![]() Google caused a stir by dropping Qualcomm's Snapdragon system-on-chip in favor of its own Tensor chip for the Pixel 6. The Pixel 6, meanwhile, introduces clever capabilities like Magic Eraser for effortlessly removing people who've wandered into your shot and Motion mode for adding stylistic blurs to action shots. The iPhone 13 offers a Cinematic mode for shooting video, in which the focus can switch back and forth between objects in the foreground and background - it's a really impressive effect. While photo comparisons tell most of the story here, we can't ignore the different photo editing features both phones bring to the mix. The iPhone 13's effort is overly warm - we'll blame the low lighting on my much too ruddy face - but at least it's more accurate than what the Pixel 6 came up with. ![]() (And the lighting is very poor in this self-portrait, believe me.) The Pixel 6's love of cool colors and over-smoothing gives my face a very unnatural look and subdues features like my beard and my baseball cap. I was repeatedly disappointed by the selfie cam on the Pixel 6, whether I took shots in good light or in bad. The iPhone 13 tries, but it allows too much noise into the picture when I zoomed in at 4x for this photo. The Oakland skyline is in much sharper focus in the Pixel 6 shot, with the Tribune Tower standing out against the dark sky. Should you turn to a digital zoom, you'll prefer what you get from the Pixel 6 and its reliance on Google's Super Res Zoom capabilities. I think the iPhone 13 shot keeps everything looking sharper, but the Pixel 6 photo is cleaner overall. The cooler colors in the Pixel 6 photo make the stormy sky look much more foreboding. That approach to colors can serve the Pixel 6 well, though, as I found out when testing ultrawide angle lenses. It's just a much better composed photo than what the Pixel 6 offers. ![]() I think the leaves in the iPhone 13 shot are much more vibrant, and it's easier to spot the raindrops beading on the fruit itself. ![]() It skews toward cooler color casts which can sometimes dull the overall look of a photo. This photo of a persimmon tree in the throes of autumn illustrates a persistent issue I noticed with the Pixel 6's camera. I think I'd give the edge to the iPhone on this photo - the skull seems more in focus to my eye - but the Pixel 6's shot is more than acceptable. I like how the iPhone brightened the tree leaves and highlighted the white in skull perched in one of the branches, though I'd argue the Pixel 6 presented a more accurate picture with better use of shadow. Sticking with low-light photography, the night shots captured by the Pixel 6 and iPhone 13 are evenly matched. The decorations don't pop in the iPhone's photo the way they do in the Google shot, but I dislike the warmer colors that the Pixel uses here, and find the iPhone image much more accurate. The iPhone 13's white balance is more accurate, and as a result, its camera deals with the harsh lighting with greater aplomb than the Pixel 6 did. You can see how Apple's focus on improving low-light photography paid off in this shot of some Halloween decorations indoors at night. Both phones rely on software for zooming in on subjects, with Google's Super Res Zoom feature particularly adept at filling in the details while minimizing photographic noise. That's coupled with a 12MP ultrawide angle lens. Google made some changes of its own, going with a 50MP sensor as the Pixel 6's main camera.
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