Leak confirmed: Pixel 4 will receive a gesture sensor and an improved face scanner

About a week ago, photos of the front panel of the new Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL smartphones with a cutout for

gesture sensor. Now the corporation has officially announced that smartphones will indeed have a motion recognition function.

Gesture sensor

The company has finally completed five years of workover Soli, a motion-sensitive sensor. The sensor is located on the top of the smartphone and can recognize gestures and detect when you are nearby. Pixel 4 will be the first device to feature Soli and Motion Sense, allowing you to skip songs, snooze alarms, and turn off phone calls with just a wave of your hand.

Face recognition

Most smartphones with a face scanner requirehave the user place the device directly in front of them, wait for it to unlock, and swipe to go to the home screen. On Pixel 4 this process will happen much faster.


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When you take out your phone, Soli activatesfacial recognition sensors. If the device “recognizes” the owner, it will turn on immediately. Moreover, the function works from almost any angle, regardless of the position of the smartphone. According to Google, images used for this feature are not stored or shared across the company's other services.

Most likely, Pixel 4 will be available this year.