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00:00So we've come a long way with smartphones and you could definitely see that
00:03when I reviewed every single iPhone in a row that's ever been made 1 through 13.
00:08But this, this should be very different because the question of what exactly defines a Google phone
00:16has changed quite a bit over the years. They've been all over the place
00:19but they've also come a long way in a different way.
00:30So what is a Google phone first of all? Well today the correct answer would be
00:50a Pixel of course, right? But if you ask the same question anywhere from around 2010 to 2015
00:56the correct answer would have been a Nexus. A Nexus is a Google phone or maybe any number of
01:02Google Play editions. But if we're going all the way back to the beginning, which we are,
01:07it started with this, the G1. So the G1 was manufactured by HTC. And this is going to be
01:15a key thing to pay attention to throughout this whole timeline because until the year 2016 Google
01:20has never been the manufacturer, the hardware company that builds the Google phone. Google
01:25makes great software and great services, but absolutely has never been a hardware company.
01:30They've just been out here making Android. So before the G1, Android was originally built to
01:34be an alternate operating system for digital cameras. Still a great idea by the way. But
01:40eventually Google bought Android in 2005. I think Andy Rubin at some point called it literally the
01:46best deal ever. But there was briefly a prototype called the Sooner that was never sold, but was
01:52manufactured also by HTC based on their Excalibur and used to demonstrate and test this new version
01:58of an open-sourced mobile operating system. And then by 2008, we had the T-Mobile G1. I remember
02:05really wanting this phone, but I was on Verizon and I was 15. So I couldn't just switch for a
02:09phone that looked cool, but it did. It looked so cool. It was really a different design from so
02:14many of the other phones out at that time. It had a track ball in addition to the touchscreen,
02:19which wasn't that weird because BlackBerry has had those too, but there was also the end call
02:24sleep wake button. There was a dedicated camera button with a state-of-the-art three megapixel
02:28camera on the back, but also there were these buttons down here on a chin that's bent in at
02:33the bottom, which is very different. And that sliding mechanism for the keyboard, which is still
02:39super springy and very satisfying was always pretty unique, even at a time where lots of
02:44phones had springs and hinges. And of course, on top of all of that, it was running Android
02:49version one on 192 megabytes of RAM and a 320 by 480 display. Now being different isn't always
02:57necessarily good, right? This phone definitely got mixed reviews when it dropped. You know,
03:02the low contrast screen wasn't amazing. There was no headphone jack. So you needed an adapter for
03:07this proprietary mini USB port to plug in headphones. But this Google phone was all about
03:13Android. It was all about the software. And that's what made it different from the BlackBerry's or
03:17Palm trios, or even the original iPhone that was out at this time. That's what the G1 was all about.
03:22So this phone had to come out for the rest of what we're talking about today to even exist. But
03:26what most people think of when they think of the first ever Google phone is this, the Nexus 1.
03:33So right off the bat, this phone was a flagship. I remember it was a huge deal that it launched
03:38with a one gigahertz processor. That was a barrier we were approaching at the time.
03:42It had a relatively large 3.7 inch display and a higher 800 by 480 resolution. And beyond all the
03:50new power and the big screen, there was now multi-touch capability. So the most memorable
03:54feature you might remember about this phone was the live wallpaper behind all your icons and new
03:59widgets. I feel like every video on this phone had the live wallpaper with the moving colors,
04:04and you can just touch a bunch of different spots and they'd pop up. Oh, and it had a trackball
04:09again. So clearly Google liked that as much as I did. And there were some other things too, like
04:13the back popped off, battery removable. This phone also launched back this early with Google goggles,
04:20which let you ID things through the camera. That's a long time to be doing that. And also
04:25it launched with the Android market, which was an early first version of what we now know as Google
04:30Play Store. So a lot of things happening on the Nexus 1, but I think really this is the phone
04:35that set the tone for me from what I expect a Google phone to be, which is a flagship,
04:43a very capable flagship phone. But asterisk, this phone is again built by HTC. You can see the
04:49little badge at the bottom here. And so at this point, HTC is building plenty of other great
04:54phones, but they've also collaborated with Google on this one. So we get an HTC build. It's pretty
04:59dense. It's made of metal. It also has a spot for a micro SD card slot to expand memory alongside
05:04that removable battery. There is some resemblance to some other HTC phones that came out around the
05:09time and chief among them was the HTC desire, but with some Google specific adjustments, like the
05:14capacitive button layout below the screen was just for Nexus 1 and the track ball, which also lit up
05:20as a notification light was just for Nexus 1. So this phone was sick. Weird fact though, it was
05:25discontinued completely after six months. You know, it didn't really get any promo from carriers,
05:30it was kind of trying to be sold online only, and it was just over after half a year.
