00:00So these phones might look familiar. They look a lot like last year's phones. I'm talking about
00:06the Pixel 10, the Pixel 10 Pro, the 10 Pro XL, and the 10 Pro Fold. But there's actually a lot
00:16to talk about, even if you can't really see the difference from the outside. Some of the changes
00:21are like Gemini updates that are just floating around the UI. And one of them is inside the
00:27phone. So we definitely didn't see that. They might be lookalikes from the outside, but hang
00:33tight because we have a lot to talk about. So there are two things that all four of these
00:40phones have, Tensor G5 and Qi 2. G5 is the latest generation of Google's custom chipset, but it's
00:48the first one manufactured by TSMC. And Google says it's up to 60% faster for on-device AI
00:56has a faster CPU. There's a lot of power efficiency and thermal efficiency it unlocked.
01:03It seems to have really sped up or enabled a lot of on-device AI that wasn't there before.
01:10And we'll get into that in a minute. The other important update here is Qi 2. This is the first
01:16major OEM in the US to ship a phone with Qi 2, with apologies to the HMD Skyline. But this is the real
01:24deal. There's the magnets, the faster wireless charging speeds. Everything is here. The magnets
01:30are in the phone. You don't need a special case to use it or anything. This is great. Google is
01:35calling its line of accessories for the system PixelSnap. There's a little ring grip that also
01:43props up the phone. There's a wireless charger. And if any of this sounds familiar, it's probably
01:50because it's basically MagSafe. You can also use the phones with literally thousands of other
01:56magnetic accessories already on the market. So aside from those updates, there are not a lot of
02:02other things to talk about hardware-wise. Except the one I think is super important, the Pixel 10 Pro
02:09Fold is the first foldable with an IP68 rating. That means it is fully dustproof. And that's a huge
02:17deal. I wasn't even sure that could be done, really. Google did it. They did it with a new
02:23hinge mechanism that doesn't have any gears in it. Other than that, the outer screen is slightly
02:29narrower. The inner screen's a little brighter. There's new animations on that feature that gets
02:35your kid to look at the camera. They're super cute. But outside of that, it's really all about
02:41that IP68 rating. And you can finally bring your Pixel Fold to the beach. And you don't have to worry
02:46about getting sand in your crease. So this is normally where I'd tell you about a bunch of
02:54little hardware updates on the other phones. But to be honest, they're extremely minimal. The Pixel 10
03:00has a proper five times telephoto camera, which is cool. It never had one before. The batteries are a
03:07little bigger, which is always good. But to be honest, the AI stuff is really interesting. So let's get
03:15into that because it's wild. There's a journaling app. There's a translation feature that mimics your
03:21voice in another language. But most importantly, there's AI in the actual camera now, not just an
03:29algorithm deciding which pixels red and which one isn't. It's not AI processing in the photos app.
03:35This is actual generative AI in the camera's processing pipeline. It's only on the Pixel 10 Pro
03:43and the 10 Pro XL. And right now it's only used when you are zooming past 30 times zoom. Google calls
03:50this ProRes zoom. And when you take a photo in this mode, it kind of uses generative AI to fill in the
03:58details on what would normally be a pretty crappy photo, honestly. It does not work on people, which,
04:04thank God, it's really just intended for landmarks or vacation photos and everything taken in this
04:11mode gets metadata tags that say it was edited with AI. Also good. But holy crap, is this an extinction
04:20level event for what is a photo? And it makes me feel so weird. I have a lot fewer existential questions
04:28with Pixel 10's Gemini feature called MagicQ. This is a feature that basically uses AI to help fill in
04:36information based on the context of what you're doing. It's sort of like autofill, but for anything.
04:43If you're texting with someone and they ask for an address of an Airbnb, Gemini can go into your email
04:49and find it for you and suggest that you copy and paste it in. It can show you your flight details when
04:56you're calling an airline, that kind of thing. It's honestly the stuff that I want AI to do for me.
05:03And maybe I should have more existential questions about that. I don't know. I'm not as sure about the
05:10journaling app. So this is new and it's basically taking a cue from iOS, which Sherlocked a bunch of
05:17other journal apps. Journal apps are a thing now. Apparently you can add text and photos to your entries
05:24just like you would expect. And it's going to use AI to actually give you prompts on things based on
05:31what you've written in the past. It even gives you an emoji to kind of summarize your mood for the day,
05:37like smiley face or a frown. I think it's a little bit weird and kind of in the territory of an AI
05:45therapist, which is not a good idea. And knowing that AI is going to read my journal entries and use that
05:52information for future prompts, I think would probably change how I write in my journal. I'm
05:58not a big journaler, honestly, but this gives me the ick. There's a ton more AI features, as you
06:04probably guessed, including that translation feature for phone calls. So the way it works is if
06:09you're calling someone and talking in a different language, the translation will be spoken in that
06:15person's voice. It basically copies what they sound like. You know what? Listen to it in this demo.
06:21This will explain everything.
06:23The weather is very, very beautiful. When I look out the window, I can see the sun and the water. And you
06:33can tell here that I can also say phrases for a very long time, and it is still translated fluently.
06:40The idea is that it sounds a little more conversational and it feels more personal.
06:46The demo we got, it didn't sound exactly like the speaker, but you know, close enough. I'm going to be
06:53trying it out as soon as I can, along with every other AI feature that Google has put into these phones.
07:01In the meantime, the new Pixel phones go up for pre-order today. The 10 Pro starts at $999,
07:07which is the same as last year. The 10 Pro XL starts at $1,199. That's for the 256 gigabyte model.
07:14That's the same price as the 9 Pro XL, but now there's no 1099 128 gigabyte version. The Pixel 10
07:22starts at $799 and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold is $1799, which is a lot of money, but it's not $2,000.
07:31Thank you for watching. Head to theverge.com for more. As always, I'm going to be hosting the Tuesday
07:39Vergecast show coming up so you can expect a lot more. What is a photo talk? And tune in on Friday,
07:45because Jake and I will probably talk about that too. Just a little.
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