Google has formally announced its newest flagship smartphones, the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL at a flashy occasion in New York City. The units have very comparable designs to last 12 months’s Pixel 9 sequence but do convey notable if minor upgrades across the board.
They boast premium designs with eye-catching new colors including a fetching indigo, the new Google Tensor G5 chipset across the board, brighter shows, seven years of software program support to 2032 and magnetic Qi2 wi-fi charging (called Pixelsnap as MagSafe is Apple’s model identify).
The telephones also mark the introduction of Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language for Pixels, which it says makes your gadget more personalised, with customisation choices, huge icons and brilliant colors all through the Android 16 software program.
Google also launched a folding Pixel 10 Pro Fold and the Pixel Watch 4, which comes in two sizes.
But Google’s largest Pixel guess stays on artificial intelligence (AI) options, and these new telephones are stuffed to the gills with them. The predominant new software is called Camera Coach, which makes use of AI to help you take higher images in the digicam app with framing and composition solutions.
AI is also used to help improve image high quality if you zoom beyond 30x with Pro Res Zoom on the Pro fashions. Also on all telephones, as with older Pixels, are Best Take and Add Me, which manipulate actuality to put the best faces on people from a burst of photographs, or including the taker of a photograph to the ultimate image by taking a photograph of them in the same spot afterwards.
A system-wide new function in Google apps called Magic Cue guarantees “proactive contextual suggestions” according to Google, with on-screen textual content pointing you towards a doubtless next motion, such as displaying your upcoming flight info from Gmail in the Phone app if the Pixel 10 detects you are on a call to that same airline, or suggesting to ahead the info via textual content if a saved contact asks for your flight info in Google Messages.
The base Pixel 10, which begins at £799, has three rear cameras including a 5x optical telephoto lens for the first time on the entry-level model, though spec sheet detectives will observe that is at the price of a {hardware} downgrade to the predominant and ultra-wide cameras, which are a notch below those on the older Pixel 9.
Most consumers won’t know or care, but for the fanatic crowd, it’s value noting.
The Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL have more superior shows than the 10, with LTPO tech that is more energy environment friendly and can scale between 1Hz and 120Hz refresh charge relying on what you’re doing. The alternative is between 6.3-inch or 6.8-inch screens, but unlike last 12 months, the XL has some {hardware} benefits with improved audio system and a quicker wi-fi charging velocity of 25W vs 15W.
The 10 Pro begins at £999 for a 128GB model, whereas the 10 Pro XL prices from a hefty £1,199 but does at least come with 256GB.