Made by Google Event Live Blog (Starts at 11am ET/15:00 UTC)
by Ian Cutress on October 9, 2018 9:50 AM EST- Posted in
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10:54AM EDT - Continuing my whirlwind trip of New York City, today I'm here at Google's annual "Made by Google" event. The event has become the company's traditional venue for launching their in-house hardware, such as the Pixel phone family and various Chromebook offshoots. Doors are set to open here in a bit at 10am ET, with the presentation itself starting at 11am (15:00 UTC). To address the elephant in the room, this year's event is a little awkward for everyone because so much about the Pixel 3 was leaked in advance - including outright hands-on articles that we published last week. So what we're expecting to be Google's biggest announcements have already been spoiled, though that doesn't mean we've seen the whole picture.
10:57AM EDT - A few minutes to go. I'm sat next to Sascha Segan from PCMag
11:00AM EDT - Close by is Cristiano Amon and Steve Mollenkopf from Qualcomm
11:00AM EDT - Also Verizon
11:01AM EDT - Here we go
11:01AM EDT - dance beat ensues
11:02AM EDT - Enter youtubers
11:03AM EDT - Google intro video
11:04AM EDT - Rick Osterloh to the stage
11:04AM EDT - New venue, new city
11:04AM EDT - Today is all about help
11:04AM EDT - Verizon and Telus here as well
11:04AM EDT - Google 20th anniversary
11:04AM EDT - >Anandtech is older
11:04AM EDT - delivering information has always been in Google's DNA
11:05AM EDT - making life easier for people
11:05AM EDT - constant focus on shaving milliseconds off of searches
11:05AM EDT - Designed our own servers, our own services
11:05AM EDT - Providing the most relevant search results
11:05AM EDT - finding the nuances of language and the intent of words
11:06AM EDT - Translating 143 billion words a day in 100 languages
11:06AM EDT - Speech recognition can roll out voice interactions in devices
11:06AM EDT - Lessen the pain of email responding with quick responses
11:06AM EDT - Finishing sentences as you type
11:06AM EDT - cutting back on doing work
11:07AM EDT - Mobile first with Pixel
11:07AM EDT - Google Assistant is much better at doing things for you - Duplex technology
11:07AM EDT - Making more info more accessible
11:07AM EDT - Similar with search, images
11:07AM EDT - Pixel still has a great camera, some call it the best, a year later
11:07AM EDT - Tracing the intelligence back to google search
11:07AM EDT - using google to search for images
11:08AM EDT - Spent years researching computer vision
11:08AM EDT - Getting better every year
11:08AM EDT - Putting technology to work for Google users
11:08AM EDT - Google Photos make photos accessible by search
11:08AM EDT - Smoothing out shakiness of videos
11:09AM EDT - Contextual search based on images
11:09AM EDT - Also google maps
11:09AM EDT - Pushing forward in all brands
11:09AM EDT - Intersection of AI, software, and hardware
11:10AM EDT - AI is not artificial - it helps people get things done every day
11:10AM EDT - photos, maps, smart home
11:10AM EDT - putting users first guides Google's work
11:10AM EDT - Respect each user as an individual - a personal Google
11:10AM EDT - Google Assistant is the best expression of this
11:11AM EDT - Committed to the security of users
11:11AM EDT - Do it at the OS level with Google Play and Protect
11:11AM EDT - Google Titan Security for data centers
11:11AM EDT - New dedicated chip.
