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Google Pixel 3 event highlights: Phones, Hub and more

2018-10-09
good morning good morning everyone I'm so glad you've joined us we're shaking things up a little bit with a new venue some new faces in a new city special welcome to our friends in the media yeah that's right for you out-of-towners thanks so much for coming here to New York City to be with us so this year marks Google's 20th anniversary and for two decades we've been working towards our mission of helping to organize the world's information make it more accessible and helpful for everybody delivering information has always been in our DNA it's why we exist our deep investment in AI over many years is at the core of our ability to push forward in many areas at once and you're gonna see this in a lot of our products today I say this every year but the big breakthroughs you're gonna see are not in Hardware alone they come at the intersection of AI software and hardware working together so first for life on the go we design the world's best camera and put it in the world's most helpful phone introducing the beautiful new pixel 3 and for life at home we designed oops sorry for life of working at Flay we're bringing the power and productivity of a desktop to a gorgeous tablet called pixel slate and for life at home we designed a smart display so you can hear and see the info you need and manage your connected home from a single screen introducing Google home hub and here they are coming up here in the pedestals for the first time seen in real life go ahead you can take a couple photos if you'd like try not to knock them over because if you break it you have to buy it as you can see with hub I can follow along step by step instructions to figure out how to make Eggs Benedict I can even watch a video to figure out how to poach an egg now I'd like to tell you a little bit more about YouTube on hub the YouTube experience has been optimized so I have access to a ton of how-to videos just by using my voice good example is I can say hey Google YouTube video now hub hey Google show me how to carve upon how to carve Halloween pumpkins on YouTube it's a pretty epic pumpkin and of course hub is great for enjoying music as well with YouTube music you can easily find the perfect song video or artists hey Google Play something brand new alright here's some music on YouTube all I have to do is ask to have instant access to the massive catalog of music and videos by offering the ability to hear and see your music on up it really brings the concert right to your home through December hub comes with six months of YouTube premium on us including adroit videos and our new youtube music streaming service with hub we're introducing home view with the swipe down from the top of the screen you can bring up a simple dashboard the dashboard shows you the state of your entire home at a quick glance and provides you quick access to all your devices this has been a radically helpful addition to my home you can pre-order Google Home Hub on the Google store today for a hundred and forty nine dollars and it's also available on October 22nd at retail locations here in the US UK and Australia and today we're sharing a new chapter for our vision for Chrome OS with the launch of Google pixel slate here's Tron to tell you a little bit more about it Google pixel slate is a completely new experience giving you powerful productivity in a fresh mobile form something that isn't a laptop trying to be a tablet because who wants a fan of their tablet or a tablet that's really a phone pretending to be a computer we design pixel slate to be both thin and light it's crafted with beautiful lines and rounded edges in a stylish midnight blue it has a perfectly balanced center of gravity so it's incredibly comfortable to hold pixel slate is engineered with a stunning detailed display so sitting back to enjoy a movie is better than ever it has 293 pixels per inch that's 6 million pixels for the sharpest picture in the category to get to this level of quality pixel slate uses a custom display with low-temperature polycrystalline silicon technology which allows for a hundred times faster movement of electrons versus a standard display as a result you can efficiently light up a massive number of pixels your movies photos and games will be stunning in vibrant colors and brilliant resolution it's designed to be as versatile as you are with a desktop operating system a full keyboard and trackpad a brilliant display and the mobility and app support of a tablet pixel slate comes in several configurations starting at 599 pixel slate keyboard is $1.99 and picks a book pen now in matching midnight blue is $99 all three will be available later this year on the Google store and at major retailers in the US Canada and the UK finally it's time to talk about phones Google pixel three is designed from the inside out to be the smartest most useful device in your life it's a phone that can answer itself a camera that won't miss a shot and there's a whole new experience when it's charging pixel three was built with exceptionally beautiful and thoughtful design choices it feels great to the touch and light in your hand the matte finish on the all glass back is the first of its kind it carries over our iconic two-tone design while providing a beautiful silky texture that helps avoid fingerprints we developed a new etching process that allows for both matte and glossy textures on the same piece of curved glass with smooth lines and seamless transitions pixel three comes in three colors just black clearly white and a new color which is not pink the new pixel comes in two display sizes the five and a half inch pixel 3 and the 6 point 3 inch pixel three XL both of them share the same features but we know users who want a bigger phone really want a bigger screen so we've designed pixel 3 excels screen to extend all the way to the upper corners giving users an edge-to-edge viewing experience with some extra extra useful space at the top the flexible OLED is the best pixel display ever the new adaptive color profile provides a bright vibrant and viewing experience from any angle and in any lighting both phones have bigger screens than last year's pixel and a larger screen to body ratio they feel smaller and more comfortable to hold and we're going even further to help you with phone calls with our new call screen feature let's say you're at dinner with runs or in a meeting at work and a call comes in it could be something important and you can't or don't want to pick up just tap the screen call button and your phone will answer for you and ask who's calling and why as you can see here the trip conversation is transcribed in real on your screen you can decide whether to pick up Sena quick reply or mark the cost spam you'll never have to talk to another telemarketer pixel 3 is available for pre-order now starting at $7.99 and pixel stand is $79 pixel 3 will arrive on October 18th in the US through Verizon and unlocked on the Google store and project fie on November 1st it will be available in 12 more markets including four new ones this year France Ireland Japan and Taiwan check them out on the Google store today so that's the new pixel 3
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