Google Pixel and Pixel XL versus iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus: flagship smartphones go head to head

Google officially dropped their latest flagship line of smartphone devices called the Pixel and Pixel XL on Tuesday to try to beat the competition in the stiff high-range smartphone market.

Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL handsets blog.google/products/pixel

Both the Google Pixel and the Google Pixel XL are the very first smartphone products that were conceptualized and created by Mountain View, CA-based tech giant. These devices aim to compete against the current line-up of flagship smartphones, particularly Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

But can Google's two newest smartphone lines prove that they can be at par or even surpass the features of iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus?

iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus handsets from Apple apple.com

Based on the sizes of the four devices, the Google Pixel XL and the iPhone 7 Plus both have a 5.5-inch display screen. On the other hand, the Pixel will have a bigger screen compared to the iPhone 7 since the Google smartphone will come with a 5-inch screen upon release while the seventh-generation iPhone will only have a 4.7-inch screen.

In terms of the chipsets, both Google smartphones will come with the powerful Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 821, while the new smartphones from the Cupertino-based tech giant feature the company's latest Apple A10 Fusion chipset. All four devices also feature a quad-core processor, but the Google devices will feature Adreno 530 GPUs while the Apple smartphones come with a six-core graphics card.

All the devices have two built-in memory options of 32 GB and 128 GB capacities, but the devices from Google will be equipped with 4 GB of RAM while the Apple devices only have 2 GB of RAM. However, all devices will have no option for expansion.

In terms of the camera, all four devices have 12-megapixel primary shooters. Although, the secondary camera of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus only has 7-megapixels while the secondary shooter of the Google smartphones are 8-megapixels.

At the moment, only the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are available in the market, but Google is expected to release the Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL sometime this October.

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