Google Pixel 4 vs Pixel 3 - What HAPPENED!? By Hardware Canucks

It's here the Google Pixel for is finally here the most leaked Android smartphone in history. I, finally have one in the studio and I can't wait to put it through spaces, especially since it costs $800 or starts at $100, which is a lot of money. So definitely stay tuned for my full long-term view of this device and, of course, the four XL as well, but in this video I'm going to be comparing the 4 pixel 4 to its predecessor, the pixel 3, and see what are the changes? What are some of the features that Google has added to the pixel for some features that taken away from the pixel 3, which is true, so sit back and enjoy this little comparison now? I do want to mention that I've extensively used the pixel 3 last year, and I've had a lot of concerns with this device, but I'll definitely talk about those as I'm talking through this comparison, so yeah, let's get started, but first a quick message from our sponsor an o C's warranty, just respawned that covers four years general warranty for any defects, including a one-time, accidental warranty, replacement of vain monitors, because sometimes things happen, so you can enjoy a super smooth and responsive gameplay, just like the warranty check it out below alright. So, let's start with the design, and it still features rounded corners so like the pixel three, but I'm not really a fan of the curved edges on the display. It looks more aggressive compared to the pixel three. The frame now comes in this matte black finish and I absolutely love it.

This phone comes in three different colors, clearly white So orange and Google, and they're naming strategy, and finally there's just black. Interestingly enough, the white and orange variants have a matte texture at the back, but they did exclude that particular texture on the black model that I have with a pixel for Excel. As you can see, it's completely glossy it's an absolute fingerprint, magnet I, don't even know why Google decided to illuminate that texture I mean I would love an all matte black phone, but this is just like why I'm really glad that they didn't implement curved screens around the edges, because, just like the pixel 3, the pixel 4 is easier to hold in the hand the Excel model might be too big for people with smaller hands and for size comparison, it's almost similar to the 1 plus 70, but it's certainly smaller than the Galaxy Note 10.1 really changed the dimensions of these phones, which is really nice. The display is probably one of the biggest improvements over the pixel 3. It now features a 90 Hertz refresh rate.

In fact, this might be one of the first phones to hit store shelves, so you can physically get to experience 90 Hertz in real time and sort of get to see what the smoothness is when you're, navigating through the UI and I. Think that's, certainly, a welcoming change to the pixel for the screen size on the pixel 4 has increased slightly from 5.5 to 5.7 inches, but it still maintains the same form factor as I mentioned earlier. They did this by extending the display all the way to the bottom, but the trade-off is that you don't get the front facing speaker set up like the pixel 3, but don't worry the earpiece and the bottom facing speakers are configured in stereo mode, and they sound amazing. In fact, they sound a lot better than the pixel 3, in my opinion, because there's a little more bass and honestly when I'm listening to music or just casually watching content, I was really impressed with the sound quality coming out of the pixel. For now, I can't forget to talk about this four head bezel.

Some of you might downright hate this design, but, to be honest, it has grown on me sure you lose symmetry, but Google had to take this approach in order to implement their radar solely motion sensor and the front-facing camera, speaking of which they decide to remove the secondary ultra wide-angle camera. On the pixel floor, like what's found on the pixel, 3, and I'm actually really pissed about that, because they clearly had the rule for it and honestly, the difference is in that, while your field of view is slightly noticeable, and I'm not really sure why Google decided to illuminate one of my favorite features of this device. In fact, a lot of people really enjoy having that wide-angle selfie camera on the pixel 3. This is like a step backwards and I mean. Let me know, let me know what you guys think do you.

Are you disappointed by this removal I'm curious to know your thoughts about that in the comments all right? So let's talk about the motion way our sensor implemented on the pixel. For now, essentially, it allows user to control certain aspects of the phone without having to touch the device. So, for instance, you can simply wave your hand to skip tracks. Silence phone calls snooze, alarms, you can't necessarily control volume or answer phone calls now, having just spent a couple of days with the pixel for the emotion gesture is still a hit-or-miss. In fact, I feel, like a lot of developers, have to take advantage of the radar sensor to start implementing gestures for their respective apps, so perhaps over time, we'll start to see updates roll out so that we can start to finally take advantage of this sensor, because it is and interesting you know feature to add to a phone.