05:34So then we moved on. So what did we get after Nexus 1? We got Nexus S and this one was made
05:42by Samsung. So this launched right around the same time as their first ever Samsung Galaxy S,
05:48hence the name. So those phones were built similarly, but again, this one was customized
05:52a bit for the Google experience. And so now that we have a sequel, this is the first time we're
05:56really thinking about the question, what is a Nexus? What is a Google phone supposed to be?
06:01There were also some curious things about this phone. Like it had a slightly curved
06:05four inch display that wrapped a little bit, I guess, around your face or felt more natural
06:10in the hand, sort of, sure. It was also one of the first ever phones with NFC, which would of
06:15course be the foundation later to Android pay. And it's the first Google phone with a selfie
06:20camera. It was a VGA resolution selfie camera, but it was still a selfie camera. This phone
06:24launched with Android gingerbread, which was one of the first versions. It was the first version to
06:29have a darker aesthetic, not quite hollow, but definitely shades of the night mode we have today.
06:34And the screen off animation also, one of the coolest, most memorable things about this phone,
06:38look like a CRT TV turning off. It's the little things. But really at this point, Nexus is the
06:44phone with the most Google software. It's the pure Android phone. So it doesn't have any bloatware.
06:51It doesn't have any modifications. It doesn't have any skin like you might find on the Samsung
06:56version or an HTC or Motorola phone. It's the Google software phone. So the next year in 2011,
07:02we got the Galaxy Nexus. So there's an even more obvious collab between Google and Samsung. We all
07:08know about Galaxy S. This was a Nexus again made by Samsung. So it's the Galaxy Nexus. And as a
07:15Verizon customer, this was the first Nexus I was able to get. And it was also the first and only
07:21phone I've ever lined up outside of a store and waited for. Then I proceeded to make eight videos
07:26on it. But again, this was a really interesting phone as a Google phone. So it had a much larger
07:324.65 inch still curved 720p HD OLED display. And it had a better five megapixel rear camera on the
07:40back with instant shutter. It still had a headphone jack, and it still had an easily removable
07:44battery. Remember those days when you could just pop out the battery and drop in another one two
07:49seconds later and be at a hundred percent. But now as a Nexus, this phone launches with stock Android
07:554.0 ice cream sandwich, the hollow OS. The physical buttons are gone long before the iPhone dropped
08:01their home button. And Android is now entirely doing onscreen navigation. And like I mentioned,
08:07this phone is in stores. So I got it out of Verizon store. Now it still wasn't a huge seller.
08:12Nexus's were still for Android enthusiasts, but I was in the thick of it. I remember I had
08:18custom ROMs, custom kernels on this phone. I overclocked this phone. I was having a good time
08:23with the Galaxy Nexus, but things were about to change. So I'm going to skip the beloved Nexus
08:287 tablet and the not so beloved Nexus Q media player that technically came up next. They were
08:34Nexus's, but they weren't Google phones. There was also a Motorola Zoom tablet that I loved back in
08:38the day that was succeeded by a Nexus 10, but the next Nexus phone was the Nexus 4. So now we've
08:45moved on to a Google phone made by LG. So this phone is interesting. It sort of took a step back
08:52from being a flagship on the shelf of a carrier store and went back to being a great deal that
08:57you could get online. So we have this unique flat glass design with no camera bump and a super
09:03unique dot pattern underneath that you could see when the light hit it a certain way. It had a slot
09:08speaker around the back, which is an interesting choice, but at least you could cup your hand
09:11around it and hear it better at the front. But of course now with this glass design, it becomes the
09:16first Nexus that supports wireless charging, but the back is no longer removable. This phone dropped
09:23for $299, which in 2012, yep, was a good deal. Although that was the base 8 gig model. So you
09:29could spring for the upgraded 16, roomy 16 gigs of memory for $349. It was lacking LTE at the time,
09:37which was a bit much, but overall the phone is pretty well liked. So now what's a Google phone?
