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CNET's live coverage of Google's Pixel 2 event

2017-10-04
check one check one check one there we go where would I don't know what I'm looking for the number okay go everybody's welcome to the show we are here for the new 2017 made by Google event in the house here at Cena live joining me mr. Patrick Hall in hello hello across from me the lovely Vanessa Han morning guys and the man run in the show mr. Stephen bucho alright everybody so this is we're going to get into Google's keynote we will be actually showing the livestream so you all can check it out do we have a shot inside right now all right we just want to give you a look inside this is the San Francisco jazz center just a few blocks away from our headquarters here in San Francisco California so it looks like a shot uh I don't know if they're on the bleachers or there's little risers in the back but that's kind of where everyone is gathering right now in anticipation for the event that will start at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time 9:00 a.m. Pacific time so about 20 minutes out or so we got a little late start we also want to let you know if you want to get your calls in just before this show the phone number to call is eight four four eight one one nine five six one we have this new system if you want to make a friend today you can call us we're gonna talk about what we expect to see here and obviously there's been a lot of rumors and things leaked but let's get to it I'm gonna we'll leave that number up so you guys and gals can all call in if you'd like to be a part of this show well let me open it up here to the floor obviously the big thing that we are expecting to see here one of the things are the new pixel to phones oh and oh yeah see I like how you shake your head there because I agree I thought the pixel to are sorry the original pixel last year was actually although I do have an iPhone as my daily driver it was my favorite front of the year because it did things unique and different that that phone hadn't before it had the best camera and it had the voice assistant so that's what stood out to me that made it a special phone and you've got to do that in today's day and age with phones I just want to open up to you guys oh what are you what are your what do you feel about these phones the problem with the pixel last years you couldn't get it because of the production issues that they had I got it oh you ha was it that hard to get was yeah the excel definitely want that exhale well and then well no where I was totally immune to that problems with production at first and I think Google because of those production problems missed the boat because you know the note was exploding everybody wanted the pixel and nobody could get it that's so funny I honestly no no it wasn't because I was special I just pre-ordered it literally the day it came out yeah I think I mean it definitely was an unexpected hit for Google I mean I think they were expecting it to be a hit but I mean to not have phones even a few months ago they were ya know the Excel I don't you know that's like ramping down for ya what we're gonna see today or not but the phone was a it's a great phone it takes great photos I really like the daydream VR stuff on there I never really got into VR before and I found myself using that all the time yeah I think that people that watch this they'll be like well you do the Apple bite I'm not saying that an iPhone is not a great phone either I just thought it was the most unique and special phone of the of you of last year in in my mind now that's so funny I was so immune to the fact that these were hard to get I I just figured oh I got that cell doh and I just throw it in my bag no but you talk about that like that like it I think that what's cool is is not only running like that beautiful pure clean version of Android yes that's the best part about it and but at the same time there's the phone itself this has like this delightful like soul and quality so it's not just specs and gloss it's there's just something about that you want to pick it up is it the sexiest phone heck no no it's not in design wise no per especially I don't like the back the half glass half metal and I don't even feel that I broke the black in the back glass on the on the phone was testing that's why I like the idea I thought it just it's just a different like if you look at everything about this phone was different than what was out there at the time we know that phones have evolved come you know literally just from over a year it's all about everyone is obsessed with the bezel this phones now today but um you know we wanted to bring up the pixel but I'm also want to talk about the pixels that we were expecting to see here today we've seen leaked images a Beecham if you have a chance to go to the stories that we have droid life really leaked about like 90 80 to 90 percent of what we're expecting to see you we are still expecting to see some surprises here with the pixel phones but um there really is no surprise if you type in the term um you know you've probably looked yourself they're going to be here from what we know the biggest thing and we'll see how they sell this feature is the fact that this year's camera where all the top-line cameras now have dual lens and I know both of you have jumped into just the photography aspects of the phones does what will they need to do to convince you that it's still a great camera without dual lens and is dual lens really necessary I'll start with you Vanessa well I I particularly like the dual lens setup on the iPhone and the note just because I have a child and a puppy so portraits are big for me not for a lot of people the original pixel was great at photography in general it was amazing at low-light it even out out photographed the iPhone last year so I I don't think the dual camera is a must if they're able to perfect their soft work which is kind of what made their their photos so great last year and in low-light particularly so I think they can still beat out the note and the iPhone if they really refine some of the features in the camera in their main camera Patrick well it's funny because we talking about like beating out phones and specs and stuff like that and I think we're getting to a place in the camera industry and the phone industry that is actually camera industry really mm-hmm that you actually can start using phones depending on stuff like looks like sometimes if you're doing a photography you might get a Canon because it's a little bit warmer in color you like the way the lenses are and it's not saying that that brand of camera shoots better than some like a Nikon but I feel like the pixel created beautiful photos but then the videos were kind of like yeah we're sorry we forgot about that a little bit so I'm hoping that we hear a little little bit more about what they're gonna do for that even though if it has dual lenses I think it's kind of fun because of mean zooming I think is so underrated yes we all love portrait mode portrait mode okay great black rounds bring it on but I would take one camera that shoots really good photos and really good video over a dual camera system yeah even though because you don't have babies and puppies I know things like portrait portrait mode is cool the other thing is that the general population hasn't been exposed to having the portrait feature that much it it's still you know in the tech world it's like this is hot when you've used it it is hot you don't use it all the time unless you have babies or dogs but quite honestly if you talk about that to your general user they're not getting a phone because of portrait mode to the general general user really they're like it's a hot don't get me wrong I love it yeah but it's not something that is gonna be used for the most part every day on all your photos so remember like like four or five years ago and filters started like being like oh my god you can put a filter on this really easily and that was like then everyone used filters I think this it's gonna be like portrait mode everything's gonna be buried background for a few years and it's like oh wait it doesn't always have to be blurry Instagram feed sheet she portrait modes everything everybody she takes shout out to Sharon love you but yeah she portrait modes pretty much not just puppies and babies but her food books items you're right it could be the the next filter or even it is yeah it's just that people aren't exposed to it yeah and something you saw this summer at the Google's developer conference was they talked about this thing called Google lense which is just like machine learning and AI and stuff so I'd like to see if they're gonna bring that to this this pixel that we might see announced today and how it how it works because as much as the hardware hat matters like a single camera dual camera is that processing we just saw Apple launched a slew of new phones and all of them I would dare say the underrated feature is all this analysis that's doing on your video and your photos to make them look better it just shoots HDR mode full time like the pixel did last year and they photos and videos look really good especially in low light but it's using a lot of computer processing to make it look good versus just hey we'll put a better lens or we put two cameras it's it's it's the underrated thing that isn't isn't talked about like you said the guts inside that is driving all of this technology so what we have right now is we have a call directly from Alexi ceviches inside inside that's a jazz Sena what's up Lexy welcome maybe about 20 minutes ago with sitting down are you able to sail around in it are you able to swivel around to get us kind of a look of what the whole building looks like right now from my feet right now inside the auditorium at the Jag Center in San Francisco Red Badge seating which is press and media we've got like three curved screen and guys take a look at this we've got two DJ's with jamming and rocking out there up in the corner it looks like totally doing that thing oblivious to the effects of the crowd here just grooving on out we we've talked we've talked a lot about the pixel so we don't want to bother you with that question but I did want to get your thoughts maybe specifically on rumors we've heard of a Google home Mini and maybe a Mac's coming but I just wanted to talk about the Google home platform in general for you well what do you want them what do you want them or what do they kind of need to do we know really the battles between them and Amazon right now but what are you hoping for them to show off here today to make a jump up okay huge sake in the market they have around 70% of the market according to some of the latest stats and so it has a lot to do when it comes to making some products that are kind of gonna make people jump into the into the google agree system that haven't necessarily got a smart training device and you know amazon has so many different devices on the market they've got the show they've got the little alarm clock that they just debuted last week or so so there's a lot of I mean I guess you maybe you could call it a fragmentation in the echo market there's so many devices to choose from but it's quite smart because they're making a product pretty much everyone who might be interested in a voice assistant Google at the moment only has the home we know that there anyway there may be a couple of other devices announced today including a mini which looks to be a competitor to the dot so that will get Google especially from the lower price point range because at the moment the Horry me is you know one hundred and twenty nine dollars around n sorry still an investment and so if you like Amazon has you know a $49 or even sometimes a $29 dot like why would I go all the way like full-blown and get that one or $29 Google home when it offers pretty much the same functionality so at least you're making offer something at a lower price point maybe they'll get some more people interested in the specific crowd and Google assistant it's really you know really useful it's got a lot of things that it can do you know Elektra and really closely into your Google account so that's really useful like booking flights things that you can do directly rather than say like the Alexa where you have to use and a dog skills company so is there anything that you're hoping to see the most here just for you personally Lexi yeah to see what they're gonna do if the room is a true having no I really want to know like how they going to address that you know is there going to be if they're gonna be something on the market like to make people aware that like yeah you gonna have to use like you know you know Apple have to airports I don't know if Google is going to do something similar you're just gonna have to wait and see I'm saying as you can see hey Lexi before we go like are you a little disappointed they're not playing jazz at the jazz center is that like a controversy that we needed to talk about all right Lexi hey thanks so much we'll be looking for your coverage out there and we appreciate it so uh enjoy the show as it gets ramped up pretty soon all right thanks guys bye all right we'll see ya we told her to check under her seat for a pixel goody bags so here we go guys and gals up we're about ten minutes out we're gonna start hitting through the phone lines because all of you have been waiting so patiently while we have been jibber jabbering so if you guys want to talk about the stuff that has been leaked out or any questions about the event coming up we will get you let's start off with here our friend Jason Jason wants to talk about the pixel to the XL is that correct that's right what's up welcome to the show yeah I think what's up man I think you know it's going to be in a matter of who has the sexiest product to you the pixel up to excel is gonna even though it sounds like it's gonna be a delay just like the iPhone X or 10 is that someone's gonna you know we're gonna see who's gonna be out first with a sexiest model we're you know that's who's gonna win this war for the next model so I think what do you think well I think that depending on who you are whether the model with whether the iPhone I love how you say X cuz everyone calls it X we all know that but whether the iPhone X or the pixel XL comes out first I still think it's gonna be tied to ecosystem loyalty these days right there are there's a small group of people that are going to might choose which phone comes out first but I still think the majority of people are locked into that ecosystem and that's really gonna determine what they want there's still plenty of Android users that want the best pure Android experience and we know there are plenty of users that are on iOS and they're not gonna get any other phone other than an iOS phone that that's where that's where I think but I don't know what you guys think yeah and I think I also like going back to kind of wiping came from with Lexie like you know with all their home environment stuff like that and how everything is starting to interconnect and near buying a phone it's not even we're buying in an ecosystem now we'll get I always think about that I'd like my son to be phone to be shiny and bright I wanted to ask a bigger question if the iPhone X is 10 with the pixel X I'll be 40 the pixel 40 would that be right Roman numerals this is a really important question Jason you were gonna say something real quick well I think Google's is making ecosystem and I think their system is getting stronger with the home with this Holmes puck whatever is going to call it and was I think one thing that that I think everybody's really excited about in the Google ecosystem is that lens you guys talked about if they can actually make a software or a feature that actually is worth gets people always do Google searches there even on iPhones and and this Google lens I think is gonna be really transformative because you can take a picture we're using our phones for cameras you take a picture of what you want to see and actually it's gonna be good for schools gonna be good for kids but it's good I think that's a really game change a piece of software that's going to be coming out that Google is really gonna have to show that it works and I think you have a point there because a lot even iOS users still have a gmail account you still have some kind of share in the Google ecosystem and maybe what you were saying some of these features some of these products may convince them to go Google all the way I know I kind of you know dabble in the Google ecosystem even though I'm predominantly iOS just because my Gmail's I have my gmail account and I use that for everything and I still I mean I still have a stake in the Google in the Google ecosystem so maybe maybe there is a feature that would sway me to move over it's great fun to see it I think the next couple years we're gonna see who's gonna be stronger whether iOS or Google and there's gonna be the best out there hand it were finally seeing the fruits of it but I wish sometimes they'd wait maybe a generation for a new phone I know they were in for it for the money I mean Google brought HTC's or some of HTC stuff but they're if an opponent every year it becomes boring that making befoe maybe every you know 16 months or some like that that actually is transformative might make people seem more of a better device yeah Jason thanks so much for calling man we really appreciate and we can tell you you read your stuff we know dropping the HTC knowledge on its he's lying he's like Wonder