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    by Claire Davies Oct 26, 2017 6 minutes
    Source: The Pixel 2 features a 12MP f/1.8 camera, which Google reckons is the best smartphone snapper available – early results look damn fine

    1 GOOGLE PIXEL 2

    From £629, store.google.com

    Break out the bunting, the Big G is back! When Google released its first smartphone, the Pixel, in 2016, it trounced the majority of Android handsets in terms of speed and camera quality. But battery life was middling and the potential of Google Assistant wasn’t fully realised yet. Skip to today and we’re eagerly awaiting the Pixel 2 and its full-bodied sibling, Pixel 2 XL (from £729).

    The design is an evolution of the original, with both models sporting super-fly displays – a Full HD cinematic AMOLED affair for the Pixel 2 with five-inch screen, and a QHD POLED display, with slimmer bezels, for the 2 XL with six-inch screen. (POLED is new way of making displays that can be thinner than AMOLED.) We’re struck by how colourful the display looks.

    We also have high hopes for the getting work done on this handset, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset, and taking advantage of some sweet short cuts thanks to squeezable edges, first seen in the

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