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Pixel phones: Google's answer to iPhone, did they screw up?

https://madeby.google.com/ Last night (IST) Google unveiled the new pixel phones that's aimed directly at iPhones. These phones from hardware to software are made by the same team which were going to make the now discontinued project Ara modular phones ( owned by google ) The phone's renders were leaked before the official unveiling. And it didn't impressed many people many people did criticize it and now after it's official, reactions are pretty much the same Here's what Google nailed it Build -The unibody aluminum body looks great, premium and justifies that price tag -no camera bump which is very common yet annoying in today's smartphones Hardware -First phone to have a snapdragon 821 -4GB ram -12MP primary camera which is rated best ever by DXOmark. -Headphone Jack (curious to see how DAC of pixel phones performs) Software -Runs Nougat out of the box however the software running on the phones in preview was a little bit different

There's a new assistant in town. Watchout Siri and cortana

Saw the google live stream, pixel phone made the most hype and they made a huge deal about google assistant, router and daydream viewer. One thing what android users wanted for a long time is google now to be more interactive . now it looks like their dreams might come true. But How does it stacks up against the competition? first of all they did a pretty good job with the UI (judging by the demo).  its, in a lots of ways similar to siri or cortana but so much better it has contextual search built in, so it knows whats on your screen when you ask a questions. that's a huge plus point that gives google assistant an edge over cortana and siri more over it uses google's knowledge graph, image and voice recognition along with translate. which makes it more natural and accurate in showing results . It can even show results from other websites which google itself doesn't have so it gives answers most of the time instead of prompting to do web search on it (like cur