09:44A well-specced, competitive, stock Android phone for enthusiasts? I guess? Well, Nexus 5 was built
09:54by LG again, this time loosely based off of the LG G2, but this was a design I really liked. It
09:59was understated, had some contrasting black and white hardware. I called it the Panda phone because
10:05who else did a white earpiece like this? Nobody. But honestly, the rest of the phone was pretty
10:10forgettable. It got up to a flagship spec again, Snapdragon 800 with two gigs of RAM, 1080p display,
10:17but I was pretty unimpressed by the camera. It did make Hangouts the default text messaging app,
10:22but if you know anything about Google messaging apps, yeah, that wouldn't last long. I think
10:26probably the most significant thing that came from the Nexus 5 was a little extra focus on the stock
10:32Google Now launcher. So these phones have always shipped with AOSP, which is Android Open Source
10:38Project. It's basically just a version of Android that you get when you download it straight from
10:42Google, stock, blank, nothing extra added. But now Google's actually starting to add a little bit of
10:49its own special sauce on top of Android when it ships it with a Nexus phone. So this shipped with
10:56Android 4.4 KitKat, one of the two candy themed collabs, but the launcher had Google Now built in
11:04where you could swipe over from the home screen and it would give you these cards and the Google
11:09assistant would show you this information on the cards that it predicted would be useful to you
11:14before you would even ask for it. So stuff like the weather at a destination you're about to fly to,
11:20or the traffic on your way to work before you leave in the morning, really smart stuff. So Nexus 5
11:26was an uninspiring piece of hardware, pretty simple and basic. Definitely was the beginning
11:32of seeing some of Google leaning into being a smarter phone than your typical smartphone.
11:38Also, shout out to the red version of this guy that came out a few months after launch. That was
11:41so bright that it literally oversaturated pretty much everyone's camera. I remember it was impossible
11:47to make this phone look the actual red that it shipped on video, but it completed the trifecta
11:53of the MKBHD edition smartphone colors. So that was very nice. Okay, here comes 2014,
12:00and here comes Shamu, the most unnecessarily massive Nexus of all time now made by Motorola.
12:09So, okay, at this point, is there any theme to who makes the Nexus phone each year? I mean,
12:13it feels like they just offer up a two-year contract every time and see who wants to sign.
12:18Allegedly, they were really close to working with Huawei on this year's phone, but had to
12:22scrap it at the last second. So, okay, we got Nexus 6, just based loosely around the second
12:28gen Moto X, but just way bigger. And it is huge. It's got a massive, nearly six-inch 1440p display
12:36flanked by stereo front-facing speakers in the bezels. And we have big screens nowadays,
12:42but this was also in the days of the 16 by nine aspect ratio. So it's super wide too,
12:48just huge in the hand. Not to jump ahead too much, but Nexus 6 is actually bigger and wider
12:54than the Pixel 6. So huge display, huge 3,200 milliamp hour battery with Motorola's turbo
13:00charging, huge new 13 megapixel camera with a huge new ring flash around it and huge new flagship
13:07specs, Snapdragon 805, three gigs of RAM and up to 64 gigs of storage and Android 5.0 Lollipop.
