Google Pixel 3 XL "Real Review" By Flossy Carter

Yo, what's up everybody, it's your boy floss back again with another video, and today we're going to do the real review for the Google Pixel 3 XL. Now I'm going to start off by answering the main question everybody been asking me all week. If you got a Google Pixel 2 XL, should you upgrade and get the pixel 3xl and the answer is no? No! No! No do not do it to yourself. Alright you all remember good fellas jimmy two times the papers, the papers, if you got the pixel 2xl, and you upgrade to the 3xl, your new name is jimmy two times you just bought the same, damn phone twice all right now, what's the difference between the two and the three really four major upgrades: that's not worth upgrading number one! Now you got an IP rating all right! So now some of you all don't really care about that. This one isn't water resistant. Now you got a water resistant phone, that's the easy fix! Waterproof cases run for about 20 bucks.

Next now you got wireless charge. Now that is kind of a big deal, but again you can buy an USB type-c wireless charge, adapter for any smartphone. It's going to run you about 10 to 20 bucks. So let's put it on the hot side, 20 bucks so far, 40 bucks, and you almost got a pixel 3 XL. What else? Now you got an updated processor, so now you got snapdragon 845 versus last year's version.

Okay, that seems like an upgrade in the real world, all right, not in the paper world, in the real world. It's not really an update. You're going to feel the exact same performance, and I'll talk about that in a minute, because I rock these phones on the same day and use them both side by side. You're, not gonna, notice, any difference in performance. Alright, it's not like grabbing a nexus 5 and then getting the pixel 3xl you'll notice, the difference, but from the two to the three you're not going to notice and lastly, the camera.

That's another upgrade you got from the three from the two. You got an updated camera, but again, that's not even the biggest deal, because the best part of the updated camera is night shot and night shot. You can download to your pixel 2, XL, and you'll. Have it the same now. Both of these cameras are arguably two of the best cameras in the game.

Even though this is last year's version, it's still one of the best cameras out this updated camera. Even though you got the dual cameras on the front, that's still not enough to sell this one for three or four hundred and buy this one for a thousand bucks. It's not worth it. If you got a picture 2xl, you still got dual speakers. You still got quad HD display.

You still got android VIP. The latest version you're still right in the head of the game. All right, so don't bother. Upgrading just keep your picture too. Now, just like any other phone that I reviewed, there's always going to be some things that I don't like.

So let's talk about those first number, one, the price 1000 bucks for the pixel 3 XL. Let's all say it together. The price is too goddamn high, all right, 1 000 bucks for this phone. No now they could have easily made this phone worth the thousand bucks if they had fixed everything that I'm about to complain about. If all of these issues and my little gripes would have been resolved yeah, I would have had no problems spending a thousand bucks on this phone because it does have some dope features, and it does have a lot of stuff that I like, but, as is for a thousand bucks, no, no! No! No! You got too many phones in the market right now that you can get for the same price that basically do everything that this phone does and more and way more um way, less money way more phone, all right, so I'm not feeling the price.

Next, no expandable memory now, for me, that's kind of a big deal, because I'm one of these old school dudes that still walk around with a bunch of micro SD cards in my wallet, some of you all don't care. Now I know what you all going to say: oh you don't need expandable memory because of google photos. I use Google photos too, but a lot of you all don't realize that Google photos is only gonna work if you have an internet connection now, if you're somebody that travels a lot you're on those railroads you're flying on the planes- and you don't have internet that Google photos is not going to help you, and I'm speaking from experience, I caught a flight coming back from London, the flight had no internet. I had my phone ready to go. Furthermore, I was gonna, be just breezing.

Through my Google photos and watching my little videos, I took no internet connection. I was asked out now you all you all catch that follow me on Instagram. You all, see me posting pictures watching the titanic. It's not because I was trying to get all emotional watching the titanic. That was the only movie they had in English, and I didn't have any internet connection and I had a phone with no expandable memory.

Now google photos unlimited photos that is a nice touch, but again for 1 000 bucks. You got other phones that have micro SD card slots with expandable memory, 4 000 bucks. You got to keep up to the competition. Now this is going to be kind of a rant. Video shout out to everybody.

That's new to my channel. I don't have a script, I'm just talking to you all the same way. If one of my dudes asked me yo what'd, you think about this pixel, I'm going to sit down and talk to him, and we'll argue back and forth. I'm doing the same thing with you all right now. Where was I you have to keep up to the competition.

All right. Google Pay attention now, and this is going to be some of my other gripes too you're charging, 1, 000 bucks for a phone, and you didn't put expandable memory. Then you got other companies coming out with phones, charging less or the same price, and they drop an expandable memory. You got to keep up with the competition alright, so I'm not really feeling that no expandable memory situation next now. This is another thing, four gigs of ram.

Now you mean to tell me: I just spent a thousand bucks and all I'm getting is four gigs of ram. Then you got companies like OnePlus coming out, half the price, eight gigs of ram. Now I wouldn't really be too mad because a lot of times this stuff is just geek bench scores and paper. Specs paper specs, don't really equate in real life all the times, but this is one of those times, especially with the pixel 3xl. The ram management is not the best, and one of the prime examples is, if you're, on an app.

Let's take Instagram, for instance- and this just happened to me the other morning, I'm on Instagram chilling, I'm breezing through looking at the buns here comes somebody I got to put my phone down real quick, have a conversation. Now I want to open my phone back up to Instagram as soon as I pull up Instagram it automatically refreshes and start the app over. I don't like that now. If I were to do the same thing on my note on my iPhone, I would open up Instagram right back to that same picture. I was looking at so four gigs of ram for a thousand bucks.

