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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: What To Know About Google's New Pixel 2 Smartphone [Watch (HLS stream): What To Know About Google's New Pixel 2 Smartphone](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PObvgJx1.m3u8) (2:51)  _Published 2017-10-04. Google on Wednesday announced the Google Pixel 2, which comes in either 5-inch or 6-inch screen size options. The smaller Pixel 2 will start at $649, while the Pixel XL begins at $849._ --- Jul 27, 2023 10:44 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [How Google's Pixel Stacks Up Against the iPhone 7](/video/MoVILMeg/) ### How Google's Pixel Stacks Up Against the iPhone 7 [Google Pixel C](/video/HokSKatU/) ### Google Pixel C [Let's Talk About Google's Chromebook Pixel](/video/JLslwCcD/) ### Let's Talk About Google's Chromebook Pixel --- ## Transcript We're proud to introduce the Google Pixel Two. We've evolved the Pixel's iconic look to be even bolder. The all aluminum body, with a premium hybrid coding, gives it a sleek and clean profile. The soft sculpted back, with a distinct sideband feels comfortable and secure in your hand. The refined visor is made of sturdy, gently curved colored glass and transitions seamlessly into the metal body. We've placed a fingerprint sensor where your finger naturally falls. It's extremely accurate, secure, and it unlocks faster than any other smart phone. The smaller five inch pixel tube features a full HD display and it as smart as it is beautiful, the display intelligently selects which pixels to turn on leaving the others perfectly dark for a 100, 000 to 1 contrast ratio. Let me show you the pixels tools new always on display. You can see an important information like the time, date, email and text notifications, and reminders all without pushing any buttons or unlocking the device. We also made it faster and easier to get to the Google assistant on Pixel to. With a new feature called active edge. Just give your pixel a quick squeeze where your hand naturally holds the phone and ask for whatever you need, here's a quick demo. I just squeeze the phone, take a selfie. One hand, no buttons. Help me out front row. [ APPLAUSE ] Nice. A pixel two has a 12 megapixel F1. 8 aperture rear camera with optical image stabilization. We've integrated these components with our HDR plus computational photography. For every photo, we take a burst of shots with short exposure times to avoid blowing out the highlights. We then align and combine each pixel algorithmically for optimal color and contrast. All of this happens instantly with zero shutter lag. The results are stunning, with high dynamic range, even in challenging low light condition. What's unique about Pixel 2, is it can generate a true depth map with a single lens. So you get beautiful portrait shots without needing a second camera. The way this works is that the Pixel 2 camera includes a dual pixel sensor technology. This means that each pixel in an image contains a right and a left view. The different in perspective from those pixels, combined with machine learning models trained on almost a million photos, means that this works on really hard cases, like a busy, colorful background. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"What To Know About Google's New Pixel 2 Smartphone","description":"Google on Wednesday announced the Google Pixel 2, which comes in either 5-inch or 6-inch screen size options. 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