Google Pixel:The new Android flagship,can it beat iphone?
Category : Android , Smartphones , Techgadgets
Pixel, by Google
Its time to experience best of Android with obsession of every detail embedding industrial design with user experience. Surface of phone is beautifully crafted with rounded edges for a easy grip. Pixel holds 2.5D Corning® Gorilla® Glass 4 on the front and back glass to blend with aerospace grade aluminium body. Fingerprint is placed at back, exactly where your fingers expects it. With fast charging, upto 7 hours in 15 minutes, pixel boosts all day battery that lasts whole day. Design perfectly matches and give enough competition to Apple smartphones. Considering design of both different flagships, Pixel can definitely attract Apple fanboys to give a try. OS platform on two different smartphones is a really big factor to achieve market success. Now, Android lovers can fly high too, flashing Pixel in hands.
Google Assistant, your personal Google experience.
Inbuilt Google Assistant is one of the biggest feature highlighted in Pixel. With Assistant you can easily ask questions to Google. Just say “OK Google” or hold Home button and you are ready to go. There is a vast collection of commands that you can ask with Google Assistant eg. ask for weather update, navigate to routes, play music. You can find most of Google commands here.
Get every pixel from your clicks.
The cutting edge technology in Pixel’s camera is not only the best smartphone camera ever made, it’s the highest rated smartphone camera anyone has ever made. In an ultra-fast and easy-to-use camera with 12.3 MP featuring an f/2.0 aperture and big 1.55 micron pixels to capture lots and lots of light.
Low light or bright light, in any environment, Pixel is able to give you smart results. You can capture beautiful landscapes or make faces glow with new exposure controls.
Android to love
Pixel comes with newest Android operating system, Android 7.1 Nougat. You will get direct updates from Google as soon as they are launched. Updates will be installed in background so you don’t need to wait for updates installation in front. Allo and Duo app from Google comes pre-loaded to give you rich text and video conversations.
Shades
With two attractive colors -Very Silver, Quite Black, Pixel comes in two sizes, 5” or 5.5” for handy experience.
Detailed specifications are as follows:
(Source : GSM arena)
| NETWORK | GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE |
|---|
| LAUNCH | Announced | 2016, October |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Available. Released 2016, October |
| BODY | Dimensions | 143.8 x 69.5 x 8.5 mm (5.66 x 2.74 x 0.33 in) |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 143 g (5.04 oz) | |
| SIM | Nano-SIM | |
| – Splash and dust resistant |
| DISPLAY | Type | AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 5.0 inches (~69.0% screen-to-body ratio) | |
| Resolution | 1080 x 1920 pixels (~441 ppi pixel density) | |
| Multitouch | Yes | |
| Protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 4 |
| PLATFORM | OS | Android OS, v7.1 (Nougat) |
|---|---|---|
| Chipset | Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 821 | |
| CPU | Quad-core (2×2.15 GHz Kryo & 2×1.6 GHz Kryo) | |
| GPU | Adreno 530 |
| MEMORY | Card slot | No |
|---|---|---|
| Internal | 32/128 GB, 4 GB RAM |
| CAMERA | Primary | 12.3 MP, f/2.0, EIS (gyro), phase detection & laser autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash |
|---|---|---|
| Features | 1/2.3″ sensor size, 1.55µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama | |
| Video | 2160p@30fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps, 720p@240fps | |
| Secondary | 8 MP, f/2.4, 1/3.2″ sensor size, 1.4 µm pixel size, 1080p |
| SOUND | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
|---|---|---|
| Loudspeaker | Yes | |
| 3.5mm jack | Yes | |
| – Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic |
| COMMS | WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot |
|---|---|---|
| Bluetooth | v4.2, A2DP, LE | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS | |
| NFC | Yes | |
| Radio | No | |
| USB | v3.0, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector |
| FEATURES | Sensors | Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer |
|---|---|---|
| Messaging | SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM | |
| Browser | HTML5 | |
| Java | No | |
| – Fast battery charging – MP4/H.264 player – MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player – Photo/video editor – Document editor |
| BATTERY | Non-removable Li-Ion 2770 mAh battery | |
|---|---|---|
| Stand-by | Up to 456 h (3G) | |
| Talk time | Up to 26 h (3G) | |
| Music play | Up to 110 h |
| MISC | Colors | Quite Black, Very Silver, Really Blue |
|---|---|---|
| Price group | 9/10 |
| TESTS | Performance | Basemark OS II: 2901 / Basemark OS II 2.0: 2461 Basemark X: 33023 |
|---|---|---|
| Display | Contrast ratio: ∞ | |
| Loudspeaker | Voice 74dB / Noise 68dB / Ring 78dB | |
| Audio quality | Noise -93.0dB / Crosstalk -92.6dB | |
| Battery life |
Endurance rating 64h
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