‘Apple wannabe or game changer’: Twitter debates how good is Google Pixel

Google also souped up the already highly rated camera on the Pixel, boasting that it will take even better photos than the iPhone.

The new Google Pixel 2 XL smartphone is seen at a product launch event. (AFP Photo)

The second generation of Google's Pixel phones unveiled on Wednesday feature larger, brighter screens that take up more of the device's front, changes that Apple is also making with its iPhone X scheduled to be released next month.

Both the 6-inch Pixel XL and the 5-inch Pixel will also do away with the headphone jack, something Apple did with the iPhone 7 last year.

Google also souped up the already highly rated camera on the Pixel, boasting that it will take even better photos than the iPhone.

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Google's new products, including a Pixelbook laptop, wireless earbuds and a small GoPro-like camera, showcase Google-developed operating systems and services, notably the voice assistant.

A month after three iPhone models were launched, Twitter users found too many similarities between the rivals and said Google was simply turning Pixel into an Apple smartphone. Others, however, were all admiration for Google's real-time translator in Pixel Buds.

Here's are some of the reactions:

Situation of mobile users. #madebygoogle pic.twitter.com/KfI1AB82C6

— Md Asif Khan (@imMAK02) October 4, 2017

So the Pixel 2 just made even the iPhone X obsolete. Portrait selfies without the need of a depth sensor.. hah.. 🤔 #madebyGoogle

— Jaime Rivera (@Jaime_Rivera) October 4, 2017

I wonder when the money will reach me so that I can buy a pixel 😭

— Roshan Rai (@Roshan_Kr_Rai) October 5, 2017

Pixel: Apple is dumb for removing the 3.5mm headphone jack and having an unsightly camera bump!

Pixel 2: Um. Yeah. Awkward. WE SAID NOTHING

— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) October 5, 2017

Once an Apple person, always an Apple person

Google Pixel thoughts TL;DR:

• ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• would absolutely get this if I wanted an Android phone
• I've no reason to want an Android phone

— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) October 4, 2016

Extra blue?

#Google #Pixel #madebygoogle much phone, so color, wow pic.twitter.com/6vtT6CDcI9

— Ri Ram (@eram1294) October 4, 2016

Oh the irony!

It must really bug Google that not only do they not own the @pixel twitter account, but @pixel works for Apple.

— James Thomson (@jamesthomson) October 4, 2016

It's a valid point

I thought they were not available yet! Only preorders.

— Miguel Helft (@mhelft) October 4, 2017

How about an exchange program for Nexus users?
Listening?

— Vikas Joshi (@Vikas_Joshi) October 5, 2017

@Google's new Pixel Buds' real-time language translation is a game changer. #Google #madebygoogle #PixelBuds

— Saketh Chowdary (@sparkseekr) October 5, 2017