Pixel Week: Pixel XL vs. Note 8 By 9to5Google
We were expecting to see Google announced the pixel to next Wednesday. So in the meantime, we thought we'd take a look at how the original pixel holds up to today's flagships, you're watching pixel week on 9 to 5 Google, and this is pixel XL vs. , Galaxy, Note 8. Even just a glance at the two phones in question is all it takes to notice some pretty drastic differences in design. The pixel XL isn't winning any style points with its spartan build, but the aluminum body is sturdy and holds up well to drop. Some scratches.
The camera sits completely flushed with a glass panel on the back, and the fingerprint sensor is conveniently located right, where your finger naturally rests. On the other hand, the note 8 sports a much more fragile, all glass back with dual cameras and a less reachable fingerprint sensor, I'm, not confident in its durability versus the pixel, but at the very least, it's a much prettier design and the glass backing allows for wireless charging, which the pixel doesn't support. Flip the phone's over and the pixel excels aging design looks almost laughable. Next to the note 8, one of our biggest criticisms with the pixel was all the seemingly wasted space above and below the display. The bezels are massive and there's no feature payoff like front facing speakers to make up for it.
On the note 8 bezels are almost non-existent and the curved 6.3 inch display absolutely dwarfs the pixel XL's 5.5 inch panel. Unfortunately, the note 8 doesn't have front-facing speakers either. In fact, both phone speakers are located on the bottom and both are pretty bad. Things start to look up for the pixel XL. Once you turn the phones on, though the pixel XL runs on a stock build of Android 8.0 Oreo, which is cleaner and more modern than the Samsung experience running. On the note 8 with Android 7.1.1 nougat, the pixel XL is powered by Snapdragon 820, one chipset, and, despite being older than the note 8 Snapdragon 835, the pixel is a noticeably faster phone. That's not to say that the note 8 is slow by any means, but it just goes to show that even on a year-old phone software optimization makes a huge difference.
Camera performance is an equally close match when we review the pixel XL last year. We praised it for having one of the best cameras we've ever seen on a phone and since then we've said the same thing about the note 8. Both phones have such amazing cameras that it's hard to name a definitive winner, I think I have to give the win to Samsung image. Quality is neck-and-neck, but you have significantly better manual controls on the note 8 and that's not even mentioning the second camera which allows for two times lossless zoom that the pixel XL just can't offer. Predictably, the pixel XL doesn't match up with today's newer standards of slim, bezels and dual cameras, but after a year it still holds up amazingly well in other aspects, even against $1000 2017 flagship, stay tuned to pixel week to see how else the pixel XL is held up and subscribe.
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