Woman just dropped so hey Jason thank you so much I think he makes a great point it's just all so hard in kind of keeping up with the Joneses if every main memory major manufacturers releasing a phone every year and their users typically whether they're on a one-year or two-year upgrade cycle get that phone you kind of got to play along you don't now these days you don't have a choice in really it was it was kind of Apple who started this year trend they were the ones that first came out with the phone every year and then Samsung started doing it and then everyone else started doing it there was a time where it was like a phone every two years it used to be I'm like you are like on the S cycle of the NHANES cycle right yeah but then also think it's kind of starting to bite you know bite a little bit because anyone you have a lot of Christmas and we had with Apple last year with seven and not necessarily the seven pluses they were kind of the same phone dismally iterated and same with the eight yeah and the thing is like had they taken you know that time I don't think it could happen in the industry but yeah what kind of and more innovations are we gonna see are there gonna be more things like the iPhone 10 or what Samsung's doing which is pretty exciting too I think with the s8 and definitely been no date this year well and I think something we haven't talked about which gives Google an edge could be that price point because this year we had a lot of great phones from Samsung and Apple with the iPhone 10x but we haven't talked about the price point these are really expensive phones I mean the note starts at $900 and the eye for the iPhone I mean at least the one you really want right let's be honest starts at $1000 so Google might have the edge for that that consumer that still wants the cutting edge but is not doesn't want to pay that premium for a phone that you know it'll it'll still be a lot though I mean Excel estimations starting are like eight forty nine ish so a forty nine nine forty nine hundred dollars cheaper ish but still not like $200 cheaper right which would make a difference tell me you said like gonna we're like I'm a cyclist seventy a lot of people you know if you're not buying your phone outright you're just paying that little subsidized fee or you're paying that financing to a carrier and hey I'm paying you know 70 bucks or 80 bucks or a month and I'm gonna keep on doing that and I'll get my phone when it's time to upgrade so I think for a lot of people that's not they just hey what phones are out there when it's my my contract is up and it's gotta be contracts nowadays I'm done paying my financing on my whatever phone I have do I want to get a pixel do I want to get an s8 there's so many good phone the other part is we talk about these release cycles and here we are in fall and we've had four major phones fall in the last last month boom all right let's uh let's jump into the lines cuz there's plenty of people that want to talk to us before the keynote starts at 9:00 we're gonna go to our friend Karl Karl is 16 calling about the Google pixel vent Karl what's up welcome to scene alive hello guys thank you for I've been waiting for a while Karl are you really sick sided Karl are you really 16 or is actually our our system said you were 16 but you're not actually 16 yeah because I've been waiting for a chance to switch to Android for a while now I've been almost bought the BlackBerry t1 I was like this is amazing I'm just waiting to have a chance to like go on the Android board but they haven't whitewall me for a while now so I'm just really excited for the pixel to we'll see what they do $1,000 for the iPhone it's pretty a lot and I'm just waiting to see what candy do why me the wild factor for Google I have a 6s broken screen I'm not on a contract so yeah you're ready to roll oh yeah you're ready roll you're ready roll so does let me ask you this question because there's a lot of hype around bezel as bezel as bezel is it doesn't look like that the Google pixel 2 is gonna be a bezel this phone does that bother you you care you want really are more concerned about the features it has it's more about the features I don't really care so much I mean it's a gorgeous screen first for sure but it's just about the future because it like you said we just talked on the ecosystem so I was like okay how can I I really hate enjoy but I don't like how can I give it a chance kind of thing so you just want to get you just want to give Android a chance yeah open mind open mind we like that so you gotta you gotta begin when you're in detect yes it doesn't thank you thank you very much if only everyone thought that way and was 16 all right hey thanks so much for calling buddy thank you all right see ya the Google keynote is still expect to start at 9:00 is we're gonna we're gonna jump we will jump into it once they actually start but I'm gonna try and take one more call because people are waiting patiently brian mchenry in the house what's up Brian McHenry thanks for waiting so long just curious if you thought the pixel two would be exclusive to Verizon if I decided to get through a carrier I just honestly we just this morning it had been leaked out that Verizon will be the exclusive carrier of the Google pixel to that that's the story that I saw just earlier right before we started this show so I would say yes unless unless that changes that it's not an official official word but that's what has been leaked out but if it's like last year - that doesn't mean you can't get the phone through another retailer or something like that and it's still fine right buddy ID Verizon right okay am i right okay hey thanks Brian we're gonna jump to the keynote everyone here will do the show will do post show afterwards all right thanks so much as we were preparing for this event we were all devastated by the news coming out of Las Vegas as I'm sure all of you were and that's coming off a challenging past few weeks with hurricanes Harvey Irma and Maria and other events around the world it's been hard to see the suffering but I've been moved and inspired by everyday heroism people opening up their homes and to first responders literally risking their lives to save other people our hearts and prayers are with the victims and families impacted by these terrible events we are working closely with many relief agencies in affected areas and we are committed to doing our part it's a true privilege to be a des of jazz center it's a great American institution for jazz performance and education and it's really good to see familiar faces in the audience as always I want to give a shout out to people joining us on the live stream globally from around the world since last year and since Google i/o we've been working hard continuing our shift from a mobile first to an AI first world we are rethinking all our core products and working hard to solve use of problems by applying machine learning and AI let me give you an example recently I visited Lagos in Nigeria it's a city of 21 million people it's an incredibly dynamic vibrant and ever growing city many people are coming online for the first time so it's very exciting unless you happen to be in the Google Maps team and you have to map the city and it is so it is changing so fast and normally we map a place by using Street View and doing a lot of stuff automatically but it's difficult to do that in a place like Legos because the city is changing you can't always see the signage clearly and there are variable address conventions things are in sequential so for example take that house there if you squint hard you can see the street number there it is number 3 to the left of the gate that was relatively easy on to harder problem now that house you know that's what we see from Street View I think as humans it's probably pretty hard maybe one or two of you can spot it out but our computer vision systems thanks to machine learning can pick it out identify the street number and start mapping mapping the house so we approach Lagos completely differently we deployed machine learning from the ground up and just in five months the team was able to map five thousand kilometres of new roads fifty thousand new addresses and hundred thousand businesses and it's something which makes a real difference for millions of users there as Google Maps is popular and we think this approach is broadly applicable let's come closer to home in a parking in San Francisco I don't even try it anymore but for those of you who try it we again use machine learning we understand location data we try to understand patterns our car circling around and the color shows the density of parking and we can analyze it throughout the day and predict parking difficulty and in Google Maps give you options a simple example but it's the kind of everyday use case for which we are using machine learning to make a difference the best example I can think of what we've talked before is Google Translation I literally remember many years ago adding translation in Chrome and making it automatic so that if you land in a page different from your language we do that for you fast forward to today with the power of machine learning on our neural machine translation we serve over 2 billion translations in many many languages every single day to me shows the power of staying at a problem constantly using computer science to make it better and seeing users respond to it at scale this is why we are excited about the shift from a mobile first to a AI first world it is not just about applying machine learning in inner products but it's radically rethinking how computing should work at a higher level in an AI first world I believe computers should adapt to how people live their lives rather than people having to adapt to computers and so we think about four core attributes as part of this experience first people should be able to interact with computing in a natural and seamless way mobile took us a step in this direction with multi-touch but increasingly it needs to be conversational sensory we need to be able to use her voice gestures and vision to make the experience much more seamless second it is going to be ambient computing is going to evolve beyond the phone be there in many screens around you when you need it working for you third we think it needs to be thoughtfully contextual mobile gave us limited context you know with identity your location we were able to improve the experience significantly an AI first world we can have a lot more context and apply it thoughtfully for example if you're into fitness and you land in a new city we can suggest running routes maybe gyms nearby and healthy eating options and in my case being a vegetarian and having a weakness for deserts maybe suggest the right restaurants for me finally and probably the most important of it all in a computing needs to learn and adapt constantly over time it just doesn't work that way today in Mobile you know developers write software and constantly ship updates but you know let me give a small example I use Google Calendar all the time on Sundays I try to get a weekly view of how my week looks like but once the work week starts say on a Monday or a Tuesday I'm trying to get a view into what the next few hours looks like I have to constantly toggle toggle back and forth Google Calendar should automatically understand my context and show me the right view it's a very simple example but software needs to fundamentally change how it works it needs to learn and adapt and that applies to important things like security and privacy as well today a lot of us deal with security and privacy by putting the onus back on users we give them many settings and toggles to improve those but you know AI first well we can learn and adapt and do it thoughtfully for our users for example if it's a notification for your doctor's appointment we need to treat it sensitively and differently than just telling you when you need to start driving to work so we're really excited by the shift and that's why we are here today we've been working on software and hardware together because that's the best way to drive the shifts in computing forward but we think we had a unique moment in time where we can bring the combination of AI and software and hardware to bring the different perspective to solving problems for users and we're very confident about our approach here because we are at the forefront of driving the shifts with AI three months ago at Google i/o our Google AI teams announced a new approach called Auto mo although Emmel is just our machines automatically generating machine learning models today these are handcrafted by machine learning scientists and literally only a few thousands of scientists around the world can do this design the number of layers weight and connect the neurons appropriately it's very hard to do we want to democratize this we want to bring this to more people you want to enable hundreds of thousands of developers to be able to do it so we've been working on this technology called Auto Mo and just in the past month for a standard tasks like image classification understanding images our auto ml models are now not only more accurate than the best human generated models but they are more resource efficient so it's pretty amazing to see we are now taking it a step further let me talk about another use case object direction when we say object direction just a fancy name for computers trying to delineate and understand images being able to draw bounding boxes and distinguish between all the way vehicles their scooters mopeds motorcycles and even pick out the bike in front it has a lot of practical use cases the Street View example for Legos works based on object detection google lense which you'll hear about later as well as our photography in pixel use this object direction this is really hard to do the best human generated models we have only have a 39 percent accuracy but our Auto ml models as of the past couple of weeks have have reached around forty three percent accuracy they're constantly getting better so the rate at which we are seeing progress with AI is amazing which is why we are really excited about combining it with our software and hardware to bring it together for our users let me give you a concrete example I was recently very inspired by the street from a journalist who was uh turning the Little League World Series as you can see there are two little leaguers here one from Dominican Republic and the other from South Dakota and they are talking to each other using Google Translate it's a great example but I looked at it and I feel like we could do a whole lot better computing needs to evolve where this happens in a more natural seamless and a conversational way and later today you'll get an early glimpse of how we can push this experience further by thinking about AI software and hardware together I couldn't be more excited by the direction our Hardware team is taking and approaching their work here so to give you a lot more insights let me welcome Rick onto the stage thank you hi everyone I want to welcome everyone here today Google fans the media in the front row we have some of our top sales reps from Verizon and other partners it's great to have you all here yes welcome welcome we've got a lot to show you today including a few surprises so I thought I would quickly set the scene and explain what we've been working toward and just how it ties into the vision that send our outlined a year ago we stood on a slightly smaller stage and introduce the world to Google pixel home and Wi-Fi chromecast ultra and daydream view this is the first generation of hardware made by Google so much has happened since then and we've made tremendous progress in our first year for starters our team is getting a lot bigger we're bringing on 2,000 very talented engineers from HTC along with some important IP it's an amazing team that's created a series of industry first innovations and by working more closely together we'll be able to better integrate Google hardware and software and our products have built up a lot of momentum going into our second year let's take a look ok Google ok Google ok Google Play the soundtrack to spaghetti for Pepe we will set to hold a product event at San Francisco there are a ton of new announcements Google a new virtual reality camera show me a video of a kangaroo in my book there I said it my mom now can save every picture unlimited space mama got a new time it can recognize each voice enter Google assistant let me see what else my guru assistant can do hey Google call Karen what you look sweaty football that's your question I want to blow your mind okay Google what's next we're still in the early days of our hardware line but we're off to a great start we're thrilled to announce that they're now 55 million chromecast devices around the world Google Wi-Fi is the number one selling mesh router since its launch in the US and Canada and in the last 12 months alone the assistant has gotten a lot smarter thanks to Google we've added more than a hundred million new unique featured snippets from the web video results from YouTube and new local places in Google Maps and a lot more and Pixel had a great year I just wish we had a few more of them to go around but user satisfaction among pixel owners is among the highest of any Google product ever industry analysts and the media gave pixel rave reviews to our performance scores led the industry and pixel had the best and top rated smartphone camera we're really proud of how well the pixel did for our first generation smartphone in such a competitive space well