Google Pixel Hands-on Review Video!

Google just announced their Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones last night, and despite their camera improvements over the Pixel 2 series, we can’t help but draw parallels with the camera improvements pushed by AI powered phones like the Huawei P20 Pro. The Super Res Zoom, which enhances digital zoom sounds like a poor man’s copy of the hardware enhanced Hybrid Zoom while Fused Video Stabilization sounds just like AI Stabilization.

The unreleased upcoming Night Sight update also sounds like a carbon copy of Huawei’s Night mode, but Huawei already have a Super Night Mode update on the way for phones like the Huawei Nova 3 and others. Long known as the defacto standard for Android cameraphones, perhaps the time is nigh for photographers and camera fans to start looking towards Huawei and their upcoming Huawei Mate 20 series for the cameraphone innovations of 2018? Is the Huawei Mate 20 the new cameraphone king of 2018?

Google's own Pixel XL smartphone has been taken apart by the folks at iFixit who have given it a repairability score of 6 out of 10. To put this into perspective, the recent Apple iPhone 7 got a score of 7 so while the iFixit teardown shows modular components from both Samsung and HTC, getting to them from the thin screen is a bit more difficult. No Malaysia release dates for the Google Pixel or Pixel XL but we may soon get our hands on one so stay tuned to TechNave.com.