Pixel 3 XL Review // The REAL Truth After 30 Days! By Kevin The Tech Ninja

Oh, this video is gonna, be interesting. I've been using the pixel three excel for about one month, and this review has been very hard for me for several reasons: I flip-flopped a few times on a few things, and it leaves me somewhat conflicted: I'm, Kevin, the tech ninja and, lets a deep dive into it off the bat. Let's get to the camera. The pixel 3xl has a great camera. It's so good that I've been using this over my point-and-shoot camera, and I'm, confident enough to say that it's the best camera that I can fit into my pocket. I can put all my pixel out in any situation and get a stunning photo.

The camera is the best that I've used on any phone by far and the video isn't too shabby either. Although the video does have some audio recording issues where the audio sounds flat, Adam Z, I'm, amazing, you don't have that immersive sound, like you do with the iPhone or also the note 9, but the video looks good. Stabilization is great. It's not choppy he's not bouncy at all. I've actually used some footage as supplemental footage for some of my tech reviews that I've shot with my own camera, and I was able to swap the footage back and forth without many people noticing the front camera is super wide, allowing you to get more people in the shot than ever before and if the start off is wide, but there's a slider that you just slide, and you can get that wide shot now in that wide selfie, you still have that crispness.

You still have that portrait mode, and it still looks very good, also nice shot without sounding too redundant. Its magical is actually night and day. You can take a picture in night shot, and it just finds a way to gather light from around the area, and it just makes the image look a lot better Google for the third year in a row has now set the benchmark of what a great camera is, and this is why the phone stays in my pocket, but a phone is much more than a cam for people. A phone is more important than their actual computer at their house. There's way much more to it, the build of the pixel 3 feels premium in the hand the black pixel gets fingerprints and scratches since its glass, the white does not get fingerprints at all actually bought the white one.

Instead, it also is prone to get scratches. You just can't see them too well, so you know what I'm going to say: grab 4d Brandt skin. It alleviates that a little switches up the design, and they're a great sponsor for my channel so make sure you hit the link down below 2d brand. Your device check it out. People make a lot of fuss about the notch at the top of the phone.

If you don't know what the notch is. This is where the phone kind of dips into the screen and what this dip does allows it to push the bezels up. So you actually get more screen a lot of people really hate this, and they're passionate about it. For me, after a while, you sort of get used to it, it only rares this ugly head in certain situations, and then it's really not that bad. The pixels running Android 9.0, which is Google's latest OS, and there are a few things about this OS that I just don't like I, don't feel that the gesture control is done very well. I find myself even after a month.

Thinking about how to use it rather than just using it. I feel like the moves and the gestures are kind of clunky and I. Just rather have buttons, it seems like OnePlus uses gestures, but just does it better, not saying the phone is clunky, it's the opposite of that. In fact, it's fast, it's buttery, smooth, opening, closing apps is extremely fast, albeit it seems like some apps, don't stay open as long as they should and the memory isn't really holding on to apps. But beyond that, the phone is fast.

It launches apps, very fast. The gaming is very fast. Everything is just fast with the phone as expected, the screen on the XL is made by Samsung. So it's great, the colors are sharp. The white balance is fantastic.

The blacks are deep, however, the brightness isn't great in direct sunlight. You can compare it to the note 9 or the iPhone 10 and look at this. You can definitely see a difference here and that does affect real-world usage. If you live somewhere in a sunny area or if you're outside often it will be harder to see the screen I'm actually impressed with the speakers, they do sound a little different compared to other phones, but I like how it sounds. It's kind of a sound signature.

If you will, it sounds a little more processed but in my opinion, it's better than the airy and the skinny sounding speakers that you hear with a lot of other phones, doesn't get as loud of some phones but I. Think for me, they're good, and I really enjoy listening to music. Just on the speakers. So here's where I get conflicted. How do I say this I've been on Android for 10 years and with each release of Android I now see Google's inconsistencies more and more before I would turn a blind eye to these inconsistencies, but, as I become older in my needs, have changed before.

If I didn't get, the latest software I will flash it before if I didn't get. The latest app I will download the APK before that. Wasn't an issue and now, as time becomes more precious, there are things that I'm just not willing to do anymore and as the consumer, paying as much as what you pay for these phones and I think that hacker stuff shouldn't be required, for example, and I found that my GPS for some reason doesn't think I'm on the freeway. It always recalculates me to get back on the freeway when I'm already on the freeway, and this wasn't a one-time thing. It's been a consistent issue in my area, and also I took kind of a small road trip.

The same thing happens several times. Also, I don't have the latest security update. It should be rolling out soon, but I never had October's update I've only had September, and now I'm, supposedly going to get November pretty soon. However, when you buy a pixel device, I thought software was part of the package that you're paying for, of course, you can flash it and do other things with it, but once again paying almost a thousand dollars for a phone and limited time. I shouldn't have to do these things to get the latest software and also the proper API's are still not working.

So, for example, if I take a picture in the camera app or if I take a picture and Twitter you're not going to get the same quality of pictures. The API for the pixel camera is not in these apps, so you're, not getting that great picture that you see. I know Instagram announced that is using its API, but there are tons of other apps that are using the API and you end up with regular looking pictures versus pixel quality pictures. It's a small thing, but once again it's a detail that Google should have figured out by now. It's been 10 years.

There are so many things that Google doesn't get right, and it's just frustrating as a person that loves Google as a person. That's been using Google for so long there's. Just they don't get certain things right, and it's mind-blowing, and it's sad. But then you find these super innovating features that makes life a lot easier. Like call screen, when someone calls you, you can press a button, and it makes the person leave a message and then there's a transcript and then from there you can decide to answer or not answer.

That is an amazing innovative feature and during this election season it's been amazing because I get so many phone calls of people telling me to vote for so-and-so. I can now just have those people leave a message and I can decide to answer it or not, and also having the ability to have your phone make a call automatically instead appointments for you think like that no one else can do that. Only Google can do that's amazing, but simple things: the fundamentals, software and making sure you're a P I is working making sure your new phone works with Android auto just things like. That is what frustrates me regardless. Don't let this take away from a great phone.

The pixel is a great phone, but I do have to mention things that really bother me about the phone. You watch my videos for my opinion, and that is my honest. Opinion of this phone am I going to return. The pixel is I, saying I'm done with the pixel. No, of course not, and the pixel will get better over time.

There will be updates. Things will become better with the phone, but as of right now is just bad that it seems like we always wait for an update to fix certain issues. Yes, iPhone has issues too, and I slammed them for that. Samsung has issues too s Lamb from that, but we have to look at everything independently and be honest about it. I think Google has quality control issues when things come out and software doesn't feel to be a hundred percent ready.

They push out updates and things get a lot better, but it takes time for that and for a lot of people. They rather wait to the holiday season, or rather wait a couple of months for all the bugs to get out the phone before purchasing it and that's not a bad idea. Anyways guys I will be pushing out an updated review once these issues get fixed as I know that these are software issues and not hardware issues anyways, guys, Kevin, a tech ninja. If you enjoyed the video, you know to give it a thumbs up, hit subscribe and uh I cover everything from the smartphone to the smart home I want you guys later peace.

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