Google Pixel, new smartphones from the search engine, they are beginning to proliferate in the market after less than a week on sale. As that happens, appear multitude of evidence and opinions about them. We have seen performance test, tests that look at the hardness of the shell, we have seen its removal and even they have been submerged in water. Without, however, despite the results of this test, the Google Pixel are not water resistant and we now know what is the reason.
A couple of years ago the water resistant smartphones were minority. Sony was done primarily with this claim to incorporate IP67 certification in their ships insignia Sony Xperia. However, in recent months we have seen that it begins to register as a feature of the more common on high-end models. This is the case, for example, with the Samsung Galaxy S7 and iPhone 7. And what about the new Google Pixel?
The Google Pixel are not water resistant
As so only us have that direct to your paragraph technical to check how your housing has of certification IP53, a value that puts of manifesto what it own Google said in the presentation of their new smartphones. And is that the Google Pixel are not resistant to water, or submersible. What can be is wet with drops – splash – equipment with warranties that will not have any damage. That very while during this past weekend was broadcast a test in which Google Pixel could stay submerged half an hour in the liquid element.
Against splashes and dust, but no dives in the water
The truth is that the Google Pixel are not resistant to water for a technical reason. As we have already indicated, their shells have certified IP53 and not IP67 or IP68 as the rest of contenders. He reason, curiously, would have that search it in them problems of time that has had the sought with the development of the new smartphones.
And is that so has left him that one of the members of the Wired website, which in one of your podcasts this week ensures that from the heart of the signing of the search engine, before their questions, confirmed that Google Pixel was not water resistant because there was no time to implement this feature. Thus, we can determine that Google was quick to launch its Google Pixel in October, with the interest in not to delay its launch the slightest, we suppose to arrive not later than the iPhones from Apple or the own Samsung Galaxy Note 7, although this is no longer a problem for Mountain View.
Thus, while it is not an essential feature for the profile of mainstream users, those who value very positively the water resistance must know that quite possibly the next generation of the Google Pixel that have IP68 certification since existing models, have had more time for its development, look if such capacity.
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