13:14But along with all of these insane specs was an insane price for the time. So Nexus 6 costs
13:21$649 for the base 32 gig version and a whopping 700 bucks for the 64. So it was not only big,
13:28but it had the biggest price tag of any Google phone yet, especially coming off the back of the
13:32more competitive Nexus 4 and 5. Fun fact, the internal codename of this phone when they were
13:36developing it, Shamu, the orca, the whale, everyone knew it was big. But maybe the most
13:42sneaky important feature of the Nexus 6 came in the camera. So this was the first ever Google phone
13:48to launch with HDR plus. Didn't seem like a huge deal at the time. It was just maybe one more
13:54feature in the camera, but it was combining multiple frames all together in a quick shot
13:59to bring in more dynamic range. And it notoriously took a lot of processing power. So HDR plus was
14:04just an option that you had to turn on to get that extra latitude. But that right there, that
14:10was an inflection point for smartphone cameras in general. I mean, nowadays, if you don't have HDR,
14:15you're not really doing it right. But just the fact that we take for granted now, one single
14:19shutter press, information from several different frames all get processed and smartly blended
14:24together. Big moment there. So then Nexus 9, you were great. Nexus player, definitely not great.
14:32But then in 2015, we got two new Nexus phones at once. We got the 5X made by LG and the Nexus 6P
14:41made by Huawei. Okay. So the Nexus 5X as the name suggests was a bit of an upgrade from the Nexus 5.
14:47It added a fingerprint reader on the back, updated specs, bigger battery, switch to USB type C,
14:53all the classics. It did also have boot loop issues that thankfully never affected mine,
14:58but that phone was $379. Then at the same time, we get this all metal jacket Nexus 6P,
15:06P for premium probably. But this was an all metal build with a camera visor at the top.
15:11It had the flat sides, which we still know today as premium, the ridged power button,
15:16the front facing speakers, and the highest end chip. And HDR got even better. This one had a
15:21stellar camera. 6P was pretty universally praised as literally one of the best, if not the best
15:28Android phones on the planet. This one sold for $499. So Google, you just made two different
15:35Nexuses at the same time. Nexuses? Nexai? You made two of them at once, right? One of them cheaper,
15:42one of them more expensive, one of them budget, one of them contender for phone of the year,
15:47very premium. And so this is usually what you see from companies that are trying to offer
15:52two different options for two different customers. It's what you get when you're
15:56trying to appeal to a broader variety of the masses, which is an interesting move.
16:02And then that's the last we ever saw of Nexus. So enter Google Pixel. I just want to say,
16:08as a video enthusiast, I love the word Pixel as a name for a phone, but that is a new name. So
16:12we've had Nexus and Nexus up until this point, we could think of as the Google software phone,
16:18right? We had all the Samsungs and HTCs and Motorola's and Huawei's of the world
16:22making all their own phones. But the Google version with the Nexus name would be stock
16:28Android, quick updates straight from Google. There was also a brief stint of Google Play
16:34Edition phones in 2013 to 2014 that combined the hardware of the best phones in the world
16:40with Google's stock software. Does anyone else remember these? I love these phones. There was a
16:47Google Play Edition Samsung Galaxy S4. It was amazing. There was a Sony Xperia Z Ultra. There
16:54was a Google Play Edition HTC One M8. Honestly, some of the best phones ever. But this is a brand
17:00new thing. This is Pixel. It's not Nexus. So why the rebrand? Why the new name? Well, there's a
17:06bunch of different correct answers I think to this, but basically this is the first phone that's
17:11designed and built by Google. So there's a Google logo down there. It's the first iteration of this
17:17new two-tone design. I mean, internally, they still had some help, but this would be considered
17:22the first real Google phone. But also a big part of what makes Pixel next level is how they really
17:29started leaning into it being a particularly smart smartphone. So it already had that Google
17:34launcher and the clean look, but we're drifting further away from AOSP. This is not the exact
17:39version of Android you'd get straight from Google. This is now like the Google skin on top of Android.
