- Here's the Pixel 4 and the Pixel 4 XL.

Are you surprised?

Of course you're not surprised.

These are probably the most leaked phones in the history

of phone leaks.

What could possible be surprising here?

Well, I played around with them a little bit

and I think there might be a couple of things

that I've learned from using them

that you couldn't actually know just from following

all the leaks.

So, let's get into it.

You know the basics, they're Android phones

that are made by Google and they come in two sizes,

there's a 5.7 inch screen and 6.3 inch screen.

There's no notch on that screen

but that's because the bezel up top is extra big

so that Google can fit a ton of sensors up there

including face unlock sensors and a literal radar chip.

But let's start with just how they look.

Every single Pixel phones has looked terrible

in leaked photos but better in person.

And that's true again here.

The aluminum rails around the Gorilla Glass

are kind of prominent but in a good way.

They're like the phone equivalent

of big chunky eyeglass frames.

The white one and the orange one, and the orange one

is limited edition by the way, have matte glass backs

but the black one is all glossy.

And they're all IP60 water resistant.

They've got that big square camera bump

just like the iPhone but the Pixel only has two cameras

on it, a regular and a 2x telephoto.

Okay, so every Pixel phone up to now

has been known mainly for its great camera

plus clean Google software but the Pixel 4

wants to be known for a lot of things.

It's seriously has so many new features

and they've all leaked so much that it's easy to forget

how much is new here.

Let's start with Motion Sense which is the brand name

for Soli which is that radar chip.

Google isn't using it to its full potential yet

but it is using it for some pretty cool things.

It forms a sort of virtual radar bubble over your phone

and it can detect your presence.

So for example, if you reach for your phone,

it turns on and starts looking for your face automatically.

If you walk away from your phone, it realizes

that you're gone and it turns off the always on display.

If a call comes in or an alarm goes off,

as soon as your hand gets near the phone,

it automatically gets quieter and then you can just wave

to dismiss the call or the alarm.

And if music is playing, you can swipe left or right

to change songs.

That's actually pretty much it,

so it could all seem I don't know, kinda gimmicky?

I haven't decided yet.

But there is one gimmick that everybody is going to love,

you can have a Pokemon wallpaper that you can wave at,

and the Pokemon will wave back at you.

Or you can tickle the Pokemon by waggling

your fingers at it, just be like,

tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle!

It's fun.

In addition to the radar, the top bezel

also has those face unlock IR sensors

which were just a little differently on a technical level

from Apple's Face ID system

but it's basically the same idea.

You set it up in a similar way and then it just works

like it really works and it's really fast.

Did you catch it?

It just unlocked.

Here, let's show you again.

I don't know how secure this new system is,

but holy hell it is fast.

Motion Sense detects when you're reaching for the phone

and then it's unlocked and back to whatever you're doing

before you can even tap the screen.

It's so fast that Google had to put a setting in for people

who actually wanna see their locked screen

because otherwise you'd never actually get a chance

to see it.

And hey, since we're actually talking about the screen,

let's talk about the screen.

It's OLED in both phones and they should be about the same

quality as each other but I don't know

if it's gonna be a good year or a bad Pixel 2 kind of year

for screen quality.

But it is gonna be a spec heavy year because this screen

has a 90 hertz refresh rate which makes

all the movement super smooth.

Now, Google says that it's a dynamic refresh rate

so you can ratchet it back down to 60 hertz

when you don't need it.

And I gotta say, you can definitely see it in person,

I love how it looks.

Google says that it supports HDR

using the UHDA Certification which okay, sure.

The screen can also change its color temperature

to match the room just like the iPhone.

Now, the thing about fancy 90 hertz screen

is they can take up a lot of battery

and I'm worried about the battery in the small one.

It's only 2800 milliamps.

That variable refresh rate will help

but we're gonna have to see.

The bigger one is 3700 milliamps which is better

but it's not massive.

At the very least, they both support wireless charging

and fast charging.

And heck, since we're halfway through,

let's just round up the specs.

They've got a Snapdragon 855 processor,

six gigs of RAM, which that should be enough

and they come with 64 gigs of storage

which ain't much and the max you can get

is only 128.

There's also a Titan security chip and one more chip,

the new Pixel Neural Core.

It handles the photography stuff but it also handles

voice and Google has loaded

its entire machine learning model for English

onto the phone, no internet needed.

That means that the Assistant is super fast

at doing stuff like opening apps or even searching

inside apps like Twitter or YouTube.

And there's a new voice recording app

that transcribes your voice in real time

without having to put anything on the internet at all.

Okay, finally, made you wait long enough.

Let's talk about the camera.

Up until the iPhone 11 Pro,

the Pixel 3 was still the best camera on the market

and the Pixel 4 now is, well, actually,

I can't tell you that yet.

We haven't really used it yet

but there are a few new features to talk about.

Google is excited to tell you that it can do

astrophotography which sure, that seems neat

but I'm more interested in the improve portrait mode

because it can use data from the second camera.

And now, in addition to adjusting brightness,

you can also adjust the shadows to get more control

over the HDR processing.

Plus, that Neural Core means that you can see

the preview of what HDR looks like right in the view finder

instead of having to wait for it to process.

The main sensor is 12 megapixels and the telephoto is 16.

And my big question is why did Google go with telephoto

instead of ultra wide?

Especially since it's only a 2x telephoto.

Well, Google answers is that they've got

this fancy super zoom tech from last year

and it gets even better where it can use data

from the second telephoto lens.

So they think people get more used out of it

than they would out of an ultra wide.

Okay.

There's only one selfie camera this time around,

but it does have a 90 degree field of view

so that is pretty wide.

Also, last thing, there's this neat feature

where you can take a photo and then jump

right to sending it to another app right

from the view finder by sliding on the preview bubble.

But here's an important thing, I don't know video

is gonna be much better this year.

It still maxes out at 4k 30, and when I asked Google

if they changed much about their computational

photography models overall, their answers

are more about tweaks than they were about leaps.

Look, we're gonna have to test the camera as always,

and we definitely will.

The Pixel 4 will be an all four major carriers

in the US and Google promises me

they're not gonna put too much crap where on 'em.

Looking at you AT&T, don't mess this up.

Anyway, there is a lot more to say about the Pixel 4,

I didn't even get into like automatic car crash detection

but the big stuff is face unlock, a 90 hertz screen,

Motion Sense and hopefully, a better camera.

It's a little bit more than I expected from the rumors

but these aren't huge surprises.

Oh, right, you probably want to know

how much it's gonna cost.

It's gonna start at $799 for the small one

and $899 for the big one

and then it's a hundred bucks more

for a 128 gigs of storage.

They're available for pre-order right now

and they should ship on October 24th.

Is that the right price for this set of features?

Well, I'm not gonna tell you that right now

but what I will tell you is that I cannot wait to review it.

Hey everybody, thank you so much for watching.

Have you been waiting for the Pixel 4?

Did Google live up to your expectations

after all those leaks?

Let's talk about that down in the comments

and also keep an eye out for many more videos

from this Google hardware event.