The Pixel 4 and 4XL come with many interesting camera features that make them fairly compelling for mobile photography enthusiasts, and while most of those will be rolled out to at least some of the older Pixel devices, the same can’t be said about all the myriad new functionalities. A couple of those are ‘Dual Exposure Controls’ and ‘Live HDR+’, neither of which will make their way to the Pixel 3 or 3XL, leave alone the other devices in the Pixel lineup.
Hi Mahfooz, Dual Exposure Controls and Live HDR+ require low-level capabilities in the hardware that are only available on Pixel 4, so they will not be available on older Pixel devices.
It’s not immediately clear as to why exactly the Dual Exposure Controls and Live HDR+ will not be ported to the older devices, but given that Google argues it’s a hardware limitation, it could very well be that the features make use of the Pixel 4’s new Pixel Neural Core instead of the Pixel Visual Core, which is present in the older devices.
