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New “Made By Google” products in 2018

At the “Made By Google” hardware media event held in New York City on Tuesday, Google unveiled the Pixel 3 smartphones with larger screens, along with a new Chromebook tablet called the “Pixel Slate” and a smart screen called the “Google Home Hub”.

Google has announced “Pixel 3”, “Google Pixel Slate” and “Google Home Hub” at the “Made By Google” media event.

The Pixel 3, the third generation of its flagship Android smartphone, comes in 2 sizes and 3 colors. “Pixel Visual Core” imaging chip and AI in the phone improve camera functions, speed and quality.

Let’s take a closer look at the Pixel 3.

Pixel 3 powered by AI to deliver new features such as “Top Shot” and “Screen Call”.

• Edge-to-edge OLED display offers 5.5-inch “Pixel 3” and 6.3-inch “Pixel 3 XL“
• Pixel 3 XL has a notched screen, while Pixel 3 does not
• 12.2MP single camera in the rear like iPhone XR (no optical zoom), while 8MP dual front-facing cameras for wide-angle selfies enable to capture 184 percent more than the iPhone XS
• “Portrait Mode” – change the blurriness of the background, or change the part of the picture in focus, after the fact
• “Top Shot” – automatically detect and select the best HDR+ pics from motion photos
• “Super Res Zoom” – create sharper zoomed image from multiple photos by using on-device machine learning without optical zoom
• “Photobooth Mode” – automatically snap photos when you smile or making a funny faces in front of the camera without pressing the shutter button
• “Screen Call” – deliver control to protect against spam and block the number, or respond by tapping a quick reply
• “Playground” – mixing the real with the virtual with features by adding reactive characters and captions to photos and videos
• “Motion Auto Focus” – stay in sharp focus automatically
• “Night Sight” – improve low light performance without a flash (will come later this year)
• “Search what you see” – point the camera to find products online, identify landmarks, plants and animals, add events to the calendar
• No support for 60fps 4K recording
• “Titan M” security chip to secure passwords and operating system
• Improved dust and water resistance (IP68 up from IP67)
• Slightly larger battery capacity than last year’s
• Dual SIM functionality
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, 4GB of RAM, Bluetooth 5.0
• Support fast Qi wireless charging (at up to 10 watts)
• $79 Pixel Stand wireless charger to bring the Google Assistant
• “Duplex” app helps you complete real-world tasks over the phone (begins rolling out in November)
• 40% louder front stereo speakers than last year’s
• Android 9 Pie out of the box
• Pixel USB-C earbuds in the box
• Pixel 3 – $799 (64GB), $899 (128GB) and Pixel 3 XL – $899 (64GB), $999 (128GB)
• 3 colors come in black, white and “Not Pink”
• Launching in 10 countries including Japan, France and Taiwan to begin shipping on Oct. 18th in the U.S., in other countries on Nov. 1st

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