Google Pixel 3 | Smartphone Unboxing and Review By The Week I Review

Clickbait title replacing my camera system with a smartphone hello and welcome to my unboxing channel. This, presumably is the pixel 3 I do not know, as I have not opened the exterior box from Ingram Micro CFS. So let's do that. I did this exactly wrong and I just dropped my brand-new phone, so we are off to a great start: a SIM card, USB type-c, cable, a USB type-c to 3.5 millimeter converter and a USB type-c to USB type, a converter, USB charger, so pixel 3 and not the XL. It looks a lot like my s8. It feels good I.

Actually like it already. The back. The two-toned glass is sort of strange Google made a big deal about the fact that this is a single piece of glass that has been shaded in two different ways: I actually like the feeling, so I get it on that level. But there's no way this thing isn't going to scratch like crazy, so I ordered a case that has not come, yet I mean as far as black slabs go it's a pretty nice one. So when you see me next, I will have used it for a while and I have things to say about the Google Pixel 3.

Well, obviously, much more about the camera later. I wanted to note that I will be switching between shooting this on my usual Fuji film xt2 and the pixel 3 itself, which I'll test out in a variety of locations and multiple lighting conditions. I have to do it that way, because I only have one pixel 3, so I can't shoot with and show it. At the same time, any who in college I had multiple wrist surgeries that didn't quite heal. The way they should have.

This means that holding bulky things for extended periods of time is genuinely painful, and the shift towards increasingly large and heavy phones might be great or fine for some. But it's not for me, I maintain that there has never been a phone more perfect in the hand than the original Moto X. The pixel 2 had a fairly small screen, but ridiculous bezels put a gun against the engineering marvel that was the Samsung Galaxy S8, my previous daily driver. It looked downright ancient. The XL version by contrast, was fine, but it was too freaking.

Big, the pixel 3 looks like a smaller pixel to excel it's, it's fine, it doesn't have any kind of notch, and it particularly doesn't have the ludicrous notch that plays the Excel version. This generation I, like the look at the screen, is clean. It's got rounded corners that fit Google's new bubbly OS, aesthetic I, remember being excited that my droid X, all the way back in 2010 would be getting Android.2.2 Frodo I've used every version of Android since then, and it's amazing how far the operating system has come. The pixel 3 launched with Android Pi version 9, which I like well enough, but I'm not going to get into it because it doesn't really matter, and other people have already done it better. What matters is that the pixel 3 runs it beautifully.

I've never had such a smooth, Android experience. I did replace the stock launcher with action launcher, which makes much better use of gestures than Android itself. Those required on Google's latest hardware, which is dumb action launcher, is great.5 stars. It's a clich? that the best camera is the one you have with you. Something must be true because of how words work, but there are two radically different lessons you could take from it.

One don't worry too much about what you're shooting with or to make sure you've always got a good camera on you. Since we heard the week I review believe that authorial intent is dead, I'm going to focus on the latter as it pertains to the pixel three, but first a brief digression. My xc2 replaced a fulfill x100t rangefinder I loved that camera, which came with me to three continents for the photos it took in the colors it had in those sweet, sweet JPEGs, its small body meant I, could just throw it into my bag and not think too hard about it. But the video was terrible, so I traded up and while I'm very happy with the most of the xe2 I miss the smallness and in conspicuousness of the x100t, but even that has nothing on a phone which is even more inconspicuous and also infinitely accessible, and while the pixel 3 certainly isn't as versatile or straight-up fun to shoot, with. As the Fuji cameras I finally feel like my phone can act as a more than capable backup for when the bulk of a bigger body just isn't practical for stills.

Unlike many of its contemporaries, the pixel 3 flips, the sensor count to two front and one rear in lieu of the rear. Telephoto. That's so common. There is an additional wider angle, selfie cam, undoubtedly great for all those group shots I would take if I know, had groups of friends to take them with, but software's the new hardware. The pixel does not have a top-tier camera because it has the best sensor or optics.

It has the best software. The processing capabilities on display with all of Google's phones take images that any flagship phone could take and then bring them to the next level. All of these really involve taking a number of photos and merging them together with algorithms that until profit, smart HDR+ is the typical tech that is on everything, and it gives very good dynamic range. The image, although it can be a little too aggressive at times for my tastes, particularly at night- that's missing. Second rear lens- is ostensibly obsolete in the face of Google's super resume, which uses the motions in your hand to simulate an existing sensor.

