Google Pixel 4 / XL Review - Great camera, average battery By TechRadar

I'm David Sum from Schrader- and this is the Google Pixel for in the Google Pixel for Excel Google's camera focus smartphones for 2019, which is the big question. Do they take the camera photography crown back from Apple? Well, yes, and no there's a bunch of new camera features a new telephoto lens, better software, but is it keeping up with the new Eiffel Evan Pro and the latest from Samsung? We'll see it's improved a bunch of the software and returned a bunch of features we loved, including the night sight which you're able to capture a four-minute exposure, and it's amazing what it can pick up in the dark. Google is also introducing the macrophotography mode, which purportedly allows you to capture the night sky stars planets what-have-you, while still getting the foreground in they've, also obviously introduced new telephoto lens, which combined with their super resume introduced last generation, should give us some distance photos that compare favorably with stuff coming from Apple phones, Huawei phones. What have you the new telephoto lens, is something we've wanted for a long time from Google extra lenses to improve the photography and combined with the super resume introduced in the Google Pixel 3 we're getting sharper and better photos that compare favorably to the stuff coming out of Apple, iPhones, Huawei, p30s, p20, etc. , but we're really missing that ultra-wide lens? That's come out on a lot of flagship phones. This year your Samsung US 10.

Even you know, Apple iPhones, giving us a lot of versatility that we're going to kind of miss in the Google Pixel for design wise. The pixel 4 is going for a simpler look gone is the two-tone from the Google Pixel 3. Instead, it's just a matte glass finish on the back with a textured aluminum rim on the sides. It's not quite as premium as the fancier smartphones out there, but it does give a nice bit of grip. It's a little more pragmatic and the only thing on the back is this camera block, which means the fingerprint sensor is gone.

You only have faced ID now and thanks to the radar implements from the sold project, we saw a couple of years ago. Finally, coming into fruition place next to the selfie cameras, it sees your face unlocks and then unlocks pretty quick when it works at all, it's a little erratic. Otherwise, the only new thing about the screen is that it's a nine-year display. That means it's faster than most the other phones out there at 60, Hertz, smoother scrolling, smoother game playing, and it's adaptive as well, meaning it'll switch off when any app is not going to take advantage of it. Preserving your battery life, something that killed other smartphone batteries in the past.

The other new thing with that sold radar technology motion sense. This allows you to swipe or move your hand in front of the screen and control a couple of things on the phone. It's not really that widespread, yet pretty much, all you can do is swipe through songs on various song apps or move your hand over to lock out your alarm a little sooner than normal. We're waiting to see if this is going to be implemented wider on the phone. Otherwise, it just looks like a cute little tech trick, something to make it worth putting radar in the phone and a nice bullet point on the features list.

Google claims that you're going to get up to a full day of battery, but we've been getting a little less than that I'm, a Google Pixel 4, which might incentivize you to upgrade to the Pixel 4 XL, which has a beefier battery they're, still going to run into some of the same problems. Specs wise, be ok with a middling phone. The 6 gigabytes of RAM are fine, and the Snapdragon 855 chip is great, but you're stuck with 64 gigabytes of space or 128. There's not even a micros slot to upgrade that it seems like Google, is pushing you toward it's Google, one cloud storage service, which thanks Google, otherwise you're gonna, have to offload a lot of your storage for a photo phone. That's not great.

The Google Pixel 4 is not a complicated phone, but it is complicated to situate it in the lineup of 20:19 phones as we get more features, and especially explore the frontier of foldable, it's harder to see where the Google 4 fits in, but 4 camera phone enthusiasts. It lets you do a lot and ask very little of you thanks for watching our breakdown of the Google piccolo 4 and Google Pixel for Excel. If you liked what you saw check out our unboxing, where we pull everything out of the Google flick so for box and show you what you're going to get remember to Like and subscribe for more tech radar content or head to techradar. com I've been David Sum and thank you. You.

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