11:11AM EDT - >We covered this at Hot Chips
11:12AM EDT - users in control of their digital wellbeing
11:12AM EDT - You control devices, not devices control you
11:13AM EDT - Google Home devices are expanding into more devices and homes
11:13AM EDT - Pixel book
11:13AM EDT - quotes from reviews
11:14AM EDT - Just getting started on Pixelbook
11:14AM EDT - Recapping Pixel 2
11:14AM EDT - Continual updates on Pixel 2
11:14AM EDT - Designed worlds best camera in Pixel 3
11:15AM EDT - For life at home, power of desktop in the Pixel Slate
11:15AM EDT - Mange connceted home from Google Hoe Hub
11:15AM EDT - Google Home Hub
11:16AM EDT - >About google titan, the link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13248/hot-chips-2018-google-titan-live-blog-6pm-pt-1am-utc
11:17AM EDT - Incredible material progress in desing
11:17AM EDT - evolutions of applications people know and love
11:17AM EDT - Pushing how technology can be designed for today
11:17AM EDT - More than 45 design industry awards
11:18AM EDT - Video time
11:18AM EDT - Google is about being unique in form and shape
11:18AM EDT - Technology needs to be closer to its users
11:18AM EDT - osft circles and curves are familiar
11:19AM EDT - Holding google in your hand
11:19AM EDT - The home is the most important place
11:19AM EDT - Google WiFi to extended networks
11:20AM EDT - Bringing together google and Nest
11:20AM EDT - Smarthome is too complex with siloed technologies
11:20AM EDT - Shared vision of a thoughtful home
11:20AM EDT - Nest has saved over 25b kWh of energy to date
11:21AM EDT - Newest addition to the Google Home family
11:21AM EDT - Google home helps simplify the complex parts of home life
11:22AM EDT - Imagine seeing a response when you ask google home hub a question
11:22AM EDT - redesigned most of google services to give visual help
11:22AM EDT - Obsessed about the interaction and design
11:23AM EDT - Small enough to fit in any space in home, but large enough to use
11:23AM EDT - No camera embedded
11:23AM EDT - Hub can respond to the ambient lighting
11:23AM EDT - Ambient EQ
11:24AM EDT - Hub can blend into your home
11:24AM EDT - Can have multiple users as it learns how people talk separately
11:24AM EDT - Voice match
11:26AM EDT - Using voice for help with GA
11:26AM EDT - Food mode
11:26AM EDT - Youtube on hub
11:27AM EDT - instructional videos and music
11:28AM EDT - Hear and see the music brings the concert into your home
11:28AM EDT - 6 months of Youtube music on purchase
11:28AM EDT - Hub downtime mode
11:28AM EDT - Filters for family friendly content
11:29AM EDT - Control and manage devices through one interface
11:29AM EDT - Smart home hub and control panel
11:29AM EDT - Home Hub Home View
11:30AM EDT - Works with tap or voice
11:30AM EDT - Control music, lights, thermostat
11:30AM EDT - Control outside the home as well
11:31AM EDT - Taking the smart home to the next level
11:31AM EDT - 200M devices and 1000 brands work with Home View
11:32AM EDT - From full house to first lightbulb
11:32AM EDT - Hub will be the best photo frame not in use
11:32AM EDT - Deep integration with Google Photo
11:32AM EDT - 1.2b photos and videos uploaded to Google Photos every day
11:33AM EDT - Live album updates when you take pivtures
11:33AM EDT - Hub uses machine learning to show good photos. Filter out blurry / underexposed photos
11:33AM EDT - Filter out receipts
11:34AM EDT - $149, oct 22nd at retail in US, UK, Aus
11:34AM EDT - pre-order it now
11:35AM EDT - So, english only?
11:35AM EDT - Osterloh back to the stage
11:36AM EDT - Google built Chrome for a fast web experience, but people used it on slow PCs, so Chrome OS
11:37AM EDT - >Note, no tech details about Home Hub: screen resolution, battery life, other key info
11:37AM EDT - Chromebook recently got Play Store and Google Assistant - linked together in pixelbook
11:37AM EDT - Now, Pixel Slate
11:38AM EDT - Powerful productiviy in a fresh mobile form
11:38AM EDT - fanless
11:38AM EDT - Combine helpful elements of mobile, tablet, and notebook, in one device
11:38AM EDT - Thin and light
11:38AM EDT - lines and edges in midnight blue
11:38AM EDT - Perfectly balanced center of gravity
11:38AM EDT - detailed display
11:39AM EDT - 293 PPI, 6M pixels (3000 x 2000 ?)