17:46So it's the first Android phone with the Google Assistant built in, and it's got the camera again
17:50taking pretty big leaps forward thanks to HDR Plus continuing to get better. And I just remember
17:55seeing this announcement and getting really optimistic about the future of competition,
17:59because surely if we have the iPhones of the world where Apple controls the hardware, the software,
18:05the chip, the whole, everything was made by Apple to work perfectly together, then surely this is
18:12the beginning of Google doing their best version of the same thing. So Google Pixel 2, I think,
18:20was peak Pixel. And that's at least in two ways, right? With that camera and with that two-tone
18:26design. I love a good Panda phone already or Stormtrooper, whatever you want to call it.
18:30We saw hints of this with the Nexus 6P, but Google is now just full-on embracing the two
18:36different finishes on the back by contrasting them with black and white. And then the colored power
18:41button. Wow. What a great idea for just a little splash of color, a little accent on the side.
18:46But there were a few other notable things here. They got rid of the headphone jack.
18:50They did have some blue shift display controversy on the XL version, which used a new LGP OLED.
18:55And I even made a video a few months after launch about why I don't use the Pixel anymore,
19:00because of slowing down issues with the software over time. But what the Pixel 2
19:04was really famous for was this single camera. So it had a new 12.2 megapixel sensor in there
19:11and featured the latest and greatest from Google's camera app, their HDR plus,
19:15and their multi-frame processing. And this phone just kicked out incredible photos. It leapfrogged
19:23over everything else out. It had excellent detail, sharpness, dynamic range, shutter speed, focus,
19:29everything. And the videos it took weren't even that good, but the photos were just so good that
19:36this was basically universally praised when it came out as the best smartphone camera of all time.
19:41But also at this point, I think it's worth talking about sales. So this one comes out,
19:46Google's selling three to 5 million pixels per year, which is nice, right? But at the same time,
19:56Apple's selling 200 million phones a year, Samsung's selling 300 million phones a year.
20:01So even with this incredible world-class camera, great reviews, enthusiasts loving it,
20:07great software, there's not a lot of people buying it. So Pixel 3 comes out in 2018 and every bit of
20:14it feels just like a refinement on the Pixel 2, which is great for people who love the Pixel 2.
20:19But the minor improvement alone probably isn't going to spike sales, as you can imagine.
20:24And there is also a regular and an XL version of every Pixel since the first one,
20:29but this one's XL came with a super duper alpha omega bathtub notch up at the top.
20:37At this point, I think we can say it's the deepest notch we've ever seen in a phone. It did have both
20:42a regular and ultra-wide selfie camera up at the front on either side of the earpiece front-facing
20:47speakers. So honestly, I loved that extra ultra-wide selfie camera on the XL, but nobody
20:54really loved the notch. There was an old Google tweet basically trying to justify it by saying,
20:59oh, don't worry, the notch to display ratio is actually less than many of our top competitors.
21:05It's like, yeah, that's probably true, but also so with this notch, but that doesn't make it good.
21:11Either way, aside from that, minor tweaks, overall refinement of the build materials,
21:16IP68 water resistance finally up from IP67, wireless charging gets added here,
21:21Night Sight is added to the camera app, but basically the same revolutionary camera as last
21:27year and overall pretty solid update. It doesn't really move the needle. It did move the needle
21:32though, the Pixel 3a. This phone shifted things for Google. So halfway through 2019 at Google I-O,
21:42they announced a budget version of the Pixel. It's a 3a and a 3a XL starting at 399, which is
21:49half the price that the Pixel 3 started at. So it has all the same software smarts, all the stuff
21:55that made Pixel enthusiasts love the phones, but made a budget version with a lower powered
22:00internals, polycarbonate instead of metal and glass, still has great battery life and the same
22:04world-class camera that put the Pixel on the map for so many people. And it was a hit. Basically
22:09from the moment this phone was released, it was most of the Pixel sales. And so there's some
22:15upside and some downside to this level of visibility. The upside obviously is there's now
22:20more people seeing and using these phones and Google Assistant and all this great stuff and
22:25the camera. But now the most successful version of this product is the cheap one, which means that
22:34when people think of what is a Google phone, what is a Pixel, they think of it as the cheap phone
22:40that takes good pictures. They're not thinking of the fast one or the high-end one. It's the cheap
22:44phone with the good pictures. Pixel 4 came out after that and honestly felt like a slight misstep.
