Pixel 2 vs iPhone11 By Monster Review

What up guys welcome to another episode of monster review where we look at tech, tech tips and how-to videos. I saw the iPhone 11, promos and I have to, say: I was a tad bit disappointed, but I thought to myself. Wouldn't it be interesting to see how the pixel 2 stacks up against a new iPhone yeah? It would so hopefully, at the end of this video, if you have a pixel to when you were considering switching over to the iPhone, and this video can help you out so first up, let's order an iPhone, 11 I'm going to go with the 128 gigabyte, red iPhone 11, so design wise, not much has changed between the iPhone 10 and the iPhone 11. The camera. Housing is probably the only thing the red color is nice, though it really pops now I'm not going to compare chipset the GPU, because we all know the newest phone is going to have the latest chipset, but using the pixel 2 as my daily driver. We can all agree.

It's no slouch never had any performance issue with it at all, maybe once or twice, but those were software bugs. So, let's first check out the designs of both phones: the iPhone 11 essentially kept the same design from the iPhone 10 that was released in 2017 and, although it's nearly two years later, the design for the 10 is still holding up pretty well. The pixel to excel design wasn't terrible but felt a little dated compared to the competition, but it was still a huge improvement over Google's design. Choice for the pixel ? yeah I, don't know what they were thinking, although the iPhone is smaller than the pixel ? Excel. The screen is about the same size, because the iPhone is mostly screened.

There are no chin and forehead bezels like the pixel to excel just a notch, so for design. I give this round to the iPhone 11. Next, let's look at battery life, so the pixel 2 XL has a larger battery, no doubt, but that doesn't necessarily mean the battery's better. When the phone was brand-new battery life was okay, I would get a decent 13 hours of medium usage throughout the day, but then actually 11 is on some next-level stuff. I can easily get 19 hours of battery life with medium usage with heavy usage 12 hours no problem.

Now, of course, your mileage may vary, but the takeaway is that the battery life on the iPhone 11 is amazing. I'm going to have to give this round to the iPhone. Next, let's look at OS, the iPhone comes pre-installed with iOS 13 bright-colored locks, the pixel to XL came with Android 8 Oreo, but now you can download Android 10, giving you features like dark mode: smart replies, location permissions, Wi-Fi, QR, sharing and gesture control. Some of those features have already been on iOS, like location permission, gesture controls and Wi-Fi sharing, but with iOS 13 there's now a dark mode like there was on Android is much more customizing, but with the iOS shortcut app that debuted with iOS 12 Apple's needs to be dipping its toes in the same water, giving you the ability to have system settings, change based on location or time of day, etc. , sort of like how? If this, then that works on Android phones, I, said the iPhone 11 to turn on do not disturb automatically when I enter the conference center for work, meaning when I leave do not disturb will automatically turn off.

At least that's how it's supposed to work. I haven't gotten it to work. Yet no, there are some apps that allowed you to do this with Android way back even before. If this and that, but nonetheless it would be nice to see a Google version of shortcut for Android devices. One of the best reasons to get the pixel device is to get a pure Android experience the way quell intended it, and let me tell you the pixel- does exactly that.

I've tried many Android phones in the past, but the magic Apple has, with their hardware and software, with action from Android phones until Google announced a pixel line. The pixel hardware and Android software is a made in heaven and being first in line for software updates like Android 10 makes a deal even sweeter. Both OS has nice little shortcuts to get you where you want fast. You can launch a camera from the lock screen, pull down for your notifications, access assistant, mobile payment and quick settings. I think it's safe to say that both OS are actually to the point where they're freakishly similar.

There is no function on iOS that you would miss on Android and vice versa. I expected to run into little issues, but iOS has gotten a lot better since the last time I owned an iPhone, they copied almost everything great about Android. Of course, both OS have been copying features from each other for years, but that's a good thing for the longest time. I would swipe down and long press on Wi-Fi to switch between Wi-Fi networks on my Android device, probably extremely useful, but for iOS you had to literally go into settings just to change your Wi-Fi connection. It wasn't a big deal, but the process was a lot faster on an android device.

Io's now lets you change a Wi-Fi network by long pressing, the Wi-Fi toggle in quick setting. Next, let's talk screen the OLED screen on the pixel.2 has had its fair share of issues such as a blue tint when held at an angle, but at the end of the day, blacks, they're, deep, the iPhone LED screen, like all LED screens, does not have deep black. You can clearly see the light shine through the black when looking at this wallpaper at full brightness on the pixel. However, the wallpaper looks much more vibrant with its deep black, but this is to be expected. I mean OLED is the future of this place.

