5 new AI features on Pixel 10 that feel like magic

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

Google's caller Pixel 10 lineup comes with a slew of caller AI features.
AI features see photograph editing with speech, connection translation utilizing your voice, and smarter prediction of users' needs.
The Pixel 10 Series besides includes a one-year subscription to the Google AI Pro plan.

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The detonation of generative AI means that astir each telephone motorboat successful the past twelvemonth has been accompanied by a suite of AI features. Google's motorboat of its Pixel 10 Series is nary different, but the institution unveiled immoderate unsocial features that marque it basal retired from competitors.

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At its Made by Google event, Google unveiled its Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro Fold, and Pixel 10, arsenic good arsenic the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a. Beyond amusive caller telephone colors, amended camera systems, and different hardware upgrades, AI is astatine the core, fueled by the all-new Google Tensor G5.

The chipset, co-designed with Google DeepMind, tin tally Gemini Nano connected the device, which powers each these caller AI experiences. Here's a afloat round-up of the caller AI features and my idiosyncratic hands-on experiences with each of them.

1. Magic Cue

While AI tools similar chatbots tin beryllium helpful, they necessitate you to context-switch to different tabs, inquire your question, spell backmost to whichever model you were primitively moving retired of, and paste it in. In bid to upgrade that acquisition and level up the assistance, AI needs to foretell your needs -- which is precisely what Magic Cue aims to do.

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The Magic Cue diagnostic suggests applicable accusation and actions based connected what you're doing. For example, successful the demo featured successful the representation above, the idiosyncratic was calling an airline, truthful Magic Cue automatically surfaced the formation details to forestall scrambling to find them portion connected the call.

In different demo, the idiosyncratic got a substance asking wherever the preservation was. Instead of the demoer having to find the details, Magic Cue surfaced the preservation accusation based connected what was successful the user's inbox. Then, each the idiosyncratic had to bash was pat and nonstop it. Since the diagnostic leverages the Google Tensor G5 chip, accusation is processed locally connected the device.

2. Daily Hub

Sticking with the inclination of making accusation arsenic accessible arsenic possible, the caller Daily Hub diagnostic recovered successful your Discover provender puts each of the accusation you request successful 1 place. It besides includes an integration with Magic Cue, which gathers insights from your apps.

As seen successful the image, it tin punctual you of actions from your Google Keep and Gmail, including meal plans, reservations, and formation details. In practice, it is precise akin to Samsung's At a Glance feature, conscionable autochthonal to the Google acquisition powering Pixel.

3. Voice Translate

One usage lawsuit wherever generative AI truly excels is connection translation. Because LLMs person a heavy grasp of connection and however radical talk -- including conversational and non-linear code -- code translation has gotten a batch much accurate. As a result, galore smartphone manufacturers, similar Apple, are incorporating AI translation successful their ain products, and Google unveiled its own.

With Voice Translation, you tin perceive a translation successful existent clip portion connected a telephone call. The astir noteworthy portion is that it copies the dependable of the speaker's voice, making the caller audio dependable arsenic free-flowing and earthy arsenic possible. There is besides a truly adjuvant transcript you tin travel to assistance support way of the dialog adjacent further.

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When I demoed the feature, I was pleasantly amazed astatine however speedy it was, and astir importantly, astatine however good it copied my dependable to marque maine dependable similar I was really speaking German. At rollout, Voice Translate works erstwhile translating to oregon from English with Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, and Indonesian.

4. Camera Coach

A bully chunk of the caller AI features are focused connected elevating your photo-taking and editing experience. The caller Camera Coach feature aims to instrumentality the guesswork retired of taking a photo, utilizing Gemini's multimodal capabilities to assistance you drawback the cleanable changeable by suggesting angles, lighting, and camera modes.

Beyond step-by-step instructions, Gemini volition adjacent make a illustration representation of what you should purpose for successful the last product. For example, successful a demo, the idiosyncratic was trying to instrumentality a photograph of a works leafage but had the space off-center. Gemini generated the representation of the leafage positioned correctly, truthful past each the demoer had to bash was lucifer the ocular by adjusting his position.

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One of the features I was astir impressed by was Camera Coach's quality to admit what was being shown successful the display, down to the circumstantial location. For example, successful the representation above, the Camera Coach asked the demoer what they wanted to beryllium shown successful the photograph by identifying that it was a waterfront view, and that it was Chelsea Piers successful New York, alongside the Hudson River.

5. Edit with Ask Photos

Producing a bully photograph is adjacent parts capturing the close changeable and post-production editing to optimize it. However, photograph editing tin often beryllium tricky (especially if you're inexperienced), arsenic determination are truthful galore small tools often utilized successful combination. This caller feature allows you to picture the alteration you privation utilizing earthy connection and person the AI marque the changes instantaneously.

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For example, the representation astatine the apical of the nonfiction was precise nicely framed, but it had a distracting glare. Instead of having to find the close tools, you tin conscionable accidental that you'd similar to region the glare, and successful a mates of seconds, it's done. Other, much wide applications see asking it to "make it better" resulted successful actions similar straightening it retired and improving the lighting.

6. Improved the Add Me diagnostic and Auto Best Take

While the Add Me and Auto Best Take features are not new, Google upgraded them to marque them adjacent much helpful. The Add Me feature, which lets radical adhd the lensman to the photo, present works with photos with an adjacent bigger radical of people.

Meanwhile, Auto Best Take automatically finds the champion representation successful which everyone looks great, wherever antecedently you would person had to manually prime which ones you wanted to combine.

Bonus: Google AI Pro program one-year subscription

Google's AI Pro Plan costs $20 per period and packages each of Google's champion AI offerings. These see the champion models successful Gemini and standalone tools, including expanded entree to Gemini 2.5 Pro, NotebookLM, Deep Research, Veo 3, and Jules.

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