- [Reviewer] So we were just let into the demo room
here at Google's fall hardware event,
and I have the new Pixel 2 in my hand.
You'll notice that this is the kind of blue colour.
It doesn't really come across as blue necessarily
in all kinds of light; it's more like a grey kind of colour.
But you can immediately tell that you have the kind of blue
colour when you see this turquoise power button on the side.
So, the Pixel 2 is of course the smaller version.
Has a 5-inch display with a 1080P resolution.
It is AMOLED, just like the 2 XL,
which we'll look at in a minute.
But other than that, the differences are very, very minimal.
You'll notice that the Pixel 2 is of course narrower
and shorter and lighter.
But it has this same aluminium coating all the way around
in the outside, that has this kind of
soft-touch coating on it.
It feels a little bit like plastic, but it is aluminium
underneath and it goes all the way around to the sides.
And then on the front, you'll notice that the big difference
with the Pixel 2 versus the 2XL, which we'll look at
in a moment, is the top and bottom bezels
are considerably larger.
And it also has a flat,
2.5D technically piece of glass on the front,
but it doesn't taper off to the edges as much as on the XL.
You really notice once you launch into the home screen,
the size of those bezels on the top and bottom.
Yes, they do hold stereo speakers.
You have one speaker on the top and one speaker
on the bottom.
But as you'll see here, the Pixel 2 XL also has stereo
speakers despite having smaller bezels.
So internally, it's the exact same between the Pixel 2
and 2 XL.
The Pixel 2 has a smaller battery, of course,
2,700 milliampere hour, but beyond that,
you're looking at a Snapdragon 835, 4-gigs of RAM,
no SD card slot to associate with the 64-gigs
of internal storage.
And on the bigger Pixel 2 XL, the battery gets funked up
to 3520 mAh, but that's really the only change.
The change compared to last year, you'll notice,
there's just a USBC port on the bottom.
There is no headphone jack on either of these phones.
You do, however, get IP67 water-resistance
and dust-resistance, so that is a big improvement,
even though it may be tied to that loss of a headphone jack.
On both phones, Google is talking a big game
about the camera.
We have a 12.2 megapixel single camera on the back,
and it has laser auto-focus and this dual-pixel auto-focus,
where it uses all of the pixels for face detect auto-focus
as well.
Google is doing all of its HDR plus magic, of course,
and it's also actually doing a portrait mode
with just a single lens.
It says it can use its software machine learning
to do a portrait mode with a single lens.
It can even do it with the front-facing camera as well,
which is really, really neat.
They're toting a DSL mark mobile of 98, which of course
is the highest ever, for what that's worth.
But based on what the original Pixels were able to do,
we're super-excited about what Pixel 2 and 2 XL can do
in the camera department.
So sitting next to the standard Pixel 2 here,
we see that we have the 2 XL.
So the larger device has a little bit of differences
in terms of feel and everything, but the external build
is basically identical.
From the back, the aluminium, all of the touch finish on it,
the glass on the top.
You notice the cameras are a little bit different.
But the big thing here is upfront, where we have a lot
smaller bezels.
Even though it keeps the speaker at the top and the bottom
for stereo speakers, the bezels are quite a bit smaller.
You'll also notice that it's an 18 by 9 display,
so it's 2 by 1;
it's taller and skinnier than the Pixel 2 is.
So you see this all just bezel here.
And you get the less bezel here and it all gets
stretched out.
Obviously that gives them more room for the components
inside as well.
So it's all of the same components there,
except for you get the larger 3520 milliampere hour battery.
You also notice when we get a little closer up on the side,
that the glass tails and kind of curves off and there's
a little bit of a 3D waterfall effect that you don't get
on the standard Pixel 2.
So you notice just a little bit of difference here
on how it feels on the sides.
When I start to get these side-by-side now,
you see that the Pixel 2 is a little blockier
versus the 2 XL being a little more curved,
and you really get that feeling in the hand.
Obviously it's a little bit wider, so you have a different
part of your hand that's touching it.
But it is flat across the back and when you view them
in profile, they look basically the same.
You also notice that now that we have the black ones here,
that you just have regular power and volume rockers.
You don't have any different colours or anything like that.
They're nicely little embossed G logo.
And to kind of wrap it up here, we'll give you the two
side-by-side.
So that's the Pixel 2 on the right and 2 XL on the left.
You notice that really you're not going to notice too much
of a difference, in terms of you see one on the street.
As long as you see the two colours that are the same
versus the kind of blue that we showed earlier.
When you look at them from the side, they have
a very similar profile and again from the front,
you see that's where the differences really come in.
And then down on the bottom you see that it's basically
a very similar profile as well.
So that's your first look here at the Pixel 2
and Pixel 2 XL.
We're going to have so much more on these two phones
over on www.androidcentral.com and on our YouTube channel.
Thanks for watching.