22:50It launched again, starting at 800 bucks. They're trying the flagship thing again,
22:55but there were a bunch of quirky, weird features that either didn't really make sense or didn't
23:00pan out the way Google was probably hoping. Now, again, it had the same A-plus camera as the Pixel
23:062, but it's been two years now. So the rest of the world is starting to catch up and it's not
23:10so unanimous anymore. And it was a bit short on battery life. And with the addition of a second
23:15rear camera for the first time, they chose a telephoto instead of a much more popular and
23:21useful ultra-wide, even though they'd talked a lot about the software Super Res Zoom and not needing
23:26a telephoto. Anyway, it was the Soli radar array up front that was an interesting idea with a ton
23:32of cool demos and other products, but really turned out to draw a lot of power and ultimately
23:37not have the functionality in a phone that people were looking for. And it would get nixed in a year.
23:42So Pixel 4 stepped back from being one of the best phones out period to being genuinely pretty
23:49hard to recommend. I mean, not a lot of people bought this phone. The sales figures say there
23:53was about 2 million sales of Pixel 4 in the first six months. Interestingly, my review of the Pixel
24:014 got 4.8 million views in the first six months. So a lot of attention, just not a lot of people
24:10buying the phone. And that's until Pixel 4a came out. So naturally Google followed up the successful
24:15Pixel 3a budget king with a Pixel 4a. And they followed the same formula with a lot of the same
24:21stuff that people liked about the 3a, same camera again, polycarbonate two-tone design. But this year
24:27the materials were even better, a little more textured polycarbonate. The screen was fantastic,
24:31especially for the price. They crushed it. Plus they even lowered the price to start at $349. So
24:37to no one's surprise, following the same formula got them a lot of people to really love Pixel 4a.
24:44So, okay, at this point, it feels like Google's sort of settled into something with the Pixel,
24:48right? We've got Pixel 3, Pixel 3a, Pixel 4, Pixel 4a. Disappointing flagship, smash hit budget phone.
24:55Disappointing flagship, smash hit budget phone. And so if you keep going down this path, you continue
25:02to cement Pixel as a budget phone, maybe the rest of it kind of fades into obscurity. And it even
25:07kind of felt like the design was slowly getting more generic and plain. The two-tone is kind of
25:13gone. Even the colored power button is a bit more muted. It's succumbed to the pressures of the
25:19industry. The back fingerprint reader is gone. The headphone jack is gone. So this Google phone,
25:25this Pixel has basically just become not that impressive hardware wise, but really incredible
25:33like silo for Google to demonstrate all of their machine learning and their software and AI.
25:38And that's not something that's going to sell a whole ton. I mean, enthusiasts will love it,
25:43but it doesn't even let them reach their max potential with that either. They're a little
25:47limited by whatever the latest off the shelf Qualcomm chip is capable of or designed for.
25:54So this, spoiler alert, is right around when they started making some serious progress on
25:59something new in the background. So this is why Pixel 5 and 5a felt kind of like placeholder
26:05phones. Pixel 5 here is a $700 flagship, so relatively normal price, but there's no XL
26:12version, just one size. There's no higher capacity storage versions, just a single 128 gig non
26:18expandable spec. Snapdragon 765G, just an off the shelf upper mid range chip. That's it. It's just,
26:25it's here. It's a phone. It's like the blank canvas 2020 of phones. Like, oh, you've got a
26:31corner cut out for the selfie camera. So does everybody else. It's got wireless charging. It's
26:36got no headphone jack. It's like, we've seen this shell before. Well, maybe not with the soft touch
26:42on top of metal, but inside is where all of that software magic is still happening. That all the
26:50enthusiasts who love the Pixel still care deeply about. All of that's still in there. So that's
26:54how most reviews, including my own, looked at the Pixel 5. Decent, if underwhelming hardware,
27:00but Android 11 is better than ever. Google assistant is improving on these incredibly
27:04useful Pixel exclusive features on top of AOSP, like assistant screening spam calls.
