hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the other day Google had their event
where they showed off the new pixel devices the 4 and the 4 XL and they were
nice enough to send the 4 XL along so in this video we're going to unbox the 4 XL
we'll also set it up take a look at some of the specs and take a look at some of
the new features and then if you want to jump to any specific point in this video
so you don't have to watch the whole thing maybe you're interested in
specific things I'll link the time codes in the description as I normally do so
let's go ahead and unbox this so this is the box that Google actually sent over
and it's sort of integrated the pixel itself is integrated into the box so
it's kind of nice they were talking about more sustainability and I suppose
this goes along with that and this is just some cards welcoming me to the
pixel 4 and let's open this up and see what we've got
so it says making help magical and I think that's everything in here now this
is the box they sent it in and it says making help magical made by Google let's
go ahead and open it up and here's the pixel itself I haven't opened it you can
see the seals are still intact and then maybe this is a case a little piece of
paper there it says pixel 4 XL case so let's set this aside and here's the
pixel 4 now I have no idea what color this is or anything like that but let's
talk about the price and this comes in at 899 to $9.99 for the larger XL size
so it's going to be a fairly expensive premium phone it comes in clearly white
just black or oh so orange so let's go ahead and open it up and see which color
I have the orange is a new color but they all look pretty good to me so we
have just orange so I figured they'd send the newest color so that's pretty
nice-looking i preffer ibly like I personally like the orange and the white
so we'll set that down let's take a look at what else is in the box so we've got
some paperwork here SIM card removal tool a user guide and some warranty
information then we have our USB C 2 USB C charge cable and then we also have a
little adapter they include this every year and this I won't take
this out but it's USB a to USB C to help you transfer directly from one device to
another and then we should have an 18 watt fast charger so it's the typical
pixel charger and it should charge fairly quickly I'm not sure how fast
just yet but let's set all of this aside now as far as the phone is concerned
let's take the cover off it the phone actually feels fairly substantial in
fact it feels heavier than I thought and I'll compare it with the pixel 3 XL in
just a moment but the outside is made of aluminum so it's glass front and back
this is a matte texture which I really like you've got the new dual camera
module here and the camera bump is really pretty minimal there's not much
to it really you've got a nice kind of creamsicle orange power button you've
got your volume up and down and this is on the right side of the phone on the
bottom you've got a speaker and microphone with your USB see Jack in the
middle on the other side you've got a SIM card tray and it's not expandable
and then on the top it looks like we've got another microphone now as far as the
glass is concerned it's Gorilla Glass 5 front and back and then this has a
single SIM card tray with an e SIM so there's no dual SIM card now as far as
the internal specs this has a Snapdragon 855 with an adrenal 640 GPU it also has
6 gigabytes of RAM and comes in 64 or 128 gigabytes I'm not sure which size
this is yet I'm not sure it says on the box but I'll check it once I boot it up
and then it also has a couple extra chips and it has a Titan M security
module as well as the pixel neuro core now as for the display let's go ahead
and turn it on the display is a six point three inch OLED display it's a
3040 by 1440 with 537 pixels per inch it's supposed to be HDR certified and
hopefully it will look really nice now the forward facing camera is kind of
interesting there's just one but there's a bunch of different sensor arrays in
the top here that's why you've got the larger top in the smaller chin I guess
so the top the top itself as a bunch of sensors in it you've got a
forward-facing camera that's 8 megapixels with an F 2.0 aperture you
also have face unlock ir you've got an ambient light sensor a soli radar a dot
projector a face IR camera and a face unlock flood illuminator now before I
set this up let's talk about the cameras on the back and you've got two this year
you have a normal wide-angle lens and you have a telephoto lens so you have a
12 point two megapixel F 1.7 with the equivalent of about 28 millimeter wide
lens and then you also have a 16 megapixel F 2.4 that's about a 45
millimeter telephoto lens they record 4k 34 as far as video is concerned so they
should be pretty interesting Google has always been really great with the
cameras and we'll set this up in a moment but let me just show you a size
comparison with the pixel 3 XL so here's the pixel three XL side-by-side the
pixel 4 XL is slightly taller but it looks like it might be a little bit
narrower from the top and it is a little bit narrower so slightly taller a little