In fact, we did see this with LG's implementation on their device not too long ago. So I hope to see google improvise on that later. On. What's really frustrating is that Google is not selling the pixel 4 and the 4 excel in India, which honestly doesn't make any sense to me, in fact, for the 10% of our audience of watching from India I, honestly I, don't really know what to say because I feel like this is certainly a missed opportunity. You might also notice that the pixel 4 doesn't have any physical biometric authentication on the device like a fingerprint sensor and that's because they've completely ditched that for an advanced encrypted face unlock via the Titan and chip.

So far, my experience with it has been great. In fact, it's very fast, and even though that I'm wearing glasses, it works all the time which is cool. It also works when I'm in bed. So under low-light situations, it seems to work just fine, but I'm actually curious to see how reliable this particular verification is. Just because you know when I'm trying to make a payment or under unexpected situations.

How is it going to hold up? I'm, definitely planning on investigating this a little further on so definitely stay tuned for that. But for now it's pretty cool. Taking a look at the specs of the pixel 4, it's really not that great, especially for the price, it's very underwhelming, so you get a Snapdragon 855, not the 855, plus 6, gigabytes of RAM, 64, gigabytes of storage, and it's not expandable, and you can only max it out to 120 gigabytes, really. The only difference between the pixel 3 and the 4 is the updated SOC and two extra gigs of RAM. The storage is not even UFS.3.0 like what's found on OnePlus devices battery is smaller on the pixel 4, so we're looking at 28 million powers versus 2,900 on the pixel three so far battery life has not been that great on the pixel 4, and I have verified that with some of my other friends in the tech community. In fact, screen on time is very much similar on the pixel 4 compared to the pixel 3.

So it's not something you know significant, but if you are looking for a better battery life, the only way to off 4 is pick slow for Excel, because it does come with the 3,700 million of our battery, which is definitely a step-up from the pixel to me excel. This phone still has the ip68 water-resistant rating wireless charging. Unfortunately, the charging solution is not faster compared to last year, because it's still using the 18 watt charging protocol and now on to the cameras, it's actually a questionable choice from Google, in my opinion, because it left a lot of people, including myself, scratching our heads just because of the configuration that they decided to go with. Here's, why the pixel 3 came with a single 12.2 megapixel f1 pointed sensor. The pixel 4 comes with the exact same sensor, with a lower f-stop and a 16 megapixel F 2.4 telephoto lens, and that's it. You don't get an ultra wide-angle camera on the pixel 4, which is really disappointing.

I was hoping for Google to include one on this device, but unfortunately we don't get it I, don't know, I, don't know what to say. I, just don't you see, Google is really banking on software improvements with the pixel 4, because they've added features like super resume: improved portrait mode, macrophotography, improved white, balancing algorithms and live HDR, plus all these things that I really want to test out in the long term of you, but, as you can see by these comparisons between the pixel 3 and the pixel, for the pictures, look perfect, but it is expected given how good their computational photography is. Furthermore, I mean there's a little more detail on the pixel 4 versus a pixel, 3 and dynamic range is slightly improved. But what's fascinating is the pixel of 3 produces images that are more contrast compared to the pixel for having compared these samples side-by-side I, don't really notice a major difference between the two sure the pixel 4 is a little brighter compared to the pixel 3, but I'm actually happy with the results coming out. The pixel 3 and with a little of editing, I'm, pretty sure I can get a perfect result out of this camera.

But I want to know your thoughts about these samples. What do you guys think about it? Let us know in the comments down below alright, so this is the video test on the pixel 4 and the pixel 3. The dynamic range is actually slightly better on the pixel 4, compared to the pixel of 3, as you can see, and the pixel 3 tends to add a bit of contrast to the image, whereas a pixel 4, it's trying it's very best to retain that HDR goodness, which is great now in terms of detail. I honestly can't tell a difference. Quite frankly, I mean I really should have a shot 4k at 60 frames per second, because we could have done some really cool slow-motion stuff with the new phone, but unfortunately that isn't the case because man for the price point, it's just video features are absolutely underwhelming on the pixel for alright.

