Pixel 4 vs Pixel 3: Don't Be Fooled By Jon Rettinger

The day shrouded in secrecy thanks so much we took our seats and waited patiently to see what Google was going to unveil behind those curtains just kidding. We knew about it months before even Google themselves leaked to the phone out, but now I've got it actually in my hands, I'm playing with her for a few days. I've got a lot of opinions on it and our full review will be coming soon. I want to test it for a little more, but as I used, the pixel 4 I keep thinking about the pixel 3, the phone that came before it and I think the pixel 3 was like peak pixel was so good and so amazing I kept asking myself. Well. How does it compare to what just came out? So when you pick up the pixel 4, there are a few differences, you're gonna notice, right away versus the third I'll start with the design.

It feels a little different, it's kind of flatter edges and matte on the side, I really like it. It's got a big forehead, but I can deal the forehead. In fact, I almost don't mind it because a forehead for a reason. It's not a therefore just having a noxious think like we've seen on. Let's just say, other phones you've got face unlock here on the left side of the display.

It is a really fast face, unlock fact. It's so fast. You don't really even see your lock screen. You pull this thing out your pocket. It is already unlocked.

It does a lot with your eyes closed currently, which is not the safest. Hopefully, I ought to get fixed with software, and next to that face, unlocked you've, got radar built into the phone, and it's something that Google is calling project sold, and it lets you use gesture controls to control your phone lease, something you can meet, alarms, eye waving your hands over. It goes to next songs the use case, for it is not really there. It's not a giant deal, presumably though Google will add more stuff, and it'll be nice thing to have, but probably the biggest thing. That's here the biggest change over the three is the screen and if you pick one area on the pixel three that I think it maybe wasn't the best at it's the screen.

There were some color issues and stuff. When it came out. The 90 Hertz OLED screen on the pixel 4 is beautiful, done a good job. They've learned from perhaps past mistakes, the color accuracy. It looks to be really accurate, colors.

It looks bright and vibrant. Furthermore, it's not the brightest tree on the block, but it's definitely bright enough and ninety Hertz everything looks sweet, sweet, buttery, smooth, I, love. Ninety hurt screens. This one is as good as anything else on the market if you've used a 90 Hertz screen on any other manufacturer you're going to love this from the get-go there's. Obviously other spec stuff here, there's neural versus visual net from the three to four there's: four gigs of ram versus six gigs ram and each 45 to 55 on the snapdragon from four processors, which gives you about a twenty-nine percent improvement.

That's not really going to matter too much on the dealer usage it might matter, and maybe two or three years with the phone, but at least right now those things aren't going to make a drastic difference. So, as I'm like holding the pixel three I'm getting a bit nostalgic and like I said, there are some problems at launch, there's RAM management and screen issues, but the pixel three was seems almost a little magic to me. What Google could do with a single camera was amazing. If you compare the pixel three to its iPhone competitor of that generation. You know the 10s line and other Android manufacturers with two and three cameras was amazing.

What this camera was capable of doing from nitrite to HDR to portrait mode, and it just got better with time it's sort of the peak marriage of software and hardware working together. To give you absolutely amazing pictures I'm really impressed with the pixel three, and how are you? Going to fall on fingerprint readers on the back I'm, not the biggest fan of them, but it worked well. It was reliable. There were no issues with it at all. On the pixel 3, it wasn't plagued by the same weird notch that you had on the three XL that goes an if not beautiful a classic.

Looking phone I could appreciate the industrial look and feel to it versus you know it's on the other competition, and so while the pixel 3 stories was all about the camera, it's true with the pixel for its it's all about that camera and there's two here on board, I'm, not sure what side of the fence you're on with telephoto or ultra-wide. But there is a wide angle, and now it's joined by a new two x, telephoto camera, which I really like the option of having now the question is: is that worth it to you? So you can see a shot with a 2 x, optical zoom and a shot of the two x digital zoom. Maybe you can see the difference. Maybe you can't the photos that are coming out of the pixel for still look perfect. You've got stuff like a real preview for HDR, which is nice, but the more I looked at the shots, just the actual shots that I be using from the pixel for when I realize it's not that different from the pixel 3.

So look at some of these samples. Can you tell whether it came from the pixel 3 or the pixel 4, and even if you can is so different, ? worth 300 bucks? That's a lot of money! I'm, not gonna! Tell you how you should spend your hard-earned cash, but 300 bucks, 300, bucks and I still really like the images that are coming out of the pixel 3. But there are other differences too, with the 4 versus the 3, the making looking Fischer photography mode, dual exposure controls, and some of that is even gonna, be coming to the pixel 3 Google said they want to make phones. You don't have to upgrade all the time, so Ashley photography is coming to the already awesome, pixel 3, making the gap between the 2 even smaller. Perhaps the best part of the pixel promise is the most up to date.

Software and you're going to get that with the 3 and, of course the 4, but Android 10 is pretty much the same. Android 10 experience across both devices now certainly having extra gigabytes of RAM, will help and probably will lead to a smoother experience. But in my couple days Android 10 is Android 10 you get Sigma that you're than you get on the pixel 4 with the 3. It's a consistent, Android 10 experience across both phones, so obviously Google added a lot of stuff with the pixel 4, but also they took away some stuff that you had with last gens' pixel 3. So when the cool things about this three was you got a limited storage of your photos in their original resolution? That's no longer here on the pixel three smaller battery, which may be a concern meant that ninety Hertz screen, but we'll keep testing that for a full review.

You have two cameras on the front of the pixel three there's one on the pixel for the elimination of the dual front firing speakers on the three are not here on the four. So all that stuff kind of put together, you gain some. You lose some, let's get matter where your priorities are so it kind of brings us back to the beginning. The more I used, the pixel for where I kept thinking about the pixel three, and then you compare again these two $300 price points between them. Pixel three still seems like an amazing deal and is still an amazing phone, and that's not a knock on a pixel of for a tall pixel for is a great phone in its own right.

It's sort of a couple of minutes how good the pixel 3 was and how amazing it did the things that it did well, especially on the photography side, but back to the question, if you couldn't tell a difference between the optical or digital zoom or if the pictures look the same to you, you're, not using macrophotography mode right now until it comes to the free, then perhaps you've answered your own question, but if you're in the camp that wants the latest, you want the greatest. You want that extra zoom. You want the Live View HDR, the pixel fours are to welcome you with open arms, it's a cool time to be a Google phone fan, because both phones are amazing, but if you're coming from the original pixel or a pixel 2 or another Android, or an iPhone you're debating which phone to get just ask yourself what you care about the most. Is it the face unlocked which is really nice to have? Is it the telephoto or we all about the cameras? You just want a perfect. Looking picture.

You might want to consider saving your money just picking up a pixel 3.

Source : Jon Rettinger