However, surprisingly, you can't see much difference when casually browsing the web or looking through photos on both phones. Apple did a decent job with this LED panel. It would have been a major plus for them to include OLED on the 11, but they kept that feature as a premium and stuck it on the 11pro. I did, however, notice in the blaring sunlight. The pixel 2 was a lot harder to see than the iPhone.

The pixel is older, though so I'll chalk, that up to the OLED panel, showing some wear and tear but for the screen I have to give this round to the pixel to excel. Next, let's talk sound, so the speaker's of both poems are different. The pixels two has its front firing speaker, while the iPhone has its traditional bottom firing. Speakers with both phones, volume turned all the way up. The iPhone sound quality was better.

It was cleaner and a tad bit louder. Elisa. For yourself, however, because of the location of the iPhone speaker, your hands may muffle the sound when holding it horizontally. You won't have that issue with the pixel 2xl. This round, of course, goes to the iPhone 11, regardless, if you're holding it and last but not least, let's talk camera quality.

Let's take a look at the photos taken with the pixel and the iPhone, so on the Left we have the iPhone and on the right we have the pixel. You can automatically tell right off the bat that one on the Left taken by the iPhone is a tad brighter than the one on the right. However, that's not necessarily a good thing, the one on the right, it doesn't look too bright, it doesn't look too dark. It looks perfect. The one on the left I think the iPhone right hand up the image a little too, and when you zoom in on the image five times, you can see the picture that the iPhone took is a little too saturated, and then you can see the one on the right thing with the pic.

So it's more accurate in terms of color, then, when you zoom in times aid you can see both retain the same amount of details in the photo. You can still see, however, that the one on the right thing, I, want to pick so again is not as bright as the one on the left, but it looks more realistic than the one on the left, the one on the right, the one taken might a pixel just looks like it was taken with a professional camera DSLR, the one on the left. You know it looks like it was taken with it with a camera phone, a perfect camera phone, the one on the left. Again was taken with an iPhone, the one on the right, the pixel, and again you can see that the pixel has a more accurate color. While the iPhone has a picture, that's a little too saturated and also has is this warm filter applied to it, though, one taken what the pixel is far more accurate than the one taken with the iPhone you can see.

Both phones did a great job, taking in as much detail as possible, you can see the little stains and digs on the wall, and you can see that the one that the iPhone took is far more saturated than the one with the pixel, and again you can see that over saturation going on I mean just look at this. This looks like a fresh coat of paint. However, this looks more accurate to what I saw with my naked eyes, but here's interesting part when you zoom up even more. This is time 7. You can see that the iPhones picture is a lot sharper than the pixels picture at the end of the day.

They're. Both great pictures, however I, would prefer the more accurate photo taken with the pixel here's another example of accurate coloring, the one on the left again ?, the one on the right pixel. This is a picture of an HP laptop with an aluminum body. The color on the right taken with the pixel is accurate. It was a silver color, the one on the left taken with the iPhone it looks like rose gold like I, don't even know how the camera got.

This color, like it completely changed the color from what it originally was, which was silver and turned it into this rose gold. This color is not accurate by any means and flash was off again. The lighting was a fluorescent lighting, so I'm not entirely sure work out this warm looking color, but that just goes to show you that the iPhone for some odd reason, the iPhone, just loves, applying a warm filter to all your photos, whereas a pixel kind of keeps it. You know anchor here's a picture of some greens. Both photos came out really nice again, the one on the Left iPhone, one on the right pixel, the one on the right to pick so is a little darker, not as bright as the one on the left, but both bowls came out really well I, like there's.

All of these. Both photos here were zoomed in five times, and you can see that the iPhone captured more details and produced a sharper image. The one on the right take one pixel has a little of noise to it, and the edges aren't as sharp as the iPhone, but one advantage with the iPhone is that you have that wide-angle lens. So you can. You can switch between the lens and capture more of your surroundings, the pixel you're pretty much fixed to this here's, a picture of the bench I was sitting on both pictures.

Looks perfect. Both pictures provide the same coloring and when you zoom in five times, you can see that both images are sharp. But when you scroll up in the image it looks like the pixel captured more details with the bench and the iPhone. Didn't that's a little blurry that becomes prominent when you scroll up to the rock. You can see that the pixel captured a little more detail than the iPhone did, but overall it was a great picture taken by both phones.

Alright. So here we got a picture of a yellow flower right. Pixel left I phone here's interesting part when I took this photo it pretty much just took one try with the pic so to get a perfect photo. The iPhone a couple of them came out blurry, so I had to retake this photo at least three times to get it right. You can see that the one on the right thing with the pixel again is more true, with colors more accurate than what I saw the one on the left is a tad bit saturated.