you all know this better than anyone but the playing field for hardware components is leveling off and I don't envy those of you who have to write reviews for a bunch of smart phones with very similar specs megapixels in the camera processor speed modem throughput battery life display quality these core features are table stakes now Moore's law and Dennard scaling are ideas from the past to be honest it's going to be tougher and tougher for people to develop new exciting products each year because that's no longer the timetable for big leaps forward in Hardware alone and that's why we're taking a very different approach at Google as I said last year the next big innovation will happen at the intersection of AI software and hardware smartphones might be reaching parity on their specs but as we just heard from sundar we're seeing huge breakthroughs and the kinds of experiences were able to deliver to users and it all starts with reimagining hardware from the inside out AI and machine learning have helped us to do this across our products for one pixel completely revolutionized the end-to-end photo experience for users and removes all the hassles machine learning works throughout the experience to make your pixel photos more vibrant to smooth out your videos and to make all those thousands of memories easy to find on any of your devices we did the same thing with home networks Google Wi-Fi uses machine learning not only to keep your signal strong but to reduce Wi-Fi congestion while you're moving throughout the house your router is intelligently transitioning your devices to the best Wi-Fi point and placing you on the right channel when you're using the assistant on Google home you'll notice it can pick up your voice even in a noisy room our deep learning capabilities and neural beamforming help Google home locate the source of sound and here you accurately so we can do with just two microphones what others normally need six or eight to do and this is what it means to design hardware from the inside out it's this combination of AI software and hardware working together that provides a helpful experience for our users and that's where the big leaps forward are gonna happen in the next 10 years we're still in the early days for our hardware line but we know what it takes to build great products in a crowded field we were at first with many of our most successful products Gmail Chrome Android and even search but in each case we succeeded by doing what we're best at reimagining the experience to make it radically helpful for the user and as you'll hear today our next generation of devices is radically helpful - they're fast they're there when you need them they're simple to use and they anticipate your needs everything is designed for you to keep the tech in the background and out of your way interact with your devices naturally through your voice or by touching them and by building Hardware around our AI and software we're creating products that get even better over time they're constantly getting faster and more helpful the more you interact with them thanks to machine learning as a family made by Google products represent the ultimate Google experience today we're going to show you how we're creating a family of products that are there when you need them at work at school and on the go but we're gonna start with the most important place your home so let's hear next from Rishi Chandra who leads our home team over to you Rishi thank you Rick it's been a really exciting year for us Google home was the first product to bring the Google assistant to the home and we've been constantly learning from our users so that we can make the assistant radically helpful for you for example as Rick mentioned in the last year we can answer over 100 million new questions and the best part is you know the talk like a computer or teach Google home any new skills it just works now we're really happy with a positive feedback thus far we know this is a journey so been working hard to bring Google home to more people and more countries this year we launched in five new countries and we're happy to announce that we launching in Japan later this week now bringing the assistant of people all around the world is no easy task we had to make sure we can understand people of different age groups genders and accents so we trained the assistant at a scale that only Google could with over 50 million voice samples from hundreds of different ambient environments we've been investing in voice search for over a decade which is why we have the best voice recognition in the world now earlier this year we had a major breakthrough with the ability to recognize your voice we call it voice match with your permission we built a model of your voice by looking at dozens of different voice characteristics like vocal constructs pitch and tone this is a really big deal Google Homes great for the whole family but doesn't mean only get the same answer to every question an assistant can only be truly useful if it knows who you are and with voice match or the only assistant that can bring personal help to each individual member of your household so he asked a question we match your voice and we respond with your calendar your commute and your personal reminders now voice matches already become one of the most popular features on Google home today over half of all queries are from people who've trained the assistant to recognize their voice and starting today we're rolling out voice match to all seven countries Google we'll be available now another popular feature is hands-free calling you can use your Google home to call any landline or mobile number in the US or Canada for free without any additional apps or accessories it just works and I'm happy announce they'll be bringing hands-free calling to the UK later this year and starting today you could call out with your own personal mobile number so whatever you're calling will know it's you you just need to verify your number through the Google home app and of course with voice match we can recognize your voice to make sure we call your contact with your personal number a hands-free calling also has the intelligence of Google built right in just say hey Google call the bakery on 24th Street okay calling Noe Valley bakery we do the hard work to figure out which business you want to call thanks to Google's deep expertise in local search making a call has never been easier now we have a lot of great news to share with you today so to kick things off I like to welcome Isabelle Lee designer for Home Hardware Thank You Rishi I'm thrilled to share with you how we think design is redefining technology in the home you heard Rick mention earlier today that everything in a hardware line is designed to fit into your life the home is the special intimate place and people are very selective about what they welcome into it you don't want to fill it with black plastic complicated buttons and random blinking lights our vision is to build simple helpful solutions that work in the background helping you when you need it and staying out of the way when you don't so here's what that means to us we design for the spaces are products live in and we take inspiration from the materials and colors that people already use to make their home more warm and inviting second when designing for real hopes form and sites really matters for creating something that actually fits into any room or on any surface and lastly the way you interact with our products has to be so intuitive you never even have to think about it and so simple that the entire household can use it with that we are introducing mini the newest member of the Google home family the first thing you might notice is the striking simplicity of the design it's sleek and smooth with no corners or edges and it's small enough to be placed in anywhere in your home it makes Google home more accessible to more people in more rooms and as you can see almost the entire enclosure is made out of fabric and it's not just about aesthetics its core to the product experience that is why we created this material from scratch right down to the yarn it needed to be durable soft but also transparent enough to let through both light and sound this perfect balance allows for all of mehness technology to be thoughtfully tucked away underneath the clean simple enclosure so the four LED lights under the fabric are there when you need them lighting up to show you that it hears you or it's thinking and you can control it by touch give the fabric a quick tap to pause your music adjust the volume or talk to your assistant we thought a lot about how to get great sound with such a small product - we embrace mini circular shape to project 360 degrees sound so it's really crisp no matter where you stand in the room you'll be surprised how amazing the quality is and if you want bigger sound you can easily connect mini to any chromecast built-in speaker wirelessly we created mini in three beautiful colors quarrel chalk and charcoal color really matters in the home this is the place where we choose our drapes and bits and pink colors have been so much care we brought that same level of care for Minnie for the chalk color alone it took us 157 tries before we found the perfect shade of gray so that's Google home Minnie with all the power of the Google assistant you can make it your sous chef in the kitchen your white noise machine in their nursery your voice remote for your TV in the living room or your alarm clock in the bedroom or all of the above Minnie will retail for just $49 in the US and it's and it's gonna be available for pre-order online starting today and in stores starting October 19th from major retailers we're also really happy to announce that Minnie is coming to all seven Google home countries so with that let's take a look at this ad that will launch later this week with this little thing well it's a little mini you put it in your house and control it with your voice hey Google Play my fun playlist okay playing now it's also a remote control an alarm clock and a sous chef let it cool for 10 minutes they can play this on TV or that on the internet it can tell you the weather or if your flights delayed because of the weather and it knows the difference between you I so if you go hey Google call Alex it won't call your husband's friend Alex it'll call your friend Alex calling Alex hey how are you okay gotta go girl anyway it's made by the same people who help you find stuff on the internet so you know no biggie it's smaller than a doughnut and weighs less than a full-grown chipmunk put out the nuts it's powered by the Google assistant so it has Google Maps Google Calendar it gets through to all your music lots of your favorite shows all of YouTube and lots and lots and lots of other stuff you love all good less than 50 bucks yeah if Google Hill mini a little help at home like only Google can thanks Isabel we can't wait for you to try out mini we also want to share how the Google assistant continues to get better over time from the start we've been helping everyone people with their everyday routines for example one of my favorite features is my day which gives me a personalized briefing of my important events of the day and with voice match each member of the house can get their own unique start to the morning routine well soon we're gonna be extending routines in two important ways first we're adding more routines to help you with those everyday moments like getting ready to leave for work coming home in the evening or turning in for the night second we're adding additional actions to the routines so now when I say good morning I not only get my personal briefing but I also can turn on the lights start the coffeemaker and even play my favorite morning playlist this kind of help is exactly what I need to get my day started now another ritual for me in the morning is I'm always looking for iPhone before heading to work well the Google assistant can help there to just say hey Google find my phone and will automatically ring your Android phone even if it's on silent mode and for iPhone users we just give you a call it's good it saves me 5 to 10 minutes every morning yes now we're also working to make the smart home work better for you the Google assistant can now voice control over a thousand different smart home products from over a hundred brands and even more importantly we brought our deep expertise of natural language processing to make it easier to voice control in a more conversational way so for example if I want to change the temperature I shouldn't have to remember the current thermostat setting I should do it'll say hey Google make it warmer okay warming up the living room your system knows what warmer means and we'll just take care of it for you now voice control is just a start we believe the next evolution of the smart home is to bring real intelligence to the home so it can behave in a more thoughtful way your home should smartly adjust to you not the other way around so Google and nest are working together to reimagine the smart home to tell you more I like to welcome Yogi CTO of Nest Thank You Ricci a nest we like to talk about the thoughtful helm one that takes care of the people inside it and the world around it we recently took a big step forward in achieving that goal by doubling our portfolio by shipping six new hardware products what I love about nest growing ecosystem is that we combine the best-in-class hardware and machine learning to help make people's life easier and your nest experience reaches a whole new level when it's combined with Google products let me show you three examples of how we can provide you with even more help help with nest cam Google home and chromecast we can help keep you keep an eye on your home just with your voice so if you hear some unexpected sound and by the front door and I'm in the back with the family room without my phone I can just say ok Google show me the entryway ok streaming the entryway and then I realize it's not an intruder but my pet pig cayenne and she's found the leftover lunch in my son's backpack sadly this has happened more than once and if I want to keep it for later for my kids I can simply say ok Google save me this clip to show them why we don't leave food in our backpacks with our new video doorbell nest hello we can also start to solve some of our common pain points through Google and nest integrated computer Tecna computer vision technologies of course most of us want to know who's at the door before we get off the couch through a feature called familiar faces nest hello we'll be able to recognize the people that you asked it to remember so when their doorbell rings and nests hello recognizes the person at the door it will automatically broadcast that information to Google home devices in the house aunty Susie is at the front door and you don't even have to ask and if Nestle doesn't know who's at the door you can just say ok Google show me who's at the front door and we will stream your camera feed right to your TV this is another great example of what Google and Ness can do together and this last one is my favorite your home can soon get ready for the night just with a simple command as Rishi mentioned you can personalize your routine to include actions for nest products so all I have to say is hey Google good night ok let's get ready for bed I've armed your security system your first calendar event is tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. your alarm is set for 7:00 a.m. sleep well in the background my assistants my assistant is also turning my security camera on adjusting the thermostat and turning off the lights this really simplifies my life and gives me the peace of mind that I cannot get any other way together nesting Google deliver an ecosystem a product that makes your home more secure and energy-efficient more connected and entertaining with the best home assistant experience our close collaboration make this product work seamlessly together and help us get one step closer to a truly thoughtful home on that new to tell you more about Google system let me welcome Rishi back onstage Thank You yogi you know making it more thoughtful home it's just one way to help make our joyfully hectic family lives a little easier you know the Google assistant already provides a lot of help from using your voice to order more diapers playing a lullaby in the nursery checking the traffic those piano lessons or easily giving grandma call now if you're like me make me hard to gather the household together for those family moments like dinner time or movie night well the help we're launching a new feature called broadcast it's really easy just say hey Google broadcast it's time to leave for school got it broadcasting now the assistant will broadcast some message to all the other Google home devices in my house it's really great parents are gonna love this feature kids kids are gonna hate this feature but that's what makes it useful speaking of kids we think Google home has a lot of potential with to help kids and families voice interactions so simple and easy to use kids are naturally drawn to it so we want to be thoughtful about what it would take to deliver a great kids experience we conducted research with hundreds of parents and kids from across the country from different backgrounds so first we're announcing support for family link accounts on Google home these are Google accounts that parents can create for children under 13 they can manage it within the family link app and as we all know kids have their own unique way of speaking some times it can be a little