So, uh, the leaks were true.

The rumors were riel.

Two weeks ago, Google invited me out to Mountain View California, to their headquarters to see what they've been working on.

I could bring my camera, and I agreed to go.

And there the condition was that I couldn't share what I saw until today.

That day is now October 9th, so I can share.

So this is your exclusive first look in hands on at Google Pixel three and picks with three ex l their flag ships for 2018.

Now, of course, a lot of what's leaked was the hardware and that it was pretty much all right, well, except for the conspiracies.

But I'm gonna go through everything just as if you haven't seen it all because it's actually still a lot of pretty exciting stuff.

And, hey, maybe you haven't seen it all yet, so you can start the back of the phone and see it's pretty similar in designed to last year's Pixel two.

But with improved build quality and a lot of ways, it's a small design update, but it's clearly still a pixel, but it's now all glass from top to bottom in between aluminum rails.

So typical 2018 fashion.

But you still see this two toned finish, and that's because the bottom half of the glass is a sort of textured or frosted in a way that gives it this this soft touch matte finish.

It's subtle, and it really only shows up from certain angles.

But I like this a lot.

Feels nice.

And before I forget, the three new colors this year are just black, clearly white and not pink.

And yes, those are the actual color names, and they're keeping the code power button train going to sew.

The white has this mint colored power button interesting, and the not pink has this bold orange power button.

And in the black on black, one has a black power button.

Also fun fact.

They painted the inside of the USB seaport black, which is a nice touch completing the truly matte black everything pixel three well done on this one.

Google.

Aside from that, it does just feel a little bit heavier, thanks to more glass, but overall it feels good.

The buttons are really cliquey and they feel premium in my hand.

You still have the squeeze for assistant, and you do get wireless charging now, thanks to the glass.

And it's also now I p 68 water resistant finally, and you'll notice, since they move the SIM card trade to the bottom, and all the buttons are on the right.

Now the left side of the phone is completely blank, just devoid of anything.

It's totally smooth, which is also interesting.

I'd say the worst part about this build is actually the fact that it's kind of slippery despite the soft touch back.

Okay, then around the front, probably the most buzzed about part of all the leaks, the screens and that notch that notch, The notch is on the pixel.

Three Excel.

It's tall is hell alongside much larger than normal chin also.

But there's a lot going on here to the regular sized pixel.

Three does not have this notch, so the XL display is a 6.3 inch 29 60 by 14 40 flexible Oleg display that goes right up to the edges.

As you can see, just as close to the edge is the one plus six or iPhone 10 s or any other flagship, and the smaller pixel three with no notch of shame, has a 5.5 inch 2160 by 10 80 display.

Also flexible.

Oh, lead and I'm calling it now that's gonna be a sneaky candidate for small phone of the year.

That's just the state of phones were in right now.

Small phones are getting big.

There's no headphone jack and no explainable storage, just like last year's pixels.

But we know there will be a 64 gig or 128 gig version.

There's Snapdragon, a 45 and four gigs of Ram inside, which, it's kind of weird to say, but that's actually less ram that I'd expected.

We'll have to keep an eye on that.

And it does keep the fingerprint reader on the back in the same spot where it belongs, at least as long as they're not doing it below the glass yet.

And also still one camera, which we'll talk about in a second.

But you're definitely wondering at this point what's the deal with the notch right?

We've seen phones with notches all year round, and we get it.

It's necessary.

We want to get the screen is close to the edges as possible.

But this notch is, ah, lot taller specifically than any other noxious seen in any phone.

And there's still a chin.

What gives you up at the top of both phones?

Actually, there's not one but two front facing cameras and a large front facing speaker.

That's part of a stereo pair.

That's it.

No facial recognition?

No, I r dot projector.

Nothing really crazy like that.

Just two cameras and a really big front facing speaker.

So is it worth that?

Well, as far as the speakers, I've heard them, and they are really impressively loud and clear.

I'm a fan of what I've heard from them.

I'd say they're on par with the razor phone just for my first impression, although I didn't get to do any side by sides yet.

So if you're the type of person to put your phone like in it in a corner of a room and fill it up with music, you can do that with this phone like a mini boom box.

And, of course, gaming and watching videos and personal audio will all sound really good, and the two front facing cameras are again a good idea.

Elected when I saw it with the L G V 40 and actually think these will be much better because not only are they Google's cameras and they're significantly better and quality on the pixel, but the difference between the standard and wide angle Selfie camera is bigger.

It goes from a 75 degree field of view in the standard toe, a 97 degree field of view, much wider now.

Is that enough of a justification for this huge notch?

