Google Pixel 2 XL Review - Doesn't eXceL? By C4ETech

The pixel to excel what was supposed to be Google's dream phone for the year has passed turned into a nightmare of sorts. If reports are to be believed, in fact, Google's been taking quite a bit of flack for everything right from the omission of the headphone jack, the viewing angles of the display, not to mention certain camera issues so does the pixel to excel suck. Should you just not care about Google stop offering this year or is there more to it? Well, let's find out in today's video, but before we do if this is your first time here or in case you're, watching this off access on a pure LED panel and can't make out my name is Ashe you're watching c4 attack and welcome to our full review of the Google Pixel to excel now before we start, if you do actually end up liking. This video go ahead. Give this video a thumbs up hit that subscribe button and the like ONS, let's get started first, let's start with what Google got right the build. This is not the best looking for out there see the note, 8 or the iPhone.

Then definitely look much better, but the pixel to Excel is no dunce. It looks quite nice, the 3d glass to the front that covers the display, the high screen to body ratio, the metal build with glass to the top of the back. It all adds character to the pixel to excel. Furthermore, it looks uniquely pixel Hillock what Google's done here, but you may not, in which case you should check out deep brand responses for this. Video they've got loads of skins available for the pixel to excel and even provide customization options so that it can mix and match and get that.

Look that you really want to hit the link in the description to check them out so coming back economically I would rate the pixel to excel over quite a few others on this segment. It is not as slippery as the competition feels nice and hard. The seven point: nine millimeter, thickness and 175 gram weight are definitely manageable and remember. It now has ip67 certification. Another area that Google's got right for the most part at least, is the specs.

The two excel is powered by a Snapdragon 835 chip. You get 64 and 128 gig storage options, and there is four gigs of ram performance is on point the pixel to axle blazes through anything thrown at it, whether it's intense gaming or just mundane old day-to-day tasks like opening app switching between them, the pixel to excel, is a pleasure to use the performance also doesn't mean a compromise on battery life. The 35 20 William hour battery on the 2x so easily lasted me through a day of moderate to heavy usage on a single charge. I've never had to plug this phone in midday in my 10 days. For that, no matter what I was doing, even if you do have to remember it charges back up real fast now, a fair bit of this performance and battery life.

Optimization needs to be credited to what Google's done with the latest Android or I am. That is what the pixel to excel runs on. Gorilla also brings with it some nice little additions like a revamp setting, menu notification, dots which let you check out your notifications without having to pull down the notification, change the option to pull actions on to the home screen and more. It is worth mentioning that the one feature that I was very excited for picture-in-picture was kind of iffy, didn't really work with the likes of YouTube and even for say, a Vimeo video off the Chrome browser. It was really finicky.

That's as the performance here is top-notch. The user experience is exemplary, but yep there is a button. Four gigs of ram might be a bottleneck at times now this isn't something I've come across. Often I've used this phone as my primary device for a little over ten days, and it's happened to me like a couple of times at best, brand management isn't the best that we've seen phones that cost almost half as much come with double the RAM and can retain more apps and memory. This shouldn't be a deal-breaker for most, but it is something worth mentioning.

Nonetheless, talking about disappointments. Here's the big one, the omission of a headphone jack after taking shots at Apple just last year for omitting the headphone jack Google's had and followed suit and danced down the same year. It is annoying AF and is most definitely a disappointment. You know, let's address the elephant in the room that P OLED panel for the display Google's resorted to using LG's, six-inch, P or LED panel. It is a narrow panel with an 18 s, 9 aspect ratios.

It lets Google achieve a 76.4% screen to body ratio again, given what the competition has been able to do. Furthermore, it doesn't feel like the best implementation possible. The bezels still feel a little larger than they should have been now remember. It is not my fault that I keep comparing the two Excel with a no data or the iPhone, then Google Thorne has gone ahead and priced themselves right up there alongside these phones, no even forget the bezels. Let's talk panel quality and here's where the major trouble starts.

This is a quad HD panel, meaning a pixel density of a little over 500 and 35 pixels per inch. Now that means it's sharp. The two excel is daydream, ready and as a pleasure use for VR, but the panel has certain issues. There is a bit of a color shift when looked at off access. It is something I did get used to after a few days with the two XL, but this is something we'd even find an acceptable.

Oh no say, even if it were on a 1 + 5 at 33 thousand rupees, when it's here on a seven-to-three thousand rupees phone, all I can say is why Google? Why I really wish they'd gone with a better panel here now, while the display is an appositive what's found above and below that display? Most certainly is. This is the reason why you should look past the pretty-looking competition, the two XL sports stereo French firing speakers that sound, absolutely fantastic. They are loud, clear and really love them. They just enhanced the media experience a lot. Google's also included the squeeze option from HTC flagships here, and they went ahead and restricted it to only being able to trigger the Google Assistant as much as I, like Google Assistant, and constantly used it with my Google home I.

