Google is pitching its Pixel 4 phones as being able to take the kind of astrophotography images that required specialist camera kit in the past.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media.

They are also the first handsets to use a motion-sensing radar chip that switches off some functionality when the phone is left unattended, saving battery life.

Pixel is only the ninth bestselling phone brand in the UK, despite positive reviews for its last-generation models.

Google says it is playing a long game.

"It is very early for us still," devices and services chief Rick Osterloh told BBC News ahead of its New York launch.

"Most people in the mobile-phone space... take more than a decade to grow to any significant scale. And so, we have that long-term view."