SINGAPORE – Google on Tuesday (Feb 15) launched its Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Professional smartphones in Singapore, with two color choices obtainable for every mannequin however every additionally having simply 128GB of inside storage.
The bottom mannequin prices $999 and is available in black or pale inexperienced, whereas the Professional prices $1,299 and is available in black or white. They are often ordered on the Google Retailer web site.
Translucent instances are additionally obtainable in three colors for the Pixel 6 and 4 colors for the Pixel 6 Professional.
The Pixel 6 collection is the primary to make use of Google’s custom-made Tensor system-on-chip, which powers machine studying capabilities on the cellphone itself, versus counting on Google’s cloud servers.
This implies new options corresponding to Magic Eraser, which makes use of synthetic intelligence to digitally erase undesirable objects and folks from images, in addition to speech recognition and language translation, will work even with out an Web connection.
These are the primary telephones Google has launched in Singapore because the mid-range Pixel 4a in August 2020, which was delisted from the Google Retailer final month. Final yr’s Pixel 5 and 5a had been by no means made obtainable right here.
The Pixel 6 line-up initially launched in October in 9 markets – Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Eire, Japan, Taiwan, the UK and the USA.
Google additionally provides the Pixel 6 in reddish-pink and the Pixel 6 Professional in yellow, in addition to 256GB and 512GB storage choices, in most of those markets.
Throughout a quarterly earnings name on Feb 1, Mr Sundar Pichai, chief government of Google’s father or mother firm Alphabet, mentioned Google set an all-time quarterly gross sales file for Pixel telephones within the fourth quarter of 2021.
“This got here despite a particularly difficult provide chain setting,” he instructed buyers and the media. “The response to Pixel 6 from our prospects and service companions was extremely constructive.”
On Feb 3, the telephones had been launched in Spain and Italy, however solely in black and with 128GB of storage for each fashions.
In a publish on the Italian Google Weblog, Google’s vice-president of gadgets and providers for the Europe, Center East and Africa areas Michiel van Eldik cited international provide chain points and mentioned the restricted variety of gadgets launched in Spain and Italy had been anticipated to promote rapidly.