Didn't really find myself using squeeze a lot. Maybe 10 days was too short a learning curve. At least I never launched it accidentally, not even once, and there wasn't a single instance where I try to launch it, and it failed. So the sensitivity settings option really worked well for me, enough playing function also deserves a mention if you're out somewhere and can hear music being played aloud- and maybe you catch yourself wondering know, what's that track? Well, you don't even have to unlock the pixel to excel. You just have to look at the lock screen.

Just raise it. Look at it and know playing shows you what's a track, that's being played nice right, so speaking of unlock pixel imprint is back and works as well as can be expected now. That said, let's get to the star of the show. The cameras, unlike most flagship these days, Google's gone with just a single camera setup for the rear unit, a 12 megapixel F 1.8 camera. But the sensor has two other pixels which, along with AI and machine learning, creates a depth map of the scene and separates the subject from the background.

What it means is that Google software trickery can get you portrait mode shots, but on the need of a second camera, the results aren't quite impressive. Like most of the implementations, though they are in perfect, the phone does struggle to blur certain parts of the image at times. Look at the white high rise in the background of this image and in this one the trees at the corner, they're supposed to be a bit more lured out. That's it when you don't pixel peep I'm, going to get it right, which it does more often than not the results. Look amazing, no forget the portrait mode for a minute, even with just the regular pictures.

The 12 megapixel camera produces some impressive results and the good lighting conditions. They are extremely sharp with a ton of detail. Just look at this leaf. The veins are easily visible, given the wide F 1.8 aperture, the bouquet. That is the background.

Blur is quite strong. In macro shots like this Google's HDR+ is back and better than ever on this phone. The finest of details are retrieved from the shadows and highlights, for the most part, the color reproduction is great. The colors on this leaf looked through life, for example. The pixel two performs really well even under low light once again, HDR+ helps turn it on, and the images are significantly better, with much less noise and better dynamic range than the ones shot with HDR plus off the images are even considerably bright.

Even in pitch dark scenes like there, the pixel Louie Excel manages to capture some detail. The images are definitely usable to put things into perspective. This is definitely among the best cameras of on par or even a tad better than those on the galaxies and the iPhones of this year. Should we do a comparison? Let us know in the comments below now what video the pixel do can shoot 4k at 30 frames per second. The super stable footage is thanks to Google's count, combine implementation of OAS and EAS.

The quality of the video is excellent. Very sharp natural colors, but I feel the dynamic range could have been a little better to the front. We get an 8 megapixel, F, 2.4 camera doesn't really seem impressive on paper. Does it is doesn't have a dual pixel sensor either. Yet it manages to capture some perfect portrait shots once again, not perfect, but I found it to be more consistent with blurring out the background accurately.

These are probably the best selfie portraits by any poll period and for once, I, actually like the face, processing or beauty mode. So I guess I, don't usually shoot a lot of selfies help. I Radley shoot selfies even for my own videos, I end up running that off to sunder or Shark, but this time I was posting selfies to Instagram. That is how much I ended up loving this camera. Even without the portrait mode, this camera did perform extremely well.

In fact, we actually have a blind test on it. Here's a car to that video to check it out. So with that, let's talk price in case you know: you've missed it. The last time I said it to Excel is priced at 73 thousand rupees here in India, that's a whupping 5000 rupee premium over the know date and the note 8. It's not really a value for money phone.

It's a premium priced phone with an OS enabled secondary camera. The infinity display digitizer with an S Pen extra RAM and a second recent slot, which is something that's very important. In India, most brands come up with dual SIM phones except Apple and me. Don't know why Google's gone for the second year in a row with the pixels, a single Sam, hey, Google they've got something called GL anyway. Now all that said, the pricing does feel ridiculous.

Doesn't it like I said the new date, there's no value from any device and being priced five thousand over the no date? What was Google thinking now that the price and the display are the main cons for the pixel to Excel and, of course, the singleton, but the exemplary camera performance, the amazing user experience, the promise of fast updates and long-term support mean the pixels of Excel is in a phone you could ignore. If it were priced below the Galaxy, Note 8 I'd label it a must-buy, but at this price I'd have to go with way. Mm your mileage may vary. If the pros of this phone that we've talked about are things you value a lot then yes do get it. It's not looked elsewhere, so that's it for my two cents on the pixel to excel.

What do you think if there's a phone that you'd be interested in? Do you agree with my conclusion? You feel there's something else. I should have included in this video. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below and also don't forget, to check out our sponsors deep ground. I leave a direct link in the description below. So that's it for this video I'm.

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