hard to understand even for us parents well fortunately we've improved our voice recognition accuracy for kids so the assistant can understand them too and finally we're introducing over 50 new experiences with the Google assistant to help kids learn something new explore new interests imagine with story time or just share laughs with the whole family so let me show you how my kids and their friends had some fun this weekend ready to see musical champion which was the first planet to be discovered using a telescope hey Google can you tell me a story one day I was hanging out at home with my dad banded to sweet-tempered girl whose name is Senora I can tell you as a parent it's great to see the kids without their screens and sharing experiences together it's easy to get started just say hey Google let's learn to play science quizzes or talk to an astronaut or try hey Google let's play a game to play musical chairs or tackle a riddle and finally hey Google tell me a story to hear classics like Snow White or original stories like the chef to love potatoes now to bring this to life we've partnered with Disney will be bringing exclusive experiences to Google home featuring Mickey Mouse Lightning McQueen and Star Wars we're creating many other top brands in the family space including Warner Brothers and Sports Illustrated kids and starting today we're opening up the actions on Google platform for developers to create experiences specifically for families and kids all these new family features will be rolling out later this month across all Google home devices ok finally I have one more exciting addition to share that's coming to the Google home family you the ones who don't say hello to max our biggest and best sound at Google home ever just like the pixel reimagine the camera will do the same with sound with a combination of great hardware and software powered by Google's machine learning capabilities now it starts with a strong foundation of great hardware the first thing you'll notice is how we obsessed over the base it's to 4.5 inch woofers have 22 millimeters of excursion an extremely high range for their size that means these woofers can move a lot of air allowing max to really hit those low frequencies and max can play loud really loud it's one of 20 times more powerful than Google home so they'll fill any room in your house with amazing audio now great hardware alone isn't sufficient for great sound the challenge of speakers today is that they're tuned for ideal acoustic conditions but they fall short in the real world that's why it always sounds different in the store than in your home to sound great the speaker needs to adjust to you and your home so today we're announcing smart sound a new audio experience powered by Google's AI it allows max to adapt to you your environment your context your preferences so for example if you set up a speaker near wall on a shelf in a corner fairly common places it could dramatically change the sound balance of the speaker and make the music sound muddy and the vocals lose clarity well with smart sound we automatically tune the speaker to correct for this effect using a machine learning model trained with thousands of different room configurations what's really cool this is all done dynamically so if you decide to move max a few feet it'll compensate within seconds and overtime smart sound will automatically adapt the sound to fit your context lowering the volume in the morning raising the volume when the dishwasher is running or just adjusting the tuning basis the type of meter you're listening to whether it be music podcasts or news it's about delivering a consistent crisp thoughtful sound experience one that's tailored to your home and your moments now great sound only matters you can play a lot of great content well YouTube music you'll have access to the world's broadest catalog of songs remixes and covers and we also support all free and paid Spotify users along with other top music services just use your voice to start playing your favorite tunes max also supports cast Bluetooth and stereo aux input so you could play anything from your phone or plug in that record player to breathe new life into that vinyl collection and of course max has a Google assistant built right in we made your assistant can hear you even when the music is blasting using our unique microphone placement and Google's neural beamforming technology and with voice match the assistant can become your own personal DJ we recognize your voice and we can play playlists and music stations personalized to you and Google home max is designed to be incredibly versatile and fit naturally in your home you can stand it up vertically place it horizontally whatever it's makes sense for your space its base magnetically pops into place so when you change Max's orientation there aren't any rubber feet where they don't need to be we thought through every detail and finally max works seamlessly with the Google home family and hundreds of chromecast built-in speakers so you can use multi-room to sync every room in your house with immersive sound Google home max will be available starting December for $399 and will come in two colors chalk and charcoal now will initially launched in the US with more countries coming early next year and make sure you have an amazing sound experience out of the box we're providing a free 12 month subscription to YouTube red which includes YouTube music ad free we think you're going to really love the newest members of the Google home family along with the updates to the Google assistant they represent a big leap forward and type of helpfulness fun and sound you can expect from Google in the home and the clothes we gave max to a music lover to get their thoughts let's take a look I'm a producer in a DJs I'm not classically trained but I'm obsessed with music I listen to music all day long I'm constantly being critical of my little music of music that I hear what's this hey Google Play particular by Major Lazer sure particular by Major Lazer & DJ here it is on YouTube turn it up hey Google play the song that goes rhythms like bend it all right no no better by Major Lazer here it is on YouTube the speaker can find the periphery of walls and where it is located in a room have that technology to understand where it is and to adjust appropriately is amazing that sounds great that's if people could actually hear what we're giving them from when it leaves our studio that would be amazing that's what any producer or artist would love hey Google turn it all the way up so you know No as you just saw there's so much amazing innovation happening in the home space and at the same time our phones have evolved become the most trusted devices in our lives but you ever wondered why the laptop experience has been basically the same for the past 20 years so while the laptop experience hasn't changed all that much how we use technology in our lives definitely has we live online we create and collaborate more than ever we use tons of apps every day and we're constantly jumping between our phone tablet and laptop to get things done and have fun shouldn't we be able to do whatever we want on whatever device is in front of us we think so we worked hard to combine the most helpful parts of a laptop a tablet and a smartphone to fit how we use technology today meet Google pixel book the high-performance Chromebook pixel of reimagines laptop experience by marrying the best of premium performance hardware the speed simplicity and security of Chrome OS the smarts of the Google assistant and all your favorite apps pixel book is the perfect example of how we combine the best of hardware and software with AI at the center we'll start with a stunning versatile design pixel book is the thinnest lightest laptop we've ever made at just around 10 millimeters thin and a kilogram light in fact it's so light I find myself constantly checking my bag to make sure I haven't forgotten it pixel book easily adapts with a 4 in 1 design so it's built for the many ways you want to use it when you're at your most productive it's an incredible laptop fold the keyboard underneath and easily watch videos or play your favorite games use pixel book as a tablet to catch up on the latest news or read a book it's the first convertible laptop that actually feels natural to use as a tablet prop it up into tent mode to share your screen or fall along with the recipe in the kitchen use it however you want because pixel book adapts to fit the office the classroom movie night or even a long flight pixel phone fans will appreciate our signature glass inlay on the lid giving it not only a refined look but improved wireless performance the twelve point three inch touchscreen display is gorgeously higher resolution with vibrant colors deep blacks and enough brightness to use outside even on a sunny day we developed an extremely thin keyboard that's comfortable to use with soft touch keys and a backlit design that helps you work from anywhere and pixel books trackpad uses touch processing algorithms that improve accuracy and palm rejection with Intel Core i5 and i7 processors pixel book packs a punch it offers plenty of RAM to handle your multitasking needs and gives you up to 512 gigs of storage the long-lasting battery provides up to 10 hours of use from a single charge and plugging in for just 15 minutes gives you 2 hours of battery life you can even use your pixel book charger with your pixel phone giving you one less thing to carry around and in moments when you don't have access to Wi-Fi pixel book is smart enough to automatically connect through your pixel phone we call this instant tethering it's so much simpler than setting up a hotspot on my phone and then manually connecting to it on my laptop now let's take a further look at the software experience inside pixel book this laptop is fast it starts up in seconds stays fast throughout the day and won't slow down over its lifetime Chrome OS provides a more secure computing experience with multiple layers of security and automatic updates no need to worry about manual downloads or annoying security patches to keep your machine safe and your most important files are available on your local Drive and securely backed up with Google Drive so you can access them from anywhere online or offline we're also excited ounce that pixel book is the first laptop with the Google assistant built-in making it radically helpful just like you can with your other devices you can check the weather before heading out for the day control your smart home set reminders check if my Packers on your assistant is there for you no matter what you're doing and we've made it easy to interact with the assistant in all the ways you use pixel book when it's intent or entertainment mode and the keyboard is tucked away simply say ok Google Play future me and that exact music video I had in mind starts playing on YouTube other times though it's not the right moment or place to talk to your computer like if you're sitting at a coffee shop or out in the audience right now so pixel book has a key that puts the power of the assistant right at your fingertips letting you type your request and when you're using your pixel book as a tablet it's easiest to show your assistant what you need help with on your screen that's why we created the new pixel book pen a smart responsive companion for your pixel book just hold the Pens button and circle an image or text on the screen and the assistant will take action when you're browsing through a blog and discover a new musician you can circle their photo and the assistant will give you more information about them from there you can check out their Instagram page go to their YouTube channel get a list of their songs and more or if you're doing homework the assistant can help with your research like if you get stuck on a really unfamiliar concept just circle the word and the assistant will give you everything you need to know the pen is also handy for moments when it feels more natural to write draw or take notes like when you're using your pixel book as a tablet the experience using a pen should be like writing on paper to bring that experience to life we partnered with the engineers at Wacom and together we build the fastest most responsive stylus experience ever with just 10 milliseconds of latency 60 degrees of angular awareness and 2000 levels of pressure sensitivity pixel pixel book pen uses machine learning for handwriting recognition and demonstrates how performance Hardware combined with our expertise and machine learning delivers a user experience that just works better and shouldn't the apps you know and love on your phone also be available on your laptop with pick look they are pixels look fully supports Google Play so popular smartphone apps are now available on a laptop in fact it's never been easier to put the final touches on your favorite photos in Adobe Lightroom and then post them straight to Instagram you can listen to music from Spotify or download netflix shows and movies reviewing on the go pixel book is also perfect for creativity apps like Evernote AutoCAD and more snapchat is already one of the most popular apps among early users and we're thrilled to announce that the snap team is working with us to bring an amazing snapchat experience to the larger screen on pixel book in addition to these amazing pixel book experiences you've seen so far there are many more developers building for the larger screen now let's take a look at how pixel book will fit into your life ok Google Play discover weekly on Spotify ok so that's a first look at pixel book a radically helpful laptop that combines the best of Google's AI software and hardware we think you'll love the beautiful versatile design high performance hardware and software new ways to access the assistant and all your favorite apps it's available in three configurations so you can choose the performance memory and storage that's right for you pixel book starts at $9.99 and the pixel book pen is $99 both products will be available in the US Canada and the UK on the Google store had over a thousand retail locations including Best Buy pre-orders start today and they'll be in stores beginning October 31st we can't wait to see how you use pixel book to work play and create next mario is going to come out and talk about our pixel phones at Google we believe in questioning a status quo asking more from the world around us is in our nature after all Google was built on a single question what if all the information in the world was available to everyone everywhere a big question for us is what if smartphones got smarter and simpler we set out to design of phone ourselves because we believed we could make the smart phone experience better the first pixel phone delivered a clean and fast UI put the Google assistant in your pocket and brushed it brought you the best camera ever in a smart phone and we didn't stop asking big questions or working to solve big challenges for users today we're proud to introduce the Google pixel to designed for you with the best of Google built in we've created the new pixel in two sizes a 5 inch and the 6 inch XL with thoughtful design elements and improvements to the UI throughout we're bringing you more Google assistant capabilities we've added new smart experiences to the camera and will continue to deliver the best photography plus we're introducing some innovative new products to complement your pixel experience we do all this by bringing together the best of hardware software and AI let's begin with the design we've evolved the pixels iconic look to be even bolder the all aluminium body with a premium hybrid coating gives it a sleek and clean profile the soft sculpted back with a distinct side band feels comfortable and secure in your hand the refined visor is made of sturdy gently curved colored glass and transitions seamlessly into the metal body we've placed the fingerprint sensor where your finger naturally Falls it's extremely accurate secure and in unlocks faster than the other smartphone we also added a small pop of color on the power button for a bit of playfulness over on the front pixel two's front-facing stereo speakers are precision tuned to deliver the perfect balance of volume clarity and frequency response we placed them so you can comfortably watch videos in landscape mode without muffling the audio with your hand if you prefer headphones use your existing analog headphones with the included adapter or your digital USBC headphones for the highest resolution audio all the way to your ears or avoid cables altogether with your upgraded Bluetooth 5.0 support and high five codecs the smaller 5-inch pixel too features a full HD OLED display and it's as smart as it is beautiful the display intelligently selects which specific pixels to turn on leaving the others perfectly dark for a 100,000 to 1 contrast ratio that's twice the resolution and more than ten times the contrast ratio of phones in its category with LCD displays pixel two comes in three colors kind of blue just black and clearly white we love taking the color names so let's talk about the display on the XL the six-inch pixel to XL was designed with innovative P OLED display technology we elegantly curved the glass to bring the display to the edges for a full screen immersive viewing experience the screen supports 18 by 9 q HD plus resolution with over 4.1 million pixels which equals 538 pixels per inch for amazing detail we tune the display to take advantage of the wide color gamut for vivid and realistic colors we've integrated a circular polarizer which lets you enjoy the