![]() From HTC, Google is borrowing the U11's pressure sensitive sides, so a quick squeeze at any time-even when the phone is off-will fire up the Google Assistant.įurther Reading Surprise! The Pixel 2 is hiding a custom Google SoC for image processingIn fact, less than a day before our review was set to publish, Google dropped major hardware news on us. This go-round, Google has actually done something special with the hardware, too. The back design is more refined than last year, and the Pixel represents one of the only premium, aluminum unibody phones left standing. USB-PD quick charging, fingerprint sensor, notification LED, IP67 dust and water resistance, Daydream ready, Active Edge Google gives you three years of day-one OS updates, an incredible camera, the best UI performance, a cohesive software package, and (if you buy the XL at least) hardware that's "good enough" to stand up to the rest of the high-end smartphone crowd. Of course the company that makes Android also knows how best to make an Android phone, so with the Pixel 2 you're getting all the "best practices" for Android. The software package is pretty much the same story as last year: Google is still blowing away its competition with a killer software package that no other Android OEM can touch. Expectations are rightfully a lot higher. This year Google's second-generation smartphones-the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL-arrive after a development timeframe much closer to the usual smartphone schedule. All the evidence we have points to it being blasted out the door in about 9 months, approximately half the usual development time for a smartphone. Google had an excuse, however: the original Pixel was a rush job. The Pixel even skipped water resistance, which had become an expected feature at that price point. Google said it wanted to make its own hardware, but it didn't actually build special hardware. It had the same specs and basic design as everything else. The Pixel still represented Google's first foray into smartphone hardware, though, and it didn't offer anything special in the hardware department. The killer software package made it the best Android phone of the previous generation. Google's software prowess shined on the Pixel 1, offering up exclusive features like the Google Assistant, the best Android camera thanks to advanced software processing, fast day-one OS updates and betas, and the smoothest, best-performing overall build of Android. In 2016, Google jumped into the Android hardware space with its first self-branded device, the Google Pixel.
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