That's a no! Now, even if it doesn't equate in real life, some people are going to say. Oh six, Griggs four games. It's really the same. I don't care google at least a lot of me put six gigs of ram because a lot of times when you're buying stuff you're buying it for the specs on paper. Even if you don't, if it doesn't work in real life, you want to be sold the maximum for your money if it had said eight gigs of ram with 128 gigs of storage.

But really it was only four gigs of ram. Nobody would probably even notice a difference and nobody would care. People are gonna notice and care when they're spending a thousand bucks, and they're looking on paper- and it says four gigs of ram, then they go online, they go to GSM arena, and they say let me check out the OnePlus 6t. Oh, eight gigs of ram for 600 bucks, no they're, not feeling that, and I ain't feeling that either next 128 gigs worth of storage is the max. I'm not feeling that now here we go again, you got galaxy, notes, 512, gigs, worth of storage.

You got apple, iPhone, 10s, max 512, gigs worth of storage. They didn't even come out with 256. They just left it at 64 and 1 128. Now, 64, that's a joke! All right! 64 is a joke. I don't care about.

Google photos because there's more to a phone than photos, people actually storing big files, everybody doesn't like putting their stuff in the cloud because you can hack the cloud everybody a lot of people. That's really you know! Look I'm not even going to get too deep into all that stuff, but some people don't like putting all the information in the cloud they want to have their stuff saved on hard disks hard drives, SD cards. You know what I'm talking about and not to mention. There's more stuff, apps, a lot of people like downloading a thousand apps trying out new apps 64 gigs you're gonna breeze through that in a minute, and especially with 4k video, that's going to be dead if you're, not if you're, not into that Google photos and all that cloud, stuff, 128 gigs, that's cool, but I would have liked to have seen 256 and even 512 keep up with the competition next no face unlock now. This is just this is just garbage all right.

Let's keep it real. This is garbage on a 1 000 phones. No facial unlock. You got wall way coming out with phones, even blue companies, like blue, coming out with 200 phones with facial unlock, no face unlock. That's garbage all right, I'm not! I there's no way.

I could try to ease that up or try to say it politely, that's trash for a thousand bucks. This phone needs to have facial unlock. Even if it's the basic, the basic OnePlus facial unlock, the one, that's not the most secure in the world, it doesn't have to be iris sensor. It doesn't have to be iPhone.10S 3d face unlock it. Don't have to be all that crazy stuff.

Just give me a regular face unlock, even if you're going to trust it. You know your trusted devices, you don't even have a trusted face section on that, so I'm not feeling that at all now, on the side note before I continue, let me say this: I really wanted to hate this phone. So much shout out to everybody that follows me on Instagram you all know what I'm talking about when I first got this phone. I was getting ready to bash it now. That's part of the reason why I don't get a phone on Monday and do a real review on Wednesday, because a lot of times stuff got to grow on you.

You got to get the hang of stuff. The phone got to give itself time to break in okay cool all that. But when I got this phone it was so much drama and issues. This is actually my replacement phone, the first one I had it was it had battery issues. The charger wasn't working, it was.

It was going crazy. It was going crazy, I'll talk about that more in a second. But anyway, I really wanted to hate this phone, but it did kind of grow on me, so even on bashing right now, st stay tuned, I do like this phone. Let's keep it pushing no face unlock next, no quad deck, all right, no hi-fi deck, you're playing your music, it's gonna sound, regular! Now, that's not the biggest deal in the world unless you somebody that has a lg v30 somebody that has a HTC, u12, plus, and you're, used to using your wired headphones you're sitting on the train and your music is bumping. When you play your music on this, even with the provided headphones, they sound good, but when you put them side by side to other phones that have quad decks, that's in the same price range.

This is going to fall short all right. It's going to fall short, so I don't like that. Nothing! Here's the thing all of these gripes, some of them! I wouldn't even mention, because I know somebody's going to say: oh you, you did a review on this phone. You didn't mention that everything that I'm mentioning the more I spend for the phone is the harder. I go on the review.

If this phone was 500 bucks like one plus six, I wouldn't be mentioning quad DAC and all that because you didn't expect that, but for a thousand bucks, I'm expecting that next, no headphone jack, that is wack hashtag bars. Now again, everybody doesn't really care about that. But no headphone jack. Why there's? No reason why you don't that? Why you don't have that you got phones like the galaxy. Now you can sit back now.

This is not a comparison video, but we can sit back and try to go feature for feature every single feature you can do on both of these phones. It's no reason that the headphone jack taking it away is adding some kind of extra bonus to it. It's not like you're, gonna, say: okay, I took away the headphone jack, that's gonna, give me the face unlock. No, you can have faced unlock and a headphone jack you can have face on. You can have a headphone jack and all of these features.

Why take it away? Why take it away? So now you're just forcing people to walk around with that little dongle, everybody doesn't have a modern, up-to-date car with Bluetooth and my old car. I don't have Bluetooth, so I got to have all these dongles in my car every time I jump in the car, I got to grab the aux cable, look for the dongle, it ain't even like I could just take the dongle to the aux cable because I'm using iPhones and androids going back and forth. So I don't like that. No headphone jack that is whack next, the notch, not a notch on this phone. This has to be literally.

Let me open this up. Let's go! Let me find, let me find a webpage, so I can. I can get a good laugh here we go. This has to be literally the biggest ugliest dumbest notch. Ever now.

I know people going to say oh, but what about the dual cameras on the front? They need that big notch for the dual cameras on the phone. All you have to do. If you don't know just google a picture of the HTC u12 plus you got dual speakers, dual cameras on the front and no notch all right. You don't need this big giant notch, and it's not. It doesn't even look.

