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The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL devices, which were revealed earlier this month, are highly focused on imaging, just like their predecessors, the first Pixel devices. On Wednesday, the smartphone company released its first developer preview for Android 8.1 -- Oreo OS, which will make use of the Pixel 2 series' high-end camera capabilities. The Pixel 2 series builds on the success of the first Pixel devices, which were awarded the best smartphone camera of 2016 by DxOMark. The company has, in the past year worked with DxOMark on the cameras for the Pixel 2 and revealed the device on Oct. 4. One of the new features of the device is its neural networks API which is its artificial intelligence based software, that the company says will "enhance the on-device machine intelligence."

There's nothing more dispiriting than when you line up what you think is the perfect photo, snap the shot and end up with an image where all the vibrant colors you saw in the real world have been washed out in the digital realm, thanks to backlighting, bad white balance or any one of a number of mishaps that can mar a photo you tried capturing casually. And the company wants to provide you with a camera capable of producing shots that match what you thought you were capturing in your mind's eye. The trick, as it turns out, is not to load the camera with features -- the newly unveiled Relonch 291 has nothing but a shutter button -- but rather to supplement the camera with an algorithm-based approach to processing images that's part of a $99-a-month membership you get along with your Relonch camera. It's an unconventional -- and pricey -- approach to photography, but the people behind Relonch are betting that it's one that will appeal to people who want to be able to capture vivid photos of everyday life without having to mess around with a camera's sittings. Before showing me the Relonch 291 camera, co-founder Yuriy Motin flipped through a coffee table book of presidential photos, noting how much more compelling the candid shots of assorted presidents in their day-to-day lives were compared to official shots and staged photo opportunities.