hey tech late-era welcome back to coffee
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tech late today I wanted to give you a
review of my thoughts on the new pixel 4
and the iPhone 11 Pro and I've been busy
testing these two phones over the past
couple of days just for you so do me a
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that's all I ask in return the first
thing to note is naming some people may
be tempted to compare their Google pixel
4 to the iPhone 11 but you actually need
to compare it to the 11 Pro Apple kinda
did a little marketing trick where they
took the budget iPhone 10 R and renamed
it to the iPhone 11 the thing is the
standard iPhone the 11 it's kind of in a
different class because it's using a non
OLED screen that's just a standard LCD
screen I have an HD quality so it's
still okay and if you're into iPhones it
may be the one to get because of the
cheaper price but what we're doing today
is comparing the flagship phones by the
way this is the Google pixel for Excel
so it's a little bit bigger and you know
we can talk about the display a little
bit actually
the pixel for series one thing it has is
the 90 Hertz refresh rate
so you'll see scrolling text and
animations navigating between apps
it just feels far more smoother I think
that's a really big feature about this
phone other than that both of the
displays are OLED screens so they have
really good deep blacks but where I
think the pixel 4 falls short a little
bit is the screen brightness the iPhone
11 is a lot brighter than the pixel in
broad daylight I think this is like
anywhere from 500 to 800 nits of
brightness whereas this is like 450
units or so so if you're working outside
a lot like in the Sun then the pixel for
its going to look a little bit darker
but it's still very usable and if you go
find some shade then it's going to be
fine now one of the new features for the
pixel 4 is the motion sensor where you
can just wave your hand either left or
right and then the phone will detect
that and they can do things like switch
songs or it can turn off an alarm
personally I thought their feature
seemed kind of cool at first but then
the more I used it the more I thought it
seemed a little gimmicky because you
have to swipe your hand really close if
you swipe your hand above it like pretty
far then it's not going to be able to
detect that and if you're typing things
around then people are going to think
that you're waving at them maybe you're
trying to swat a fly and the whole idea
were like if I'm sleepy and I wake up
and the alarm rings then I can just wave
it and have it dismissed I would have to
position the phone really carefully
before I go to bed and just make it
right at my bedside and then make
when I waved my hand to just put a few
inches above the phone so I don't think
that that would be a true reality but
where I did find this feature useful is
I can just quickly swipe left and right
to switch songs when I'm browsing
websites reading something on my phone
and that makes it quite nice and
convenient overall though for true
hands-off operation I realize I also
wanted to be able to switch the volume
up and down and then I realized I might
need for directions like swipe left and
right type up and down this radar
currently only recognizes left and right
types which makes me wonder if at that
point we should just be using voice to
control our phones but I think the tech
is still pretty early and that this
feature is more of a gimmick
perhaps the picture for also comes with
a new recorder app which I thought was
really cool actually so it will record
speech and then transcribe that into
text and that you can actually click on
the text to go to that location in the
audio file and you can skip around and
as you play the audio you can see the
text which part is being read so this
could be a groundbreaking feature for
people who are students or journalists
anybody who records audio a lot and that
needs to go through that and go through
the notes I imagine it could also be
nice for language learners which brings
us to the other feature that this phone
has live captions if you're listening to
a podcast audio or watching video the
phone will actually listen in on that
and show the captions on screen in real
time which is an excellent feature if
you're hard of hearing for example or if
you're learning the language alright so
let's talk about maybe the most
interesting feature here at the cameras
both of these phones come with very
similar camera configurations they have
a single front-facing camera for selfies
and that on the back they have a
standard wide-angle lens and a telephoto
lens and then for the iPhone 11 Pro
there's also an ultra white 13
millimeter lens so there's ultra
wide-angle lens I think to me is one of
the defining differences between the
iPhone 11 Pro and the pixel for now I
want to get into that but let's go
through these lenses one by one first
the front-facing camera I realized
actually that the pixel fours
front-facing camera is actually wider
than the iPhone Elevens camera by about
10% or so and in video the pixel 4 is
actually 20 to 30% wider I think than
the iPhone 11 which makes it in my
opinion better for vlogging if that's
what you're really into doing what I
recommend you do is go into settings and
disable video stabilization because that
puts a huge crop into all of your videos
once you
disable that you'll find the pencil
forcefield of you to be much wider and
there's also another new setting here
safe selfie as previewed which will
prevent pixel from mirroring your selfie
shot so I recommend you disable that as
well alright so for the front camera I'm
giving pixel for the win here for the
ultra wide that's something only the
iPhone 11 pro has and it's an f2 point
for a 13 millimeter lens it's certainly
a cool effect and a lot of fun to use
but in my opinion it's also quite
crippled so let me tell you why number
one it is extremely soft and in
