- So, look what just arrived in the mail today.
I'm kind of excited about this phone.
It's the Google Pixel XL in Really Blue, by the way.
Just got it, and I'm kind of excited about it
'cause it is the first phone from Google.
Like, we've had Nexus devices before,
those are all kind of, let's say inspired by Google,
guidelines by Google, but they were not
totally made by Google.
Now this phone is actually made by HTC,
that's the manufacturer, but you won't find
any HTC logo, Google basically just used them
to build the phone, but they designed it from head to toe.
So, I'm interested to check out this phone
and see what Google wants you to have in a Google phone.
But, before we get to any of that,
and I put it through it's full paces,
which I will do in the next couple of days
and do a review for you guys,
first, might as well do an unboxing, right?
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First up, we have the box,
which slides out from its sleeve
to reveal a plain white box.
I'll remove the tape.
And then, we can open it up.
First thing we're presented with here
is that really blue back of the phone.
We'll take that out, and we'll get to that in a bit.
Under that, we have our always present booklet of papers.
On the left, they give us a sim tray tool,
and on the right we have our getting started guide
which people like us don't read.
Then a Google assistant card that has some common phrases
what we can say to the new Google AI,
a coupon for three months of free Google music,
a thank you note, which is sweet,
and finally, some safety information
that people like us will also neglect to read.
Then we have our USB to USB-C cable
for transferring data from our computer to the phone,
and vice versa, as well for using battery packs,
in my opinion, which is probably what I'll use it for.
It also has this little clip to hold the cable to itself,
which is nice.
We then also have our USB-C to USB-C cable,
also with that clip, then our charging brick
that supposedly can charge the phone
up to seven hours of usage in just 15 minutes,
and as a nice touch, it's actually the color of the phone,
which I kind of like.
And a USB to USB-C converter, which brings us to the phone.
The Pixel XL has a five point five, two point five K
AMOLED screen and is made out of an aluminum body
with a glass patch at the top where the camera is.
On the front, there isn't much, just a small gap
at the bottom that I am sure to tap accidentally
trying to get home for quite some time,
and a similar gap on top, where the eight megapixel
front facing camera is located.
On the bottom, we have our USB-C port
and the mono speaker to the left,
with our microphone to the right.
On the left, we have this sim card slot,
on the top, the headphone jack,
and the volume rocker and power button on the right side.
All around it, it has these campered edges
which give it this nice hand feel.
It also has nice weight to it
that I appreciate and it makes it feel
a bit more premium, at least compared
to some older Nexus phones.
On the back, we simply have a G for branding,
and on top of that, we have that glass patch
with our 12.3 megapixel two point O aperture camera
that Google has been boasting,
which I'll definitely check out in the review.
Next to that is our dual LED flash.
Underneath though, is the imprint,
AKA finger print sensor, the back plate
is actually pretty nice in my opinion,
it feels a little more like a natural place
to put your finger, then, say, the home button,
once you get used to it at least,
and it does end up being pretty fast.
Underneath all this, it's running
a pure version of Android seven point one,
with the new Pixel launcher for the home screen.
All of which we'll go through in the review.
Powering all of this is a Snapdragon 821 processor,
four gigs of RAM, and a 3450 milliamp battery.
Guys, I hope you enjoyed that really quick
walkthrough and unboxing of the Pixel XL
in Really Really Blue, 'cause it's really blue.
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and I plan to do a review of this phone, really soon.
So I'm going to try to just use it hardcore,
like for the next two or three days
until I feel I am comfortable enough to actually
do a review.
I'm going to try to make up for the delay
on getting this video out, this just arrived,
but it took a long time, longer than it should have.
So I'm going to try to make up with the gap
between this video and the next one,
and get a review to you guys as fast as possible.
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As always though, regardless, thanks for watching.
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