A new Pixel 4 XL leak shows off next-gen Google Assistant and face unlock
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Leaks of the Pixel 4, a phone that we already seem to know a lot about, just keep coming. Nextrift got its hands on what appears to be a production Pixel 4 XL, and it posted impressions and some new details, including what seems to be the first public look at the next-gen Google Assistant, which Google announced in May at Google I/O.
Google says the next-gen Assistant would be “up to 10 times faster,” could respond to questions or requests without requiring you to say “Hey, Google” each time, and queries will be processed on the device instead of being processed at Google’s servers. In Nextrift’s testing of the next-gen Assistant, it says it was “noticeably quicker” at processing requests, and it could actually make requests of the...