Finally, after months of waiting starting from the first signs, Google has decided to reveal the new ones to the whole world Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. These are the next smartphone owners of the Mountain View giant, which will officially come out in the fall. But the thing we've all, really all, been waiting for is the proprietary chip. Known by the code name Whitechapel, the SoC will be called google tensor. Let's go and see all the information we have available about the next smartphones.
Google has finally decided to reveal the existence of Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. They will be equipped with stellar hardware, including the Google Tensor chip
google tensor is Google's first custom SoC for Pixel phones that will debut on the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro by the end of fall. According to Sundar Pichai, the company worked on this custom silicon in the last four years. The main goal is to improve machine learning performance. He himself stated:
Artificial intelligence is the future of our innovation work, but the problem is that we have encountered cyber limitations that have prevented us from fully pursuing our mission. So we started building a technology platform built for mobile devices that allowed us to bring our most innovative artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) to our Pixel users. We decided to create our own System on a Chip (SoC) to power the Pixel 6. And now, years later, it's almost there.
Benefits of the custom chip include enhancements to existing computational photography supported functionality and "completely new features“, As well as improvements to speech recognition. There is a new security core and a Titan M2 chip for most hardware security levels in any phone.
On the design front, Google boldly claims these "new phones redefine what it means to be a Pixel." We see the new industrial design with the characteristic camera bar as the company says it is now too large to fit the components into a traditional square. Going to the specs, the Pixel 6 will have FHD + resolution within a 6.4 ″ screen at 90Hz while the 6 Pro will have QHD + resolution in a 6.7 ″ screen with 120Hz refresh rate. Both will be available in three colors each, while there is an in-display fingerprint sensor.
Precise specifications, such as battery size, will arrive in the fall. But that's not all, because the company has also decided to reveal the performance of the two devices. Google shot a demonstration video on Pixel 6 to compare with Pixel 5 and iPhone 12 Pro Max. The video was a simple overview of the beach, showing the sunset. This is a relatively challenging scenario for HDR and second The Verge the Pixel 6 won, even compared to the iPhone, which has long been renowned for its video capabilities.
How is Google achieving such an improvement? Rick Osterloh from Google explained that the Tensor chip and its specialized capabilities allow Google to apply the same process "HDR Net”Which happens with still photos a each frame of a video. The demo shown was apparently shot at 4k 30fps.
| Alleged specifications of the standard model | Alleged Pro model specs |
| Rear camera: - main: 50 megapixels (Wide) - Wide: 12 megapixels (Ultra wide) Front camera: 8 megapixels Battery: 4.614 mAh Processor: customized and developed by Google RAM: 8 GB Internal storage: 128 GB / 256 GB Operating System: Android 12 Connectivity : Wi-Fi 6, 5G support | Rear camera: - main: 50 megapixels (Wide) - Telephoto: 48 megapixel - Wide: 12 megapixels (Ultra wide) Front camera: 12 megapixel Battery: 5.000 mAh Processor: customized and developed by Google RAM: 12 GB Internal storage: 128GB / 256GB / 512GB Operating System: Android 12 Connectivity : Wi-Fi 6, 5G support |
For price e exit date, unfortunately we know nothing. The company has not said anything about it except that the devices will be released in the fall.
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