I understand like even with the iPhones I don't like that notch, but you're kind of used to it. Now I made this reference before I'll make it again. You see the notch on the iPhone. It's the same way, if you see a Lamborghini with Lamborghini doors, all right Lamborghini did that first, so they're allowed to have that you might not like the Lamborghini doors, the suicide doors you might not like that, but that's Lamborghini's trademark! You see the doors, you know what it is now you see somebody come through with a BMW m3, and they got Lamborghini doors on it. It doesn't look right all right.

It doesn't look right, even though you didn't like the Lamborghini doors, you like it even less, because that wasn't the original product that it came out on same thing, this big, dumb, ass notch. This is ridiculous. Now I know I already know stop typing. I know what you're getting ready to say because none of you all read video descriptions, all right read the video description or all of my videos. I know what you all getting ready to say: go to developer options and take away the notch all right.

So let's do that real, quick and let me show you why that's trash all right. Let me just go to let's go to developer options, all right, so we'll go to uh system, advanced developer options, we're going to scroll down to display cutout now watch this now before I do that. Let me pull out my mate, not my mate. Let me pull out. Let me pull out my what phone is this? Ah, brain freeze all right now, let me pull out this um mate 20.

It is a mate. Alright, mate 20. Check this out. Now you see that dumb ass notch right now watch this I'm going to take away the display cut out, keep your eyes on the numbers. High display, cutout right high, keep your eyes on the numbers.

You see how far they dropped. Let's, let's activate it again. Look how high that went back up. That's almost touching the top of the damn screen. Now, let's hide it again watch how far it drops hide now.

Look, you see that bug it didn't even hide it. Let's go to default, hide it look how far that dropped. Why do that? Why do if you're going to do this? You might as well have saved some money and got a Google Pixel 3, because now all it is, is just a big, ass forehead. That's serving no purpose now check this out. You see the notch on this one, here's the default! You see.

Let me do this in this hand, so you can see. Look at the numbers almost touching the top of the screen watch. When I hide the notch, you see the notch disappeared. Those numbers stayed exactly where they are seen. The notch disappeared.

Those numbers didn't move, so you're still getting all, even though you get rid of the notch that screen real estate on the top is still functional on this phone. Now you just got a big black bar with nothing so hide in the notch. That's kind of whack all right. You might as well leave it, but it is ugly and stupid. Looking all right, so I'm not feeling a notch on this phone.

At all, all right, google hop off apple's nut sack come out with your own design. Now the dual cameras on the front. I like that, but is it worth having that dumb, ass notch? I know I just like saying that. No all right, I'm not feeling a notch at all. All right.

Let me calm down. Let me calm down this getting me mad. Next, the camera now we're gonna talk how good the camera is and all that, but there's a couple of things that I don't like about the camera, such as you can't shoot 4k 60 frames per second all right. You can't shoot 4k 60 frames per second now I can keep doing this and pulling out iPhones pulling out lg playing a bunch of different phones. You get my idea, I spend a thousand bucks.

I can't shoot 4k 60 frames per second, I know somebody's going to say: let's see I, I know what you all I know: you all haters good. I already know what you all be getting ready to say before I even say it: oh they're, getting ready to fix that with an update and all that I don't care about that all right. In that case, you should have charged me 800 bucks for the phone and then when the 4k 60 frames come out, say: okay, we need uh. We need another hundred bucks, okay, cool! No, I gave you all of my money. What you should have give me all the phone.

This phone came: half ass, no night shot that um voice transcription. That just came. I didn't even use it yet that just came like no. When I, when I buy something, I want everything up front or give me a discount, you go out, you got to buy a new car, and they tell you. Oh, we don't got the spare tire you're, not going to spot the same price you're not going to pay the same price for that car you're going to be like! Well, look! Um! You don't get this! You ain't got that you're missing.

This option start subtracting from the price if your smart start subtracting from the price, and then we're going to work it out till it's even you're, not going to say. Okay, let me pay maximum price, but it's missing a bunch of features all right, so no 4k 60 frames per second next, no pro mode now I know a lot of people going to say: Google has one of the best camera processing and all that which it does which it does, but sometimes you might just be that one dude that likes to go and change the ISO yourself. You might like to change the white balance yourself. You don't want to depend on the computer. Furthermore, you want to do it yourself, no pro mode on this, not to mention a lot of the gimmicky stuff with the camera this doesn't have now.

Furthermore, you could call me spoiled from using a note from using the mate from using a lot of these other phones using an iPhone a lot of the cute stuff that you got with the camera you don't have, but this is a great camera, but again no 4k, no pro mode. I don't like that next, I know I'm rambling like crazy. I love it next now this is going to be my biggest gripe of this phone. The display beautiful quad HD display. I will say that but check this out.

This is max brightness watch this. Let me put the phone on 50 brightness I his 50 brightness. I might even be a little generous. That might be like 55. Look at this.

Just look at this now watch this I'm gonna pull out my Galaxy Note. I know now I could be putting on other phones, but I just happened to have my note on me just so you know I ain't cheating check this out.50 on the note, look at the difference. Now I don't care how many lights I'm sitting under. I don't care about video, rendering quality and all that you can't sit here and tell me that this phone, even though the display is made by Samsung and shout out to Samsung yeah, I know how to do it, don't send them, don't send them the good ones, send them the b team. Look at this! This is ridiculous.

Now, that's that's half brightness! Imagine let me show you something else. That's half brightness! Now! Imagine you one of those people you like to walk around your phone or maybe 25 percent brightness. This damn screen is not even on this is not even on now I'm going to tell you all a quick story. I shot some dude from motorcars. He triggered me a little on the low I'm one of these people.

