Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here.
So the Pixel and the Pixel 3XL, these have been my exclusive phones for the past couple of weeks
Mostly the Pixel 3. I have a preference for the size
I'd like the fact that doesn't have a notch and I've put more time on this one than have on the XL
But I thought I'd do a video that kinda talks about some things
I liked about them some things that I really don't like about them and
Maybe help you decide whether or not you should get one
So I like the size of the Pixel 3 a lot it actually feels way better in my hand
And I thought it would the glass on the back does scratch very easily on the white
It's not as visible when you scratch it the color kind of masks the marks but on the dark colored version of the Pixel
It's actually quite visible. So this device with the Pixel stand is a great combination
So when you put it on it charges wirelessly and it turns your phone into this quasi Google home
It's not as good as a regular Google home either Mini or Macs just because of the mic sensitivity, so normally on a regular Google home
You can be quite far away from your device and it'll pick up your voice
but for whatever reason on either the phones either the XL or the regular you have to actually be quite close to the phone or
Speak at a more elevated volume to be able to trigger the Google home functions
Now that's something that may be able to fix with software
But right now I do have to speak at a abnormally loud voice to make these things work
Something I noticed with the Pixel stand
This is the only wireless charger that can charge the Pixel 3 or the Pixel 3XL at the full 10 Watts all the other
Wireless charges have tried which is like 5 or 6 of them, can only hit slow wireless charging speeds
It'll say that it's rapidly charging but it isn't if you check the ampere that's going through
It's quite low and I'm not sure if that's something they can tweak the software again
But right now you can only charge these things rapidly through the Pixel stand and that thing is like 80 bucks
Which is pretty expensive for a wireless charger right now the speakers on these phones are good they're stereo speakers again
Like the Pixel 2XL that I had last year
But these sound a lot better than the Pixel 2XL speakers
Now the Pixel 3 like the regular Pixel 3 I think has a better speaker system than the Pixel 3XLnow
This is louder. It's definitely a louder speaker. But the speaker on the left or the speaker on the airfield runway is
noticeably quieter than the speaker on the right and this might be something that wouldn't bother most people if they're just listening to something for
like 5 or 10 minutes
but if you're watching a movie or if you're going on a bender and watch
Like a ton of music videos on YouTube and you're using the Pixel 3XL it feels weird
It's like when you have headphones and one side is broken. So one headphone is louder than the other
It's just not a great experience. And this only exists on the Pixel 3XL on the regular Pixel 3
There is a noticeable difference as well if you listen for it
But it's not nearly as pronounced and even after using these for an extended period of time they never bothered me
I spent more time with the Pixel 3 than the Pixel 3XL for the past couple of weeks
My sim card has been in the Pixel 3 and I feel that the battery life on this phone is very average
I was expecting it to be
Expecting the wrong word. I was hoping for it to be longer because it's a new phone new technology new SOC
But I found it very similar to the Pixel 2XL from last year
I'm ending the day with like 20 to maybe 40% battery life depending what I was doing
It's not disappointing, but I was hoping for better now the display on this phone is excellent the display in both
These phones was really good. I would say that the Pixel 3XL display is better, higher resolution, but that notch though
I just I couldn't deal with it
I know there was software to pull it down and kind of hide it but it never looked quite right to me
That notch was so deep. The Pixel 3 screen is more symmetrical and despite the bigger forehead and chin
It just looks more appropriate to me and I guess somewhere tolerant of a top and bottom bezel
Then a notch. Now I was a little bit worried about the resolution
Like I haven't used a 1080p screen for a while, but it's really sharp. It's an excellent screen
Both of these are running Snapdragon 845s or both great performers
but
the Pixel 3XL definitely has better thermal management when I was running 3DMark repeatedly on these phones the Pixel 3 was dropping a
score pretty quickly after even the second run the Pixel 3XL was able to maintain its core a little bit better
This is not something that most people are going to care about but if you're gonna buy these phones and you plan on playing games
On it. I would definitely pick up the XL instead of the regular three
They're both not clocked at the highest like they're both at 2.5 gigahertz. I think instead of their standard 2.8
So these are not great gaming phones either way, but performance for regular stuff kick-ass. Ok
RAM management is the last thing I want to talk about and this is something that kind of bugs me about these phones
So these both ship with 4 gigs of RAM, which in 2018 is a very small amount of RAM
There are flagships out there competitors that are shipping with like 8
Some phones are coming out with 10 gigs of RAM like the Black Shark but 4 gigs of RAM on a flagship phone feels
Anemic for 2018 and I'm getting app closures when I'm running four or five apps
Which is really bad particularly with music streaming apps when you look at companies like oneplus and they're sticking eight gigs of ram into phones
That are six hundred bucks
It just makes a phone like this feel out of place and I get it like when it comes to phone manufacturing
sometimes it's easier and even cheaper to just
Stuff phones with RAM and not have to deal with memory manager and software like it takes time and effort and like just a lot
Of work to make a phone like this utilize four gigs of ram efficiently
It can be done and Google's a software company if there's one company that can do it. Well, it's Google
It's just that right. Now. This feels really half-baked. This phone should be able to use four gigs of RAM better
but that being said I still think they should have put more memory in here because when you have competitors that are putting in
Double the amount of memory for cheaper price. It's just a bad look. So are these phones good? Are they worth your money now?
I'm someone who really values the whole pure or stock Android experience
I know it's something that a lot of people don't care about but it's something that I personally enjoy so for me it is worth
The premium to get that Google experience with the amazing
Pixel camera so that camera you've probably seen tons of videos on it already, is an amazing camera
It's very good at capturing light data. It's powerful. Its nightsight is good
The top shot feature is so useful when you have a kid and you want to get him in a good photo like this photo
Would have been very difficult to get without top shot that smile on his face lasted a split second
This is actually one of my favorite photos of him and without top shot. I probably wouldn't been able to catch it
the one thing I don't like about the camera system on this phone is that the microphone is
Really poor a lot of camera phones don't have great mics again with this one sticks out as being really bad
but all the things that I don't love about this phone are relatively insignificant to me now if you're someone that really cares about microphone
Quality and you want fast charging from your wireless charger and all that stuff. There are things that are not perfect
But this phone obviously, but for most people if you're willing to pay that steeper price with that Google experience in that Pixel camera
I think it's a great phone this year. Ok. Hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs
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