screen even while wearing sunglasses and we've optimized the displays on both phones for virtual reality they're both daydream ready the pixel 2 XL comes in two colors just black and the stylish ly simple black and white feel free to choose whichever size pixel you prefer because you'll get the same great experience on both we don't set-aside better features for the larger device both devices both devices are ip67 water and dust resistant and have an all-day battery the charge is super fast you get up to seven hours of charge in just 15 minutes now Sabrina from the pixel product team is going to take us through the new pixel 2 UI and some cool and useful features thanks Mario we're constantly working to make the smartphone experience easier and more helpful and you'll see improvements throughout the pixel twos UI that helpfulness starts before you've even unlocked the phone let me show you the pixel twos new always-on display you can see important information like the time date email and text notifications and reminders all without pushing any buttons or unlocking the device and there's more than just notifications on your always-on display have you ever heard a song you loved and wondered what it was called with now playing you can just glance down to see the song name an artist on your phone what makes this feature so special is that the music is identified without your pixel to sending any information to Google on device machine-learning detects when music is playing and matches it to a database of tens of thousands of song patterns on your phone in this example you can see that pics will recognize the song perfect places by Lorde from here I can tap on the song title and I'm taken to this Google assistant I can add the song to my library in my favorite music service like google play music or Spotify search the web for the song or even watch the video on YouTube this features brought me some delightful moments over the past few months and I'm finally learning who sings my favorite songs ok so let's go to a live demo here we are on the new pixel to home screen you can see here I've selected one of our live wallpapers this is from our new collection called the living universe and if you look closely you'll notice subtle movements like the waves crashing on the beach 11th at the top of the screen there's a space called at a glance where you can easily see the latest updates on your day we're starting with calendar events today with traffic flight status and more coming soon in this case I can see that I've got a mysterious meeting coming up not sure what that's about we've placed the Google quick search box at the bottom of the home screen which we found that it's easier to reach and we're making it even more powerful it stays with you as you swipe across your screens of apps and widgets a quick tap into the search box can help me find anything that I need as I start typing I can see web search results at the top but also contacts and apps from my phone I can even drag an app from here and drop it right on my home screen we've also made it faster and easier to get to the Google assistant on pixel 2 with a new feature called active edge just give your pixel a quick squeeze where your hand naturally holds the phone and ask for whatever you need here's a quick demo I just I just squeeze the phone take a selfie one hand no buttons help me out front row our research team investigated dozens of ways to trigger the assistant but squeezing the phone felt the most natural satisfying and efficient after a lot of work and machine learning we're able to accurately identify an intentional squeeze we're really proud of how it turned out and it even works when your phone is in a case so your assistant is just a quick squeeze away making lots of common tasks on your phone fast and easy from calling and texting friends to controlling your smart home to enjoying your favorite music and videos and having the same assistant at home and on your phone means the experience is connected across devices for example I can say to my phone ok Google broadcast hey I'm almost home with the pizza so get ready for dinner and my voice message is shared with my family through the Google home in our kitchen the routines Rishi mentioned are coming to the phone as well and we've also customized routines specifically from when you're on the go the one I use most is when I'm on my commute I jump in my car drop my phone in the cupholder and say ok Google let's go home sure let's go your commute home is currently 27 minutes with heavy traffic if you take US 101 south you have one unread text message it's from mom it says we'll bring dessert to dinner tonight here's where you left off in fresh air have a safe drive I'm Terry Gross with fresh air super useful all from one quick command I love how it resumed my podcast right from right where I left off my assistant even adjusts the volume so I can hear clearly on the road and automatically sends a message to my husband letting him know I'm on my way like all the new routines that the assistant will support you can custom this one based on your preferences so with a quick squeeze useful routines on-the-go and an assistant that keeps getting smarter pixel continues to be the most helpful phone around pixel to will launch with pure Android Oreo with features like notification dots picture-in-picture and many more if you already have a pixel you recently received the Android Oreo update and we hope you're enjoying all the improvements as a pixel user you'll always be the first to get OS and security updates without having to do anything your phone becomes faster more capable and more secure all the time next up like Aparna is going to share some smart helpful new ways to use your pixel to have you ever asked yourself what kind of puppy is that or I want pillows with that pattern our phones can help us in many ways but sometimes the questions we have are difficult to describe into a search box as you heard sooner talk about we believe that as computers can understand what you see it unleashes a whole new kind of assistance that's why we started working on Google Lenz a way to do more with what you see you're super excited to bring a preview of Lenz to pixel phones this year so let's see it in action say you see this flyer for piano lessons as a guilty mum I've done this as you know the email addresses on them are always so long my best music teacher sf 2001 at gmail.com now you can simply tap on the lens icon grab the right information and fire off that email this also works for phone numbers websites and addresses here's another example you're at your friend's place at a party you see this nice print and you wonder who's the artist now you can just lens it you can also follow up with what else did he paint you can use lens to answer many more questions like is this movie worth watching it totally is how good is this book from Zadie Smith tell me all about this album that my music hip friend Rishi cent screenshots of what was the tempo from our trip five years ago look across all these examples there are a lot of things happening under the hood that are all coming together so I'm gonna geek out for a moment and call out a few things the computer vision systems we've had some major breakthroughs in deep learning and now they go from pixels in the photo to things in the scene the power of Google search helps us train these algorithms with millions and millions of images across the entire web the power of Google's knowledge graph with its billions of facts about people places things we put it all together and now you know this Buddhist temple in Kyoto was built in the year 1230 680 who have known now this has to work in the noisiest of conditions you know these photos can be taken at different angles different times of the day different weather conditions out-of-focus pictures shaking hands you get the picture to be clear sometimes computers do trip up especially when things kind of look similar like this let's take a moment is this a muffin or is this a chihuahua you tell me it's early days for Lance but you know this is a familiar journey for us when Google started our search index contain about 25 million pages now it's in the trillions when we started working on wise recognition our algorithms couldn't always catch what you were saying especially with an accent like mine now we have an accuracy rate of more than 95% that's as good as humans we're just getting started with helping you do more with what you see be the photo from five years ago or something right in front of you in time we want to bring lens everywhere but super excited to bring a preview of lens to pixel users first so you'll start to see this icon appear in Google photos and soon Google assistant we just talked about how the phone can help you understand the world but it can also help you place things into the world that's right that's augmented reality we see it as a powerful way to bring the physical and the digital together that's why we started working on a our core our augmented reality SDK for Android and we see that developers are already using it to create some amazing experiences I want to show you a few examples here so let's take house they're bringing the show room into your living room using a our with League of Legends you can watch one of the most popular eSport games on an AR map built by grab games and with Lego my favorite you can build virtual models with characters that really come to life all the fun no LEGO pieces to step on we at Google are also making some fun things and our teams have been working hard to create this new experience we call it a are stickers it's built right into the camera and it's exclusive to pixel with a are stickers you can express yourself with playful emojis like this one food characters here there's lots to choose from and more will be added over time our partners are also making some fun stickers here and I want to show some of them to you right now so let's start with the Netflix origin over my favorite show stranger things can wait for season 2 ready to see it ok time to set the mood lights please okay here's Lea using the pixel camera we're looking at the a are stickers we're in the stranger things collection yes okay so let's pick a character let's pick Demi Gorgon and place him right next to me okay you need to have a cup of coffee do you notice how the creatures not just sitting around where you put it and it's not a dead sticker it's moving it's reacting to what's around it it's alive we really pay attention to the motion in the physics the lighting we want to make it feel like it's actually here is it but let's have some fun this is a great photo or video by the way fees but let's have some fun here Lia can be dropped 11 into this alright okay this is getting interesting now we have two characters in the scene and notice how they're not just reacting to you the environment around them they're reacting to each other right they know each other's presence that's a big reaction these interactions make some really interesting moments here Thank You Leah now you can be the director of all kinds of stories and share we share these with your friends you have more AR stickers to play with your favorite characters from SNL YouTube the NBA and just in time for episode 8 Star Wars I've been playing with these stickers are so easy to use and they look great and this is because the pixel camera is specially calibrated for augmented reality it allows robust tracking even in low-light conditions it also supports 60 frames per second rendering of AR content you saw how the camera can help us do more with what we see with google lens you saw how the camera can bridge the physical and digital with AR but the pixel camera also takes awesome photos so to tell you all about it you'll have Mario back on stage thanks Aparna we hear every day from users of the first pixel phone that the camera is one of their favorite features you can see why in the amazing photos that people post with the team pixel hashtag last year pixel received a DxO score of 89 that was the highest rating that DxO mark an ever issued to a smartphone with pixel - we have reimagined smartphone photography through great Hardware and unparalleled imaging software tuned by our engineers and researchers today we're proud to announce that DxO mark has issued pixel to an unprecedented score of 98 that's the highest score of any smartphone camera let's talk about how we achieve that and it starts with great hardware the pixel 2 has a 12 megapixel F 1.8 aperture rear camera with optical image stabilization we've integrated these components with our HDR + computational photography for every photo we take a burst of shots with short exposure times to avoid blowing out the highlights within a line and combine each pixel algorithmically for optimal color and contrast all of this happens instantly with zero shutter lag the results are stunning with high dynamic range even in challenging low-light conditions this year we've increased the dynamic range and improved texture and sharpness and combined with a new autofocus mechanism an optical image stabilization to reduce blur from shaky hands you get amazing shots every time like this and this pixel - also brings you portrait mode but we're implementing it a little bit differently we're applying Google's unmatched computational photography and machine learning portrait mode lets you take professional-looking shots with a blurred background to make the foreground pop like what you might capture with an SLR camera other smartphones do this by combining the images from two cameras pixel to does portrait mode with just one camera and machine learning what's unique about pixel 2 is that it can generate a true depth map with a single lens so you get beautiful portrait shots without needing a second camera the way this works is that the pixel to camera includes a dual pixel sensor technology this means that each pixel in an image contains a right and a left view the difference in perspective from those pixels combined with machine learning models trained on almost a million photos means that this works on really hard cases like a busy colorful background and yes this does work with objects too and there's more portrait mode doesn't just work on the main camera because of the quality of Google's computational photography with a single camera you can also take portrait selfies through the front camera on both the pixel 2 and the pixel 2 XL the pixel 2 takes amazing videos - we're applying optical image stabilization simultaneously with video stabilization at the same time other smartphones do optical or digital we do but don't do both at the same time during video recording on a pixel - the OIS Hardware actively corrects shake artifacts while at the same time the software based video stabilization uses intelligent frame look ahead to stabilize the overall video we call this fused video stabilization and it's another example of Google's hardware + software + AI working together the result is less motion blur even in low-light your videos look smooth and professional the pixel 2 camera also supports a feature called motion photos the photos you take with your in for the photos you take your pixel captures up to 3 seconds of video behind the scenes removing uninteresting motion and applying our unique fuse video stabilization technology - the result but of course the proof is in the photos and videos so we invited some photographers and producers to test drive the new camera and they were stunned but what they can do with the pixel - Timmy McGurk better known as 13th witness in on Instagram and filmmaker Zac McTeague documented a recent trip to New Orleans using just the pixel - the film you're about to see uses no attachments fancy rigs or lighting all of the video footage and stills were captured on pixel - phones without any image enhancements or color Corrections again each photo and video and what you just saw was shot using only pixel two phones no image enhancements or color Corrections now the pixel to camera is simple enough and smart enough that your photos and videos can look just as good so the pixel choose photo experience doesn't end when you take a photo or shoot a video we want users to be able to easily find them and store them securely without having to worry about running out of storage after all simple storage and search is part of what makes us Google so we're happy to announce that pixel to users will continue to get free unlimited storage for all of the photos and videos they capture in the highest resolution including 4k videos and motion photos this is a big deal this is a big deal pixel users take twice as many photos as typical iPhone users and store an average of 23 gigabytes of photos and videos per year in Google's cloud if you had to use iCloud you'd reach your free limit in less than three months with pixel you can safely and effortless effortlessly store all of your memories for free with your permission Google photos automatically tags and categorizes those thousands of photos and videos will take with your pixel too you can search for photos of your friends of a specific location of dogs all without the hassle of manually tagging or sorting finding your photo the photo you're looking for is our problem and not yours we're delighted by what we've been able to achieve with pixel 2 in terms of photography and are so excited by all the moments that you're going to capture so to recap the smart and simple pixel 2 has everything you'd expect from a smartphone and some things you might not a gorgeous display that brings your