The best new features of the Pixel 10 lineup

Google has officially announced the Pixel 10 lineup, and there’s a batch to excavation into. Like past year, location are 4 devices — the Pixel 10, the Pixel 10 Pro, the Pixel 10 Pro XL, and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold — and the phones person immoderate bully improvements and caller features that mightiness beryllium worthy the upgrade.

Here are immoderate of the champion caller features for Google’s caller phones.

Google is yet catching up pinch Apple by building magnets straight into the Pixel 10 bid to thief make judge the phones threat correct onto a wireless charger. The institution is branding this arsenic “Pixelsnap,” and it will waste Pixelsnap accessories for illustration an charismatic charger that you tin buy. The Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro Fold are each Qi2-certified, meaning they support wireless charging speeds of up to 15W, while the 10 Pro XL is Qi2.2-certified, truthful it supports wireless charging speeds of up to 25W. (The Pixel 10 lineup has faster wired charging speeds arsenic well.)

Google is adding a 3rd camera to the Pixel 10: a 5x telephoto lens that it says offers “10x optical image quality” and “Super Res Zoom up to 20x.” However, while it’s bully that Google is nary longer forcing you to bargain 1 of its much costly options conscionable to get a telephoto lens, the Pixel 10’s main and ultrawide cameras are a flimsy downgrade from the Pixel 9, astatine slightest connected paper. The Pixel 10 has a 48MP main camera and a 13MP ultrawide camera, down from the Pixel 9’s 50MP main camera and 48MP ultrawide.

Google’s newest foldable has an IP68 particulate and h2o ingress rating, meaning that it’s importantly much resistant to particulate than the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and galore different foldables. That 6 successful the standing intends the Pixel 10 Pro Fold is “dust-tight,” which is simply a large betterment complete the IPX8 standing for the previous-generation Fold and a measurement up from the IP48 standing for Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7.

The institution is obsessed pinch AI lately, and though that obsession has seeped into its phones, it seems for illustration the Pixel 10 bid could person immoderate useful AI tricks. One feature, Magic Cue, tin proactively propose things arsenic you’re connected your phone, for illustration pulling up formation accusation erstwhile you’re calling an airline. Another feature, Camera Coach, tin springiness you nudges astir ways to amended the photograph you’re trying to take.