3 Google Pixel 7 leaks including a 2nd-generation Tensor SoC and a camera snoozefest

[Redaktion]

The next entry in Google's flagship lineup is bound to make waves in the tech community in late 2022. Between Google's own I/O 2022 tease and the pretty consistent stream of leaks about the Pixel 7, we get the idea feelings about the 2022 flagships will not all be positive.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/3-Google-Pixel-7-leaks-including-a-2nd-generation-Tensor-SoC-and-a-camera-snoozefest.625201.0.html

[WaitWhat]

what is the point of this article?
Second gen Tensor is obvious and a must.
Google showed the camera visor itself weeks ago.
Non-chinese OEMs almost always reuse sensors at least once with 3-4 year of use beeing the most common.

[Shane]

The Pixel 6 has great AI hardware.  Just look at the Pixel 6's speech recognition, and with Android 12, and the new SpeechRecognizer API called createOnDeviceSpeechRecognizer.  Plus the camera erase feature, superior night mode, bokeh, and more, are second to none.

[julian.vdm]

The Pixel 6 has great AI hardware.  Just look at the Pixel 6's speech recognition, and with Android 12, and the new SpeechRecognizer API called createOnDeviceSpeechRecognizer.  Plus the camera erase feature, superior night mode, bokeh, and more, are second to none.

Yes, Google's involvement in the development of the Tensor processor really put the features on another level, but many speculated that the new SoC was part of the reason why the Pixel 6 launch was so much more buggy than usual. Hopefully they can pull off adding more features without introducing more bugs.

[Leveler]

Why would you want to change the camera sensor hardware?

They aren't any better sensors available yet compared to GN1 in production. It is one of the largest sensor available in the market and all that machine learning models are already trained on that sensor.

Why would any even sane developer change it in a year ?


For example, this year top of the line camera phone Vivo X80 pro still uses the same GN1 based sensor renamed as GNV. Considering Chinese companies would love to upgrade hardware for no apparent reason, they also didn't bother to change that already great sensor.