apps photos and videos to life an all-day battery that charge is super fast plus water resistance and security features to keep your phone and your data safe easy quick access to the Google assistant which understands you and get smarter and more helpful all the time fun and useful ways to use your camera Google lands and AR and the best photography for a Manny phone for brilliant photos and smooth professional videos we're also making it easier than ever to switch to pixel most new pixel users will be able to transfer their stuff from their old phone in less than 10 minutes including all of your photos apps and even your eye messages so let's talk about availability and pricing pixel to with its 5-inch cinematic display starts at six hundred and forty nine dollars for the 64 gigabyte version the pixel to excel has a six inch fullscreen P OLED display and starts at eight hundred and forty nine dollars both phones will be available in six countries Australia Canada Germany India the UK and the u.s. in the u.s. we're teaming up with Verizon to bring your pixel to and you can also buy it on the Google store and through project Phi you can pre-order starting today work we're also excited to make the pixel 2 XL available in Italy Singapore and Spain later this year and we have a new family of cases that make your pixel truly yours cake saw owners can customize a live case with a favorite photo plays artwork or one of your one of our Google Earth designs we're also launching a rent a range of soft knit fabric cases in four colors and more than 250 pixel to accessories from 25 popular brands will be made available through our made for Google program finally to make sure you're getting the most out of your new phone and the Google assistant we're including a Google home mini with each purchase of a pixel to and pixel to excel for a limited time in Australia Canada Germany the UK and the US so so that's the new pixel the radically helpful smartphone that combines the best of Google hardware software and AI we hope you'll love it as much as we do all right so as you've seen we've spent the past year reimagining a simpler more helpful smartphone experience we've also been working on some new products to make your pixel to experience even better let's start with the newly updated Google daydream view our virtual reality headset we kept everything from last year that people loved and we made it even better to start we have a new lineup of colors that complement this year's made by Google family we also upgraded the lenses and the fabrics so the headset has our widest field of view yet and is super light and comfortable of course what matters most in a VR headset is where it can take you last year we launched with 25 apps and games and now we have more than 250 high quality VR titles we've also seen that people love going places with VR videos so we're excited to announce a slate of premium video content coming to daydream including multiple new original series on YouTube VR and on Google Play Movies you can experience new IMAX movies available for free to pixel to owners so you get to hang out with Tigers run alongside elephants dive into the ocean with some sharks and blast into space with pixel twos new front firing stereo speakers these movies sound as amazing as they look and now you can even cast the experience to the TV so your friends and family can see what you're seeing the new Google daydream view is the best mobile VR headset on the market and will be available for $99 today we're also announcing a smart new audio accessory that works perfectly with pixel - our first pair of premium wireless headphones they're called they're called Google pixel buds our team designed pixel buds for great sound delivering clear highs and deep bass so whether it's jazz house or a symphony it all sounds incredible with pixel buds controlling your music is super simple because all of the controls are built into the right earbud you simply tap to start and stop your music or swipe forwards and backwards to change the volume now what's amazing is when you pair your pixel buds with your pixel two you get instant access to the Google assistant we optimized the experience to be quick and easy just touch and hold the earbud and ask your assistant to play music send a text or give walking directions all while keeping your phone in your pocket it can also alert you to new notifications and read your messages pixel buds work great with pixel they even give you access to a new real-time translation experience it's an incredible application of Google Translate powered by machine learning that's like having a personal translator by your side to show you how easy this experience is I'd like to invite Isabel back on stage for a conversation in her native language Swedish so Isabel is going to speak Swedish into her pixel buds and all hear the English translation out of pixel twos front speakers and then I'll respond in English and she'll hear the Swedish translation in her pixel buns to illustrate this today you'll hear both sides of the conversation okay hey Isabelle how's it going hey Lisa been here I like it here okay pack what do you think of these cool new headphones what you can do under my cooler near her LaDonna mitten the sign mother on sale Tacoma can scare Cola so while you're up here what color should I get me on the one hand we can fight the Evalia hmm a Throwdown sky blue or scalloped ass today all right truly a brown-eyed people came in no Sienna roughly and I thank you as a bell so with pixel buds I can use real-time Google Translate to have a natural conversation in 40 languages we're letting you connect with the world around you in a more natural way by rethinking how a headphone should work connecting it to cloud-based machine learning and giving you access with the touch of a finger Google pixel buds come in a pocket-sized charging case that provide up to five hours of listening time with just one charge and the case holds multiple charges so you get up to 24 hours of listening time when you're on the go pixel buds are available in clearly white kind of blue and just black - beautifully compliment your pixel - and they'll feel available in November for $159 and pre-orders begin today we have one more product to show you it's about photography now we all love photos a lot of our photos let us step back into a moment with friends with family some of our favorites are the candid ones like this they capture the essence of a moment but the problem is to get those photos someone needs to be the photographer on duty waiting to press the shutter button at just the right moment and we were thinking how do you capture those fleeting spontaneous moments while letting yourself be part of the moment so we've been working on that and I'm really excited to share an entirely new type of camera that works with your pixel we call it Google clips and this first edition is specifically designed with parents and pet owners in mind so you'll capture more of those spontaneous smiles first steps and first tricks now clips has all the things you would expect from a great camera a high performance lens a powerful image sensor it has a shutter button but that's not what this camera is all about we reimagine this camera from the inside out starting with the software and applying machine learning to build a camera that takes photos for you so you can enjoy the moment and instantly get shots you couldn't get before thank you how does all that work it starts with an AI engine at the core of the camera let's talk about what that engine does when you're behind a camera you look for people you care about you look for smiles you look for that moment your dog starts chasing her tail clips does all of that for you turn it on and it captures the moment so you can be in the moment and because the software is at the core of the camera it's going to get smarter over time we also reimagine what camera hardware should do for you clips is tiny it weighs almost nothing so you can easily toss it into your pocket and it's a hands-free camera so you can get these amazing new perspectives on your experience and get yourself in the shot by attaching clips to almost anything or setting it down now from the beginning we knew privacy and control really matter and we've been thoughtful about this for Clips users their family and their friends let's start with the basics it looks like a camera and it has an indicator light so everyone knows what the device does next it looks for stable clear shots of people you know and you help the camera learn who's important to you and finally all of the machine learning happens on the device itself so just like any point-and-shoot nothing leaves your device until you decide to save and share it this approach to designing and engineering clips required some significant technical breakthroughs to miniaturize the type of powerful machine learning that only a few years ago needed a supercomputer let's take a look at what Clips actually captures so here's some clips I've captured with my family at home now as you can see it's not just photos that clips is taking taking little snippets that capture the whole moment we call those of course clips you can save them as a motion photo or choose any frame to save as a high-resolution still it's like having my own photographer shooting and choosing the best moments for me and I just have to swipe to save to Google photos which can automatically make movies out of your clips in seconds so that's the new Google clips a new type of camera that brings together at the best of Google AI software and hardware tell people more easily capture genuine candid moments of family and pets clips ibly coming soon and selling for $249 take a look at some of these great clips from our earliest users enjoy hello again everyone what you just saw in pixel buds and clips blends AI with the best of Google software and high performance hardware to create new radically helpful experiences for users this is our strategy for the Google hardware team and you've seen it come to life in all of our new products the two newest members of the Google home family the beautiful new pixel phones and our premium pixel book laptop and of course the Google assistant is the primary way we bring a eye to our users your personal Google is ready to get you the help you need when you need it talk to it type show what you see or just give your phone a squeeze it's the simplest way to get things done and it just works so here it is this year is made by Google family we've created them as a single set of products that are designed for you with familiar elements from soft materials to curved lines and simple stylish colors they look great together and they also work great together and perfectly demonstrate our approach of reimagining hardware from the inside out thanks so much for joining us today whew live stream viewers take a closer look at our new products at a redesigned Google store for everyone here in SF jazz you'll get to see everything up close in our demo area outside thank you so much and enjoy your day how can I help don't forget your umbrella all right we are back we are grooving I gotta say those DJs we're hot house like I was like doing all like the chest stuff and everything so what we have here guys and gals Patrick Holland and myself are still in the house Stephen Beecham is running the show we're gonna take your calls we're gonna let you talk about it we're gonna talk about it with you so many things to talk about but let's just get to the number that you guys and gals can call him we're sorry we had to drop the calls during the keynote it just it was like two hours so the phone number that you could call is yeah I don't even have to use it you can tell it's a better product literally off the bat and you could no it looks amazing - I mean I think the design is beautiful but when he just did like hey what's that song that goes like wow yeah it's like that's me like every day that is like me every day for most of my life and now something's that are someone's gonna bill to reply to me and actually play the music that my gibberish songs and mouths make but I think that's just impressive the technology but also the way they're presenting it this very like consumer-friendly it's very fun we're not getting kind of bogged down in spec Specter at the beginning one of the one of the Google execs I said you know what all phones we're at like a hardware like still me you know everything is kind of like stagnant with that and all that innovation is come in at Google assistance coming in there there are Google lense and all these AI things that they've been working on for years and machine learning it's so exciting yeah I just you know there's there's subtle things that happen at this keynote where it's literally all driven by software and machine learning and Google just they just pepper these things you're like oh damn and you're like no one has this and that's what that's what gets us excited about tech so the phone lines are completely filled we go ten deep so what we're gonna do is we're gonna spend the next half hour so you're just grinding down through this you know some people want to talk about what they love some people want to talk about what they don't like this is all about you all so let's start off I don't have the name here in their screener but let's start off with our first call I guess the number area code is a little 202 they want to talk about though what's up oh there is hold on one second guys guys and gals give me a second hold on yes it was get that way I would still bump into that DJ yeah okay is it gone now okay so we have it is if you had that new pick so sweet about it this is what I'm learning oh here that was another one okay is it gone now okay sorry guys you know I'm watching the keynote okay your buddy our buddy or our gal from the 202 first caller in here that want to talk about the lack of information about I'm not sure exactly about a service but welcome to the show seen that live here what's up what up right yeah what to talk about the lack of info on Google Phi the cellular services that Google has attached to the pixel you know like we've we've seen it obviously available and they've kind of catered towards pixel users I haven't they typically don't talk about Google Phi at the keynotes quite honestly because they really try to make it a little bit more product focused but yeah we didn't we didn't hear anything I don't know what's what's the latest with it quite honestly but yeah we didn't hear anything from it were you looking here is only specific if it was like any improvements on it cuz like right now I'm calling on the the old pixel with Google fire and it's just this the big seller about it was the fact that it switches between t-mobile US Cellular and Sprint network and in Wi-Fi that's open so you can save a lot on your bill and all that so beyond just the other major the other major thing would be obviously the free storage but the Google 5 service is actually a game changer when you think about it but they never really go too heavy into it I think in a weird way and this this sounds bad but sometimes I think in it's not that they don't think that we're smart enough to get it but sometimes when when they it might take the energy out of the room when they want to show like sexy eye candy and then talk about Google you know that that that's would be probably their main reason for it but yeah you're absolutely right about this service I mean look it for example look at what they did at the end of the keynote with Google clips that just sucked all the energy and excitement out of the room that appeals to probably like 1% of its user base I mean I'm not trying to hate on it just wasn't something it didn't align with everything else that you're like yeah yeah yeah and so I feel like if they did this whole five minute spiel about Google vibe it might have some similar kind of let down a feeling not that it's not a great product right so that's why I don't think that we might have seen as much in it but what do you think about the pixel - I mean you're a pixel owner so obviously you have an experience with a platform all right ok well it's ok we I thought I thought it was I thought great I mean I think the pixel two is a special phone again well we'll have to see how the availability of it comes through Verizon exclusive from what we have heard up to this point but like you said it's like this I mean it's very similar to how they brought the picture last year but yeah will this will they actually have the phones to sell and and make it affected with that but also like the features they have like it doesn't also make the last year's pixel obsolete like sometimes I feel like brands will go other way to show you this amazing new phone and you're like man this iPhone 7 I guess this sucks now that's a great point that's a great point I think get that vibe from Google yeah yeah I mean they're rolling out all the software into the new pixel other than obviously the advancements of the camera which we'll talk about a little bit what we're showing you footage right now is actually from this is raw like on the fly but this is live in the demo room of Google's event over at the SF jazz center so while we talk about these things will kind of cut in between there are actually getting shots for our first looks but we wanted it kind of at least when they're using it give you some shots of it inside the live room we're gonna keep on going through our phone lines we're sorry about that ray but we got nothing but love for you we have another call here name is