low-light there is so much noise
reduction on that ultra white your
pictures lose so much detail and then
video as well that ultra white is just
really noisy it's fine in broad daylight
but I don't recommend using it in dim
scenarios the other funny thing is for
some reason they disable night sight
with the ultra white which kind of
defeats a lot of the purpose of using
the ultra white for landscape
photography I also wanted to note that
these auto white lenses they're not the
easiest to use there's usually so much
distortion at the edges in traditional
photography you normally go through that
focal length for some specialty scenario
like architecture interior room shots so
I think we're going to be seeing a lot
of people misusing that feature probably
shooting faces that get elongated
legs that get stretched out and that
reminds me when they used to shoot with
ultra wide lenses on full-frame DSLR
cameras I'd often use perspective
distortion software to warp the images
such that they look a little bit more
natural more like the type you would get
if you were to use panorama mode and so
one interesting dilemma for iPhone 11
users now is well you can either use the
ultra wide lens or you can use just a
panorama mode and you may find that the
panorama mode will give you an image
that could be more pleasing for you the
ultra wide-angle usually makes the
center of the image look very small so I
think overall even though the pixel 4
doesn't have ultra wide it does have
panorama mode which should cover you for
a lot of scenarios but I have to give it
to Apple here I think the ultra
wide-angle is loved one especially I
noticed that you can do ultra white with
the panorama mode and get some ultra
ultra wide images that just look really
bizarre but pretty fun now moving on the
primary camera for both of these phones
is going to be the standard and
telephoto lenses on the back both of
them I find are really good I tested
them both in a variety of scenarios and
the pictures look pretty identical
so I think that's saying something for
Apple which has pretty much caught up to
pixel in terms of camera quality
I think the pixels white balance tends
to be a little bit more accurate maybe
they're using machine learning to figure
out what the white balance that these
pictures should be it tends to be on the
bluer side especially in nighttime
scenarios which works that well because
it helps keep more of the colors and
then for the telephoto the zoom both of
these cameras can zoom in quite a bit
the pixel can do a X the iPhone 11 Pro
can do 10x you'll find that the pixels
zoom image quality is generally better
there's less artifacts they're using
their computational photography super
telephoto to merge a bunch of images to
come up with a final photo that is
higher quality iPhone tends to have a
few more artifacts if you zoom in but
they're both pretty comparable now the
bouquet is quite interesting to talk
about the bouquet is that background
blur you get especially if you're using
portrait mode and for some reason I
found that the iPhone 11 spoke a is it's
just beautiful it's much better for some
reason than the picture for even though
Google says they've been working on that
bouquet feature the iPhone 11 spoke a
just looks more realistic lights and
specular highlights tend to just bloom
out into beautiful circles that overlay
each other and generally you would use
the raw image data to figure out where
these specular highlights are pixel for
supposedly they're doing that technique
as well by just didn't notice it that
much I checked out the video quality
both seem fairly similar the
front-facing camera again for the pixel
four seems a little bit higher quality
just not as soft the iPhones seem to
apply more smoothening on the faces but
it may make you look better but from
video quality seemed pretty similar
across the board both of these phones
have night sight it's a lot of fun
playing with them
the way it works is in the dark
environment these phones will allow you
to take a long exposure
I've only 11 lets you do a 30-second
exposure picture for unless you do up to
a 4 min the exposure I actually had a
lot of fun going now in very dark
environments and that would bring a
tripod and take a shot and these phones
both produce nice results the biggest
difference is that the pizza for the
white balance again this blue errs of
the colors just look better and also
because they allow for a 4 min exposure
you can really just push the image
quality higher and higher if you
encounter a scene that looks really cool
now this is where pixel marketing team
gets a little bit
Deven says well you can shoot that Milky
Way with astrophotography through a
four-minute exposure yeah maybe you
could and it might be kind of fun to do
that occasionally actually but for me I
found that after waiting around four
minutes I just didn't want to wait
around that long all the time it could
be kind of fun to do on the camping trip
actually but beyond that there's a few
other minor differences the battery on
the iPhone 11 is a little bit bigger the
OS is completely different and the price
of course a hundred dollars versus a
thousand dollars if it were me I might
recommend looking into the budget
versions of these phones the pixel o3a
or the iPhone 11 the 3a cost like 400
bucks is half as much so there you have
it the pixel 4 and the iPhone the 11 in
my opinion both pretty much just as good
or just as bad one cost 100 bucks more
than the other and both Google and Apple
kind of dropped the pot this year it
would be great if I could photograph the
Milky Way with the ultra wide-angle lens
so I could get the whole sky with some
of the foreground as well using
something like the ultra white on the
iPhone 11 and I'm going to need that
four minute night sight on the pixel for
which you prefer it the pixel 4 plus 200
bucks in cash the iPhone 11 Pro or none
of them just $1000 saved in cash so let
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