I can't stand having a phone that I can't see, and I can't stand when somebody's like yo. You have seen this, I'm like what let me show you show me on your phone, and they pull out their phone, and it looks like this. My daughter does this to me all the time and my dude Leo. Did this to me the other day he's like yeah. Look at this now, that's my dudes.

I really say nothing, but I was triggered I'm like yo. Why are you going to show me some? I can't even see like. Why are you walking around with your phone like that? You know I'm saying what are you doing? This display is rubbish all right. It's straight rubbish. It's straight garbage you're going to have to rock this at max brightness.

Now at max brightness. It is beautiful. All right, it's beautiful! Don't get me wrong. I love it at max brightness, but when you're rocking your phone at max brightness, what's going to happen, you're going to kill the battery now, this phone already doesn't have the best battery, so dude put two or two together rocking that max brightness to enjoy the phone, but the phone is not going to let the flow enjoy the phone and max brightness. But after two or two three hours your phone is dead.

Your phone is dead. Now I let me say this: the battery. I was ready to rape this battery I was gonna. I was gonna, destroy this phone and look, and I know a lot of you all. That know me you all.

Think just because Google didn't invite me to their little event. You know when somebody mad they use little. You know they didn't invite me. Today, little party, you know yeah. He went out on a little date whenever somebody said little.

That means they met. So google didn't invite me to their little show and all that that's cool google sent everybody on the planet a review unit except me, that's cool! Now people think I was getting ready to roast this phone just because of that, but I don't move like that. I don't move like that. I've been on YouTube for 10 years. It's only the last two years that I've been getting invited to all this kind of shows and all that other than that for eight years straight.

I didn't care about, shows and a lot of everything I did myself so me not getting invited that wasn't an issue. I was ready to rape this phone because I spent a thousand bucks for it and then right before that, I had to spend the thousand bucks for a couple of other phones, the OPO, the ASUS, a couple of other phones that was basically killing this phone and this phone, the problems I had with the wireless charger. Now I had the pixel stand. I posted on Instagram, I plugged this phone in at eight o'clock in the morning I forgot. Maybe I'm I'll just give you a specific night.

I don't remember the specific time, but I plugged it in it was probably eight o'clock on the dot it was at 78 percent. I had a feeling that something was wrong because I you know it wasn't charging fast. Furthermore, I waited an hour. Looked at the phone and went down to 73, I'm like yo. This is some back to the future type.

My phone is charging in reverse. Now all the YouTube correction officers started hitting me up. Oh, you got to use the stock charge and all that which I don't understand. Why do you all think I'm going to spend 80 on the charger and not use the plug that came with or you all? Think I don't have Google, I don't know how to search uh pixel 3 problems you all. I think I don't know how to troubleshoot.

I think I'm just going to go out and start ranting before I even do any research. Before I start ranting and say I don't like something I tried discharging. I tried to speak in charge of the Samsung charger, the Apple charger. I tried all the different charges, all the different phones, every phone worked on. It except for the pixel, so I said you know what something's wrong with my pixel.

Then I hit my map max lee. He said he didn't have that problem. I said: okay, cool, I'm not gonna! Do this review, yet I'm going to give it a chance, but I had so many issues with this phone, but I digress. Where was we displaying the display on this phone? 100 percent dim 100, dim you buy this phone you're going to be on max brightness status. Now I do have a zero lemon battery.

I'm going to try it at the end of this video and see if it fits it's for my pixel 2 XL, but it might fit, and I might be able to rock this phone on my trip. If not gotta leave it home now, you all know they call me petty, Roosevelt. So there's a couple of petty things that I got to talk about. First, the Google bar at the bottom. All right now I don't like this.

I don't like this. Android is all about customization. Don't try to be like apple. All right apple is one size fits all. Some people like that some people- don't I don't like that- I like customization- this- is one of the few android phones that you can't move the Google bar from the bottom.

It's just stuck bro. I got the squeezeology watch this. What time is it 1108. ? I got squeezeology on deck. I don't need to have the Google bar right there just looking at me all day.

Maybe I want to get rid of it. Maybe I want to put it on the top now, if you've seen any of my phones, the Google bar is always on the top. This got to be the oddball all right, that's kind of petty I'm not really feeling that next, this little green accent, that's kind of cute. Oh yeah, that's cute, but I'm not really feeling that either it would have been nice if you had the option to choose red or black or just put it stock black keep the panda look going black and white. This green literally matches nothing else with the phone.

Now I will say this: I like the little pixel case. This is one of my dopes favorite cases, but again here we go more. This lime, green pastel, I'm not really feeling that all right shout out to all my dudes that live in Miami you all love this all right. Anybody ever went to Miami and drive around everybody in Miami's house. Is this color? Is this pink or white? I don't know what's wrong with you all out there, but in New York we don't really.

We don't really be flowing with the lime green, like that. It is what it is next one more thing now the gestures: let's talk about the gestures, real quick. Now I tried to like the gestures, but here's the one that I just hate this gesture right here. Every time I swipe up. That's what happens now when I want to get to my apps.

It's like you got to concentrate to swipe up. You can't just do it fast, like okay, let me go to my apps. You got to you. Gotta really concentrate to hold your finger. I don't like that now, if you're going to copy off apple, do it the same way? You see it like if what apple one you don't have to lift your finger up like.

If I'm let me do, I have an iPhone on me. I think I do. I think I do check this out. Furthermore, I know I got a big bag right here check this out. Let me show you what is exactly what I was talking about iPhone when I swipe up watch this now say: let's open up app, let's say I'm on maps and I want to get to something else.

I swipe up. I don't I can just you know. Furthermore, I don't have to lift my finger up this one. You got to actually lift your thing up all right, so I got to swipe up then lift. I know that's petty, but that's what I do.