not identified but we're coming to us from the five five nine talking about the show just now what's going on welcome to see that live yeah what's up Allen thanks for calling man great I found out with amusing yeah absolutely and I think that that hamachi that they rent coffee huh funny you know they had to come up there once they said that they were there would be no actual headphone jack on this phone it was clear to us that they had to have some sort of a solution quite honestly we knew about it but we can't always say everything like that we unless it was leaked we don't want to talk about you know we knew about it before the keynote but we didn't want to just spoil it for anyone because that's kind of but man to actually see that translation in action I thought that was a that was pretty special yeah that's pretty special it's not a feature you would use um yeah I would you know traveling a lot easier when you go to foreign country I mean it would be a feature that I would have to use just even with people that speak English sometimes I mean they need to work on in English to English translator for me sometimes people are like what are you saying Tong it's at least ten years out my friends know we're working on it but I liked it and I thought that you were universe noting that the price point was very similar to the air pots as well it's not exactly the same yeah I mean a lot more functionality you know actual functionality with multiple types of controls the Google assistant prompt and translation that's that's pretty awesome so now that was a you know I know people are gonna say oh it has a wire on it so what they're still Wireless they don't look bad yeah they look good I can't I like that they have the colors that match the phones as well yeah I like details like that matter yeah absolutely so hey Alan thanks so much for calling we're gonna keep on cranking through the lines but we appreciate you all right no problem all right all the way from Barbados man oh yeah we dig it he's got he's got his priorities right they'll call in like that that's what I would do if I was in Barbados so a lot of people um if I don't get to your actual name it's just because you didn't say it in our screening program but that's okay I'm gonna just kind of do the best I can to prompt you just let us know once we get you we're gonna take a call here let's see if I can get this super we're gonna take a call here from our friend from the seven one eight welcome to see net live what's going on who's this what's up Alex would you like to talk about today turns out to be very useful I guess cuz I mixed really excited about Google buts because I like to trouble a lot and it just generally yeah was there anything else that stuck out to you in the keynote that it was really stuck out to me too useful in a way how in the your but incorporating the lena phone and they just you know actually look into the phone and then just speak for you so it was really nice and you know yeah are you a pixel owner at all right now no I'm not a persona I'm a gap CS owners so is that something that would encourage you to switch over because it has the pure the the thing that people we know we're so used to the idea of it it's a pixel phone but it's a pure Android experience pure Android I can't understate how nice that is alright hey thanks so much for calling us out we appreciate it alright we're gonna keep on cranking through this we're gonna go here to our buddy Darrell Evans just give it a second Jarrell welcome to seeing that live hey how's it going good good talk to us man what would you like to see once again the most amazing thing with the the live Google Translate but I also had a question about YouTube music it said YouTube music for 12 months for a while they were packaging what were the Google music service and the YouTube service into one do you know if that would include both of them they didn't make that clear so you know unfortunately we just saw the keynote same time as you we don't always have all the details but did you catch anything about they didn't mention it but I know these referring to because before they do we get that it be a package in there so they didn't really publicize that very well even before but I was I'd be curious about that too I think you would have to but we don't know the details we shouldn't speculate so hope I hope so is it is it Jarell or is it Jarrell I'm sorry it's Joe but we trust me we had secrets before the key no but we couldn't talk about him like if you wanted me to spoil about the pixel buds we could have but we were kind of told hey unless it gets leaked don't talk about it and look don't you want surprises when you watch these keynotes like your favorite or do your favorite thing was actually the translate from the pixel buds if I told you that you would you would still think it was cool but just not as cool so I'm looking out for you Tyrell I'm looking out for you my man the secrets are out all right hey thanks so much for calling good all right take it easy all right we will go and jump over here for a moment let's go check out and again the number that the phone lines you guys are beast they keep on just filling up Beach if you can leave that phone line up we will continue to answer calls for probably out the next 10 or 15 minutes we're going to go to our friend over here in the seven-one-seven that wants to talk about I believe the pixel book what's up welcome to see that live hey it's an honor wait your name is it's an honor it's an honor an honor your honor I said in the screening process uh-uh anyway no tell us I went back there you go Zack Doland yeah I don't know maybe it didn't catch that ya know I'm a long time long time watcher first time caller yeah I wanted to talk about the pig for the book let's talk about it what did you what did you like what did you maybe not like well I love the design I love that it charges with USB type-c which is something that I've been looking for in a laptop for awhile without you know sacrificing power but the problem is is Zack - Zack are you there oh man it looks like it looks like the call broke up let's talk about the pixel book for a quick second I loved everything feature-wise on that you know quite honestly the biggest the thing about it comes down to that's the biggest obstacle as it's running a Chrome OS and so you have to talk about support for full fledged apps right they did show Adobe Lightroom but there's gonna you're living in the Google ecosystem it I just need to throw the way that I use machines there I do need some higher-end graphics applications but for most people that was that 999 started yeah that's ridiculous for a multifunction pen stylus based dude you circle someone's face and it like pulls up information about them I don't know tablet hybrid - yeah it's a total convertible tablet hybrid the coolest thing I thought I saw about that whole presentation was the pairing with your phone being able to use the Wi-Fi from your phone on the table maze and it running the bus home it looks sick it looks so beautiful with the the back of that display I mean looks obviously just like the phones which is the roaches right kind of a continuity across the problem and that's what I was getting at earlier I didn't think that's so thoughtful but it I just I was so scared about that price and I'm like $9.99 Yeah right it's so perfect we were talking maybe it's we were thinking 12 49 or higher when they were watching and we're like $9.99 and again it's different levels it whether you're starting with a core it comes with an Intel Core i5 or i7 a configuration I think up to 512 gigs of RAM up to sorry storage space up to 16 gigs of ram so this is not a weak machine by any means and I'd like to other integrating you know that's obviously literally straddling the line between a tablet and a laptop but like you know bringing snapchat on that's gonna definitely mate sway some users I saw Instagram flashed up there too during the presentation but you're just like yeah that's smart it's smart and there are power users who go to need like video and stuff like that and at big editing tools but something like Lightroom is not a very light tool as well and that was shown on there but man that just it looks so good and the use and then there's the pixel book pen yes Wow I the thing that I you know stuck out to us the most is look every company has their own direction of what they will they believe the laptop or whatever it is is going to be we now have Microsoft who has killed it with the surface I see plenty of surfaces in the wild being used professionally when I'm flying you know and traveling around I mean people are using product a lot we have apples philosophy of no touchscreen whatsoever no OS to support it it Apple came out with the touch bar guys like that's a it's a it's a mediocre interface at best everyone that uses it only honoree with you and only on its high-end laptop so what we're looking at is we're seeing a laptop that's not it looks high-end but it's priced for a more of an entry-level laptop but it has all the features you want he has the touch screen it has the support of an amazing stylist made by Wacom which is an amazing tablet company and then on top of that you have that Google assistant on there yeah I think is gonna be a big I mean compared to Siri yes and it doesn't seem like it's gonna be sandbagged for it like there's not gonna be able to do things because it's on a tablet or on the pixel book I think a lot of people that don't care about it assistant on a machine hat most people that say oh I don't care about that serious good enough all I have to tell you is try using Google's assistant just a little bit and you'll instantly be able to be like it's smarter it's faster it understands me better across the board it's it's just really impressive and we didn't even we didn't bring up a little quick mention the actual pixel book pen has the lowest latency out of any pen so right now with the iPad pro and the Apple pencil they have a 20 millisecond least latency the pixel book pen has a 10 millisecond latency which is as close as pen to paper as you're going to get and that's so even faster than I think the Microsoft Surface pens right yeah yeah yeah so I think the surface pen might be around 20 also maybe a little higher if I recall I have to look it up we but a 10 yeah it just it really if you've stacked up Apple's flagship laptop versus all these other flagship laptops from companies it feels like what their vision of and their innovation using the touch bar it they they're missed they're missing it I mean I don't know about you guys but I am used to the idea of just touching screens now and what it'll be funny give it maybe two three years then Apple comes out with some sort of level of a touch screen type laptop which they've been so resistant to it's here already in multiple formations we have the Lenovo yoga line and surface and pixel book now and plenty others when this goes our show if you make it you not only add that feature but you do it well and I think that's the other thing that you know it we didn't always see Microsoft Surface is it they take a while to figure it out it didn't pass a coffee shop test but now you go in a coffee shop and you see people on surfaces and I think it's exciting because you know there's always been that little bit of a stigma around like a Chromebook to write that like it doesn't can't do all these things but it just they they show that you can and it looks nice and it's gonna be a great experience I'm excited to try it out yeah I just oh man that that was what I think for me that next to the the translation was probably the most exciting part very cool all right we're gonna keep on taking a few more calls I know that the lines are completely filled so just stick with us sometimes the names have popped up in our in our screeners software but we will bear with us so let's go talk to our friend from the five seven one come on let's go baby it's taking a moment so just bear with me hello there welcome hello we're here welcome to seen alive what's your name alright and what you want to talk about what do you say I'm not sure we want to repeat what he said very exciting it's a very exciting idea but maybe not for our lovely livestream podcast I just realized it after it took a moment a process and understanding that you had yourself a little bit of latency there welcome to the show six one three welcome what's your name it's Carl we're back Oh Carl we are back yes sir yes you came back for more man I'm oh you are so low on life I've been waiting on the the bud first of all and just for externality of the go free storage bro I know a cool like iPhone I've been dying for the past couple of months keep them recharged and like we switching store it anyways buds are amazing because I'm playing on traveling soon and having that translation all the time make it easy to approach girls too bro you need to do a video bro hold up hold up bro I'll do a video but there's gonna be a point in time where if your relationship advances with these ladies you're gonna still be wearing those buds you're still gonna be wearing those buns son if you know what I mean teach you how you know I mean I'm just saying you don't want to wear the buds if you know very cool was there any other any other things that stuck out you that you know might have surprised you or that you liked as well everyone loves like the butt on the translation I actually have two two things yeah I did been mentioned you actually get a Google meaning with the phone if you pre-order that's correct if for a limited time you'll get a Google Mini 4 so a $49 kind of throw in with that as well yes sir okay because I mean I'm I'm in Canada so I don't know how I believe one traced right here called how to pre-order the new phones now and get your what does it call Google me Google yeah the Google home any yes yeah I believe I swear Canada was one of the countries that was part of it definitely Australia I think - yes sir Normandy and and my second thing is I'm still not convinced on the Google pixel I'm like the software is I don't know I'm more kind of like a light gamer so I'm like I want to have that power to push have to be able to gain especially overwatch but as long as you got overwatch I'm good you're like just get me get me my overwatch all right hey Carl thanks so much for calling again all right no problem all right take it easy we will jump over to our next caller let's try and talk to Phillip Phillip Saunders is that correct no it kit up oh it's you know what I'm just gonna ignore this Auto scream fake name stuff makes up I apologize welcome to the show oh no no problem yeah I was actually really impressed with with this press conference and it's really interesting that on how Google is really starting to get the mind share of hey you know we're advancing technology forward and I really love the fact that even you know with the Google Translate with the buds they're really trying to compete with Apple on on a higher level and saying hey we can compete directly against you and I honestly feel sorry for the other ahead handset manufacturers you know even including the Samsung that now Google is taking approach to saying hey you know we're tired of you all bubbling our reputation for Android and now finally we are taking over and we're going to do what Apple is doing to provide the consumer the best experience and and and now with the pixel with the camera oh my goodness that for it to get that kind of rating is absolutely awesome yeah yeah absolutely sorry keep on going sir keep on going yeah and and and and the fact is is that you know with the with the keynote that you know it I feel that it is it was more exciting what what Apple presented and even with you know iPhone 10 it's going to be interesting with those two phones really kind of competing against each other and what people are going to actually gonna you know go for but again you know that with Google presenting hey you know pre-order you get so many you know the whole mini which is now starting to get people in the mindset of like okay well let me talk to my jump talk to my you know speaker but it also gives a way of Google really infiltrating the home to really start the home automation and really make that a priority and you know within the mainstream yeah you know when Google first released the home as a competitor to the Amazon echo what it really came down to at the beginning and we all kind of foresaw this Amazon echo has great relationships with all the third-party manufacturers they also really opened up their API so almost anyone could pretty much submit and make apps and it started to build this great like kind of community around it the Google assistant and technology behind it is smarter than the Amazon echo platform but it was trailing behind you now you're starting to see all the support from more devices more smart home devices and that we knew that gap was going to close but now like you say it's part of an ecosystem with the phone with everything that you can do with it to the chromecast to this and that so using it to dial out from your actual phone number that that was something that was pretty cool like just great knowing knowing that that connection is there so their continued to to just kind of build and build and to your point about the pixel phone look I have nieces and nephews and even they say that Google is cooler to them than Apple like they know that Apple is they like Apple but they think that the pixel is more exciting and I don't indoctrinate them at all I just you know they know that