6 Pixel 3 features coming soon for older Pixel devices

When Google announced the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, the company also unveiled new software features. Features that might be expected to work well on older pixels ($ 374 at Amazon) Phones.

We would be partly right. Google does not plan to update older Pixel devices to ensure feature parity with Pixel 3. Instead, the company will add a handful of features that will make your pixel or pixel 2. ($ 649 at Google Store) more useful.

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I asked Google for a list of features that would affect the old pixels. Here is what I discovered.

Call screen

The Pixel 3's ability to answer the phone and filter your calls is an essential selling point for some. I know that I liked to test, dodge my friends and my lawyers.

A software update will add Call Screen to all Pixel devices in November.

Camera

Google 's Pixel range has made a name for itself thanks to its camera and its use of artificial intelligence to try to improve its photos without too much work on the part of the company. user. Some The new features of the Pixel Camera 3 will come to the original pixel and the pixel 2. You can find out more about these new Pixel photo features here.

• Top Shot: A lighter version of Top Shot will be transmitted to older Pixel cameras in October. Some hardware requirements allow the Pixel 3 to have a complete experience, while the old pixels have to do everything with software.
• Night view: Available on all Pixel devices in November.
• Playground: Pixel 2 will support Playground, the company's AR sticker feature, later this year.
• Adjust the blur in the background: Available now on Pixel 2. The first time you use Portrait mode after updating to the latest version of Google Camera, a pop-up window informing you that the feature has been added has been added and where you can access it .

Google has recently updated its Camera app for older Pixel cameras, bringing the same interface as the Pixel 3 line to older cameras and giving Pixel 2 the ability to adjust the background blur. applied to a photo.

Reading the history

The Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 both have a feature for listening to music, and then displaying the title of the song and the artists on the phone lock screen. This feature is incredibly convenient if you want to know who's singing what you hear in a cafe, but on Pixel 2, it misses a key element: a history.

Pixel 3 creates a list of songs that he has identified and can return to. According to the Android font, Pixel 2 will also receive the Playback History feature via a future software update.

First publication on October 23 at 13:40 PT.
Update of October 24 at 14:10: Adds a blur feature in the background and reflects our test of an update.