hey what's up it's Jerad with State of tech and this is the time of year when people
like me spend way too much money on smartphones because all of the flagships
come out of course there's a few that come out in springtime but end of summer
fall ends up being pretty expensive hence my iPhone excess max the note 9
and now the pixel 3 XL which I am excited to have just received today in
the mail i pre-ordered it and it came via FedEx today also got the pixel three
XL case I was a real fan of the case that that Google released last year for
the pixel 2 and so I wanted to go ahead and get myself another one so we've got
the pixel 3 XL here we're gonna unbox it kind of get it fired up switch over the
sim I thought I'd bring all of you along for the ride there because I don't
really do many like unboxing type videos anymore
and so I never end up talking about a device until it's time to do a review
and so I wanted to kind of change that just for once because the pixel 3 you
know I have high hopes for it and I've heard early thoughts that other people
have had and those early thoughts are all positive of course you know there
are a lot of people remaining kind of skeptical because the specs are not what
you would expect out of a flagship phone and 29 or 2018
of course the pixel 3 has 4 gigabytes of RAM whereas the note 9 has 8 in the
configuration that I got anyways and a lot of the other devices are coming with
at least 6 and so that's something to consider but I'm not really too worried
about it because the pixel 2 didn't have a large amount of RAM considering the
other devices that were out as well so inside of course we also get our our
pixel buds our Wired pixel buds these are really nice the only thing is that
for my ears I haven't really liked the way that they fit and feel I love the
sow they were good quality last year I'd be
interested to test these at least and give him a try but for me it they just
they don't stay in my ears very well that whole kind of adjustable loop thing
and then inside the box of course we've got our our USB type-c adapter we have
our headphone jack that we can attach the dongle for that and then we also
have a data transfer tool that allows us to of course switch between devices and
whatnot so awesome the box the packaging is nice I like that very well optimized
space and of course Google packaging is really nice so I'm going to be pulling
the SIM out of this note 9 because that is a align that I have that's available
to test and I've been waiting I haven't really been using the note 9 a whole lot
this last couple of weeks as I've been really kind of focusing on my iPhone xs+
and spending more time with that device so kind of cool SIM tray placement at
the bottom of the device typically we would see them towards the top or on the
side of the device that's an interesting tray it's actually
not completely through there's a plate on the bottom of it to kind of hold your
your sim from sliding around that's kind of different a lot of times you have to
try and get it in there just right that snapped in there nicely I feel pretty
secure about that so I'm going to go ahead and slide this in and then we are
going to power up the phone and you know the whole notch thing I'm just gonna
mention it once and I may mention it once when I do my official review but
I'm I don't care the notch is not that big of a deal in my opinion I want as
much screen real estate as possible and I know that that comes down to apps
being optimized Wow just the start up screen I wish that I could take you back
and show you that just really cool animation that popped up there if I
could find a video I'll throw it up that was just really nice so the display just
looks really nice so far I'm gonna go ahead and get logged into my Wi-Fi so
that we can connect and start to get this thing going surprisingly light this
device in comparison to the other devices that
I've been carrying the iPhone xs+ and the note 9 those are are pretty beefy
devices I mean they're good size devices they're definitely light by you
considering what they're doing and what they are but the pixel three feels a
little lighter in the hand than the others I'm excited to get a fingerprint
scanner back on the back of the device of course the note 9 has that but it's
still a challenge to feel for the note 9 fingerprint scanner without having a
case that kind of guides your finger there
I like the circle I like it being separate from the camera keeps my
fingers from getting on the camera and getting the fingerprints all over it so
what I'm really excited about is of course this camera so I'm just I'm gonna
go ahead I'm not gonna copy from another device but I am gonna log in to my
Google device or in my Google account so that I can of course copy over apps and
settings that were backed up to Google since I haven't really been using my
note 9 as my primary for a couple of weeks a lot of my data is more
consistent on my iphone but one of the things I've been trying to do is not be
so tied up with my data that's on the devices like past text messages and
stuff like that I don't I just I can unlock it from my note 9 I love that
two-factor authentication being able to unlock that without having to go in and
find that six digit number so I'm going to go ahead and just click on agree all
the stuff and let it go and get my account information and start to get
that set up we've got to go ahead and accept all the things legal terms and
all that good stuff unlock with a pixel imprint but we have to create a four
digit password first so we'll go ahead and do that and then touch the sensor
lift then touch again
do that a couple of times just to get that fingerprint in their fingerprint
added I'll add my left hand later continue setup gosh this is snappy guys
I mean the process of going through setting up a lot of these other devices
typically is just not that snappy I don't know if it's pushing me through
and continuing to do stuff in the background or what but that process is
just great I love the squeeze for the assistant
it's kind of giving me the ability to change whether I want to really light
