Google Pixel XL Smartphone Review Good & The Bad By Geekyranjit

Hi there this is raunchy tan in this video, we'll be doing the full in depth review for this Google Pixel XL and have been using this device now for almost two weeks, and I'll be sharing. My experience and I'll divide this review between the good things about the pixel XL and some of the things that I did not like about that. So it's the pros and the cons and I won't go in depth regarding the physical overview and other aspects of this device, because I've covered all those aspects in my unboxing video here are the specs for your reference. But let's divide this review between the pros and the cons, and the first thing I have to say is that this device is one of the most fluid Android experience that are hard with any Android phone. It's a very seamless experience that again, you will expect, because this is a very expensive device. Again it's one of the most expensive Android phone that you can buy.

Certainly the premium range, but in terms of the UI and the experience it's very fluid again, the touch sensitivity is also great. So again, you won't notice any lag or whatsoever. So it's a very good fluid experience that I have noticed, and the Google also gives us a new launcher which is again exclusive. As of now for this pixel devices and again it's also very fluid, and again we have a new functionality. Again.

This is specific to some Google Apps. If you hold the icon, you get more options, for example in the settings. If you hold, you can directly go to the battery or data usage and talking between by fans stuff. It doesn't happen for every app, but Google has now opened this API to third-party developers. So we should see this sort of functionality, even more, so I like that functionality and again, as I've told you it's a very fluid experience again with pixel.

We also get the Google Assistant, which is I, would say a souped up version of Google. Now it's a lot more powerful and if you just tap this button, the Google Assistant comes to life, and you can ask questions to it, and it's more conversational I would say. For example, let me give you a demo if you just tap this, who is the president of India? The President of India is Panama Mukherjee. When was he born? He was born in Marathi on December 11, 1935. What says age 18 years old so as you can see, I didn't have to constantly ask president what's his age or whatever it remembers that, so it's a little more contextual I would say.

But again, if you use Google now or not, you like this assistant. As of now, you can experience this assistant if you download the Google I/o app, but again with this pixel its system-wide, so you can access it from anywhere. In fact, even when the phone is switched off, I've disabled it because I'm using a Smartwatch, but even when the phone is switched off, you can just say the hot word: ok, Google and the assistant comes up, and it can answer you stuff, so it works throughout the West. Again, as I've told you, if you use Google now a lot, you really appreciate the Google Assistant. I don't know if Google will introduce this assistant and other phones, but as of now, it's an exclusive for the pixel devices.

Now moving to the next thing that I really liked about this device is the battery life that I'm getting on this pixel XL. Yes, it has a big massive battery and in terms of screen on time, I was getting the screen on time between 5 and 6 hours with my typical usage, and this is with almost 24 hours of usage. In my normal day, today's usage I was charging this device once in about 1.5 days. So in terms of battery life, I was really impressed, even when I was completely on Wi-Fi data and managed to get about 5 hours of screen on time and on Wi-Fi. It can go up to about 6 hours of screen on time, so the battery life was very good.

I talked about the charging later on, and the next thing is that some of you have asked. Yes, it does have an LED notification light, but you have to actually enable it from these settings by default. It is switched off, but yes, it has an LED notification. Light next thing. I also checked is the cellular call, quality and I have to say the cellular call quality that I was getting on this pixel excel was excellent.

I had no problems of muddy call or anything like that. The earpiece is also very good, so crystal clear voice calls and talk about the speaker performance later on that I was not very happy, but if you take calls from the earpiece, the experience was very good call. Clarity was excellent, and he went in terms of network reception. Network reception was also very good, but again this is a single sim device, so no dual sim support or a micros card. Next, if we move to the camera performance here, I have to say this: pixel Excel excels and let the sample start here are some of the pictures that I've taken with the pic selection and as you can see, from the sample shots.

The performance was very good, even in artificial lighting and indoor lighting conditions, which is sort of difficult, the pixel excellent nails it and by default it takes pictures in HDR plus mode, but you don't have to worry because generally, when other phones, if we enable HDR and stuff the pictures taking capability, is slow. But here it's not the case, even in the HDR mode, for example, I mean the HDR mode, and we just stop, and it takes the picture, and it's really fast the moment you tap. It takes the picture, irrespective of the lighting conditions, even low lighting conditions. The shutter speed was very good, so in terms of camera performance I was hugely impressed with the camera performance of this pixel XL I, also compared it with iPhone 7 and the Galaxy S7 very low lighting condition and I have to give the edge to the pixel XL in low lighting conditions. Now moving to the front-facing camera, even the front-facing camera, which is an 8 megapixel shooter, does a very good job, as you can see from the sample pictures now.

