Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro teased ahead of launch, confirmed to come with Google Tensor, a custom-made chip

Google on Monday, in what could be termed as literally out of nowhere move, shared a preview of the upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones along with some details on the chipset. The company also confirmed that the Pixel 6 series will be available this fall.

The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones will be powered by the company's all-new custom chipset dubbed Google Tensor. The search engine giant says that the new chip by Google has been designed for Pixel phones.

As already leaked in a number of leaks, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro come with a design that's a departure from the old minimalistic design that we m ay have started loving lately. However, the new rear design looks aggressive and hints at what the company has in store for its users.

The company confirmed that the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro would come in three colour combos. While both the phones look to sport a similar-looking rear panel design, but the company says, "Pro tip (ha!) - the Pixel phones with more space above the camera bar = Pixel6 Pro."

Sharing the biggest details around the cameras, Google confirmed that the Pixel 6 Pro would sport triple cameras at the back, including a telephoto lens with 4x optical zoom, a first for Pixel phones.

Coming to the Pixel 6, which is likely to be the cheaper among the two, doesn't come with a telephoto sensor. And, Google says, "We're leaving telephoto to the pros, you could say."

This is the first time a Google Pixel smartphone will come with an SoC designed by Google, called Google Tensor. The company says that the highlight of the new SoC is that it can handle Google's most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) directly on the phone. Some of the departments where Google says the difference will be noticeable will be cameras, speech recognition, and similarly other departments.

Google has gone ahead and confirmed that Pixel phone lovers can check what the cameras on the Pixel 6 series can do on the company's Google Pixel Instagram handle.

And, the next big thing confirmed is the Material You design. While it was clear that Pixel 6 phones would launch with the new Android 12 out of the box running Material You design, but now we have a sneak peek at how that would look. The first look shared by Google looks smooth with the colour UI, camera, on-screen UI all working together in sync. Talking about the home screen on Android 12, it looks like the icon colours, tabs, and more will pick colours from whatever wallpaper is applied, which is impressive and looks neat.

Google also promises that speech recognition will see considerable improvements in Pixel 6. "Speech recognition is another foundational technology where you will see a huge improvement in Pixel6," the company said in a tweet.

The company claims that the new custom chip will help Google take big leaps in Voice commands, Translation, Captioning and Dictation.

Google also touched upon hardware security and said that the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are built with most layers of hardware security in any phone.

Lastly, Google also confirmed that the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro would be launching this fall. This could mean that we may see the iPhone 13 series pitted against the Pixel 6 series for the cameras. We are excited, but are you? Let us know in the comments section.