squeeze or a firm squeeze this is good because if you put a thicker case on
your phone your squeeze isn't gonna be as effective so you're gonna have to
slide and adjust so I may go back and adjust that when I when I get the case
on I'll hit no thanks for anything else it says just a sec one last tip get
updates sure go ahead and send me the updates and it's it's on it's ready to
go it said last finishing touches boom it
took me right to that screen I'm sure it is still doing stuff in the background
but that was fast that was a fast setup and I wasn't expecting that to go so
fast definitely the note 9 we would have been
here for at least another five to 10 minutes and the iPhone that's a pretty
fast setup but the connection between things definitely takes a little while
and of course in the background now it's finishing apps and data restore so
that's something that just happens in the background I didn't have to sit and
wait for that process Google let me right into the phone and
I'm now able to use the phone whereas if I was doing an iCloud restore
from an iCloud backup to my iPhone I'd be sitting there for a while waiting to
even get access to the phone so Google has really streamlined that process of
getting you right in to your phone and being ready to use it so now I could be
making calls I could be I mean even all of my contacts are already in here
already synced / of course my call history isn't yet and probably text
messages and stuff like that aren't yet either but my phone is ready to go and
I'll tell you what I am really excited to
start using this phone so I'm just launching the camera this isn't
necessarily a good setting for me to test the camera in here but I just I
like to turn on a phone and just look through the camera I don't know why I
guess it's just there are some things I like to kind of test there's a little
bit of rolling shutter there which is very typical of a smartphone camera but
I am super excited to see the performance of this camera because you
know the iPhone XS that definitely takes some good photos there's some fantastic
photos and I'm zooming in that's actually pretty darn good zooming in to
as far as I can get in on the image that's pretty good so I'm gonna be
testing these I've got the pixel three XL now I've got the iPhone XS Max and I
also have the note 9 those are the three phones I'm going to be testing and so
that we have some sort of a control I have the Sony a7 3 which is a full-frame
mirrorless camera and I'm gonna use that in a photo comparison and we're gonna
look at image detail low-light performance all of that stuff in a
camera shootout video so you're gonna want to make sure to subscribe to the
channel here on Stata tech because we're gonna be having that video go live
hopefully in the next couple of days because you know there's all these
phones that are out and for those of you who have been kind of waiting you're
trying to make a decision you know do you
maybe you're you're considering jumping ship from an iPhone or maybe even giving
iPhone another chance or you're trying to decide whether you want to go with
that that note that galaxy device maybe even the s9 from earlier this year but I
don't I don't have my s9 anymore or this pixel 3 XL the pixel three XL definitely
has the other devices beaten price I mean I was really surprised at the price
that they came out with this of course you know with 128 gigabytes of storage
that's going to be plenty because we're gonna get that free storage of unlimited
quality now I take advantage of Google photos on all of my devices but I have
to use my Google storage if I want that unlimited uncompressed
image saved like the image straight out of the camera if I'm going to use free
free google photos on my iphone my note 9 or any other device for that matter
it's gonna it's gonna compress my images in my video and it's gonna degrade the
quality a little bit not by much but with that pixel you get that unlimited
free you could shoot 4k video all day long you could shoot photos until your
phone is dead and they're gonna store all those for free and so with that 128
gigs of storage is actually gonna get you a long way so they saved us some
money I think by not going in the direction of here's all the gigabytes
here's all the specs of course it's optimized Android they're able to
optimize it for this device and make it work perfect whereas the other
manufacturers are responsible to make their devices optimized for Android
which I'm sure they do but who's gonna be better than that then Google the
people who put these software together in the first place and that really did
show with the pixel to and pixel to excel last year so I'm excited to get
out and test this like I said subscribe to the channel here give this video a
thumbs up if you liked the commentary I think that's tends to be the thing that
I bring to the table on YouTube is having commentary and and thought about
the use of these devices I like to go out and use them a lot of people they'll
review a device a couple of days after having owned it and then that's it you
don't hear anything else from them I like to come back six months later a
year later talk about the device compare it to other devices and see what we can
do to just make sure that we're buying the best device for our money and not
overspending and not you know I mean there's a lot of options out there these
days so thanks so much for checking out the video
I can't wait to showcase the camera functionality for all of you and then
come back for a review so make sure to follow at state of tech on instagram
twitter i'll be posting photos that I've taken with this device some of the other
devices I already have photos posted I'll be posting more to Instagram
stories so follow at state of tech and you can also follow me at jarred Hill I
definitely share a lot about my life on social media channel but I use my
smartphone cameras and it gives you a great picture into how these are
performing so definitely check those out I look forward to connecting with you
there so that's going to do it for today thanks so much for checking out state
attack and I hope to see you back in the next one