Also, the pixel does look a little clearer or, however, we'll check that out when we zoom in here we are zoomed in times five and the pixel not only was able to make the color more accurate, but it was also able to capture more details. You can see the center and flower pretty clearly, however, that's not really the case with the iPhone. We do have a little of noise going on around the leaves. We don't really see that on the pixel and overall, the quality and the pixel again, it just looks like a professional photo. The one taken with the iPhone is not bad, but I mean, like I said before it just looks like it was taken with a perfect smartphone camera.

Here's another photo of a flower with tons of colors. The one thing with the iPhone is a little too bright a little too washed out the one on the right thing with the pixel does look a little better, not so much with the flowers, though, with the leaves on the pixel do look more accurate and realistic, whereas the one taken with the iPhone looks like some kind of filter was applied, but when you zoom in it's a different story of both photos, look identical, they look exactly the same amount of coloring same amount of saturation I. The iPhone does have a little more saturation. However, they both look very close, very similar, but when you scroll down to the leaf it's a different story, the one on the left, my phone is a little lighter in green and the one on the right is darker. The one on the right would depict, so the leaf was a dark, green color.

It wasn't as light as the iPhone shows all right. So now, let's take a look at night shots. Both of these pictures were taken five o'clock in the morning. It was dark outside very dark, so both night shots came out perfect. In my opinion, because, like I said there wasn't enough light to make a photo if night shot mode wasn't available on both devices.

I'm, comparing the two. You can see that the pixel is a little grainy a little too much noise. You can barely make out the sky and the stars. However, on the iPhone you can see a couple stars: the sky doesn't have as much grain to it the trees. Look, they look sharp the water looks sharp.

The railing looks sharp. However, the color of the sky is not accurate, so it is true that the iPhone does completely change. The look of your night shot photo makes it look like there is some kind of daylight going on. There is some kind of sunlight or some kind of artificial lighting in your photo. However, that's not the case.

The pixel is more accurate of representing the sky and how it looked at 5:00 a. m. the iPhone just makes it a little too bright and then again, if we zoom in times five, you can see that the iPhone captured a lot more detail and the pixel did not I. Don't know why this is one of my favorite shots again like his iPhone right at pixel and J. You can see that the iPhone the picture is a lot sharper than the pixel.

They both came out great um. The pixel does have a little more light in the photo. It was able to lighten up the photo a lot more than the iPhone. Can you see that evidence in the sky right here? This guy looked exactly like this, so it did a perfect job at retaining what I saw. However, the iPhone wasn't able to bring out the sky.

You can see that the pixels are brought out the trees pretty much the globe that leaves lights right here, we're casting on the trees and the bench and all that was captured really well with the pixel, not so much with the iPhone. You can still see the like the glow of the light on the trees and whatnot, but the picture is a little darker and a pic. So, however, I do like the picture taken with the iPhone more because I like how sharp it looks, and I'm cleaner, and if we zoom in times aid you can see that the iPhone is sharper than the pixel to pixel has a little too much noise. Here's another great picture again. The one taken with the iPhone is a lot cleaner and sharper than the pixel.

However, the pixel was able to bring in a lot more light into the lens and writing up the picture, not to say that the AK phone did a bad job, because this picture looks perfect. The pixel I would prefer the iPhone, because the pixel is a little washed up. If you ask me and then, when you zoom in times five, you can see that the picture taken with the iPhone is indeed sharper than the one taken with the pixel here's another one of my favorite pictures. The one taken with the iPhone just looks amazing like, when I saw this picture on the computer, I was like wow, it's pretty good. The one on the pixel doesn't look too bad.

It also looks good, however. I, like how clean the night shot taking with the iPhone looks. The night shot photo taken with the pixel just looks a little too washed out and then again, if you zoom in times five, you can see here how the iPhone captures a lot more detail and makes a sharper image than the pixel does. Overall great photo from both cameras. I would prefer the iPhone, though again here's another great night shot getting tired of saying this.

But again the one taken with the iPhone, which is on the left, looks a lot sharper than the one taken with the pixel on the one taken with the pixel is a little washed out. The one taken with the iPhone is just perfect, and the iPhone didn't do too much changing with the light. As you can see, both photos look pretty similar and when you zoom in times five, you can see a lot more details on the photo taken with the iPhone, then the phone to take with the pixel. You got a sharper image with the fob with the iPhone and now when that we're done with nice shots. Let's move on this selfie.

Let's move on to the front-facing cameras. So again the one on the Left iPhone one on the right pixel, and by now you probably already figured out how to tell which one single the iPhone. You can see that warm tint. That I was talking about earlier. You don't get that warmth into indie pixel, but here's interesting part the one on the left taking with the iPhone is more accurate than the one on the right.