bit narrower probably to accommodate those that that forward-facing array at
the top of the phone but you can see here's the screen side-by-side so it is
a little bit different the pixel 4 XL definitely feels a little narrower in
the hand as well so let's go ahead and set the pixel 4 XL up we'll hit start
connect to a mobile network we'll skip the sim part right now I'll put my sim
card in it a little bit later it's going to check for updates now that it's
connected to my Wi-Fi network and it's actually installing an update so we have
a day 1 app update going in I don't know if everyone will get this but I can only
assume that everyone will have this update as soon as they get their hands
on one now it says copy apps and data you can
choose to transfer your apps photos contacts Google account and more we'll
hit next use your old phone you need your old Android or iPhone turn it on
and keep it unlocked and find your old phones cable so I'm actually going to
transfer everything from my pixel 3xl over to the 4 XL so I've got my cable
here we'll plug it into the 3 XL and then plug the other side into the 4 XL
now you can do this with iPhone or Android but we'll hit next and I didn't
even have to hit so it did it by itself and you'll see
confirm your screen lock on the old phone and apparently my pixel 3 XL has a
very low battery so I may need to charge that for a little bit now while I'm
waiting for the other phone to charge a little bit let's talk about the battery
and the pixel 4 XL now this has a 3700 milliamp hour battery
it supports 18 watt fast charging and also has wireless charging and the pixel
stand support so if you have a pixel stand it should work pretty well let's
take a look at the case that they sent along as well they'll pull these open
here and see what we've got most of these are cloth and that's
definitely a bright and vibrant case so that's got an interesting pattern on it
it just says Google pixel 4 and let's see what it looks like in here I'll
probably use it without a case but it fits it keeps the camera away from the
table if that's where you're setting it and that texture is pretty interesting
you can see that I do like it but you either like these cases or you don't
they're cloth they feel kind of like a denim material and they're very durable
though I've had one on my pixel 3 XL for some time as well you'll see it is used
in the upper right I suppose it's got a little bit of fuzz going on there but
overall it's held up well and has not scratched the phone so these cases do
work pretty well and I think the cases have some pretty funny names but I don't
see it on this package at all but the case does have a built-in button here
with the volume rocker but no protection on the bottom of the phone so just keep
that in mind if you're using it and you do get a little bit of lay on the table
protection so there is a little bit of that not a ton but there is some you've
got some cutouts for the microphones as well I charge the phone to 20% so I
could transfer all my data so we'll go ahead and hit next verify that it's me
copy data to your new phone hit copy now it says continue setup on the pixel for
Excel so it's saying what do you want to copy I'll copy everything and we'll wait
for it to continue so we'll hit next so with then we say ok or not to Google
services and then you've got some legal terms I assume you have to accept this
or you can't get in then screen lock setup for security set your PIN and now
we can set up the new face unlock so it says glasses or tightly tinted
sunglasses are okay this works very similar to face ID so we'll hit next
it's telling us how to set it up so we'll set it up here and we have to move
our head around
it says it looks good and we'll hit done continue set up access your assistant
with voice match I agree I use that all the time and Google already recognizes
my voice it says good job you can viewer to delete your activity so it's telling
us about the new privacy and security features we can squeeze this phone as
well which is one of my favorite ways to access Google assistant I'll just leave
it as is we'll hit next and now it's showing us the new quick gesture so
we'll turn them on it says make your lockscreen smarter so as you approach it
with your hand it will turn the screen on I'm all for that this is anything
else we'll hit no thanks and it's giving us some tips and tricks so we'll hit
next it's almost ready it says you can disconnect the cable so it's moved
everything over well hit done and it says adding finishing touches now it's
finished and since this runs Android 10 it's telling us how to use the gestures
so we'll hit next it's telling us how to switch apps how to go back and new
accessibility gestures so two finger swipes up to access magnification there
were things like that so we'll hit next and it says you're ready to start using
your phone you can turn off gesture navigation and use buttons to go back if
you want to do that in settings and we swipe up now the pixel for Excel is
fully restored I had to actually install a new update and then re-register my
face but all of my apps are here and this is just super smooth when I go
