If the large manufacturers launch new smartphones, users can usually look forward to fresh innovations.With Google's sixth smartphone generation, this is no different.Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro set new standards when it comes to smartphone photography, which catch the eye, especially when editing.This is not least due to a specially developed processor, the focus of which is on AI processes.What is also possible to know about the current Google smartphone.
A separate processor
When presenting the Pixel 6 series, Google attached great importance to having developed its own chip.This is called "Tensor" and is optimized for the areas of artificial intelligence and mechanical -based learning (ML).Four areas of application particularly benefit: photo, video, speech recognition and translation.According to Google's own information, the Pixel 6 devices are 80 percent more powerful than the previous generation thanks to "tensor".A second chip called "Titan M2" should ensure special security and save passwords.On the whole, this is a small revolution, because the Pixel 6 has been the first Android smartphone for years that is not driven by a Qualcomm processor.
The camera
Google has been using the camera since its first generation of pixel.Instead of the eternal overbid in terms of megapixels, the group built in long-term smartphone and the same camera panel.So far, Google knew how to compensate for the hardware with strong image editing algorithms.In 2021, the Pixel 6 gets a new camera bar.And it notices: The strap pulling across the back of the device is the optical feature of the device par excellence.Google succeeds in a design litter, a second look is not necessary to recognize a pixel 6 as Pixel 6.
And what does the camera do?The answer is short: a lot.On the one hand, Google installs completely new hardware, the main camera works with 50 megapixels resolution, the ultra-wake angle lens has 12 megapixels available.In the Pro variant, a 48 megapixel telephoto object with a four-time optical zoom is added.The front cameras also differ: in the standard variant, an 8-megapixel camera is installed that can record full HD videos per second.The Pro model has an 11.1 megapxiel camera that records 4K videos with 30 or Full HD videos with 60 frames per second.In both cases, the sensor should be able to grasp 150 percent more light than the predecessor models, which is particularly noticeable in night shots.
The image editing
In addition, there is the photo algorithm, which has already been convincing in the past pixel generations, which optimizes freshly shot images in the background.However, the AI in Pixel 6 can do a lot more.For example, there is an eraser tool in the new Google smartphone: The AI behind it can recognize disturbing image elements such as passers-by or power lines before exchanging them, which could be seen without the distant elements.Sounds utopian?It is no longer thanks to machine learning.The special thing: According to Google, the AI will continue to learn and thereby deliver better and better results over time.On top of that, Google is praising the "most inclusive smartphone of all time" with the Pixel 6, because it is better able to record and recognize different skin types correctly than before.
In the same way, the AI can recognize and change the sky as such, sharpen the faces blurred with the "face" function or vice versa add the right blurring to move in "motion" mode.This creates effects that can otherwise only be achieved by long exposure or with tripods.Depending on the effect, several AI models operated by the tensor chip are involved in all the functions mentioned, which provide great results in the first test.
Listen to, algorithm!
Another core feature of the Pixel 6 also has to do with artificial intelligence.Many users have now got used to being able to issue commands spoken to their smartphone.Google goes one step further and enables Pixel 6 to translate, for example, in real time.For example, if you want to write a short message in a different language, you no longer have to cumainly jump back and forth between a translation tool and the messenger app and copy text.Instead, you simply dictate your device in German (or another language) the content of the message.The Pixel 6 translates the person said into the desired target language and writes it down - depending on the language in the right alphabet.This also works flawless in the first test.If you train your device on your own voice, you will get even better results over time.
Conclusion
In Pixel 6 there is a lot of modern smartphone technology together, which Google garnished with AI features.The device hardly offers the reason for criticism, the tastes should only differ on the design.The devices IP68 are certified for this, i.e. completely dust and waterproof.It is also commendable that the group deviates from the common principle of only securing updates for two years.Instead, Google promises three years of Android updates and five years of security updates.
