Google I/O: Why the show was a bit bland. What has been seen and what is to come
It is a show with few surprises and many confirmations that aired from the Shoreline Amphitheater. The devices on display at Google I/O
The stone guest at Google I/O 2023 was Bard : immaterial, intangible, yet present. The cow in the room, to continue with the metaphors, was instead ChatGpt with which Microsoft could really steal from Mountaint View the role of marketplace of the Web thanks to an enhanced Bing. But in addition to Sundar Pichai 's generative AI , the Group presented something else.
GOOGLE I/O, THE HARDWARE ON STAGE
But let's face it: if Bard in itself did not seem like the hoped-for revolution, the conference on the hardware front did not reserve major surprises, with the confirmation of the Pixel 7A, a smartphone that takes the baton from the 6A of 2022. The high-end device medium, offered at 509 euros, is positioned below the current 7 and 7 Pro and is powered by a Tensor G2 processor, has a 6.1 "OLED display with a 90 Hz refresh rate that guarantees high color performance, especially in blacks and wireless charging. It is already on sale also in Italy.
GOOGLE'S FIRST FOLDABLE SMARTPHONE
More interesting, even if it is not known if and when we will see it here, Pixel Fold , the first folding phone from Big G: the external 5.8" Oled viewer and the internal one, also Oled, will have to resist wear and tear 7.6” and with higher resolution; both have a 120 Hz refresh rate. The processor is always the Tensor G2 that we have seen in the Google Pixel 7 and in the just announced Google Pixel 7a, with Titan M2 security co-processor.
RAM ranges from 12GB LPDDR5 up to 512GB of internal storage. The price will not be popular at all: it ranges from 1,800 dollars to around 2,000 for the more capacious half-tea version. Also for this reason, Google has already planned not to put it on sale worldwide: in Europe, for example, it will only arrive in Germany and the United Kingdom, while nothing has yet been said about distribution in our country.
A FULL BUT CHEAP TABLET
It is not yet present in Italy, although in the US it is already on the shelves of retailers, not even the Pixel Tablet : under the body we find a Tensor G2 processor, 8 GB of RAM with 128 GB or 256 GB of UFS 3.1 storage space. The display is a 10.95-inch QHD+ LCD with a 16:10 ratio and a brightness of 500 nits. It supports USI 2.0 touch pen. It retails for $499 and that's not bad considering it includes four speakers, 3 microphones, a USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 port, a physical mute switch, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, and the charging cradle is included.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/google-i-o-perche-lo-show-e-stato-un-po-insipido-cosa-si-e-visto-e-cosa-e-in-arrivo/ on Thu, 11 May 2023 11:49:41 +0000.