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MagyarPixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL: Google keeps its smartphones interesting
With continuous support of their own hardware products, manufacturers can achieve a significantly longer life and usage of their smartphones. For a long time, Google has been showing with its Pixel smartphones how this works. Not only are they ensured to receive the next three iterations of the Android software, but even a few years later, Google still brings some new functionality to its aging hardware.
For example in March 2020, the three-year-old Pixel 2 received the capability to access stored credit cards and tickets by pressing the Power button. Even though the activation of the Dark Theme triggered by time-of-day and the Emoji update are only smaller added functionalities, at least the new rules were also introduced into the Pixel 2. Those allow you to automatically change system settings dependent on the location or currently accessed WLAN, for example. Even the Live Caption feature was still brought to the aging Google smartphone.
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In addition to the features listed above, users of the third Pixel generation can also look forward to the ability to add tickets to Wallet by saved screenshots of them. They will also received expanded AR effects in Google Duo. However most new features remain reserved to the newest model.
In addition to a new gesture recognition feature for Motion Sense, the Pixel 4 is now able to add a freely adjustable Bokeh effect to selfies even afterwards. The adaptive brightness was also improved, which is supposed to improve the readability of the screen contents in very bright surroundings.
Due to these and future expansions of the functionality, the Pixel devices will remain interesting even in the coming years, since users won't always have to look enviously at the newest flagship, but will also be provided with some new functions on their own smartphones. At least in terms of the software, this fact is a significant mark of a Google smartphone distinguishing it from those of other manufacturers, who might just barely be able to keep rolling out the newest security patches each quarter.
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More on this in the detailed Notebookcheck test on the Google Pixel 4 XL.
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