I'm petty and my last gripe my last gripe that I don't like about this phone, the lack of innovation, all right, 1, 000 bucks. There's nothing really that this. If somebody says, what's your main reason of buying the pixel 3 XL, I already know what a lot of you all going to say. Oh, it has stock android that has the latest android build, and it's stock android, I'm getting so tired of that argument, because stock android these days is whacked, not necessarily whack, but stock android. If that's your biggest argument, oh I just want a plain stock android phone.

Then why are you spending a thousand bucks? Why don't you just get a OnePlus? You know like. I don't know why you all running around bragging about having less features every time I argue with somebody who got a pixel or got a stock android phone. Oh, I got the stock android. I have to stock android. So you proud that you got fewer features.

You proud that you spent a thousand bucks. I spent a thousand bucks, but you don't got no iris sensor. You don't get pop-up windows, you don't got people on app's edge, there's a lot of stuff. You can't do on your phone, you proud of that, because you got stock. Android yo you all got a snap out of 2013 2014 stock android.

The main reason you was buying stock android is because that was making your phone run. Silky smooth with no lag nowadays, all of these skins don't lag HTC tense, uh sense, no lag. Lg is UI, no lag, Samsung touch wiz as much as everybody hates touch wiz. You have to, keep it 100, touch wiz, don't even lag anymore. So the stock android argument, that's pretty whack, that's pretty whack for 1 000 bucks.

I would have liked to have seen some innovation, especially from a company like google. What's up with the onscreen fingerprint sensor, you see that mate on screen fingerprint sensor with some pop-up cameras, iris sensors. Let's get some innovation, do something all right, not just some cheesy software innovation, real innovation. Now the one innovation part about this innovative part is the uh squeeze factor the squeezeology. But one thing I forgot to mention the squeezeology that I don't like.

Are you can't assign it to anything else? Now? I already got the Google bar trapped on the front screen. Maybe I want to change the squeezeology to something else? Maybe I want to change it. Look at the HTC u12 plus I can squeeze it ask it what time it is. I can also squeeze it and take a picture I can squeeze in and take a screenshot. I can squeeze in and open up the app's edge, and it has two different levels of squeeze one squeeze ass with time.

Squeeze it even harder. Take a screenshot, that's innovation, that's innovation! Anyway! I know that was. I know I went crazy just now. Furthermore, I know I'm I might edit some of this stuff out. Maybe I will maybe I won't now, let's get into everything that I do like, but first I got to take a quick break, all right josh, so we back in now, after all of those dislikes and that whole saga, I know what some of you all are saying to yourself.

He probably doesn't like this phone and that couldn't be further from the truth. This is actually my third favorite android phone number, one, the mate 20. Now that's partially, because it still has that new phone sent. So right now it's my new favorite number, two Galaxy Note: 9, that's still a top ROG and number three, the pixel 3 XL. Now, as much as I wanted to bash this phone shout out to google, they did it to me again.

This phone grew on me now. I can use that same analogy that I use with the pixel 2 XL. It applies to this phone too. This phone is kind of like that. Now I never say ugly when I'm describing the person, because beauty is an odd beholder.

I just say somebody that I'm not attracted to somebody else would probably love them, but me I'm just not attracted to them. This is kind of like that person that you're not attracted to but come to find out after you hang out with them both of you all like to watch star, trek and eat Doritos at three o'clock in the morning, both of you all like sipping, thought juice and watching cartoons you all she's laughing at all your jokes, you're laughing at all his jokes, they good with your family and your kids, and all that before you know it. You, like the person they grew on you, and before you know it you all in a relationship. That's the same way, I feel about this pixel 3 XL. When I first got it, I hated it, I hated the way it looked.

I hated everything about this phone, except for the speakers in the camera. I was ready to bash everything else. Android VIP, that's not a big deal for me, but after using this phone for about a week and then waiting even longer had it for two weeks after two weeks, this phone officially grew on me. It's now all reliable. I call this phone.

Oh, reliable. This is my business phone. This is one of those phones that when you pull it out of your pocket, it just works now same thing that I have with my pixel 2 XL, that phone I never reset in the whole year of having it. I never reset that phone and the phone doesn't even ask you to reset now. If you've got a Galaxy Note 9, you know.

Sometimes you might pick up your phone after two days of not using it, it's going to say yo, uh bro. You need to reset me right because it already knows you got to reset a lot of android phones. You got to reset every couple of days, not a factory reset, just power it off power back on this is one of those phones you're never going to have to turn it off, just like your iPhone all reliable. So this is over liable right here, Galaxy Note: 9, that's the side piece! This is wifey. Let's get into everything that I do like number one: the build quality.

Now when I first got it, I wasn't really feeling it too much, but after using it now, this is before I got the case. The white version, not the black one, the white version no fingerprints on this. It has this kind of now, even though it's glass, but it has that kind of like polished glass to it. So it doesn't feel like glass. It almost feels like a hard plastic.

I didn't really like it at first, but after using it without the case for so many days it kind of grew on me. I had to kind of grow me and I liked the build quality a lot. Now it is water resistant, so you can drop it in the pool. If you want, it does have wireless charge, build quality is a1, but me this is the case right here. Get this Google case slap it on your phone.

It just changes the whole dynamic of this phone. It just makes it look a little more classy, and you're going to like the way. This feels kind of feels like a sweater that adds to the build quality. For me now. I know any case could do that to any phone that little g on the back.

I like this. Furthermore, I like the white and gray, just minus the green, even the green ain't that bad it ain't that bad. But I do like it all right, so build quality, no problems. Next now I'm going to try to run through this quick. I know I've been talking forever sensor, I'm not big on having fingerprint sensor with no face unlock, but if you're going to have a fingerprint sensor at least make it where it works every single time, and this one works every single time with no effort, all I have to do is touch the back.