Um, hard to say at this point.

I mean, I guess speakers that are that big have to have that much room.

But then again, the grill is not that big.

I don't know.

We'll have to test it out for the full review, and we'll see if I end up getting used to it, just like I got used to notches in all these other phone.

But as of right now, that's like the defining characteristic people think of when I think of the Excel.

So let me know what you guys think of that trade off.

Either way, that's about all it's major and new with the hardware again, a smaller pixel three is a much better looking phone for most people.

But I'm willing to give the XL a chance because I am still a big phone person.

And on the camera that we all love so deeply on the pixel, it is in fact, upgraded again, which has me very excited new 12 megapixel sensor at F 1.8 with O I s And, of course, same camera and the excel in the small one.

And you already know pixels.

Visual chorus still here That's so important to white pixels, Ben, I guess the undisputed smartphone camera champ for the past year.

Actually, that ties neatly into software because Google just always does so much with software and machine learning An aye aye.

And that's a big reason why they have one camera on the back instead of two or three.

So a lot of the features I'm about to go over with you while they're technically new to pixel three are also just software ready.

There's top shot.

So once you've taken a photo, it analyzes other frames that were also captured and uses a I to decide if it can suggest a better one.

Maybe someone was blinking or their hairs in their face.

You don't even have to take another photo.

It's just waiting for you.

There's a new night mode in the camera that's actually called night sight.

It's supposed to be significantly improved, but I got a test that, to be sure, there's some other great night modes and other smartphone cameras.

There's something called Super Resume, which this is super eso Google.

It uses literally the shaking or rotation of your hands as you're taking a picture.

We're a few digital zoom.

It will use that to compute a higher resolution image from that zoomed photo, so it'll help you take better digital zoom photos.

It's not necessarily gonna be as good as optical Zoom, but that's still pretty damn cool.

The Google Lens functionality is now built into the viewfinder, So without even snapping a photo, you could just point the camera at a business card.

A restaurant menu.

It'll pull info like an email address or a phone number for youto one touch call or composed sh USH mode is a new feature that literally just set your phone to silent or do not disturb mode.

When you put it face down on a table.

Nice And there's also now a call screening feature powered by Google Duplex coming later and rolling out to ah couple cities at a time.

But basically, when you get a call, you can accept, reject or sent to call screen, where that person calling you will interact with your Google assistant and you'll see a live transcription of that interaction while it happens and you can decide to cut them off or pick up unreal.

And then, according to Google, because I asked, uh, everything except for shash mode that I just talked about will be exclusive to Pixel three, not come into pixel one or pixel two.

So even though it's just software, it's technically still a pixel three feature.

But that's really all there is to know now that Pixel three and Three Excel our official, you got it all in one place.

And like I said, I still think that smaller one is probably gonna be the one.

A lot of people are more attracted to small ones, starting at 7 99 and pixel three x l starts at 8 99 I guess I'm just happy that phones this year, when they have a small version and a big version.

They're not handicapping the smaller version like it always used to be.

The smaller one would have one less gig of Ram, where they take the second camera out or something.

Something weird like that now The iPhone, tennis and Tennis Max Same features except for displaying battery pixel three picks with three Excel same features except for displaying battery.

Now, aside from the phones, Google also had a couple other hardware announcements today.

First of all, the pixel in the box comes with an 18 What fast charger and a pair of U.

S.

B.

C headphones in the box.

They wanted everyone to know that they're the same style as the pixel buds, and I have a lot of the functionality to button optional accessory they're building is called the Pixel Stand, and it's a wireless charger that also triggers a doctor Google assistant mode.

So it's like turning your phone into a Google home for 79 bucks, and clearly the speakers are meant to be loud enough, so that's an interesting proposition for a nightstand.

There's also now $150 Google Home Hub with a display and a couple new colors.

Obviously, having a seven inch touch screen makes for a much more user friendly and interactive Google assistant experience.

So I thought that was pretty cool.

And there's also now this new pixel slate, which I'm gonna be honest.

It's a cool looking tablet, but when I used it two weeks ago, it looked like a Laghi stuttering mess.

But that was just, you know, still late prototype face.

I'm gonna reserve judgment on that one till I handle a final version.

So they're all this, but yeah, what do you think of Pixel three?

Obviously was leaked and there was a lot of preconceived notions.

And now that it's all official, you probably have your thoughts either confirmed or totally changed.

Who knows?

I'm excited to get hands on the camera and definitely follow on Twitter for when I do get hands on the phone again and get to start staring sample photos.

But let me know what you want to see in the full review.

I'll be working on that shortly again.

Thanks for watching.