Next-generation Pixel smartphones introduced by GOOGLE

The second generation of Google's Pixel phones unveiled today feature larger, brighter screens that take up more of the phone's front, changes that Apple is also making with its iPhone X scheduled to be released next month.

The 5-inch Pixel and 6-inch Pixel XL, both  will also get rid of the headphone jack — as Apple did with the iPhone last year — and will work with new Pixel Buds wireless headphones, which nonetheless will have a short cord so they can be draped around the neck. The new phones also feature built-in stereo speakers.

U.S. prices put the smaller Pixel at around $650 and the Pixel XL for almost $850. Canadian prices have not yet been announced.

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