I don't have to aim for the middle set it up. It just opens up also fingerprint sensor, 100, accurate and reliable next, oh now, this is it. This is my new favorite always on display, even though it doesn't have the full customization like on the galaxy or the v30s, where you can add your picture, even though it's not fully intractable you're, swiping, left and right. This always on display is so dope. I like the way the weather you see right now is cloudy, but in the daytime, if it was sunny that sun would be yellow if it was a clear night that moon would be blue and the best thing about this always on display is when you get notifications now this is one of those times rare times that I'm not getting any notifications, but if a notification pops up it just looks so dope.

This is my favorite always on display. So when I got this on the pixel stand, and I'm just chilling, and I get a notification, it looks sick all right. It looks sick, so they're always on display. You're gonna, like that, you see my pixel saying it says: bedtime bro. What are you talking about? I don't ever sleep next, the display.

Now I just ranted about the display, how much I think it was so dim and dull, but at max brightness, it's beautiful now if this was just if this was is it was just a little more bright at 50 percent, I wouldn't have nothing to complain about I'm a max brightness douche bag. So I'm not going to really talk about that too much. But the display look at the blacks. You can't see that notch. You can't see them cameras.

Furthermore, you can't see that bottom of the top everything just looks beautiful. I saw the display on this excellent at max brightness. That's the caveat max brightness. Next, the speakers, the speakers, the speakers, the speakers on this phone are ridiculous. Now I've been getting into a few online debates, some people saying they like the iPhone speakers, better.

Some people say they, like the galaxy speakers, better some people actually like the racer phone speakers, better, hey everybody got their own opinion, not to mention you can't really argue with somebody how they hear you hear something different from me. Everybody has different hearing same way. Everybody has different vision. This might look white to you might look cream to somebody else. Everybody has different hearing and vision, but for me this is my.

This is my personal opinion. These are the best speakers that I have right now. The best second will be iPhone 10s. Max third would be it's a tie between HTC u12 and the galaxy and the racer all of those phones they all dope, but the top two, in my opinion, is the pixel and the iPhone. Let me pull up some music real quick just so you can hear what I'm talking about.

Let's take it over the tube, take it over to the tube. Let's pull up my usual, let's put up our bike life. I know I could have just edited this out, but that would require too much work for the bike. Life checks this out max volume watch that bass drop. Let's get that display woo, let it ride same thing.

Let's exit out of these speakers are ridiculous, same thing like when you're holding an iPhone, 10s max, and you're playing music, and you hear that bass. You feel the phone vibrating a little now one of the downsides about the LG G7, because everybody keeps saying how come the g7 don't make your top speakers. The g7 has the boombox yeah. It has the boombox, but only from the bottom. You can never compare dual speakers to a single speaker.

I don't care how loud that single speaker is once I put my hand like this. It's muffled out now, there's no speaker on the top. So dual speakers is the way to go this phone right here. If you're into media, you, like sitting at work on your pixel, stand playing music and videos. Now this is that this is what I do all day.

I rock YouTube TV, the speakers on this. Sometimes you actually have to turn it down you're, not going to need a Bluetooth speaker at work. If you work in cubicles and offices and all that sometimes I actually have to turn this down. When I'm watching some thought shows or some savagery, I turn it down a little because it's actually that loud. So that is one of the ultimate selling points of this phone.

Those speakers insane next now this is another selling point: the camera, the camera on this phone, I'm not going to say it's the best. I know everybody's saying it's the best again that that's subjective. In my opinion, my favorite phone camera is on the mate 20. , all right, the artificial intelligence same way it carried over from the mate rs. That's my favorite camera then.

After that I would say this in the iPhone 10s max and the galaxy everything falls in line. But for me I, like the artificial intelligence. I tried it versus this phone just point and shoot now. This does have great computer software, Ada Ada Ada it analyzes the photo, give you the best shot and all that that's cool, but the artificial intelligence on my mate phones, all right. The Huawei Mate joints that it just gives me the best picture.

It gives me when I do the mate 20 real review, I'll, I'll, do a full camera comparison showing you why? I think that's the best camera point and shoot. I took pictures with the pixel and, with the mate, put them side by side all right, no, adjusting! No playing with the blur effects: no, no, no doing nothing. The mate photos just look better, but the camera on this one is so sick and the best thing about it is night shot that night shot is intense. Now to do my camera I'll, do my usual routine. I just got now.

I hope I'll edit it out I'll edit it out. If I show, if I get a little too savage, but let me just show you some regular pictures. I took all right great Kool-Aid insert all your racist stereotypes. I don't care, I can take it grape Kool-Aid. So what this is me last night in the Apple Store, all right, beautiful, point-and-shoot shots.

Look at this beautiful, using when you, when you hear me, take it to the high voice. That means I like something beautiful. That's the high voice. Apple Store photo now check this out. This is what I'm talking about.

Watch this all right. Here's a regular photo! Here's a regular photo! Now, here's night shot all right. Let's, let's do it like this! This is a night shot. Photo you see the little knight matter of fact. Let me delete this one: let's do it like this.

Lets um delete the second one move to trash. Just so you have the regular and the night shot all right, so here's the regular photo and then here's the night shot. Can you see the difference? You see how this one is just a lot brighter. I got some better examples, though this one, this one right here. This is a better example.

All right, let me show you check this out now. This is a regular phone. Look how dark this is just the uh shifter in the car all right, regular, nighttime photo. Then I'm going to activate night shot. Look at the difference! Now you can actually see the cup holder you can see inside the cup holder.

