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Google Pixel 4 XL Teardown

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  • While its construction remains (disappointingly) familiar repair-wise, we did find quite a few treats in this pumpkin:

  • The Motion Sense-managing Soli chip lives next to the speaker at the top of the phone, and is incredibly tiny, considering its functionality.

  • Our best guess is that the Pixel Neural core is layered under some dedicated Samsung RAM, meaning it must be doing some heavy lifting.

  • We also found a new Knowles audio processor chip, which is likely a major player in all of the new on-device speech recognition features.

  • Samsung made the 90 Hz-capable display—looks like Pixel beat the Galaxy phones to the punch on this feature.

  • But back to that familiar feeling—what will this phone score?

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