11:39AM EDT - Now a video from content creators using slate
11:39AM EDT - Ultra HD+
11:40AM EDT - low temp poly-crystalline silicon technology display
11:40AM EDT - RGB Stripe
11:40AM EDT - Dual front facing speakers
11:41AM EDT - The best entertainment experience you can hold in your hands
11:41AM EDT - Youtube TV free for 3 months with Pixel Slate or Pixel Book
11:41AM EDT - Computational photography coming to the slate
11:41AM EDT - 8MP front and rear cameras
11:41AM EDT - machine learning for photos
11:41AM EDT - Portrait mode
11:41AM EDT - Front facing is wide angle for video chat
11:42AM EDT - Sensor with larger pixels
11:42AM EDT - New chapter for Chrome OS
11:42AM EDT - UI is now optimized for touch screen
11:42AM EDT - Full desktop experience, not one designed for a phone
11:42AM EDT - Full linux apps and dev tools
11:42AM EDT - Launcher is customized with best apps
11:42AM EDT - A personal google
11:42AM EDT - Split screen (like windows snap
11:43AM EDT - Integrated Google Assistant
11:43AM EDT - Family Link for family control
11:43AM EDT - Do not disturb feature
11:44AM EDT - Fingerprint sensor in the power button
11:44AM EDT - Pixel slate keyboard
11:44AM EDT - no pairing needed, just connect it
11:45AM EDT - full size backlit keyboard
11:45AM EDT - round keys
11:45AM EDT - similar feeling trackpad
11:45AM EDT - folio is infinitely adjustable
11:45AM EDT - G Suite integration
11:46AM EDT - Used by 1b worldwide
11:46AM EDT - No camera bump
11:46AM EDT - Full dekstop chrome browser
11:46AM EDT - Extensions and as many tabs as needed
11:46AM EDT - all new Adobe Acrobat
11:46AM EDT - Optimizing apps for Chrome OS
11:47AM EDT - Starts at $599. Keyboard at $199. Pen is $99
11:48AM EDT - Available later this year on Google Play store
11:48AM EDT - No tech specs. We believe it's x86 though based on leaks
11:49AM EDT - Time for Pixel
11:49AM EDT - A phone that answers itself, a new experience when charging, a phone that never misses a shot
11:49AM EDT - Iconic two tone design
11:50AM EDT - Just Black, Clearly White, and Not Pink
11:50AM EDT - 5.5-inch Pixel 3, 6.3-inch Pixel 3 XL
11:50AM EDT - Edge to edge viewing experience with extra space at the top
11:50AM EDT - OLED with adaptive color profiles
11:51AM EDT - Front firing stereo speakers are 40% louder
11:51AM EDT - custom sound profiles
11:51AM EDT - Youtube Music with 6 months free
11:52AM EDT - A new partnership with Annie Leibowitz on photography
11:52AM EDT - First time she's partnered with any camera
11:52AM EDT - Pixel 3 already used for magazine covers at Conde Nast
11:53AM EDT - Pixel camera is ahead of the curve
11:53AM EDT - end-to-end for AI hardware, software
11:53AM EDT - zero shutter lag HDR+
11:54AM EDT - Still the only company using it
11:54AM EDT - Pixel Visual Core
11:54AM EDT - Inside Pixel 3
11:54AM EDT - Powers new computationally intensive camera features
11:55AM EDT - Top shot solves the problem of pressing the camera at the wrong time
11:55AM EDT - Select the best photo in a sequence
11:56AM EDT - All shots in HDR+
11:56AM EDT - Super Res Zoom
11:57AM EDT - Takes several photos given the movement of someone's hand, enabling zoom quality
11:57AM EDT - Used in advanced astronomy research put into the device
11:57AM EDT - Night Sight - low light
11:57AM EDT - Never need to use a flash again
11:58AM EDT - Uses machine learning to choose the best colors in low light
11:58AM EDT - Coming to all Pixel devices next month
11:59AM EDT - Group Selfie Cam
11:59AM EDT - front facing wide angle
11:59AM EDT - 184% more of the scene than iPhone Xs
11:59AM EDT - Just zoom out
12:00PM EDT - AR stickers now become Playground. Applicable on both front and rear facing cameras
12:00PM EDT - Tie in with Marvel
