Google Pixel and Pixel XL First Look and Tour! By Droid Life

What's up guys welcome back telling a riptide life, so the Google event is done, and you know what these are. These are they're brand-new phones, they're pushing is made by Google. Take a first look at them. This is the pixel in the pixel. XL I feel like it's my duty to start by looking at the blue version, because it really is pretty stunning, even if it is sort of surfed out with the white front black version. It's fine ?, it's just sort of a black on black phone we've seen plenty of over the years.

The white and silver, though, is also quite good in case that blue has sold out, and you're trying to figure out which to preorder. This might be the second choice here, just for something a little different, so I did spend a good 20 minutes or so with each phone. Today this is the XL. The bigger of the two and I know you can't really tell because it's actually not as large, as you may think, even with its 5.5-inch quad HD display, but what I really took away today was just that. Google is certainly pushing these as made by Google and that they are premium phones that you know ask for premium prices, so 6:52 start for the 32 gig pixel.

You have 769 to start for the 32 gig XL. These are not chief elders, your iPhone prices or Galaxy S7 price and Google's really going to push that you know. They've done a nice job at the hardware. I will give them that if these phones felt great, the size is just right, I think on both of them. The 5-inch one fits in hand very well.

The 5.5 inch does as well, even as a larger phone. I just think is hardware, even though we've leaked, and they've kind of got some interesting design. Ideas with the two-tone looks, and things like that. I just think that Google actually did a really nice job and I think you'll come away quite surprised. Of course, that doesn't mean you'll be surprised at the software.

Well, that that's not fair. There's some new stuff going on here. Obviously you have the pixel launcher. So that's new. If you haven't installed that on your own phone, but you know, there 's's a new way to get into search and there's all these new animations from zooming in and out and when you go jump in from apps and that Google search tab and all that stuff.

So you've got this. This sort of Jewish experience in a way and, of course, the home button now, and you tap on it- it is animates into four googly colors. There's, there's really this sort of fine tune. This I know that's not a word but to the pixel phones that I don't feel like we've had before you know like it has Google Assistant built-in across everything. So you can talk to the assistant at all times, and it fully has replaced Google now on tap by the way, which is great, because it's so much faster.

The rest of this stuff, though you know like the quick toggles, if you haven't really changed, I will so there's this blue accent throughout the UI that I'm not sure if that's a pixel exclusive color thing or if that's where we're shifting with 7.1. But you know like the menu items are, are mostly the same, and you know: here's proof that it is Android 7.1, the Easter eggs still the same. It's still the cat game in case you pick up a pixel and want to play the cat game. We do have confirmation, though, that this is indeed Marlin, which was the code name that was out there for a long time back when this was an HTC Nexus phone. You have support built in now, where you have phoned or chat support.24/7, Google's really, really taking this pretty seriously. If you guys couldn't tell from the keynote today or the event presentation and then now that we're looking through this stuff here, they've just they're, really they're, really trying to do big things, look I, think they've even updated the system tab, which is just something they don't typically do.

What about that? Camera, though so twelve point, three megapixels again in both phones, same exact camera in each phone should get the exact same experience, because they're also powered by a Snapdragon 820 one. So this isn't like. Last year we had the 6p and the 5x and eight different processors, but the same camera, and you kind of got a different experience. You can see here, I'm just firing away this camera focuses it shoots. It seems to be really fast and rules talking about it being potentially well number one, it's the highest rated smartphone camera ever by DX Oh mark.

That means something to you. That's that's something they also are talking about how fast it is and how great it is in the video stabilization which they showed it. A pretty impressive demo today, if you haven't watched that you should go back and watch that through the keynote, but you know it shoots in 4k, and you can back up all of your photos, and you have unlimited full storage. If you have these I should say full resolution storage, and that includes 4k videos. If you do have one of these pixel phones, the cameras are really taken seriously here for one of the first times and for those who are curious, here's the smaller version, the regular pixel and, if you didn't know there was this moment to be tough to tell just on camera just because they do look identical again, the size, it's quite a bit different from this one.

That I feel really, really great hand for those of us like me, who tend to like smaller phones but same version of Android 7.1 with the new search tab and the pixel launcher, and access to Google assistant and access to the 24/7 support. All that stuff is here even the little Ripley buttons and stuff like that. The cool is added here in version 7.1. Of course. That also means you have the exact same camera experience and, as you can see here, it is just as fast as the XL was so that you're not getting a discounted experience like you did with the 5x from the 6p or anything like that, you have to ultra premium phones in a way.

This is very much like what Apple does with their iPhones, whether you want to admit that or not so, what's the takeaway here well, we will have only spent twenty or so minutes with the pixel and pixel X out. So it's tough to come to some definitive conclusion, but these really strike me as really, really nice phones. I know the price is scaring a lot of people and the poor. Little blue guy already sold out I think. But these are nice phones and if you're in the market for one, especially with payment plans, now I think they're worth a look.

Source : Droid Life