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Google wants a word in your ear that's like having a personal translator by your side I can use real-time Google Translate to have a natural conversation in 40 languages the search giant announced two new pixel phones the 5-inch pixel 2 and the 6-inch pixel to excel just give your pixel a quick squeeze where your hand naturally holds the phone and ask for whatever you need I just squeeze the phone take a selfie one hand no buttons help me out front row both the water and dust resistant with a 12 megapixel camera that has electronic and optical image stabilization following the move of other phone makers like Apple removing the headphone jack Google has done the same on the new pixel phones so to listen to music you will either need a dongle or to use a pair of bluetooth headphones like the Google pixel buds these earbuds have a real-time translation mode talking to the phone in one language and hear a translation in your ear hey Isabel how's it going here Isabel here I like it here okay pack to take on Siri and Alexa the Google assistant also lives in two new home speakers 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 the $49 home mini plays music and responds to voice queries in a tiny form-factor while the 399 dollar max goes after audio files with stereo sound the smart speaker market is important for Google Amazon dominates 70% of the space with echo devices and Apple's home pod speaker is due to go on sale in December at a time when Apple is asking $1,000 for the iPhone 10 Google's pixel 2 and XL start at six hundred and forty nine dollars and eight hundred and forty nine dollars in San Francisco Lexus Avedis cnet.com for CBS news