Google Pixel 3 Review: Pixel Perfect By Jon Rettinger

What's going on guys I'm John wrench from Techno Buffalo, and if you couldn't tell this, is the pixel 3 XL. This is our review of it. So this review went through a few different versions, so my initial thoughts changed after a few days and that changed after a week now, after 3 weeks of using it I, think I know the phone pretty well your perspective, that's gonna, be a bit different. I, also think it's a testament to the quality of the device and the importance of really using a phone or anything you're reviewing for a long period of time, because it totally changed my mind. For me, there are two reasons: somebody would really buy. Any pixel through 3xl included a kick-ass camera and a pure Android experience with guaranteed years of updates, so I'm gonna kind of work backwards here.

If one of those to your top reasons to buy a phone, then just go out and buy the pixel, 3 or 3 XL you're going to get exactly that. But if you don't fall into that box, keep watching this may or may not be the phone for you. And so, while this review is gonna focus mostly on the XL, the 3 is pretty much the exact same phone, save for screen resolution, size and no notch, but most of the points that I'm gonna mention here are gonna work for it. It's not jealous little bro 2, so it's making a notch. Let's just do it the notch.

It's there it's deep! It's like myriad of emoji and takes or otherwise be a pretty classy looking package and kind of hugs. Furthermore, it up my issue with the notch, though, isn't it's very existence like some? Furthermore, it's how Google used it? Furthermore, it's not housing, some sort of crazy, advanced facial scanning, it's just a front-facing cameras and speakers and few ambient sensors things that pretty much every phone pre-2016 had at the top. If you aren't adding something new, why bother adding the notch at all just take the Samsung approach with slim top and bottom bezels, and also a nice side effect you'd make that gigantic chin. It seemed a little less less and if you're buying this phone chances are you're, not gonna care about that notch at all and to be totally honest, I can deal with the ugly design because the software is so good. I just wish I didn't have to, and also a small note start, I feel kind of antiquated it using the fingerprint unlock in the back with phones now going facial, unlocking or in Green, but to its credit, despite its location, didn't lock pretty fast, the only other real negatives, the pixel 3xl aren't what it has it's, what it doesn't have 4 gigabytes of RAM for a flagship.

It's gonna, be the current model until like around October 2019 by then 1, plus, 7 or 70 is probably gonna, be up to 32 gigs of ram or something just ridiculous like that. So it's a phone, credit, the lack of RAM doesn't sell the experience down, although I did notice that some apps what happens to reload again, if I try to open the apps that opened up earlier in the day. The overall software experience, though, was gonna, be crazy, smooth and things come along as quickly as any other phone on the market like it, sir. Mr. Ram, though, isn't today it's more of the future you're planning on keeping this phone when Android, Q or R hit I'm going to bed, you're going to feel the lack of gigabytes data.

So that's it. Those are really the only negatives you're going to find here on the pixel 3 XL. This is a perfect phone, as it exists right now towards the end of 2018, so the pixel 2 XL took a big hit for the screen and Google righted that ship this time around the 6.3 inch HD plus panel, looks perfect. It's not like a Samsung level, but it's good enough. You're, not going to notice it but being bad colors, look great, and since it's OLED, blacks or black games movies, whatever you're doing you're going to look good.

There is a slight blue hue. I only noticed it when I held it directly to another phone. So unless you're walking around like this with another phone you're, not really going to notice it. So the screen isn't the only area where Google really stepped up since last year. Wireless charging is here and also improved water resistance and with wireless charging, you're going to get a glass back, makes a device feel awesome in the hand and to me, it feels way better than the aluminum on the two than 2 XL I kind of just really liked holding it well, the glass bag does look and feel awesome, I, don't care how strong any companies going to claim their glasses it's going to scratch and eventually crack.

If you drop it, especially the black I love to panda, look on last year's phone, so I just slapped a deep brand skin and ass to protect the back between evitable, scratches and I kind of dug the aesthetic try to put one on yours, we'll just link to them down below. But, oh that's sweet, sweet, sweet camera. We actually did a whole video delving onto the camera and how it compared to the iPhone 10s. But here are the highlights it's good, like perfect, and at this point, after all, the camera success. The pixel to you'd expect this to be amongst the best in the industry and Google did not disappoint their colors and sharpness, and details are all pretty close to perfect.

Low-Light was awesome as well. It's perfect in every situation, so the default settings you're not gonna, get over saturated colors like you get on kind of most Samsung, but the colors are pretty close to lifelike. But the most impressive to me, though, is portrait mode even with the single lens. The camera shines. This is restart to see the advantage of Google with their crazy magic machine learning.

It's incredible how it handles things that other phones regards to how many sensors they have struggle with things like hair and edges in if there's a cutout in the subject, it's just impressive. How well it handles everything without that second sensor, that most phones rely on for depth. Those aren't the only cameras, there's two living in that notch, so you've got one regular selfie camera and one wide-angle camera, which is pretty killer for group selfies portrait mode, predictably works which is not nearly as well as a rear one. If you want a selfie in portrait mode, at least, doesn't have kind of an over aggressive noise reduction. That gives you that weird beauty mode there were some occasional, though inconsistencies with portrait mode on the front-facing camera so check this out.

I swear I'm, not that orange in real life, and it wasn't like a crazy sunset and another shot when I had to make two kids on my lap, I had a really tough time, finding focus other things you might care about battery life and the 3430 million power battery was really solid. Leaving me with about 35 percent end of the day, the most screen on time that I had was 7 hours, but the moral being its a, dare it'll, get you through a full day. No problem don't expect like two or three days, just plug in at night or wirelessly, charge last and probably most important to a lot of you. The software Android PI out-of-the-box is amazing. I wasn't the biggest fan of gestures at first, then I got used to them and kind of start to appreciate the nuances, it's incredibly smooth, if not totally intuitive at the beginning.

So it's got the squeeze for Google Assistant. That's a feature to easily laugh off. Heck I've been laughing it off since HTC they booted a few years ago, but the last week using the phone I started using it and I found it kind of useful. But what is probably the best feature of the phone is call screening so for a while I was averaging about three spam calls per day, actually pay for a service to block them, while I was using the pixel 3xl I would like wheat for a spam call to come and just like it see it in action. This alone is like a low-key reason to buy the pixel, although it should come to the pixel to family as well.

If you got one of those speaking of two or two XL, you can probably safely hold off for another years. You've got one of those phones, but if you're coming from the OG pixel any other Android phone or an iPhone, this is a perfect entry level into Android. That's almost guaranteed. To give you an amazing experience and almost all I said here is true again for the pixel 3, and it's also going to save you a hundred bucks. You get almost exactly the same phone.

If you don't have to have the high resolution and the bigger screen, they make the same experience and performance just not too low this time around. So that's the pixel 3 XL. If you want a phone, that's not just the best Android phone on the market, but arguably one of the best phones you can buy, give it a look. I, don't think you're going to be disappointed. So for me there are two reasons: somebody would buy a pickle.

Source : Jon Rettinger