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You can adjust the brightness of your shots though – just place a finger on the screen and slide it up or down.

GOOGLE PIXEL LENS BLUR PLUS

Slow Motion capture, Panorama and Photo Sphere modes are joined by Lens Blur, which is designed to create the blurred bokeh background effect you get with DSLR and compact system cameras, and the top-end camera on the iPhone 7 Plus – although with its small single lens the Pixel has to do this digitally, with mixed results.ĭip into the settings and you’ll find an equally humble offering, with resolution selectors for the front and rear cameras pretty much the only point of note. There are toggles for HDR+, the timer, grid lines, flash and basic white balance settings (cloudy, sunny, fluorescent and tungsten) in the top corner, while a slide-out menu on the left provides a few more tools. The Pixel doesn’t bombard you with options in the camera app. Shutter speeds are fast in good light, and the autofocus generally does a good job of getting your subject in focus – we found that a fast-moving kitten, however, did appear blurred in some shots. Things start well for the Pixel, with the straightforward camera app making it easy to snap a quick picture. Google Lens is a new feature that's built into the camera's photo app and, soon, into. That’s all well and good, and it gives Google a strong marketing line, although we've found that DxO ratings don't always translate into excellent camera performance day-to-day. The Pixel 2's only real weak point was with its Portrait Mode (called Lens Blur on last year's Pixel). The excellent Galaxy S7 Edge managed 88, as did the HTC 10 and Sony Xperia X Performance, while iPhone 7 came in a little lower at 86. The Pixel scored 89 overall in the DxO tests, putting it above all its flagship competition. The 12.3MP rear camera on the Google Pixel is another big talking point for the search giant, which holds the title of the highest-rated camera ever on DxO (opens in new tab) – an industry standard for camera and lens image quality measurements and ratings. Lens Blur is inconsistent, while low-light shots are okay.A very, very good snapper, but it doesn’t wow.If you’re a heavier user though, you will need to keep a charger with you.

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The Pixel just about gets away with its battery life, and if you keep your gaming and music streaming to short blasts you can expect to see almost a full day from a single charge.

It’s just a shame it doesn’t perform as well as those phones throughout a whole day. That puts the Pixel on a level with the Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge (opens in new tab) and Moto Z Force (opens in new tab) – which is certainly esteemed company. It’s a result which also puts its bigger brother, the Pixel XL (opens in new tab), to shame – although while that phone has a bigger battery it also has a larger, higher-resolution display. When the 90 minutes were up the Pixel had lost just 15%, which is a very respectable result. We played a 90-minute full HD video on the Pixel, with screen brightness whacked up to max and the phone connected to Wi-Fi and syncing multiple accounts in the background. The phone achieved a surprising result in our battery video test though.

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