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it's a big day it's a big day what you guys have to know about me at this point is that I've been a fan of this lineup of devices since the very first one I've said it many times here on the channel we're talking about the pixel more importantly the pixel - with this early look I've got a bunch of them in front of me in fact I've got all but one the pixel two over here and the pixel two exhale on the far left slightly blue probably my favorite color of the bunch although the Panda set up over here with the black and white not bad either now the regular pixel on the left here a familiar set up if you've used the previous version of pixel this is gonna be super comfy for you when you pick that up on the excel things change up just a little bit the display which you'll notice here it kind of curves around a little bit now one thing that's different about both these devices compared to other flagships is these forward facing speakers which are an immediate standout for me because I'm always asking for it with this rush for devices to become bezel lists speakers kind of take a hit they gotta find another place to go with the stereo setup look at this I'm sitting here like this we now have the search bar down at the bottom of the screen as opposed to the top so the smaller of the two the standard pixel it's got a 1080p display and then stepping up to the excel you have a 1440p display they're both OLED tech there's really no excuse now to not have an OLED display there's a new feature now we now have the squeeze functionality so I can just grab onto this here and launch assistant let's listen it to me already no Bixby no Bixby on here I just squeezed this and it launched it I'm squeezing the frame of the device and it's launching assistant we've got the fancy wallpaper with the waves coming in beautifully and if you look very closely you can see Jack vacationing right over here there is what is towel sunscreen this orange buttons look at this a little flare now something they did is they put the colorful button on certain models so here you have this kind of bluish green but if you don't want that you could just pick up the black version and this is the executive look no fancy stuff with the buttons now the fingerprint sensor it's where you expect it to be on the back here kind of matte finish where you might expect to get a bunch of fingerprints it's not happening so much on these ones now if you're completely against the idea of fingerprints you could go for one of these two colors over here even up on the lighter section of the glass you can see they don't really pick up so much now all these devices feature USB type-c as you can see here and quick charge giving you potentially seven hours of battery life in a fifteen minute chart what you end up with is just a little bit more clarity a little bit more resolution in the voice is this the first pixel or Nexus device with stereo speakers facing forward I believe so isn't it I've been using these things for a while you can correct me if I'm wrong but it's what I've always wanted it seems pretty obvious you want them firing at you this is I can't think of another device off the top of my head right now that's still doing this to this degree to large grills and they're coming at your ears now obviously with the bigger boy you're gonna get a bigger battery as well so that's something to consider let's go ahead and test out this fingerprint scanner real quick where is the perfect spot what is the perfect unlock scenario this is pretty close having it on the back we all want these giant displays there's no room on the front anymore okay fine truly this is where your finger falls anyways this is where you hold it you you don't even really think about it to be honest there's really no mistaking that location so you just land on it I know Apple they're reluctant to put this scanner on the back they got the Big Apple logo there this is really where it should be that was actually very quick now something I like to do to make it even more seamless is sometimes I'll just register the same finger twice now let's Lock this guy and let's see what happens oh my goodness okay it's very quick it's a very fast one sensor on the back get used to it the face thing trust me it's not gonna be what you expect think about paying for something what is all this about there's some what the cashiers standing over there here and then no no no kaboom no what about the camera you're wondering about the camera cameras very important this one here has a bigger aperture than the last which should allow for even better performance in low light three-two-one kaboom that's our image whoa we equip peek around and of course there's you guys in the lens there and there's me looking at you looking at me okay let's try this again whoa okay by default check this out look at this see how there's motion to it so if it detects motion within the frame or movement within the frame you can actually toggle motion on and see a few frames of movement prior to the snap now there's also a portrait functionality which will simulate this very shallow depth of field that you've seen on certain phones certain cameras this one is capable of emulating that effect from a single lens system so okay you know what I got a good idea look at that she's ready for portrait mode so through machine learning it's capable of distinguishing the edge a portrait essentially and it can distinguish what's important in the frame and what you might want to blur bye-bye bye-bye time Jack why don't you keep this thing around anyway all right guys so there's this feature called now playing in which assistant can pick up a song that's playing in the background and tell you what it is on your notification pain like on the lockscreen but it's doing it locally on the device it's not it's not like sending that data anywhere in fact it'll work on airplane mode oh it got it like you got it like it I don't know if they can see it cuz it's in these look at that it just grabbed it now playing so I can remember the song that came on maybe in a public space at a bar or something like that oh this is good and boom going to the notifications and it's sitting I can download it or do whatever I want it doesn't end there with assistant there's another cool thing which is new the ability to trigger device level modifications right from within assistant so for example on the old pixel if I launched into assistant and said start my hotspot I would just get some instructions from Google on how to do so but on a new one here I'll launch it was squeezed start my hotspot turning Wi-Fi hotspot' on BAM do you like that stop my hotspot what more do I need to say all right we're living in the future okay so both of these models are gonna be available in 64 gigs or 128 gigs of storage and unlike the previous one this one has I P 67 certification for water resistance and whatnot alright so there you have it the pixel 2 and the pixel XL 2 showcased in various colors and let me know down in the comments which one would you go for which color do you like the best gonna be the Panda it's gonna be the all-white is gonna be the black words are gonna be the sorta kind of slightly blue remember though this was just the hands-on a quick hands-on on the day of announcement but I'm gonna have a more extensive video I'm gonna I'm gonna use one of these exclusively for a while do an unboxing and a review so make sure to subscribe to that also hit the notification button so you don't miss it it's gonna happen here first on unbox therapy that's where