The bulb that I have in the room that this picture was taken in is a soft white. So it's not it's not as blue or white. As those cool white bulbs, there is a bit of warm tone with the bulbs. Now, when we're talking about skin tone, you can see that the iPhone it made my skin tone a little too red, but when you zoom in you can see that the pixel captured a little more detail, making the image sharper than the phone. Now these are portrait mode.

So you can see the background is blurred. They both do a decent job. Learning the background. It's about the same one isn't better than the other and here's another selfie, while opening the blind to let some light in behind me to see how these cameras fear and the one on the iPhone I think that warm tint that it puts to your photo, helped it a lot. I think it looks better than this.

Is this crazy redness that's going on here, I, don't even know why the photo came out so red. However, when you zoom in it's a different story, the pixel captured a lot more detail, and it has a sharper image. Then the iPhone does the final test. Let's test out the video quality on both cameras now I do have to mention that the pixels video recording has never been a strong point. So don't expect anything.

Great video recording has always been me. Poker with the pixel. However, the iPhone, when it comes to video recording they've, always had great video capturing capabilities. So this is a slow-motion video taken by both cameras, the iPhone and the pixel at 240 frames per second, let's start with the pixel, and then let's go ahead and play the video from the iPhone and right away. The biggest difference you see is that the iPhone video is far more clear than the pixel.

You have more details in the building and the trees in the background on the pic, so the building and trees are a little soft. So is the waterfall? The waterfall is a little stuff also, but because the iPhone is clearer, you see more details in the water when the wind blows so yeah. Now these are two videos of a time length, video that I shot, but I'm, not gonna, really do a comparison, because at the time of shooting this time-lapse video I did not realize that the pixel was more manual. You have to. You know, select how you want it to compress the time.

So, basically, if you wanted to shoot five minutes and turn it into the second video, you have to select that beforehand on the iPhone, you don't it's kind of automatic, you just start shooting, and it automatically shrinks down the time. So the end results for the iPhone. Time-Lapse is something like this, and if you don't do the settings right on the pixel before shooting you get something like this. As you can see, the settings that I selected was not did not shrink down the time fast enough for the time-lapse to look like the iPhone. But if you play with it, you can kind of get the same thing, but even so like if we pause the image like to something like here.

The sky in the iPhone is a little bluer than the sky on the pixel, and here are just two random videos of all the waterfall and the video was taken at 30 frames per second 4k resolution and, as I stated before, sharper image on the iPhone software image on the pixel. It's not necessarily a bad thing, however, when you know you're shooting a 4k. You expect to see an image like this one, and this one is just a little too soft. Anyways here is a stability test, and this is just a sample of how well the electronic image stabilization works on both device and, as you can see, the pixel is doing a better job and stabilizing the image. However, you get some weird artifacts and then again you get a softer image.

Look how sharp the iPhone looks now both we're shooting 4k, 30 frames per second and I have to UM I have to I have to also let you know that the iPhone it can go beyond 30 frames per. Second, it could shoot up to 60 frames per second at 4k. The pixel, however, is capped at 30 frames per second. But if you look towards the end there, you can see they both did a good job at stabilizing the image when walking when running liked. Seeing here the iPhone is a little jumpy.

The pixel is a little better, but when you're doing just normal walking, they both do a decent job. However, in terms of quality again, the iPhone okay, so recap, the time-lapse is automatic. On the iPhone 11 and manual on the pics to the iPhone is all screen. The iPhone has two cameras. Battery life is better on the iPhone pixels customizable Google Assistant is unmatched and unlock on pixel phones, giving you features like screen call photos from.

My phones are a little too saturated but closes on the pixel. No more color accurate, iPhone night shots are sharper than the pixels, making it better at low-light and selfies on the pixels are sharper than iPhone selfies with no flash and there you have it. So if you want an honest opinion here, it is, should you upgrade to the iPhone 11 if you're, considering moving to Apple from your pixel ?, not really I, advising to stick it out a little longer with the pixel ?, if you're, considering an iPhone next year's iPhone is said to be the one to buy, if you don't have a preference between iOS and Android, then check out the pixel 4 or the Galaxy S 11 slated to come out next year. At the end of the day, the iPhone is a good phone, but the features you'd be gaining from switching. There aren't a lot.

The pixel already takes great pictures that were better than the iPhone 11. My opinion, of course, and the features of Android 10 makes it very competitive with iOS. So at the end of 2019 compared to the iPhone, the pixel holds up pretty darn good. So, if you're looking for the next future phone that will have sick features, stick it up because it ain't the iPhone 11 thanks for watching. If you found this video helpful, be sure to give me a thumbs up if you found it awful and terrible, not helpful thumbs down work.

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