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welcome to alphabet city this is the show where we normally cover everything related to alphabet today is a special day it's pixel day so today we're gonna stay and pics the park but it's super freaking loud in here so we're gonna go to another area now pixel park was kind of loud so we decided to move to a quieter section in my hands right now though are the new pixels one is that not pink color and the other one is white now the biggest difference between the two obviously is the size and the big ol notch on the XL this is the pixel 3 and this is the pixel 3 XL now what can we say about these devices well we've seen them right you've seen this online a lot I've seen it online a lot so Google what they decided to do was talk about how great the software is on the 3 and the 3 XL you know we went to pick up the phone anymore Google has a call screening feature that allows the device to listen to the call and then respond with who is this and what do you want essentially then you could say scram if you want it's actually a pretty cool idea it's a bit about helping to use it because the software is the thing that's gonna set these guys apart because let's face it this you can make any of these it's an app tracking a 45 processor some Ram and here is a battery every phone is pretty much the same Google software for the camera is supposed to be freakin ridiculous that's why there's only one camera on the rear they claim that their software is so good that in low light you will never need to use a flash again now Google pixel cameras have been really great Google was so bold to say it's started with the world's greatest camera and then put it in a phone and let's face it and that's what you want to use your phone for that's great and since it's a pixel that comes with unlimited storage at original size quality so that's another cool feature about the pixel the software is the thing that separates Google from everybody else and don't forget this is Android from Google which means you actually get updates right away that's a real big big draw and guess what that wasn't the only pixel device Google showed off they happened to introduce the pixel slave now I don't know if I'm supposed to be picking this up but I did so let's see if they stopped me such point three inch tablet running Chrome OS very smartly they've included a fingerprint sensor on the power button I think that's pretty neat dual front-facing speakers cameras situated in the portrait mode it weighs I don't know maybe a pound or so and it's really sturdy I like it it's got a nice camera on the back here comes in a midnight blue I'm gonna turn it around you can see the blue it's exciting this device starts at $5.99 it goes all the way up to $15.99 that's a lot of freaking money for a Chrome OS tablet Google redesigned Chrome OS for a tablet first experience with this device and here's the thing if you want to use it as a full laptop you're gonna shell out another $200 this snazzy keyboard case it's powered by the actual pixel slate I'm gonna pop them together you saw that and it's got this magnetic stand similar to a Microsoft Surface kind of like an iPad pearl kind of thing actually is on both sides so it protects your device on both sides I think that's pretty neat but $200 is a very high price to pay I tried out the keyboard earlier and I will say the keyboard travels with a nice the trackpad is really good and the this thing is extremely responsive but is it worth 600 to $1600 and that's without keyboard I don't know that there's also one more accessory there's a pen accessory a stylus you know what I found out today it doesn't work on the pixel phone why not it's $100 why can't this work together I would leave my note they just would do this but no it's cost an extra $100 so if you want the full experience from six hundred plus two hundred eight hundred and another you're in for nine hundred bucks face for these things there was one last pixel device it's the pixel stand I know like where is it well it kind of looks like this oops it kind of looks like this just the thing that holds your phone this isn't actually it that'd be silly right it does that the $79 stand can charge a device it actually puts your pixel in a new mode where it's more like a Google Home Hub speaking of that let's talk about the hub the Google home hub leaked really he closed the actual event so we didn't know a lot about it turns out to 7-inch display it's a lot like a Google home and the craziest thing about it I gotta say it's it's only a hundred and forty nine dollars it's not that much more than getting a Google home so with this we get a seven inch screen and you get all this visual feedback when you're looking for information it also has a lot of smart features like turning off at night acting as a photo frame no camera on this device intentionally I thought that was a really interesting move for privacy they showed the use case of the home hub as a bedside clock and that makes a lot of sense for a device that has no camera you put something like an echo show there it's got a camera on it a little bit creepy now again $149 makes us almost an impulse buy there's four colors if you can see here there's a black this seafoam green white and I don't know if this is not pink or not but it's not white let's go with that there's also a physical mute switch which is always excellent on the Google devices Google also talks about tight integration with nest devices you can see your temperatures stuff from your actual thermostats but also if you have one of those smart doorbells the image of whose ring your Bell will show up on your home hub it's a nice cool feature NASA has been a little lost in the past few years it was an independent company under alphabet but now it's within Google this might be the right strategy because if you're working with Smart Home stuff shouldn't they all work together why not the Google home hub lands on October 22nd I think this is gonna be a surprise hit guys I know we didn't cover the death of Google Plus your comments and that giant security breach but we'll cover that in the next episode of Alphabet City if you've enjoyed your stay in Alphabet City please the like and subscribe I'm Aya's Akhtar and I'll see you online I'm IAEA's after they then gonna take a nap