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unless you've been living under a rock you've probably noticed that Google seems to be trying its hardest to be a company that does seemingly everything I mean they're working on a space elevator but closer to home they've recently rolled out their first ever smartphones the pixel and the pixel XL whoa hold on a second what about that Google Nexus sitting in my pocket right now well although Nexus devices carried Google's branding they weren't designed by Google rather Google intended for them to be a reference for what the vanilla Android experience should be like but phones themselves weren't all that different from other devices available from the manufacturers contracted to produce a nexus companies like LG or Motorola but this time is different man Google designed the pixels in-house intending for them to be the first smartphones they could truly call their own even if it is contract manufactured by HTC and looks suspiciously iPhone like from the front the hardware while upper-tier mostly isn't anything we haven't seen before 1080p AMOLED screen or 1440p if you opt for the larger pixel XL quad-core Snapdragon 820 one either 32 or 128 gigabytes of internal u FS 2.0 based storage but no microSD slot and USB type-c it does however come with some really next-level stuff like a non exploding battery and a headphone jack all joking aside there is at least one Hardware feature that does legitimately set the pixel apart google has hyped the pixels camera quite hard even going so far as to call it the best smartphone camera ever and while Google might not be the most unbiased source of such a statement most independent reviewers have already had high praise for the pixels wide dynamic range solid low-light performance and accurate color it also packs 4k video 240 FPS slow-mo and image stabilization to round out its feature set and there's more the fingerprint sensor is on the back of the phone which is supposed to make it easier to access when you're holding the phone in your hand and it also comes with full support for Google's upcome daydream VR headset aesthetically the pixels are a little polarizing the upper third of the rear is covered with Gorilla Glass which google claims helps with cell reception and the phones are available not only in the more traditional black and white but also in a very intense shade of blue that google literally calls really blue they got that right but color choices aside where google has really tried to set the pixel apart from its competitors is its software the pixel does as you might expect run Android seven but there are some interesting touches that are as of now pixel exclusive something that we never saw with Nexus devices the most prominent of these is the new Google Assistant a competitor to Siri and Cortana that is based more around having conversations with the user instead of just spitting out search results Google even went as far as to hire writers from the onion to give the assistants some personality and while the pixel doesn't come with an iPhone like pressure-sensitive screen you can learn more about this up here it does feature apps shortcuts which are quick context menus that show up when you long press on an app icon then another big selling point is support for what Google calls seamless updates where a separate partition of your phone storage is updated in the background and the pixel just boots from that partition the next time you turn it on meaning no more absurdly long wait times just to use your phone after a system update which is pretty cool in my opinion so the focus on solid usability rather than possibly extraneous bells and whistles it'll be interesting to see how Google's first real foray into smartphones ultimately goes but no matter what happens it can't be worse than the Windows Phone or Windows Phone tunnel Bayer VPN lets you tunnel into 20 different countries allowing you to browse the Internet and use online services as if you're in well a 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