Google Pixel 4 XL - Worth it in 2020? (Real World Review) By Real World Review

This is the ultimate question: what phone should I buy today? Not everyone has a thousand dollars to spend on a phone, but at five hundred and fifty dollars or fewer. This is a nice looking choice. This phone is known for the camera and operating system and that's about it. But let's talk about it first, because there's a lot to talk about, should you buy the Google Pixel for Excel in 2020, hello, everyone? This is Matt from real world review check out the social media listed above in the description for some extras. Alright, let's review this flawed masterpiece. This is one of the most normal screens you'll find on a newer flagship phone.

It's a flat six point: three inch 1440p OLED display with a pixel density of 534. There is a small chain at the bottom in an obvious forehead, but there's no notch or hole punch in the display. It has a 19 by 9 screen ratio and looks absolutely amazing. Then the best part of the screen is a refresh rate which is 90 Hertz. It is variable to save battery life, but I never really had an issue with that.

It's super smooth with everything I throw at it and when you switch the 60 Hertz for a while, you start to realize that lacking consistent, 90 Hertz is not really that big of an issue with that said, you can force it in the developer options, but I chose not to. There is no fingerprint scanner in the screen, which is somewhat surprising, but it's just because Google doubled down on the face detection, but I will talk about that a more little bit later. This screen supports ambient EQ, which is pretty much like true tone, but for Android I chose to leave it off. It also supports the ambient display, which is now called idle lock screen for some reason, similar to what the motor's II does. This phone has motion sense and reacts to you hovering over the screen, allowing you to see more of the phone without having to touch the phone.

This is perfect for notifications and other things similar to that. As for the quality of the screen, it is a Samsung display. So, of course it's gonna look amazing. The interesting thing is that this phone got a 90, Hertz 1440p display. Yet Samsung still hasn't put that in their phones at 3,700 Williams.

You think that this is a big battery. One of the biggest complaints of this phone was the battery life, and I'm here to tell you that the battery life is decent. It lasts all day with no issues for me, but I can see why people don't like this battery. It could be better, and should be given the size, but there's a lot of stuff powering this phone, not to mention the 90 Hertz support. Here's the Geek bench for battery test stats, which are alright.

The phone supports 18 watt charging, which sounds good, but it's the same as the original pixel I wish. They would add, 25 watt or even 45 watt charging, but it's whatever. There is wireless charging on this phone, even the option for fast wireless charging, but only with the pixel stand.5 watt wireless charging is supported on all other chargers. The port on the bottom is USB. Making life easy just like Google always has with the pixel line.

The battery isn't bad, but the poor performance doesn't really help if you're interested in buying this phone used, but you can charge the phone fast. So it's not terrible. As expected. The cameras are outstanding on this phone, but at the same time they can be a little disappointing. The cameras itself look amazing, whether you're using the standard or telephoto sensor.

It is just weird seeing that there's only three cameras on this phone. The main camera is a 12 point. Two megapixel sensor with optical image: stabilization along with electronic image. Stabilization I, don't really need to talk too much about the camera, because the shots that this camera takes is absolutely amazing. This is nothing new on pixel phones, and it's mainly because of the pixel neural core, that everything looks amazing, Google added macrophotography, which looks really cool, but it takes some time to set up it's better for places with lots of visible stars for sure the mix of software and hardware combined to make these amazing shots, and that follows through to the telephoto camera.

This camera activates, when you zoom in two times, and it's a 16 megapixel sensor, shots come out looking similar to the standard sensor as expected, but they can look a little brighter in some shots, mainly during dimly lit shots. Now these aren't bad cameras, it's just weird that they opted for the dual camera setup, while other flagship devices came with at least three sensors on the rear. As for video recording you get the exact same recording that the original pixel had yep. That is correct, no 4k at 60 frames-per-second here not with the stock app at least just 4k 30 frames per second. As for the front, camera, I am a little disappointed.

Google dropped the wide-angle camera, which is fine in my eyes, but they also moved from the 8 megapixel focusable camera to an 8, megapixel fixed-focus camera still, portrait shots, look awesome and the edge detection is outstanding. This is probably due to the infrared tech on the top of the phone that measures depth. As for video recording on the front, you just get 1080p at 30 frames per second week. Overall. This is a nice set of cameras, but not really the best for video recording to be fair.

The pixel line has never been the best for video, especially at the $900 new price tag. Now the specs of this phone are so-so for the price. They are disappointing, but let me tell you about them first. This is a large and heavy phone at 193 grams, but it's slightly lighter than some other flagship phones in its class. This phone comes with a snapdragon 855 chips with 6 gigabytes of RAM, neither that proved to be slow.

This is the first ram bump in the pixel lineup and I wish that this phone had a Snapdragon 855 plus, but the Snapdragon 855 is no joke. I never experienced any lag when using this phone, so you shouldn't either this phone comes in 64 or 128 gigabyte forms, which is pretty annoying, seeing that there's no way to expand that you still get the active edge, just like the pixel 2 in pixel 3, but it is still gimmicky to me. The dual speakers sound nice, but it is somewhat obvious that the top speaker isn't as loud as the bottom speaker. The phone is still water-resistant with an IP 68 rating and the back of the phone is glass as expected gone is the curved back as well as the frosted back. Well, some do, but mine is just a glossy fingerprint magnet.

The middle of the phone is metal and the colored power button is a nice little touch and that's pretty much it. Oh yeah, there's radar in this phone, which is pretty interesting motion, sense, uses a radar sensor to sense movement nearby. So you can change and pause music without even touching the phone. It's a cool feature when it works, and sometimes it would either not work or it would pause menu Sic when I would do like a small movement, but it works a lot better than I was told still a little gimmicky, but I use this for the face detection, which is pretty accurate and really fast kind of crazy to see, but this actually works when you're wearing a mask -. This is perfect for well, you know.

So should you buy this phone in 2020 at a reasonable price? I would say yes, the point of using a pixel phone is to experience pure Android, but over the last few years it's been debatable whether the right corners were cut this year. I think they did perfect. They just missed on the battery and the camera section. Well, the lack of cameras, I should say I love using pixel phones, because they just work so well and so fast and adding the 90 Hertz display makes a phone seem even faster. Everything in this phone is for a reasonable person, but sometimes you want more than 128 gigabytes of storage, an ultra-wide camera 4k video at 60 frames per second or a better battery.

While this phone isn't perfect, I'm glad that it does exist, I just wish that the price was a lot less and that's all I wanted to talk about thanks for watching my review of the Google Pixel 4 XL. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments section or message me on Twitter I get bored over. There also check out the social media listed above, subscribe and hit the bell button. If you like the channel and want to see more videos thanks for watching.

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