poltarchi.blogg.se

• Pixel 2 android life verizon 1080p#

And while the Pixel has since been surpassed, Google is continuing to pursue that direction with the Pixel 2. In terms of overall quality, one of the big focal points of the original Pixel phones was to have the highest quality smartphone camera on the market. Perhaps the single biggest technical change here is that after not including Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) in last year’s phones, the Pixel 2s now get OIS, and OIS can be used alongside EIS, which Google calls Fused Video Stabilization. The pixel size is smaller, at 1.4um versus 1.55um, and the aperture is now f/1.8. In terms of resolution this is very similar to last year’s phones, but this is clearly a new sensor. On the literal flipside of the cameras is the Pixel 2 family’s 12.2MP camera. Android’s color space management limitations are well-known, and I am eager to see if Google has done something to improve the situation on their own phones. Google calls both of the OLED displays vivid, and that’s certainly the case for the Pixel 2 XL I got to spend some time with. Meanwhile new to the Pixel phone family, both phones now have always-on screens courtesy of their OLED displays.

Regardless, the pOLED display does end up being a bit better than the Pixel 2’s display, offering 100% DCI-P3 coverage rather than 95%. Google is not discussing who is providing the pOLED display, but given LG’s recent actions in this space, I suspect they are the supplier. Meanwhile the Pixel 2 XL gets a new, larger screen instead of a 5.5-inch 1440p AMOLED, it’s now rocking a 6-inch 2880x1440 pOLED (Plastic OLED) display. I didn’t get hands-on time with this phone, but I expect that it will have the same Pentile arrangement as its predecessor as well.

Pixel 2 android life verizon 1080p#

The Pixel 2 retains its predecessor’s 5-inch 1080p AMOLED display. That said, even within the limited confines of display and battery size changes, the phones do stand apart. In other words, the Pixel 2 XL really is a larger version of the Pixel 2, rather than a technically superior version. As with the first-generation Pixel phones, outside of screen resolution and battery size, both phones share the same internals so we’re looking at the same storage, RAM, SoC, camera modules, etc. Google is using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 SoC, which is paired with 4GB of LPDDR4x RAM. Under the hood, you’ll find all the bells and whistles you’d come to expect from a flagship smartphone in 2017. Instead they come off as a natural evolution of the original pixel phones. The Pixel 2 phones, in turn, do not significantly rock the boat here. With the original Pixel phones, Google and its manufacturing partner HTC created a solid phone that was perhaps a bit derivative in design, but none the less had a unique aesthetic to it that helped to separate it from other flagship phones. Depending on who you ask and what statistics you use, it can be argued just how much of the Android handset market that the Pixel phones actually captured – a situation not helped by the Pixel phones being so hard to get for a while – however what can’t be argued is that it had a definite impact on the expectations of the Android phone market. The Pixels had cutting-edge specifications and features they also had a flagship price. The company retired the Nexus lineup of aggressively priced mid-range/high-end phones in favor of what is best called Google’s take on what a flagship Android phone should be. Last year’s introduction of the Pixel phone family was a significant departure from tradition for Google. However the most anticipated device for enthusiasts across the spectrum was without a doubt the next Google Pixel phones, which as expected made their introduction today as the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. As with last year’s show, this year’s presentation showcased a mix of different devices and accessories from Google. This morning at a press event in San Francisco, Google held the second of what has now become an annual hardware event for the company, their Made by Google event.