Technology called pixel, shifting merging multiple photos taken slightly apart from each other to increase overall image resolution before performing the zoom. It's unequivocally better than a regular digital implementation see that this menu becomes visible from 20 is feet away when zoomed, but whether it is a genuine replacement for a second camera is another matter and not one I feel compelled to litigate. The most notable of the technologies is night sight. A genuinely mind-boggling function that lets you take photos in the dark that just stopped being dark concerns that images would inevitably become too much like the daytime can be put to rest, because you have the same ability to alter the exposure that you always do, so night sight can result in better image quality in the darkness, with the same apparent exposure full stop. It's amazing I also wanted to clarify something since I've seen some confusion on this point.

There is no optical image stabilization in any of the pixel 3s cameras, because I'm shocked to say it or even think it, but it just doesn't need it as you can see, I am running and just holding the phone, and it looks crazy, smooth I'd originally intended to let the video speak for itself, but I was so unhappy with how the first version of this review came together as a direct result of my dissatisfaction with the pixels video that I literally scrapped the whole thing and started over, which is why this video was a full week late and not just a few days. Sorry, but look at this. What choice did I have, and I'm doing it? No favors by comparing it to the very, very nice images that come out of the AT ?, but the video that comes out of the pixel 3 just isn't very good, and it makes sense, of course, all of that processing of multiple shots just to get one good image. It takes time heck a night site. Photos can take another 30 seconds or so to finish, processing after you've gone off to other things before it actually becomes that amazing incredible photo, so that doesn't work at 30 frames per second, instead, you're left with the capabilities of the sensor and the flaws in that are glaring, what's odd about it, though, and when I fell into a trap, the first go around is that on the screen of the pixel 3, it looks fine.

In fact, it looks pretty good. It's only when I bring it into premiere. That I realize that it's just it's not, but despite all of its flaws, you are inevitably going to see footage from this thing on this channel, for what I want reasonably stabilized outdoor footage, if only because it is a lot easier to carry this than this, and you know it actually works with this external microphone, which is nice. An unfortunate side effect of the pixel 3 smaller size is that it has a smaller battery to match. This is a problem plaguing the industry.

If you want a battery at a big screen, I would gladly take a thicker phone with a smaller screen, but that's just not a thing that exists outside like Sony's compact line, which I don't want. The battery life isn't terrible, it's better than my s8 was, but if I follow my typical above-average media consumption habits, then I don't make it until the time I would otherwise plug it in for the night. This is a shame. Speaking of the SA one of the big draws for it last time, I was in phone acquisition mode was that it had retained its headphone jack in the face of overwhelming courage on the part of its competition. At the time, I used exclusively wired headphones and the prospect of dongle life, particularly given my many consecutive hours of media that probably ultimately requires a midday.

Charging was enough to keep me away now. I primarily use a pair of Bluetooth headphones, so the calculus is different to Google's credit, both USB type-c headphones and a short 3.5 millimeter dongle are included, I largely stopped wearing earbuds a couple of years ago, because a doctor told me to, but the verge speaks highly of these, so their inclusion is nothing not of particular consequence, but something I care about is the implementation of the digital well-being. Functionality intended to make us look at our phones less, although it is still in beta, it offers some built-in app timers and limiters as well as most significantly. For me, a grayscale button built right into the settings panel. It's been shown evidence in the description that vibrant colors of a smartphone play a large part in their addictiveness, so a way to make people stare at phones less is to drain that color away.

So when I'm, not watching a video or taking a photo, I keep them off, and it really does make a difference. Turning them back on is kind of startling actually and as a result of it, I sometimes keep it off. Even when videos play it's not like this kind of thing wasn't possible before, but the added convenience of it being built into the system right alongside the toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc. Is something I really appreciate, and it does make me want to stare at my phone less and also go back to shooting photos in black and white. It's this kind of thing that makes Google's offerings stand out in ways.

Small and large. Some of this stuff will come to other phones, but they'll always be on Google's first and some things, Google is just going to keep for themselves, at least for the foreseeable future. The pixel three starts at eight hundred dollars, a full 150. More than its predecessor and the lack of expandable storage means that the 64 gigabyte version just isn't going to cut it for most people. We are now, sadly in the era of the one thousand dollar flagship and while the pixel three isn't quite there, it's more sizeable sibling is these phones are being put up against the new iPhones and Galaxy Essex and notes etc, and they're, not as immediately impressive as any of those, but I don't have any buyer's.

Remorse I, like the pixel three, it's smooth as heck, has a pretty swell imaging system and is the only Android phone released in 2018 guaranteed to be getting timely. Updates in 2020 eight point two out of ten. Thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed the video I'm, sorry that it's a week late and not just a couple of days, late I really tried, but it is just didn't. Work I have another review coming this week. That is the review that I wanted to do this week anyway.

So look out for that. I guess hope to see you then.

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