For those who’re cringing on the very considered proudly owning a Pixel cellphone, I’m proper there with you. These gadgets appear to be personifications of Star Trek’s Geordi La Forge or a star tennis participant with a sweatband (shout out to Coco Gauff). Nonetheless, I can’t assist however marvel if the better-looking cellphone line – the model spankin’ new iPhone 15 sequence – could have taken some notes from the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional.
I’ve no intentions of reigniting yet one more Android vs. iPhone debate. In any case, the Android world has borrowed a lot of options from Apple’s playbook. (Close by Share, for instance, is Google’s reply to Apple’s AirDrop.) However after watching Apple’s “Wonderlust” occasion, it’s time to highlight the methods Apple seemingly stole from Google. I have to’ve stated, “Wait a minute! The Pixel sequence already has that” extra instances than I can depend on two fingers.
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That being stated, let’s delve into 5 options revealed in the course of the iPhone 15 occasion that the Pixel sequence already affords.
1. Voice Isolation for higher, clearer cellphone calls
Apple’s Deniz Teoman boasted that the iPhone 15 now affords crisper, clearer cellphone calls, due to a “extra superior machine-learning mannequin.” In different phrases, iPhone 15 makes use of AI (why is Apple so hesitant to say this phrase?) to filter your cellphone calls, isolating your voice from noisy, undesirable sounds that leak into your conversations.
Apple reveals off its new Voice Isolation function throughout iPhone 15 occasion
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Nonetheless, Google already confirmed off an analogous function in the course of the 2022 Made for Google event when it formally debuted its Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional telephones. It’s known as “Clear Calling.” Much like the brand new iPhone 15 sequence, the Pixel 7 line is able to suppressing background noises to get rid of distracting seems like wind and site visitors. Plus, it enhances your voice in the course of the course of, too.
2. Depth management in photos
For instance you’ve got taken a selfie along with your pal hanging out within the foreground. With the brand new iPhone 15, you possibly can select so as to add a bokeh impact to your buddy, making certain that you are the focus within the picture. You may also do the alternative (i.e., blur your self whereas making your pal the focal point.)
Portrait picture manipulated with new Focus and Depth Management function
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Google Pixel 7 and Google Pixel 7 Professional customers are usually not strangers to this function. Utilizing the Unblur enhancing software, they, too, can decide and select which topics to blur and maintain in focus.
3. 8GB of RAM
The Pixel 7 sports activities 8GB of RAM whereas the pricier Pixel 7 Professional packs 12GB of RAM. Which means that the Pixel 7 sequence must be able to juggling a number of apps and duties like a proficient court docket jester.
The Pixel 7 sequence
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Apple by no means publicly reveals the quantity of RAM inside iPhones, however in accordance with MacRumors, the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max lastly upgraded to 8GB of RAM. Nonetheless, the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus nonetheless have 6GB of RAM, which matches the whole iPhone 14 line. To be truthful, 6GB of RAM must be ample to deal with most processes, however telephones full of 8GB of RAM or extra ought to ship higher, zippier system efficiency, particularly if you wish to swap between a number of totally different apps concurrently.
4. Voice memo transcription
You probably have a kind of associates or relations who simply love to make use of voice memos, you’ll respect iOS 17’s audio message transcription function, which was introduced at WWDC 2023 in early June. Just like the identify suggests, this cool perk transcribes voice memos for you. As such, if you happen to don’t have the flexibility to take heed to a voice memo for no matter motive, you possibly can merely learn the transcript as an alternative.
iOS 17 audio message transcription function
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Google announced a similar feature for the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional final October. “You’ll be able to keep within the loop with out distracting your friends or plugging your ears to listen to over the gang,” Jonathan Eccles, Google’s Group Product Supervisor, boasted. The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional helps audio message transcription for 4 languages: English, Japanese, German, French and Spanish.
5. USB-C
You noticed this comin’, did not you? Come on, it is about time that Apple hopped aboard the USB-C bandwagon. The Cupertino-based tech large by no means had any intentions of ditching its proprietary Lightning port (likely because it made a killing from its Made for iPhone program that lets accent makers license it). Nonetheless, because of an EU mandate requiring machine producers to uphold USB-C as the usual of connectivity, Apple had no selection however to swap Lightning for USB-C.
iPhone 15 with USB-C
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The Pixel sequence, however, provided USB-C since its inception in 2016. In different phrases, the iPhone is seven years late to the USB-C social gathering, however I am relieved that Apple lastly obtained with this system.
