Google Pixel vs. Google Pixel 3a XL - Three Years of Pixel By TechOdyssey

Everybody welcome back to tech, Odyssey, so I'm making this video, because I had a bit of an opportune moment here, having my hands on an original OG, Google Pixel now I have this because I'm using it to trade in, so I can get my 400 all or credit from T-Mobile. For my pixel 3ax, oh and my axles, I've been calling it and I thought I'd. Take this opportunity to showcase it, because I never got an opportunity to use. One I started off the very first pixel device. I ever got was a pixel -. There were problems with the displays and the 2xl, so I didn't get one of those, and then I got a three XL because well I mean why not.

It was supposed to be the best and the brightest and I enjoyed it. But then I moved on to another device after that, because of all the reviewing stuff. So here we have the axle the pixel three AXL, and here we have the original pixel in all of its 5-inch screen, 1080p glory, 4 gigabytes of RAM Snapdragon 820, one and yeah. There's a trend with the original pixel that I wish would have held up as they moved for both of the next devices. So the flagship processor.

When this phone came out, we see we're in 2019 I. Think 2016 is when it came out. The Samsung Galaxy S8 had the Snapdragon 835 in it, so that would have been the one before that. So the Snapdragon that the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edition phones had the Snapdragon 820 in it, and then Google came out with a pixel later on in the year, and they came out with a Snapdragon 820 one. It was an incremental upgrade that the phone had in it.

It was slightly better than the 820 and then things changed, but another phone that actually had the Snapdragon 820 1, which released later and the beginning of 2017, was the LG G 6. Also, a good device, underrated I think, but it was a little outside his time. They were trying to get out ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S a actually released it in March. They released it early I believe it was a February March, because the galaxy s 8 series was the first phone that was going to come out with the Snapdragon 835 and LG tried to beat them out of the gate, and it was very, very, very unsuccessful special deal between Qualcomm and Samsung they're, helping to make and manufacture the chip I believe, so they got first dibs on it. So everybody else was behind the power curve, and it's kind of been that way with a 45 as well.

So this one curiously enough in the original pixel and one of the reasons I think it holds up so well, what's one of the first new to the market, Android phones that had 4 gigabytes of RAM, so you got 4 gigabytes of RAM, no external storage, but it does have 32 gigabytes of internal storage. It does have an AMOLED display and then over here, you're still looking at 4 gigabytes of RAM Snapdragon 672 is generational upgrade to the 660, the 660 I used in the BlackBerry q2 loved it. It's a very good, well-balanced processor, with some straight-line speed, but largely designed for multitasking, so yeah side by side. This is what they look like and, of course, if I had the 3a versus the actual, it would be a little more on par because I do have the 6-inch screen here, which I think is pretty ideal. This is a 5-inch screen.

They both have single camera setups on the back I believe they're, both 12 megapixel I, know that this was the 12 megapixel I need to refresh my memory on the axle, but I believe it has a 12 megapixel on the back as well. So you got a twenty-seven hundred and seventy million battery on the original pixel and then a thirty-seven hundred million battery on the three AXL, but overall I think the design has held up really. Well. Surprisingly, I was a little bored with it. Whenever it came out with the pixel 2 and then the pixel 3 I could kind of wish that they would have changed things up a little, but ultimately I think that it's kind of grown now kind of like the iPhone design it stays around for a little while, and then you know eventually they'll get around to changing it.

Okay, yes, the 3k EX has It's what make the feature school cameras. Well, they both have a megapixel front facing cameras now. One other thing that's changed here too, is you have the metal body and design on the original pixel? It holds up really well. So I got this one for a hundred and five bucks off of SWAP, and this one was supposed to be in good condition, and they took really, really good care of it. Whoever had it been a very careful owner with this device, but I think it was a very revolutionary and iconic design that they've made into a staple of their products whenever they first came out with it.

