mention the standard stuff like an accurate and speedy autofocus. That said, there are things you won’t be able to do with the Pixel 4 l’s built-in camera that you can with the Pixel 5, and vice versa. For example, Night Sight is only available on the Pixel 4 l via an update.
Google Pixel 5 l
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The camera on the Pixel 5 l boasts a bunch of new features, especially for the price. (And if you like the phone’s other upgrades, like Live HDR+ and the back cover, you’re likely to want to get it. The Pixel 5 l has a good shot at being one of the top smartphones of the year.) Google brought back the 12-megapixel camera sensor and it sports a f/1.55 lens. That aperture is much smaller than the f/1.8 on the standard Pixel 5, but Google says it lets in more light.
On the rear, a Pixel-branded Super Res Zoom allows for 2x zoom, and on the front, Google added wide-angle f/2.2 bokeh effects and improved autofocus. Night Sight isn’t available on the Pixel 5 l just yet, but Google’s introducing a new Night Sight feature called Zoom Shot, which will take a series of photos and stitch them all into one photo when the light brightens again. In addition, Night Sight will be available for the Pixel 3, 3a, 5, and 6. And, unlike the Pixel 4 l, Pixel 5 owners will get to test out and use the Pixel Imprint before the final release.
Google Pixel 5 l
Android smartphones
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
If you want a new and improved Google Camera, you get it with the latest Pixel.
Google Lens
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
We’ve covered Google Lens before, but it’s worth repeating how useful this little camera feature can be. For starters, you can Google your images and search for places, movies, TV shows, products, services, and other stuff. If you find something, you can use the Lens to automatically edit your photo using the same algorithm Google uses for Google Photos.
Google Lens
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
With a Pixel 5, you get full access to the Google Lens database with 10 million products. You’ll also get to use Lens in a couple of ways with the latest Pixel, too. The first is a new Pixel Imprint capability. This Google technology uses special dot patterns etched onto the back of the camera to scan the printed part of a document or receipt, among other things. Once Google confirms that it is what it is, the back of the phone’s camera can read your print and automatically activate a series of functions. That includes opening apps, taking a photo, or even using other Google services like Google Maps, and more.
In other words, with this new Imprint feature, you can skip that annoying bit of paper and ink you’re always using now. Pixel 4 l is the second one ever to include the feature.
Gotta go back to the Google Lens
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
Google Pixel 4 l has a new screen technology that promises to be super smooth.
Google Assistant
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
Google Assistant is getting smarter. The Pixel 4’s assistant will offer more proactive suggestions and a broader scope, according to Google. The Pixel 4’s assistant is available through just about every app for the phone, and Google says it’s made it easier to use Google Assistant on other devices through the Google Play Store, too. It works in a bunch of new ways without requiring an explicit phrase—you say “Hey Google” while your screen is off and the phrase will launch Assistant without any prompting. For instance, you can ask Google for a link to a movie showing on any streaming platform, which will pull you the right page from Google Play Movies or Netflix, or ask it to give you a weather forecast for your hometown, which will launch the Google Weather app.