If we move to video, it can record video up to 4k and standard video in 1080p at 30fps and 60fps, though it does not have any optical image stabilization. It employs electronic image stabilization with gyroscopes, and the result is very good, as you can see from the sample shots. But one thing that I have noticed is that in video, if you do a lot of panning left and right, then it's tends to skip a few frames and also, if you shoot a lot of video in direct sunlight, there is a problem of lens flare. Google has acknowledged this. They are going to release a patch regarding the lens flare, but regarding the panning it can get a little judder.

But if you take the video straight and move around even handle it, the EIS and gyroscope stabilization works very well now moving to the fingerprint scanner. It has a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, as you can see, and the fingerprint performance is also very good, as you can see, if you just tap on it, it unlocks. So it's very responsive, fingerprint scanner. That is there on this one, and also, if you swipe this like this, you can actually toggle bring down the notification bar like this. So it's pretty convenient in my opinion and that works very well and now, if we talk about the build quality again, the build quality in terms of in hand feel it's very solid.

If it's premium, I would say, but again in terms of design, I would say the design does not inspire me. It feels like a mixture of the iPhone 7 and the HTC 10, so it's sort of boring design in my opinion, and also the chin at the bottom, is very the bay. In my opinion, now talking about the display, it has a 5.5 inch, quad HD screen, which is an AMOLED screen, and the screen quality is also very good, with excellent viewing angles and the AMOLED screen quality is also very good. In fact, it's made by Samsung, so excellent touch, screen, quality, and even I tested and use this phone in our doors and direct lighting conditions, and the screen was visible. If you enable auto brightness setting now, let's move to the things that I did not like with this pixel exit, and these can be sort of dealbreaker.

So let's go over them and the first thing is regarding ambient display. Whenever you get a decent notification, it just comes on the display for about two seconds and goes off. That's great. It works. But again, if you just pick up the phone or do anything like that, these notifications don't light up and like the Nexus 6p.

So if you miss them, you sort of miss, then you just can't enable it, for example, with Nexus 6p ambient. What you say a display was done very well. Whenever you picked up the phone it used to show you the notifications, that's not the case with this one, even the iPhones that I was 10 now, does that so Google should enable that functionality now moving to the loudspeaker. It has just one speaker here at the bottom, and it's in a very odd position. I would say, and the thing is that it's not very loud, so it's sort of disappointing in terms of the speaker or output.

In my Frank opinion, if you are coming from the Nexus 6p, the Nexus 6p had far better a speaker performance and also when I kept, even when I am keeping the ringtone volumes at max level. The ringtone volumes are simply not that good, and it has just a mediocre speaker in my opinion, now moving to to enhance feel again, it has had a 5.5-inch screen, but I feel the phone is a little wide for a 5.5-inch screen, and you have to actually stretch your hands a little on this one. It's like the iPhone 6s plus, because I have even used the what'd. He says, Note 5 and the note 7, which had a 5.5 inch 5.7-inch screen, and they were more comfortable to hold in the hand in terms of the width. So it's definitely.

The width is slightly on the higher side for this pixel XL. Now I'm. Moving to the charging time, though, the charger that is supplied on with this device is a fast charger, but I timed the charging time it charges from zero to or 70% actually really fast in just about 1 hour 30 minutes, but for charging it fully I timed it from 7% to 100%. It took me 2 hours, 5 minutes, so it's not the quickest, so I am assuming from 0% to 100%. It will take around 2 hours, 15 minutes.

So technically it's not very slow. But again it's also not that fast. In my opinion, also I do not like the fact that this phone is not water-resistant, unlike many of the other competing products. Now even the iPhone 7 is water-resistant and the Galaxy S7 s, s7 edge, etc. are water-resistant, but this pixel Excel is not water-resistant.

Also, as of now, this phone does not support, reliance Go, a VoLTE they might enable it with a future OT update, but as of now VoLTE support is not there for a relaunch, Go, I tested that and lastly, talking about the price. Certainly, it is a very expensive phone and one of the most expensive Android out there. This pixel Excel starts at 67,000 for the 32 gigabyte a variant, and if you want to go, there is no no 64 gigabyte variant and there is no micros card slot. So if you are a heavy user, you would have to offer 128 gigabyte variant, which is again very expensive, so certainly a very expensive Android phone, but in terms of day-to-day performance and fluidity, it's a very fluid phone and also in terms of camera performance. The camera performance was also very good.

So certainly, if you are looking for a most fluid Android phone and your budget is not an issue, you can certainly have a look at the pixel accept, but again it's not a perfect phone. There are some shortcomings, particularly I, don't like the speaker, output and again, as of now no VoLTE support, I, hope. You found this video review helpful again. If you found it helpful I'll appreciate if you can click the like button and if you're not subscribed to my YouTube channel hit that subscribe button. Thank you.

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