through here now this has a new chipset in it that I mentioned before the pixel
neural core and this allows for better Google assistant understanding right on
the device without sending anything to googles so let's turn it into airplane
mode and try the demo they actually showed so we'll turn on Do Not Disturb
we'll turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and we'll just put it in airplane mode
that'll be easier and they have this new voice transcribe app or recorder app
that can transfer transcribe my voice in real time so let's try this it says
record respectfully around others so we'll hit
and there's a transcript button down here and it should actually transcribe
my voice in real time as I'm speaking so as we're talking about the pixel for
Excel I can speed up my voice and see if it will keep up and I can slow down and
I don't know how well this works if you have a different accent but the nice
thing is is after I'm done recording this I should be able to search the text
within the recording so we'll hit pause we'll hit save and here's the actual
recording now I can search my recording instead of scrubbing so I can say pixel
we'll see if it searches it and it tells me with this little marker here exactly
where that part is that I say pixel so we'll go into that let's see what it
says and it did exactly like we expected in airplane mode so I guess it does work
the way they say it works should be interesting to see all of these new
features now the camera has been enhanced we do have a telephoto lens and
not a wide-angle lens but the rear camera has portrait mode of course you
can zoom now and also if you take HDR photos you can adjust different lighting
and things like that so if you have HDR capability you can adjust the the bright
and dark and you'll see here's the options we have from motion timer flash
ratio full image or 16:9 here you can use either or and then we had even more
settings here so this is one of my favorite cameras in fact when I'm taking
all of my videos when I make a photo outside or something like that I usually
use a pixel phone because I can frame it and the pixel the photo comes out
exactly how I expect it to I have a hard time with the iPhone with that maybe
with the new camera I won't but so far I have with this we also have an improved
nitesite mode so I'll test all of this out for the full review but this should
be pretty interesting now that soli radar should help with unlocking so if I
put the phone down I approach it should start to unlock as soon as I pick it up
and go right to the home screen it's incredibly fast it's definitely the
fastest face unlock I've seen and supposedly it's secure and they'll
probably improve it but if you have your eyes closed this
works it seems let's try it and it unlocked and I know you couldn't see me
there but I did have my eyes closed so I took a selfie as well a portrait
mode selfie and it did a nice job around the hair it did have a little bit of
weird blurring going on there but overall it's actually pretty good so far
I'll be testing it over the next week or so and then get back as far as how it is
now the overall feel in the hand is quite good I do like this matte finish
on the back and it just feels pretty good I like the dimensions of it it
feels very secure it doesn't feel slippery or anything like that these
sides are coated even though they're aluminum they're coated and it just
feels pretty good overall now there was supposed to be a little Pokemon app that
was installed where you could use the soli radar to kind of contact it or talk
to it or or wave at it or whatever I actually haven't seen that on here I've
only seen it on the demo so I've been looking for it I'm not really seeing it
on here I'll see if I can find it no I wasn't able to find the Pikachu demo
that's actually in the stores but it's it can be set as a wallpaper so if I go
to Styles and wallpapers we go to come alive here scroll down we have a Pokemon
sidekick so if we hit download it does warn you that it increases battery usage
but let's try it out and see what we have so it says wave to say hello a wave
in any direction above you can wave we'll set it as a wallpaper just to take
a look so we can wave and it responds let's see on the lockscreen there
probably is just going to unlock there we go we can wave and pokemon is playful
and whatever so it's in the background if you want to pokemon sidekick you can
have it on your home screen and it's just there let me change it to what I'll
use normally now I do like some of these these this says compass so you can set
it as a compass and it moves with your device depending where you're going so
I'm not sure exactly it looks like it works kind of slowly but you get the
idea so it's pretty interesting I like all of these new wallpapers and I'll
link most of them in the description below so you can get your hands on them
any that I've actually found on other websites that have already uploaded them
that's it for the pixel 4 XL let me know which color is your favorite in the
comments below do you think it's a reasonable price
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