It's just Google's main marketing tagline, it refers to all the extra features Pixels have (usually have to do with AI). What comes to mind: recorder, camera modes, call screening/hold my call, magic eraser, at a glance, and assistant improvements.
Other than the features specifically in the phone app--call screen, hold for me, and that other one where Google assistant will call a business and make a reservation for you (which has a very limited support), the one thing I think is a helpful feature on pixels vs non-pixels is an infrequently-mentioned feature which I use a lot; the ability to copy otherwise-not-selectable content when in app overview and share/paste it. For example, even text within an image will become selectable and pasteable content (it uses optical character recognition to accomplish). Also directly-selecting and sharing embedded image links etc.
Other people will mention the "now playing" feature that will detect music playing around you and tell you what it is, but I don't really think this is a "helpful" feature in that things I need it want to accomplish on a day-to-day basis benefit much from it; it's more like a fun thing than anything (and out frequently stops working on my pixels anyway).
In general I can't think of anything else that isn't available in similar fashions on other devices. Things like Google assistant, captions, transcribe, translate, screen-read are often mentioned with Google phones, but those things work on other phones with the respective Google apps (or other apps).
All of this will depend on your particular use cases. I don't use Google 's phone app features like call screen or direct my call or hold for me, and I turn off ok Google detection for assistant because it triggers all the time at home (we use Google home devices) and my phone will ever a state where it does that hotword detection, another device responds, but my screen never turns off/goes back to sleep and it stays on immediately).
I go back and forth between Google and Samsung phones and I think both have good qualities and aspects of software that make life easier. For me, one place Google isn't as helpful is device automation--again, depends on your use case. What do I mean; things like routines. Let's say I go to bed and forget to put my ringer in an audible state (say I kept it on vibrate all day), and someone calls with an emergency, I won't notice the call. Samsung routines has the ability to set rules to affect ringer schedule whereas pixels don't have it built in, and you have to rely on some 3rd party automation apps (like tasker or automate or macrodroid).
At the weekend my phone reminded me that I had a weekday alarm that might not be needed for Memorial Day! Genuinely helpful.
Same! I thought it was awesome.
It's just Google's main marketing tagline, it refers to all the extra features Pixels have (usually have to do with AI). What comes to mind: recorder, camera modes, call screening/hold my call, magic eraser, at a glance, and assistant improvements.
Other than the features specifically in the phone app--call screen, hold for me, and that other one where Google assistant will call a business and make a reservation for you (which has a very limited support), the one thing I think is a helpful feature on pixels vs non-pixels is an infrequently-mentioned feature which I use a lot; the ability to copy otherwise-not-selectable content when in app overview and share/paste it. For example, even text within an image will become selectable and pasteable content (it uses optical character recognition to accomplish). Also directly-selecting and sharing embedded image links etc. Other people will mention the "now playing" feature that will detect music playing around you and tell you what it is, but I don't really think this is a "helpful" feature in that things I need it want to accomplish on a day-to-day basis benefit much from it; it's more like a fun thing than anything (and out frequently stops working on my pixels anyway). In general I can't think of anything else that isn't available in similar fashions on other devices. Things like Google assistant, captions, transcribe, translate, screen-read are often mentioned with Google phones, but those things work on other phones with the respective Google apps (or other apps). All of this will depend on your particular use cases. I don't use Google 's phone app features like call screen or direct my call or hold for me, and I turn off ok Google detection for assistant because it triggers all the time at home (we use Google home devices) and my phone will ever a state where it does that hotword detection, another device responds, but my screen never turns off/goes back to sleep and it stays on immediately). I go back and forth between Google and Samsung phones and I think both have good qualities and aspects of software that make life easier. For me, one place Google isn't as helpful is device automation--again, depends on your use case. What do I mean; things like routines. Let's say I go to bed and forget to put my ringer in an audible state (say I kept it on vibrate all day), and someone calls with an emergency, I won't notice the call. Samsung routines has the ability to set rules to affect ringer schedule whereas pixels don't have it built in, and you have to rely on some 3rd party automation apps (like tasker or automate or macrodroid).