hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the pixel to excel has been one of my
favorite design phones for the past year now many of you know me for doing iPhone
videos but I also use this phone on a daily basis now this is a great phone as
far as its design I think the design is probably one of the best things about it
and may even be a little bit better than the pixel threes design due to the lack
of knotch but let's turn this off and take a look at the hardware and how its
held up over the past year because I haven't used a case on this most of the
time just to see how it would wear I like to use phones without cases even
though of course it doesn't protect it as well but this one has held up pretty
well considering the abuse its head so if you take a look at it here it's the
Panda pixel of course and it does have some wear over here so if you take a
look right here there are some wear marks I don't know if you can see that
but right here it's real faint but not as bad as some other phones I've used in
fact I've had I phones wear much worse than this over time down at the bottom
now at the top you'll see there is somewhere around around the camera
itself and that's just from it being set down on a table over and over like this
just picked back up and then put in my pocket that's normally where it is so
you'll see there is some wear there and then across the glass there are some
scratches and it smudges really easy but I think it looks pretty good overall now
if we look along the sides here it's pretty good and then on the bottom this
is where I've dropped it and you can see this pretty evidently here it's been
dropped unfortunately but it held up pretty well it did chip this plastic
coating over the aluminum though so that's something to know in is kind of
unfortunate but overall it's held up really well now if we turn it on here
you'll see the display of course is not known for being one of the best it does
have a blueshift off axis and to me after using it regularly it wasn't that
big of a deal honestly you get used to it but the screen is not as clear or
vibrant as something such as a note 9 or a 10 s max one of those phones there are
better displays out there but the pixel 3xl looks really good so durability wise
it's been pretty good you won't really see many scratches on this display it's
held up well in fact tell it maybe a little bit
better than my iPhones have with regular use as well as far as screen burnin is
concerned I haven't been able to find any if I look all over this display down
here at the bottom I just don't see any at all even though I know a lot of
people are having this issue even the clock nothing is there the home button
so whatever they did to fix this early on seems to have fixed it for me as well
so that's a good thing and I think most people would be happy with that assuming
they have the same issue I'd be curious to know if you have that though in the
comments below now as you can see the batteries at 67% I haven't used it very
much for the past couple of days I mean looking at the pixel 3xl but you'll see
two days and 22 hours or with only 13 minutes of actual usage and at 67% so
the standby is good it easily lasts through a day no problem I use this for
a lot of different phone calls and things and I find the battery still
holds up really well now as far as speed of the operating system everything's
super smooth I actually never had slowdowns even with Android P
everything's moving nice and fast all of the time apps are still loading quick I
just haven't really had any issues with it where people were having that maybe
if I was to pick one thing occasionally the camera will be a little bit slow to
open but that's that's pretty much it and for the most part it's pretty fast I
don't really have any issues there I'm really happy with that oh I guess there
is one issue to mention and that's mostly if I squeeze this sometimes it
doesn't go into the Google assistant mode or it will go into and not
recognize my voice but I do like the squeeze feature I use it all the time
usually to turn on my studio lights for example so I'll just do this real quick
turn my lights off and now my lights are off I can do the same thing and that
one's not working it's not even working properly let me turn it back on and
he'll see everything's back on so it's working okay and whatever that one lifx
tile thing wasn't working properly but overall everything works well now my
favorite thing about this and something I've used this for the most is the
camera I use this as a Google guide I also use this as taking pictures of when
I'm outside filming different videos if I need a
nail shot it's coming from this camera I always use this camera for that reason
in particular so if I need to take a quick thumbnail of say an older iPhone
anything like that it's really nice open the camera take a shot and it looks
better than just about any iPhone out there maybe with the exception of the
new newest ones otherwise this and the pixel 3xl are my go-to cameras when it
comes to that so I'm really pleased with this after a year I think it's held up
well but there is one issue I have with it and that has to do with this speaker
that hop one in particular is a little rattling when you're making a phone call
or you have a high volumes overall when you're playing music or anything like
that it gets a little bit distorted let me see if I can show you so here's my
blackberry review let me turn it up and it rattles out of the bottom speaker
right here and sometimes over here it's just not as great as it could be so it's
something that I would like to see them maybe improve and hopefully it is with
the pixel 3xl of course I could have worn did this I suppose but overall I
think it's held up really well but if you have a pixel 2 or a pixel 2 XL let
me know your thoughts about it in the comments below I really like this phone
I think it was very underrated at the time for its display I find the display
nice and color accurate however if you compare it next to say a newer pixel 3
or pixel 3 XL or one of the new iPhones or the note 9 I think you'd be
disappointed with it but for everyday use it's great and you can get this at a
reduced cost now if you still want one so I think it's still pretty good and
worth picking up if you can get one inexpensively let me know your thoughts
about it though in the comments below if you haven't subscribed already please
subscribe and like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next
time