12:00PM EDT - Childish Gambino playground coming soon
12:01PM EDT - Coming to Pixel 3, coming to Pixel 1 and 2 soon
12:01PM EDT - Now Google Lens
12:01PM EDT - Integrated directly into the camera
12:01PM EDT - identifies objects, phone numbers, web addresses
12:01PM EDT - Combines Pixel Digital Core with search and computer vision
12:02PM EDT - Find products
12:02PM EDT - Photo booth mode
12:02PM EDT - Motion auto focus
12:03PM EDT - Portrait mode, edit depth of field
12:03PM EDT - Free unlimited storage at original quality
12:03PM EDT - Camera bump
12:03PM EDT - New Google Assistant with Duplex
12:03PM EDT - Rolls out city by city next month
12:04PM EDT - Books reservations for you
12:04PM EDT - Use GA to answer a phone for you and ask who is calling and why
12:04PM EDT - Never have to talk to a telemarketer again
12:04PM EDT - Uses voice-to-text translation
12:05PM EDT - Pixel 3 in the US, other Pixels coming soon
12:05PM EDT - Flip to Shhh - silences notifications when phone is upside down
12:05PM EDT - Pixel 3 includes the Titan Security chip
12:05PM EDT - Smartest wireless charger ever - Pixel stand
12:06PM EDT - Does a smart wake up alarms to help you wake
12:06PM EDT - Can control connected devices when attached
12:07PM EDT - Becomes a photoframe when not in use, or a clock
12:07PM EDT - Preorder now at $799 Oct 17th, Pixel stand is $79 (?)
12:09PM EDT - That's for the normal Pixel 3 then
12:09PM EDT - First on Verizon, no price on XL
12:09PM EDT - Coming to Aus, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, UK, USA
12:10PM EDT - Nov 1 in Europe
12:11PM EDT - [Image from Anshel Sag, my phone went nuts and logged me out]
12:11PM EDT - Osterloh now wrapping up
12:11PM EDT - Full details on store.google.com
12:12PM EDT - That's a wrap
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Meteor2 - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
I think Google are saying "look at what it can do, not what it is". To be honest the specs download at the XS launch seemed completely superfluous. The game demo said it all about the power of those phones. (Note, no game demo here! Google knows no-one can build an ARM chip to compete with Apple's).Peskarik - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
That thing with GA and auto-answering telemarketers - THAT's great! "Hello. Hello, who are you? I want to tell you about the great deal I can offer you on your life insurance. Drop dead, bip". :-)imaheadcase - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
$899 for the XL version..what was the 6p when it came out? That seems kinda steep imo. Maybe if the stand was included.Peskarik - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
quite "cheap" compared to some othersshabby - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
The s9+ was cheaper when it came out and looks easy better than the pixel 3. I'm not sure where this premium price is coming from, nothing about the pixel 3 screams premium, especially the boring design.Meteor2 - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
The camera is amazing though.shabby - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
That's not enough to warrant such a price.Meteor2 - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
Nokia 7.1 feels like the perfect 5X replacement. Launched three years later, slightly larger screen and battery is same size body, about 80% faster processor, same two years of major updates and three years of security. Most importantly: same price!DigitalFreak - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
Nexus 6p 64 GB was $549 at launch. The Pixel 3 XL with 64 GB is $899. Quite the price jump in just 3 years.Teckk - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
No notch in Pixel 3, only in XL !