It just looks like I used the flash, and it was no flash. You can't even see inside the cup holder right here night shot. Look at that night shot is the selling point of this phone and, like I said you could download that if you want again here, it goes again check this out check this out regular photo and look at the night shot. It looks like this one. I don't even have the headlights on you see a little headlight, but look at this one.

That is insane all right. If you're outside partying all night, or you're, a night owl, nighttime vulture like me night shot is gonna, be a godsend all right. That's not hyperbole! That's a fact. Big words alert all right. Let's keep it pushing, let's see anything else on with the photos.

Now I was doing a lot now. Here's the thing. A lot of people are saying that the audio doesn't sound that great on this. I got some videos I'll show you for yourself to me. It sounds good.

I couldn't really tell it any difference from anything else. Look at this portrait mode now this phone does have, I would say the second, maybe the first or second-best portrait mode, only portraits that I've seen that look better is on an iPhone the portraits on this, though incredible all right. That's that bomb ass razor phone again. Look at this look at this regular and look at the night shot. It almost looks like I'm sitting somewhere in some dark deserted alley.

Night shot, oh, that's houses, trees, sicker, all right now. This is um that google has that little I'll show you how to um. I forgot what's called playground, you see I added a little cat typing at my office. That's a little fun effect check this one out now. Now this is max brightness.

You can barely see it. Let me wipe it down. This is the Google playground? Everybody was asking me: how did I get Captain America in my crib like that? Just chilling, google playground is so much fun. I know you could barely see this one, but I got a better shot. It's another captain! America, look at this.

Look at this they're feeling more economically secure and their wages were higher. Why are we still not seeing that Captain America just right there camping, let's see uh, let's keep it pushing all right. Nice portrait shots. This is what I was talking about. Listen to the sound on this.

Is this the one? No, I got a video. I got a little laundry check out my dude look at his license plates broke. I met this cat in the city. Shout out to my dude broke: let's see what else uh, let's see regular night shots. I mean regular.

This is not even night shot. Just nighttime. Look at this come on man. You got to keep it real. This camera is banging Times Square photo's.

Just looking immaculate look at that- and this is just me like at a red light, pull out my phone snap, a picture and keep it moving. Let's see, I want to play this one video, real quick just so you can hear the sound look at this just so you can hear the sound BMW. I think this is a x2. I had to take a picture of this because I've never seen one before I was like yo. What is this portrait mode? Excellent.

Some regulation look at this portrait mode. You see what I'm talking about the. What is this uh, the contrast? You all Spanish catcher. I know you all Spanish catcher. I know what this is here don't front.

Furthermore, I got some maraschino cherries. Look at that background. All right, bowl, noodles, bowl, noodles, all right check out my dude Heathcliff. It's my little neighborhood cat I'll be feeding. It's my dude right there all right! This is the video right here check this out now, listen to the sound man that sounds good to me sounds good to me.

I didn't want to jump on the bandwagon of saying oh yeah, the video sound, the sound doesn't sound that good the big boy right here. I didn't want to jump on that bandwagon because to me the video, the sound in the video it sounds like every other phone, except for the u12 plus u12 plus that's next level, video mics, but it sounds good you're not going to have any problems with that, the one gripe I did have, oh matter of fact, I forgot to show you that video, let's keep it. Let me show you that one real, quick all right, so the one little gripe that I did have with the video is when I did my usual test. I just walk around the bodega with the phone in my hand, I'm not trying to be super steady and all that and just make a little video. Now look at this.

It's just not the smoothest in the world. It's still smooth, but if I show you the same, video on an iPhone you'll see the difference in smoothness. Furthermore, it does look amazing, though, but you see it's just a little jerky here and there dignity could have been a little smoother, but if there was some drama going on- and I just happened to record it- you wouldn't be complaining all right check this out. Hashtag work. This is that um.

This is the Google playground. You see, got the incredible hulk up in the office. That's pretty sick! Now, if I've made a video he's actually moving and doing stuff, if you got a Google Pixel, 3 XL, and you never played with playground, try it for yourself when I posted that on Instagram people was going crazy, I'm like yo. If you got the pixel, just go to the settings. Let me show you where it's at just in case you don't know all right go to more go to playground, and it's right there.

Then you can just add. Lets uh, we'll add matter of fact. Let's add you see, you got your incredible hulk drop him down right. Oh to hulk, you all, calm down where'd. He goes yo ho yo ho ho.

Let me just try to shrink him, so he made big yo ho calm down. Let's bring Captain America in all right. Captain is somewhere over here. Lisa, you see his feet all right, let's bring in our Iron Man. You can't really see right now, because I got them too big.

Let me see if I can zoom out and make these guys a little smaller all right when you get the idea, calm down, calm down. Let me exit out of this because hulk don't like when you play around for night, let's keep it moving, so the camera on this. The camera is a main selling point along with the speakers next performance wise. How does this work performance wise now? This is a nice little feature too. The home screen does rotate.

I like that, a lot of phones, don't do that. Don't sleep on how big of a deal that is, if you use car chargers or wireless docks in the car, you want your phone to look like this. You don't want to have its sideways, and it's facing up don't do that. I, like home, screen rotation performance, wise performance wise on this. I have no issues you can have a thousand and one app's open.

At the same time the phone doesn't lag. We don't get to spend a lot of time talking about this. If you buy Google Pixel 3 XL, you buy Google Pixel 2 XL, you don't have to worry about lag all right, so we don't even got to talk about that too many opens and closes all the apps nice and fast ram management ain't, the best but performance, wise silky, smooth. That's why this is my work phone next battery life. Now this is part of the reason I hated this phone at first, the one I had.