So this is the front-facing camera test on the pixel 3 and the pixel 4 I'll be switching back and forth just so, you can get a rough idea on what the audio quality is going to be like. Unfortunately, a dynamic range is pretty terrible on both these phones, but that's a thing with video pixel phones. They just aren't as good as Samsung's Galaxy devices, but, most importantly, what's even surprising is that the front-facing camera can only shoot 1080p, video and not 4k, whereas the iPhones ? lean, which costs $100 less, can shoot 4k video using the front-facing camera. That's just that's a complete disappointment. Now Google has added a few refinements in the software department, but there are a few gimmicks at it as well.

So you can now choose live Pok?mon wallpapers that react with your motion. Gestures and I'll be honest with you. Mike really enjoy playing around this feature, but then again just imagine yourself in a public space just trying to fiddle around with your phone just trying to make different gestures, I think that's just going to look weird. Another really cool feature is LY, transcribing that records audio in real time as well as transcribing that using the voice memo app. This is one of my favorite features of the pixel 4.

In fact, if you're a student, you can certainly take advantage of this particular feature when you're recording lectures, because you don't have to be connected to the internet for this to take full effect. It happens locally on the phone and Google has some really smart organization tools as well, so that is pretty cool. Finally, Google Assistant gets a few refinements here and there as well, but if I'm being brutally honest guys, I actually prefer oxygen OS on OnePlus devices compared to the pixel experience, because you get more customizable options on oxygen, iOS versus the Google UI. Just because you can get to change the accent colors on icons and do a lot more things with that, and I feel like one plus, is definitely nailed it with giving you the stock Android experience, but also customization, whereas Google is just it's plain, but there's nothing fascinating about this particular UI. Now I did get a chance to ask some more friends to see what they think about the pixel four and the four Excel.

Let's hear what they had to say: Ebert Mike Dmitri! Thank you guys so much for having me on, but I'm gonna, preface this video by saying I do like the pixel for I. Think it's a good smartphone, but a good smartphone in 2019 for a flagship device is not hard to do because every flagship device right now is a good smartphone. Camera come on ultra-wide. It should be there. I, don't care if you think it's good or not, the competition is doing it.

Apple is doing it and if Apple's doing it, you should be doing it or trying to be doing it better. That should be on your device in $2019800 smartphone, but it's not living up to the flagship features. You're pricing it just above the iPhone 11 and above the 1 plus 72 devices that I personally feel offer a lot more value than the pixel 4 I. Think right now the only people who should buy this device are people who want the absolute best smartphone camera first stills. If you're doing video or anything else, there are better options out there anyways, that's all I have to say those are the features I like and dislike about the pixel 4 Thank You Hardware Canucks for having me on and Dmitry have, so I've been using the Google picks up for and Google picks up for exile for a few days now, but I keep finding myself on the 4 XL now normally do like smaller phones, but the problem is the Google Pixel 4 has one of the smallest batteries on Android right now.

It's 2800 million powers, and it just keeps dying over and over again I'm, getting like 3 hours, 50 minutes or 4 hours of screen on time, which is very bad. I, usually get six and a half to seven hours of screen on time on any given day on a regular Android phone. As far as new features go you've pretty much got an enhanced camera, and you've got project sold. Now, in the camera, you've got the what-you-see-is-what-you-get viewfinder, which is really nice, but that uses a lot of power solely which is this radar sensor that senses when you're picking up your phone turns out in the face unlock cameras and then unlock your phone is perfect really fast, but it also uses a lot of power. There's Wi-Fi sensors, there are sensors that are using cellular data, and these all just kill your phone pretty much instantly.

So for me, it's just really hard to recommend a pixel for especially the small one when it's just going to die after a couple of hours of use. So there you have it pixel for versus pixel, three, and I hope you were able to take away the differences between these two devices. In fact, I'm curious to know your thoughts about the camera. Comparisons in the comments down below I was really hoping for a lot more with the pixel 4, especially since it costs $800 or starts at $800. I, don't feel like Google has added that much to justify its price tag personally, but I think it's too early to come up with a conclusion, because I really want to spend a little more time with this phone to see what it can do, especially for that price.

So certainly stay tuned for my long term review, but until then I never with hard-working axe. Thank you. So much for watching make sure to check out some relevant content over here subscribe and hit that notification button so that he don't miss out on a new video, and I'll talk to you guys in the next one.

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