[smusamashah]

This looks like iPhone postprocessing problem more than anything else. I have used 3 Google pixel phones (up to pixel 4) and none of them does bad post-processing. In fact, it improves the resolution of whatever you are taking picture of https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/10/see-better-and-further-wit...

I never saw any of these phones altering the details like in article.

[shiftpgdn]

Google Pixel phones still do "deep fusion" processing like an iphone, but instead with Google's secret sauce. The photo your phone is showing you is what machine learning thinks the picture should look like, and not the picture you took.

[smusamashah]

But unlike examples in the article, whatever magic sauce Google uses, end result does not look different from actual thing.