But as you can see, things have changed a little. Look at the bezels on this one versus look at the bezels on this one and really, if you take away the bezels you're, almost on par with the Pixel 3a, and they're rocking about the same pixel per inch density, this one here is floating will be 441, pixel per inch density, and this one over here is going to be different, but it's 402, but the Pixel 3a is about on par with this. So pretty cool this one on the three: hey Excel to start with 64 gigabytes of storage, and that's really the only model that they have. It's actually I believe slightly taller than even the pixel of 3xl. Of course, we don't have that disgusting gigantic huge notch now over here I mean it's funny.

It's its nice! Looking at this stuff, you see the camera. You know the aperture on here and the size is just a little larger than this. But technically this one is better and then on the back, I mean they really haven't changed a lot, and it works really well now I'm running the Android Q beta on here right now, and then this one as soon as I took it out of the box today, I upgraded it to PI. So it's really nice having a device. That's were three years old now and Google's commitment to three years of software service and support I, remember whenever the original pixel came out and then the pixel two came out which I very much enjoyed you take this over here.

So you can't see my super-secret squirrel pen, but even Q on here looks pretty there we go so this is. This is Q the beta, and this is PI over here. Really, everything looks mostly the same now. I did go ahead and change it to the gesture support on here. So this one is this one's all swipe-based gestures right now, it's very, very smooth, though I mean even on the original pixel, though I mean it's pretty smooth I mean the frame seems like I, guess largely.

It is about saying I, don't know if this one I think the gesture support most of it came in you, see, I, didn't even look and see if this one will switch over to it about gestures, no, not looking like it, but it does incorporate the swipe fingerprint for notifications. So that is neat now it's not something that I've largely used, but what you can do demonstrate with this one on the back. You can use the fingerprint sensor if you swipe down it'll, get you two notifications, or you can swipe back up. So that's why it wants to get that. That's why twice you get that, and then you can swipe back up to make it go away down up.

So that's pretty cool. They both do that now you can change things up, and I'll talk more about this later, but this one. So we have it on gesture support. So it's very much kind of like the old blackberries or like the, like some iPhone stuff. So look at the towels swipe up in you that way.

There goes the phone. Sucker is slick so once you get in here, you can swipe up and over and that's how you get to these so anyway. That's about that I'm, not crazy about it. I think I'm going to go back to the buttons, but overall I did want to say yeah I, think the original pixel has held up well, I mean even if you have one today, I think it's so a pretty viable phone I mean you could really hang on another year and one thing that's interesting between the Snapdragon 820 one and the 670 is that a lot of the benchmarks are pretty comparable. Now you're going to get better battery life out of the Pixel 3a or the three AXL.

Just because the 670 is a more it's more geared towards performance and multitasking and extending battery life. It's now being running at higher clock speeds like the 21, so the 821 was the flagship processor whenever it came out so on par with a lot of the other eight series, it doesn't have the AR core stuff, and it doesn't have some of the other things that got added into the chips over the last two years. But as far as power and speed, the benchmarks are actually pretty similar. This one just happens to be more battery friendly, and it'll, it'll. Last you longer.

Of course, you know. The original pixel is a couple of years old now, but otherwise yeah, if you're interested in what the original pix will look like versus what the new modern generation looks like. There's, really not a lot of a difference and, like I, said so running four gigabytes of ram. So if any I think the next generation, they're really going to have to bump it up to six, but with the four that they're running right now, it seems like it's okay, so anyway, this is just a quick comparison. Video I did want to go ahead, and you know do this side-by-side because I'm not gonna, have this phone much longer, and you may find it.

A value may not find any value I'm, not sure, but it was something that I thought hey. Let me put these two phones side-by-side, we'll talk about it and kind of look at the viability and see how well it's held up and I. Think that you know there's a place in some people's pockets for the original Google Pixel. Even today, in 2019, three years later after it's come and, of course it's running Android pockets, and it's running well, so there you have it and that's all I've got for this video. Just one do a know, quick little comparison, so that's all I got you have any questions or comments about either one of the phones and feel free looming down the comment section I'll get back with you and answer them as good as I.

Can, thanks for tuning in guys, and I'll, see you next time.

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