Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro officially revealed — meet the Tensor chip

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Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro officially revealed — encounter the Tensor bit

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In a move that seemed to flip the bird at leakers, Google has only announced the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, bringing back an 40 Pixel phone while opting for a new premium design.

Prepare to launch this fall, Google didn't go into too much detail about either new Pixel telephone. But it did notation it will come with the new Google Tensor system-on-chip (SoC), which aims to bring in more than AI and machine learning features to the next-gen Pixels.

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Earlier nosotros dig into that, the almost striking thing about the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro is its design. We saw this teased in renders that we're reportedly based on insider data. And it turns out those renders were pretty legitimate, with both Pixel phones featuring a large blackness rectangular camera bar across the top of the phones' rears.

The leaked colors proved to be fairly on point besides, with Google showing a 2-tone design in orangish, white, gray, xanthous and dark-green; the majority of the glass rear appears to have a matte terminate, whereas the infinite in a higher place the photographic camera bar appears to take a brighter, glossier tone. This is reminiscent of the 2-tone pattern the Pixels have used for years, only with it being paired back for the Google Pixel 5.

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Equally for some primal specs, the Pixel 6 sports a half-dozen.4-inch FHD+ screen with a 90Hz refresh charge per unit and a dial-hole selfie photographic camera in the middle height border of the display. The Pixel 6 Pro has the same design but has a larger curved 6.7-inch QHD+ display with a 120Hz refresh rate.

Effectually the dorsum, the Pixel half dozen has a wide and ultra-wide angle camera, though Google didn't mention whatever more specs for these snappers. And the Pixel 6 Pro gets a third camera in the form of 4x optical zoom folding lens.

Google Pixel 6 Tensor chip

The above tracks with the leaks nosotros'd heard this year, but the Tensor SoC is more of a surprise. While we knew Google was working on its own custom chipset, formally called "Whitechapel," the fact that it's completely built around a mobile version of the machine learning hardware Google uses in its information centers is very interesting.

The Tensor processing Unit (TPU) of the chip will be a core role of the chip. Nosotros've seen this before when Apple added its Neural Engine processing unit to its recent A-series chips, only with Tensor, the AI tech will be a main part of the telephone's processing pipeline, adding AI to pretty much all of the phone.

The obvious area where this volition be used is with photography and video, where machine learning will handle AI enhancements faster and better than before. Google said yous can expect to see this in action with catchy photography situations. such as capturing rapidly moving subjects.

In addition, Google says that computational photography is coming to video, such as when shooting a sunset. Pixel phones have always delivered very impressive photography. So we'll have to look and see if this extra AI power makes a truly noticeable divergence in a mix of shots and situations.

Beyond that, the Tensor flake volition boost things like speech recognition, supposedly letting the new Pixel phones deliver a more than personalized experience for users. This is something nosotros'd expect to run across more about when the Pixel 6 and Pixel half-dozen Pro is revealed in full this autumn, besides as core specs and pricing.

Speaking of cost, information technology looks like both Pixel phones are shaping up to exist proper flagship handsets once once more like the Pixel 4 XL was, or at to the lowest degree tried to be. So we'd not be surprised to meet the Pixel 6 Pro toll more than $1,000, particularly given information technology's using custom silicon. Google itself says that the Pixel 6 will be a "premium-priced production."

There's no verbal release date for the Google Pixel 6, beyond a vague "afterwards this autumn." So nosotros'd expect to hear more effectually October time.

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Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He often writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he's also got an interest in cars. When not at his desk Roland can be found wandering around London, often with a look of marvel on his face.

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