Google unveiled a slew of new hardware today, including the latest generation of their Pixel phones. One feature that makes the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL stand out from the crowd: built-in radar.
They’re the first phones to ship with integrated radar. It’s the result of Project Soli, which started taking shape in Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group some five years ago.
What does Project Soli’s radar tech bring to the new Pixel phones? Motion Sense gesture recognition, and it’s not like any you may have experienced on other devices. It’s amazingly fast and precise, able to measure sub-millimeter changes in position down.
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At Made By Google today, VP of Product Management Sabrina Ellis said that the radar and recognition back-end can easily tell the difference between a gesture command and other movements, like reaching over your phone to grab a pen or a snack.
Never again will you have to touch your hand with a greasy finger while prepping a meal, or one that’s covered in oil as you flick through how-to videos while finishing a repair job on your car. Touch-compatible gloves and mitts? You won’t be needing those with Motion Sense on the job.
Motion sense is so good at what it does, in fact, that it can detect plenty more than just what’s happening directly in front of the Pixel 4 and 4 XL. To reassure privacy-minded folks, Google designed the phone to handle all radar data processing locally.
It’s finally here. #pixel4 – a phone made the Google way. #madebygoogle pic.twitter.com/H2kAXQSrFj
— Made by Google (@madebygoogle) October 15, 2019
There’s plenty more to like about the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, too. Both phones feature 90Hz flexible OLED displays with a 19:9 aspect ratio (the Pixel 4 packs an FHD+ at 444PPI while the XL jumps to QHD+ and 537PPI).
Both are powered by 2.84GHz octa-core Snapdragon 855 processors, with 6GB of RAM and 64 or 128GB of storage on board. They’ve both got exceptionally good cameras, too.
On the back the new Pixels feature one 16MP sensor with an ƒ/2.4 aperture, 52° field of view and 1.0 μm pixel width. The other is a 12MP sensor with an ƒ/1.7 aperture, 77° field of view and 1.4 μm pixel width.
As with its predecessors, the hardware doesn’t tell the whole story with the Pixel 4 and 4 XL. There’s a lot of software wizardry working behind the scenes to produce truly stunning images even in low light.
And with its speech-to-text tanscription and search abilities that frankly seem to good to be true, the new Recorder app on Pixel 4 could be a godsend to students and journalists everywhere.
The new Recorder app uses speech recognition and AI to transcribe lectures, meetings, interviews and more—and makes them easy for you to find later. (English only right now, with more languages to come.) #madebygoogle pic.twitter.com/fdKRItuS4b
— Google (@Google) October 15, 2019
Pre-orders start today. The Pixel 4 starts at $799 and the Pixel 4 XL is $100 more for the 64 model. Doubling the storage will set you back another $100. In the meantime, here are some other upcoming Android phones to consider.
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