I had a defective battery. Now I took some screenshots. I'm not even going to show them right now, because it doesn't make sense because it was a defective phone, but the first screenshot I had two hours and 30 minutes worth of onscreen time. That was just sitting like this phone on the dock, watching YouTube YouTube TV, two hours and 16 minutes later phone was dead. Now, of course, that was maximum brightness, so you could just add another hour to that at as dim as this is, you would have needed.75, okay, cool next picture. Almost three hours battery dead, I was ready to bash everybody.

Saying wait for the update, wait for it up there. It wasn't the update. I had a defective joint so now that I got it battery life on this as much as it hurts me to say it, it's pretty good now I know I don't even know this guy's name. I know he's on Instagram right now smiling because he was like. Oh, I got the pixel my battery, I get six hours.

I called him a light. I said you ain't getting those six hours on 75 battery get out of here man. I straight up, I kind of ditched him a little in a friendly way like we're going back and forth. Furthermore, I know he can't wait to watch this video and say I told you so all right, so I'm a man I made a mistake. Furthermore, I had a had a defective battery the battery life on this is pretty good.

All right I can easily get, and this is max brightness. I could easily get four and a half to five hours max brightness. So if you're, not a scumbag, and you activate your battery saving tricks and tips, power, save mode turn off the ambient display. Do all the know. The battery saving features that this phone has, if you not do them, use them.

If you use all the battery saving features, you can easily get an eight-hour day out of this easily, all right so the battery life, I'm happy to say that it does. It does last the test. It does pass my test. Next, let's talk about the lag factor, real quick. I just mentioned that no lag.

I just got to mention that no lag and, of course, the floss factor all right now. You all know what the floss factor is. I ain't got to dump 100 phones on the table. You know what the floss fact is when you pull out your pixel 3 XL. Where are you on the food chain? Are you on the top, like somebody with that big boy, Galaxy Note, 9 or that mate? Are you in the uh peasant realm with somebody with this lg g6, you're kind of in the peasant realm a little? Where do you fit in? I would say the floss factor on this one.

I put a number on this on the scale of one to ten. Ten being the most I'd. Give this a solid seven, especially with this case matter of fact. This case might push you to a seven and a half, but you ain't really shutting nobody down. You might be doing your thing here and there, but you're going to the bar, and you get into the phone wars.

You ain't even got facial unlock. Furthermore, you need to calm down all right. Furthermore, you ain't got facial unlock. Furthermore, you ain't got expandable memory, you don't have an eye or blaster. Furthermore, you don't get an s pen! You basically just need to chill out and watch the phone wars from the side and hope nobody notices you take some pictures.

Furthermore, you do get a dope camera, take some pictures of the phone wars going on, but don't try to get involved all right because you're going to get roasted now as far as accessories the pixel stand, I do love it all right now I haven't, I haven't been taking full advantage of it, even though I will say this the other day I woke up, I'm not going to say it. You all know, you know, I'm not going to say it, but I said: hey, google, I said good morning yo the phone started, the phone started, giving me the weather the time, and then it started playing the news right. So I'm like okay cool, I'm waiting for the turn off. This was like a straight episode. A straight CNN show you know saying it was a straight Fox News broadcast it was.

It went on for like one hour straight on the charger, just telling all different news stories and all this crazy stuff. So the pixel stand. I do like it. If you got the white pixel, it is a nice match, but I would say accessory wise the best accessory to get is this case. Now I just ordered the blue one and the carbon one.

So this is light gray. I forgot the actual name of it, but they have one that's kind of black, and they have a navy blue one. I just ordered those two I'll update you all on Instagram, I'm not going to make a separate video anyway. Overall, when I say, go out and get a pixel 3 XL for a thousand bucks. I would say if you into, if you want a nice point, point-and-shoot camera, you want some banging speakers and you just one of these people that love stock android, which in some ways it's kind of good, because you do get the uh, the newest version of up of android updates.

That is kind of good. At the same time, it is kind of whack, though, because if you think about it, the last couple of updates remember when you had gingerbread: oh you had android um, uh Oreo, not Oreo. Let's say you had um lollipop, all right from gingerbread lollipop, all the ones marshmallow. When you had the those old versions of android and the new one was coming out. You couldn't wait because it had some dope new features.

Everything looked different. It was just crazy, but if you notice the last couple of updates from our android um optimum prime to android VIP, the difference is not really that much those gestures they could keep that they're always on display. I do like, but it's not really enough as a big selling point. So, as I was saying for a thousand bucks, I would recommend getting something else. If you just want that stock android feel get an OnePlus.

If you want a dope camera, get a galaxy or get a wall weight, but I can't hate on this phone. I just can't. I just can't co-sign it for a thousand bucks. Maybe the price will drop. Maybe you got some trade-in value.

You got some other phones, you could trade in cool, but for a thousand bucks I can't co-sign it with the stamp of approval, but I do love it now that I already got it, and it is my new work phone anyway pixel 3 XL hit me up in the comments. Let me know what you all think about this, and let me know if I talk too much shout out to everybody rocking with me on Facebook, foursquare, Twitter, google plus shout out to all the Google gangsters. I see you all holding down that Facebook page shout out to everybody hitting me up on boxer and a special shout out to everybody rocking with me on Instagram you all know: that's where I'm at full time, 100 full throttle and a special shout out to everybody rocking with the new stream on Sundays. You all already know stream gangsters on deck, get your drinks ready. No meat boys allowed oh yeah special, shout out to everybody following me on Snapchat flossy, underscore carter, that's where I'm at and a special shout out to the notification squad I'll see you all in the comment section early salute: oh yeah, one more thing: I almost forgot fellas ladies say it with me all: you all haters, all you all, trolls close your eyes and picture me bro your boy floss are mad.

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