27:10And it's once again, basically the same camera stack as the Pixel 2, but computational photography
27:16still brings out the best of this hardware. And it is still one of the best photo takers
27:21in the industry. Then Pixel 5a drops almost a year later, again, with one spec and one size.
27:27And it is very, very, very, very, very similar to the Pixel 4a 5G from the year before,
27:35but predictably people like a big screen and a big battery and a big camera performer for a low
27:40price. So this was again, the winner, but this whole time kind of in the background, some of it,
27:46because there's always rumors of things in the tech industry, but some of it, because it was
27:50truly new was rumors of a Google working on a phone that is even more of a Google phone than
27:55before. And Google's pretty bad at containing leaks. So a lot of that stuff got out and they
28:00just straight up confirmed it. And so after many teasers and pre-released information and leaks,
28:05it finally arrived 2021's Pixel 6. This is now the apex of being the most Google phone ever.
28:15Finally, I actually remember being in some meetings and briefings with some Google employees
28:19before this phone came out, they're showing it to me and they all kind of have this smirk on their
28:23face. Like, yeah, we finally did it. We really made a Google phone this time because now this
28:28one has a Google design, Google software, and a Google designed chip called Tensor. And so kind
28:36of like how the name changed from Nexus to Pixel, when they finally started doing the design
28:41themselves, they've definitely changed up the design here with this camera bar at this beginning
28:47of them designing their own Silicon and the benefits of the new Silicon with the dedicated
28:52machine learning accelerators has been very real, both with the photo and video processing now
28:58and speech to text, things like that. The rest of the phone is also now pretty high end across
29:04the board, mostly not quite bleeding edge, but you add the larger, higher resolution,
29:08high refresh rate displays, faster charging, more RAM, and a suite of all new, much larger camera
29:15sensors featuring a massive main sensor. So then it does start to feel like a pretty big upgrade.
29:21The most impressive thing about this phone, though, might just be how much effort Google now
29:26is putting in to making sure the world knows that this is a flagship. I mean, all the advertising
29:32spend, all the effort getting this in front of people's eyes. This is a flagship and it's a
29:37Google flagship, and it's a good one. That's what they want us all to think. Now, from some
29:43conversations I've had with people at Google, they were working on Tensor for a long time,
29:48and they actually wanted to have this out earlier. They were actually planning
29:52on Pixel 5 being the first phone with Tensor, but then with COVID and the supply chain issues and
30:00a bunch of things getting in the way, at the last second, they kind of had to bail on that,
30:04but they still wanted to drop a new phone. So they just put a Snapdragon 765G in it, shipped it,
30:10called it a day, and kept putting their heads down for Pixel 6. So it is out now. And while
30:15they're definitely trying to be flagship, flagship, flagship, they're also definitely
30:20not gonna shy away from the proven formula of making a Pixel 6a. I would totally expect to
30:26see that sometime soon. Probably gonna look a lot like this, but cheaper materials. It'll come out.
30:31It'll probably also do really well. But I think now, if you revisit the question one last time
30:37of what is a Google phone, we see Google trying to push an answer on us, which is,
30:44it's a flagship phone, it's genuine option, and it's got a lot of good stuff. And that's where
30:49we stand today. 13 years of Google trying to make a smartphone and going from the G1 to the Nexus 1
30:58to the Pixel 1, and the merging from defining a Google phone as the phone made by another
31:06manufacturer with the Google software on it, alongside another version that has some skin,
31:12to being a Google Play Editions, to being the Nexus designed by Google, all the way up now to
31:19the Pixel where all the way top to bottom, you pretty much have Google stuff. So the Tensor phone
31:24is the beginning of the new definition looking forward for what is a Google phone. And we'll
31:30continue to see that evolve over time from here. Either way, that's pretty much it. Definitely let
31:35me know what other lines of phones should I look at? There's a lot of other options. There's the
31:40Galaxy S line, there's the OnePlus line, a bunch of others. Leave it in the comment section below
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