月份: 2020 年 9 月

You’ll get the most out of this app with a Pixel 5, for the next few months at least.

What you need to know

Alongside the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G, Google announced new changes coming to Google Photos.
The app is getting a more powerful and granular manual editor. It’s also getting access to machine learning-powered edit suggestions.
These updates are rolling out to Android phones today.

It seems like just yesterday when Google just launched a Photos redesign alongside a new logo, today it is making a more substantive edit to the Photos app. Google is updating the image editor with new features to coincide with the launch of its new camera-centric phones. These will run the gamut from automated machine-learning aided features to manual features that place more control in your hands. The new app was leaked earlier in the year, but it’s finally being made official.

The first new feature are automatic edit suggestions from Google. The app will highlight actions it thinks will make your p…

Best answer: No, there is no Pixel 5 Neural Core chip which was found on Pixel devices starting with the Pixel 2 and going to the Pixel 4, but that shouldn’t impact speeds or other benefits.

The latest Pixel: Google Pixel 5 ($699 at Amazon)

What is Google’s Neural Core?

Whenever you think about a Pixel smartphone, chances are that it has something to do with how great the camera(s) are. Google began including the Pixel Visual Core in the Pixel 2, which was a custom processor built with eight cores capable of running three trillion operations per second.

Originally, this was disabled on the Pixel 2 and 2 XL before Google decided to enable it throughout the Android 8.1 Developer Preview. Essentially, this custom SoC processes every image taken on the device to provide the stunning images that we became accustomed to seeing. The real power with the Pixel Visual Core, however, was that it was capable of running five times faster than the image processor found on the Snapdragon 835 …

Google’s Pixel series sees a major change of course.

With today’s announcement of its new phones, the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G, Google has made official what was originally speculated way back in January: These Pixels are different. The combo-breaker of the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G defies the company’s normal “regular plus XL” naming convention, while also being the first flagship Pixels to not use a Snapdragon 800-series chipset.

It’s easy to connect the dots and see this change of direction as a direct result of Google’s apparent disappointment with Pixel 4 sales. It was reported back in May that Google only shipped around two million Pixel 4s in its first two quarters of availability, and that Google hardware boss Rick Osterloh was disappointed with the phones’ performance in key areas like battery life. Nikkei Asia reports that overall Pixel sales in 2019 reached approximately 7.2 million, missing the internal target of 8-10 million despite reasonably strong sales of the Pixel 3a…