I love tech but they're like oh let me when we go on trips bring your quick pixel we want to use your pixel and so I think that some of these little hooks and bells and whistles that they're showing us is changing that mind share you're seeing it and also you know with we don't know how these are gonna sell quite honestly let's be real right the iPhone is gonna sell more than the pixel but when Google decided to go we're gonna control our own software and hardware at the same time much like Apple this is going to enable us to do things we haven't done with our phones and make them special in our in our vision that was a big deal and I don't I don't I think they made the pixel the original pixel they were they didn't necessarily care if it was a success in the market but if it was a critical success that was what was important right actually having a quality product that didn't bomb to the critics and users whether or not it sold a lot of units initially I think going back to the presentation to I think we saw a lot more discipline from Google because we've they've always had great ideas and some crazy products that have completely failed but then on the flip side we saw there's a lot more refinement to what we saw on the products a lot more thoughtfulness both in the design and carrying that over from one product to the other but also just that integration and so now we're sitting there looking at this not only as like a Google home and a Google assistant we're looking at a laptop we're looking at phones we're looking at earbuds even though I didn't like that Google Clips camera it's still integrated into with their overall thing and I think that's actually a little more of a flashback of old Google like a couple years ago like hey we got the school thing and we're gonna throw it out there it's like no like do nobody wants that it's so good you stayed on the track and then you got off they didn't need to do that at all but that's what I think I'm excited about is we're just seeing a very mature Google step forward and just own it and this and yet that we had some it threw some sand through some shaded Apple about filters features on both phones not separating that and that's fun and stuff but on the flip side I think they don't even though they are competing with Amazon they're competing with Apple for a long time they've been kind of competing with themselves just to be that disciplined like concise company and it was just so exciting to see that flow happen and others products man I'd except for the clips that will poop on the clips and then the I'd say I'm not trying to poop on the clips but say I'm excited to try all them out just to see how they work together - yeah sokar so uh Philip any any other things that you wanted to bring up before we let you go like are you going to which product are you most likely looking to purchase out of what you saw today don't take google clips okay so it's kideth bad Apple bad apple an apple person yeah and I'm completely into the Apple ecosystem and you know I'm looking forward to the home pod but I also own a Google home and then also an Amazon echo yeah my mom was going off like what the product I'm really interested in it is the max yeah and it's really interesting that their pricing is higher than Apple's home pod and I'm because I'm a very like I love you know sound I love music just like how dippel's talked about listening took all the time here and for me I'm I get excited about well they're talking about the sound quality well I got here it a person you know what I'm afraid of though is that if I'm gonna hear it at a retailer like Best Buy whoever I might not be able to get the best sound quality I mean it may be a good demonstration but you know how those places they don't really let you you know really play anything out loud the way that you want but it's going to be interesting on how you know I might go ahead and buy that product more than anything else because even like with the the laptop the pixel book well I got an iPad pro and I do everything on iPad pro it does all my productivity the only thing I can't do is develop on it but the but the pixel book is good but the challenge is like you all said before how our developers going to you know create apps for specifically for Chrome OS and that is going to be a challenge because using a mobile app you know because it connects your Google Play and whatnot is going to require develops to rethink their apps so that can't be compatible with that device as well I was so good but the Google home acts I'm totally excited about that yeah I mean I was fired up about right when we saw it and they started breaking it down I'm like this is this is better than the home pod this I I just it's clearly better so we'll see how we'll see how it shakes out yep I think it's kind of like buying a mattress to like you gotta like just have it and live on a mattress for a while there really no I mean this like that's why we got returns baby but yeah yeah all right Kenneth I got you this time man thank you so much for calling great talking and a love your insight and obviously we can tell you're a tech fan you know you're in the different ecosystem so that's really great so we appreciate that man here cool no problem all right let's keep on going we're gonna take I guess we'll take like a few we'll take three more calls sorry for everyone that I I may not get to but we will talk about they're still checking out the Google pick on site I looks like I have Daniel hopefully are you there from the five five nine yeah I'm here welcome to the show welcome to seen it live what did you want to talk about today I just wanted to talk about the fact that the screen of the pixel and the pixel Dexter doesn't support HDR I didn't hear them talking about HDR supports since YouTube was so fortunate year I'm surprised the apps pools which is the pixel and the pixel at XL isn't true it's not supports in HDR I'm just surprised yeah they didn't say that I haven't looked at the official specs that would have probably been something they would have touted people that are listening or can let us know but yeah you're right I didn't I didn't see HDR I didn't hear to mention that and that is like one of those little things that it's those little things right like eight here which I wouldn't say it's a little thing but it's something that you're not gonna buy you're not gonna go I'm gonna switch this for that but it's nice to have it and when you see a screen that has it and you go back to its gonna dozen oh man what a difference and it's - it's interesting because the faux the photographer for the photo the camera I believe they did say it has built in HDR capture right yeah it's like like the pixel assist is always capturing HD correct so your plus I think is what they call correct so although they didn't what's interesting is although they didn't mention it and again sorry that we you know we just got out of the keynote may be the it to me if you have a camera that captures HDR these days you want to screen that can display that as well so what you're saying is I should buy the pixel tool to take the picture and then put it on my iPhone haha yes there you go we've got a show up top gotta show love to everyone so sorry we couldn't get that straight answer at the moment but we appreciate you calling in Daniel right okay all right thank you thank you very much okay let's take another one here and another one look I'm gonna give some love back to Ray because I think this is the Ray where the call dropped off ray are you there my man yeah yeah it's me I'm back so the pixel you are asking you wanna ask me if if I were by the new pixel but I don't think it's enough of an upgrade from the first pixel to tell you the truth I'll probably uh probably just end up buying the the iPhone 10 I mean I got an iPhone and a pixel right now so I press update my iPhone you know what that's a great point because what we need to do another year what we talked about is the fact that pretty much all the software rolling out is going to be just fine on the pixel so you're not really losing those features other than the actual camera hardware you know you'll the and they you know what they didn't I don't believe they talked about the processor but early rumors had said that they were using the same processor I believe was the Snapdragon 835 it was a 35 year right there I think there were Instagram that it was yeah it was using the same one so that if that was the case again sorry we don't have this all confirmed cuz we just got to the keynote that would completely support your point of like you know what I'll just hold on for this pixel and maybe wait for the next one unless you really want the you know the bigger badder screen on the pixel XL and you haven't been and you didn't get that but feature wise it's pretty baller you just don't want a headphone jack I mean that's like yeah phone jack but it's someone they're going to translate a little bit to the Google Translate um because I use that a lot over this last year the the pixel bugs could you do the same thing with any wireless headsets besides just swipe when you said swipe did you mean could you use the translate feature with any other phone is that what you're trying to say just any other any any other set of wireless head headphones could you use the translate feature I mean it exactly yeah because like right now you can just pull up you can pull out your phone and go into conversation mode and you just talk in English say you're translating in Spanish and you'll automatically do that it's been doing that for a year already correct from what I gather they wouldn't have shown it off like that unless it was specific to the buds yeah and the way the way was real-time like and the other thing that you know that she had the phone in her hand too just to indicate that you had it can't just be separated like that but yeah I'm that's a good question it is is it it is a good question yeah could you could you do with any headphones yeah I don't I don't know we don't know we don't know we don't know yeah we know here we know we don't know what you don't know so alright ray thanks so much for calling buddy appreciate we got you back you know when it drops like that yeah we got you back so alright have a great day cool preciate it you thank you thank you okay let's go with one um let's go one more call I think these are I think these are my boys Calvin Anthony are you all there these are the brother brothers that like they they want to buy teach I'm telling you guys I don't know why you aren't doing a podcast yet I'm waiting for it I'm waiting for that's what I'm talking about I'm serious man I got nothing but love for you guys what do you guys want to talk about today Thank You Man you know what xyd I was going to touch on the Google Translate as well as as my man just said wondering if you know you could either which is those or some other headphones but it looks like guys it touched on that but other than that was gonna say the Google home max is man a lot more impressive as you guys know I'm a word Apple fan but man bad that blows the little home part out he was that's what I'm saying like I you know I was although the home part is higher than I'd want I was excited to try it and when I saw that Google home max I'm like dude that's the one to get yeah that's how I thought now I'm wondering if it's so nose is gonna chronically because you know just that it would Alexa into their products and I love the way so no speaker sound but it would be interesting to see this go up against Ted and what's on also you know doing the teacher to try to incorporate you know assistance into their speakers as well yeah yeah you know well well obviously what makes this all fun as all these companies are putting out their products that go head-to-head we will you know will Matt will match him up boys it was that Calvin talking was that Anthony talking no : okay Anthony want to say something or you're just gonna own this call you know what I understand that understand that work Brian time one of us talks a lot anyways that's cool is there any other stuff that you liked oh you know what um wasn't I like the picture book the picture book was good Anthony really liked to fix the book um the the pixels the phone I wasn't too impressed with but other than that everything else was just Connor seems good do you know develop be concerned with some of it though I mean that's something that's what the whole recognizing like you're adorable and everything in it recognizing who comes up and stuff like that does that does that require the Google accounts for you to store the information and odor so what's interesting is that nest right Google owns nest or alphabet artist formerly known as Google owns nest they released all those products but that facial recognition is actually more built-in with nest I just think that they've added whether you have a Google phone or not but I think they've just added those hooks because it's Google and nests together or maybe it pulls tighter from your actual contact list on your phone instead of just living on its own separate app a nest app with faces on it so I don't you know again we don't know exactly I took but that has to be they just kind of built that specific hook because they both are run by the same parent company and that brings I mean the privacy thing is something they had a little throwaway moment earlier there wasn't specifically with an S but with the actual pixel to phone and they're saying oh it will listen and you can basically do you hear the music and identify the song but they were saying it does it all on device and they emphasize they said the P word privacy and I would he had gone more into that because I'm one because that's always been the concern with the Google stuff is hey they have everything about me they have my pictures they have now a camera that's filming me constantly they have my phone and now that that pixel book and then you combine that with all the nest products it is they have a lot of information about you there and and our good friends at Apple always tout it the other way where all that stuff left on defy seeing the way that's encrypted and stuff but that's something I would have liked it here we'll talk a bit more about especially since we're getting a lot of video and photos of our faces their loved ones well you know that and look at what their google lens platform can already do and you know that it's weird because with google right you you choose to buy into their system know almost knowing that they know more about me than almost any other company yeah like am I gonna be like hold up and take a picture of you that have like your LinkedIn account pop up and like your baggage your criminal record yeah like I already do but still that's like I think that's that's insane cuz we are entering Minority Report and a bit like that future that's exciting when you saw it on the the Buddhist temple that was really that was really quick then you're sitting there like man and my goodness be a hold up like a picture of this house and be like you don't want to live here there was a murder here it's like okay I will I will I will confess I do have a jaywalking violation but it was actually for riding my bicycle on the freeway to go to the comic book store when I was in eighth grade to retrieve my comics they didn't have an actual violation for us so they gave us a jaywalking one I live to see the next day my parents are really mad that I did that but I did it I'm Tom a rebel yo I'm a rebel Google has a long rap sheet on you Abed yeah yeah so you know I it's to your point about the privacy thing I don't know how much they typically they like just drop two sentences in the keynote about like this is private or this is only on when blank blank blank and then they just kind of leave it at that and that's like they said that there was an indicator light so you know it's on but I mean people can hack that I'm sure turn that indicator light off so Kevin what phone are you on right now so dude we're gonna agree oh you're gonna go tan tan tan yeah we'll see we'll see who wins out that pre-order pre-order contest like I think it's gonna be a beast mode Anthony Appiah season I don't get my own to be sick well then Anthony can take over then Anthony can call in and you can be in the background exactly well the question is what color are you getting I'm gonna get the space whatever variation of black they charted whatever the black color is whatever that whatever fun name they put on it so all right hey boys I just want to say thanks for calling we appreciate it all right thank you all right cool take it easy we'll talk to you guys soon I think let's just wrap things up here because we've got we've got actual work other work to do and so we appreciate everyone that came to hang out with us I'm sorry we couldn't get out all the phone lines but you guys and gals are awesome for hanging with us so remember you can stick with us on cnet.com we will have other follow-ups first looks in-depth reviews write-ups opinion pieces you name it we got it so he owes yes patrick thanks for hanging buddy mr. Beecham running the show like a champ with all eight arms yeah that's gonna do it for this show oh who knows there might be another Apple event by the end of the year there might and they haven't actually dropped the home Bob but they should be shaking in their boots after they saw that Google home max they they just it's just the way it is so all right we'll see you guys take care of be safe peace later
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