Google Pixel 2 XL hands-on By PhoneArena

Hey guys its John See here with phone Rena, and this is our first quick, hands-on look at the brand-new Google Pixel to excel. So this is obviously the larger the two new handsets that Google introduced. It's an upgrade versus last year's model. The Google Pixel XL, but what's different, though, is the manufacturer because now they swapped out HTC in favor of four LG, and this is especially important because you could see some influences LG has on this handset when you look at it from the front. But let's dive in and talk about the first thing and that's going to be its design so yeah. There are a lot of similarities here with the lab 30, because the pixel to Excel has some same design characteristics from the front.

It's basically an all screen, bezel list design that we're familiar with and also has the same sloping edges around the sides. But when you flip it around to the back, that's when we continue to see the same pixel influence we saw in the past, so you have that two-tone finish with the metal meets glass. The glass footprint is a little smaller, which is good, and it's available in two distinctive colors. You have an old black version, and then you have a black and white. It's kind of strange, though, to me is that the metal feels more like a plastic material than anything else, which kind of subdues its premium look and feel.

However, there are a few things that they've improved upon with the sound which I like and then there are others that I, don't for starters, it's nice that it's now water-resistant because it has an ip67 construction, and on top of that, it features these dual front firing speakers which are wonderful when you're watching videos and the other thing I want to point out about the designs that it doesn't have a headphone track, and it doesn't have wireless charging. We didn't have that last year either, but considering that the note 8 and also the B 30 have both of those features, you kind of wish this one did as well. When we look at the display again, we see some of LG's influence because it kind of takes after the V therapy's display from the specs' standpoint. It's the same. It's a 6-inch 1440 by 2080 plastic OLED display.

Furthermore, it also has the same screen aspect ratio 18 by 9. Furthermore, it has the same sloping edges around the sides, so it looks identical can't complain about it because its detail has some nice wide viewing angles, and so far it looks beautiful on this handset, and they've increased the screen size versus last year's model without having a lot more real estate. Now, for me, it wasn't the hardware that was the main attraction about the pixel to excel. It was actually more the software, that's where we see a lot more of the innovations here, because it is running a stock version of Android 8, motto Oreo right from the get-go, and it does bring in some cool new features that make it more profound. A lot of these new software features are more background processes than anything else, but some of them are right there.

In your face, for example, you have the new at-a-glance widget at the pixel launcher home screen, so displays some useful reminders that are coming up, so you always know what they are. Secondly, if you always wondered what song is playing the background, don't get that information now and be always on display feature with the handset when the phones log, because it will display the artists and also track title. There are also smarter functions with the Google Lens application. So, for example, if you take a snapshot of a flyer using the pixel to excels camera, it's smart enough to detect the information in their like an email address, so you don't have to manually type it down yourself and taking after the HTC. U 11! You also have this squeeze function where you could quickly access the Google Assistant feature at any time.

There are a bunch of other things with the software that really makes it profound over the hardware, but I could go on about it, but at the end of day, it's really nice that the phone is evolving. The software is evolving in more ways to make our lives easier. Under the hood, it's packing pretty much the same hardware you see in many other phones, so that's a snapdragon 835 chips with 4 gigabytes of RAM. It's zippy fast, thanks to, of course, stock Android I did test it out with a new Google daydream view of your headset, and it played VR games perfectly smooth, no problems whatsoever, but itself doesn't have expandable storage. You have only 64 gigabytes, 428 gigabytes to work with and then there's the camera.

Now the pixel XL was renowned for its great camera performance last year, and you would think that they would follow suit in providing some dual camera system, much like other phones, but they didn't. Instead, they stuck with just a single 12 megapixel camera with a f1 pointed aperture lens it has. Oh, is built-in, and this new dual pixel autofocus. What's impressive, though, is that's able to provide this portrait mode of sorts without having a dual camera system? Now this all done via software and also some hardware? So basically, the phone itself looks at the image, looks at all the pixels in terms what elements are in the background and what is the subject, and it's pretty cool, because it does a great job of isolating that. So the focus is placed on the subject and I.

Gotta say it does a pretty good job in determining that, although it does take a few seconds for it to process. But the end result is pretty good. As for pricing, the pixel to excel starts at $850 for the base 64 gigabyte versions now that it is pricey, but it's kind of lied to you with some other handsets and the space out there like the node 8, like the iPhone, 8 plus, and also the LAP 30. It's going to be a matter of preference, because there are some cool stuff that we love about the phone specifically this on the software tricks. But then there are some other things that make us scratch our heads, like the lack of a headphone jack and also wireless charging.

So if you guys wanna, learn more about the Google Pixel to excel, you can check out our website phone Reno. Comm is John, be signing off.

Source : PhoneArena