hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the Pixel 4XL has been out for
over six months and this is a phone I carry with me every single day now I
know a lot of you know me for my iPhone videos and things like that
but I actually carry the pixel 4 XL with me everywhere I go since it's been
released and so Google actually sent me this a little bit before it came out and
I've been using it regularly ever since in fact it's my normal alarm clock I
like it a little bit better than what you get with iPhone for example I like
the built-in alarm clock where it sort of just fades in the sound and then now
you have the new bedtime options and things like that I don't really care for
bedtime and I just downgraded this back to
Android 10 since it had the beta on it so I wanted the public release but it's
got these nice little features that I use all the time and also I used the
soli radar with it as well so I know a lot of people thought that was a gimmick
but for example when the alarms going off if you just swipe your hand it's
really helpful to actually silence the alarm or snooze it or shut it off or any
of those things and as you bring your hand close to it it actually starts to
get quieter so all of these little things I find to be very helpful over
the past 6 months so I do use it every single day now I also use this a lot for
the phone the reception and the overall network connectivity is really good
compared to that of an iPhone for example and that's because this has a
Snapdragon processor in it with their qualcomm chipset that allows for
fantastic communication so because Apple's using Intel for example this I
find to be much better and much more consistent so just the overall
connectivity is better in general and so when I place many phone calls it's
usually on this I don't really make a whole lot of phone calls but I usually
grab the pixel instead of my iPhone to make a phone call I use Google Phi on
this and I've been using it for a long time and just recently when I set this
up I thought it was really interesting that it asked me in Google Phi do I want
to use both SIM card and the e sim at the same time so I have a Google five
SIM card in here but it asked me if I wanted to use both SIM card slots to
help with it switching between networks more quick
so I turned that on it rebooted the phone and I hadn't seen that before now
as far as the overall design it's really grown on me in fact I like it a lot with
the exception of maybe this camera in the back that looks a little goofy but
this generation all sort of looks goofy with the camera bump it's a very minimal
camera bump and I don't use this with a case and it's held up incredibly well
it's held up better than my iPhone as far as scratches or anything like that
in fact there's no scratches on it whatsoever and I just put it in my
backpack or in my pocket or in my car when I'm driving like I said I use this
very regularly for a lot of different tasks and I just like the design I do
use the squeeze for Google assistant so squeeze what's the weather today and I
find it to be well it's terrible weather today for this time of year but I find
this to be really nice to use just in general day-to-day it's a great design I
love the textures on it it's held up really well I don't have any Nick's or
scratches anywhere around it and I just think it's really durable and very
underrated in general now the display is nice it's got that 90 Hertz display that
ramps up and back down so most of the time it's super smooth so if we're going
into something say chrome here and we go to the Google Play Store on Chrome you
can see we could just scroll through super fast maybe we'll go back look at
what's you know today feed here and it's just really nice to use that faster
display at 90 Hertz so I have that turned on I like it a lot and the colors
of this display are very accurate as well which is something I value I
usually tend to put it on neutral I'm not sure if I did that this time let's
see here or natural rather I don't really like
boosted or adaptive boost it is really saturated I like a natural look that's
color accurate so this display is great it has great viewing angles it does go
bright not as bright as some of the others so it's okay I would like to see
it maybe go a little bit brighter but other than that I really have no
complaints the speakers are nice and loud so here's my Android 11 beta 1
video so let me turn it up here
so it's nice and loud I think it sounds good it's got a great stereo sound and I
pick this one up quite a lot instead of my iPhone to use for watching videos I
just think it's a great experience overall
now one thing I really like about the pixel lineup as opposed to say the s20
or or any of the other phones out there is the regular monthly updates now I
cover these videos regularly if you didn't see that in my feed here I'll let
it reload but you'll see if I go through every time there's an update we have a
pixel June 20th update or June 2020 update in the pixel feature drop and you
continually get updates with this phone so you get three years of updates
minimum with monthly security updates and then feature drops throughout the
year and that's something you don't necessarily get on other phones and
while the pixel may be bringing other features like a bedtime that was a newer
one in the latest one bedtime was one of the newest features while you may get
this on other phones it's not implemented the same way right into the
OS so it just feels more polished on this particular device in my personal
opinion so I love that you get regular updates it's nice and secure and then of
course with that you get stability so this phone has been very stable it's
very rare that I need to restart it or anything like that I don't have many app
crashes everything just seems to be nice and fast all of the time so I really
enjoy using this phone and then battery life well I know some people had some
issues earlier on but they keep increasing the quality of the battery so
you'll see it said it should last until about 11:00 a.m. that means 24 hours
from now based on normal use now battery saver of course you could turn that on
on a schedule if we go to battery usage you can see that this one while it
hasn't been used very much today like I said I rolled it back to Android
10 just so I could use it on the public release but in general batteries pretty
good it gets me through a day without a problem I have no issues with it six
hours of screen on time something like that no problems
whatsoever and then there's my favorite thing of this phone and that is the
camera the camera is by far the best on most smartphones
in my opinion regular pictures in fact I can rely on
it to take a quality picture when I want to do a thumbnail for a video for
example so any of the photos that you see when I'm outside I did a lot more of
those last year based on current situations any of those thumbnails were
taken with this phone it's got a nice quality camera it does great as far as
its dynamic range and with the computational photography it's just
super clear and clean you'll see as i zoom into the lenses of the iPhone 11
pro max here you can see the dust nice and clear and most people especially on
a thumbnail could never tell the difference between this and a regular
camera so it does a great job especially if you have great lighting other than
that I think the one thing that held it back is its price not necessarily its
design or overall look or anything like that I think the price when it came in
new was just a little too high for the specs that it had had Google added maybe
four more gigs of RAM I think less people would complain but in general I
think if you added a little bit bigger battery more RAM people would be
incredibly happy but if this is around $500 whether you get it used or
refurbished or even new on a huge discount this is well worth that price
so maybe we'll see something different with the next generation the pixel 5 or
the 4a but right now this is a fantastic phone and I still recommend it if you
can get a great deal on it but let me know your experience with the pixel 4 XL
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time