Google Pixel XL vs Apple iPhone 7 Plus By PhoneArena

This is the iPhone 7, plus the cream of Apple's iOS crop that doesn't just offer a big-screen iPhone experience, but also hardware goodies like a dual rear camera, and this is the pixel XL, the largest of Google's and nod roll pixel phones and featuring much of the same hardware as a smaller handset. We've already gone head-to-head between the 4.7 inch, iPhone, 7 and 5-inch pixel, and now it's time for a phablet on phablet comparison, I'm, Steven, shank with filling arena, taking a look at how the Apple iPhone 7 plus measures up against the Google Pixel XL. When we look at the iPhone 7 and the pixel, we found two phones with a lot in common. They each may do things little differently, but from battery life to performance to pricing and options, they were 2 handsets very much operating on the same page. Now, as we turn our attention to the larger versions of these phones, will the story be more of the same? Or are we finally going to see this Hardware diverge a little more. Both phones sure look a lot like their smaller siblings and share a lot of the same styling with Apple.

That's no surprise, but this year's pixel phones represent a nice cohesive alternative to last year's Nexus 5x and 6p 2 handsets that may have run the same pure Android software, which is hardware, clearly came from different manufacturers. Instead, the pixel XL is basically just a scaled up version of the pixel, at least it's taller and wider to accommodate the big 5.5-inch screen, but manages to keep its thickness at the same. Eight point: five millimeters a similar tale taking place over with the iPhone 7 plus, so the size increases a little more substantial here since we're starting with a smaller 4.7 inch model and while Apple can't help but make the 7 plus just a little thicker than the 7 we're talking a narrow fraction of a millimeter. Really, the big difference is the new dual rear camera with correspondingly larger camera book, both wider and thicker, but other than that. We're looking at a rehash of those smaller designs and considering how much we liked about what Google and Apple did there? That's probably a good thing, obviously we're dealing with two phones with bigger screens and while we saw a size disparity with the smaller models, these two both come in with 5.5 inch panels. Once again, though, Google pulls ahead with a higher res and correspondingly higher pixel density display with a quad HD 1440 by 2560 AMOLED screen to the iPhone 7 plus is 1080 by 1920 LCD component 5.5 banks uses maybe the limit of where we feel comfortable with a 1080p resolution. But it still looks plenty sharp here unless you're putting your handset under the magnifying lens of a VR headset resolutions, not a big issue.

What's more important is that once again, Apple delivers a brighter screen than Google, making the iPhone 7, plus a slightly more capable handset for outdoors usage and the fact that it's waterproof a feature the pixel phone's lack, doesn't hurt either the iPhone 7 plus and pixel XL when the same silicon as their pint-sized additions, the a-10 fusion and Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 1, respectively, and once again we see the same kind of smooth lag. Free performance we'd only expect from two phones running a couple of the fastest chips on the market, but while the pixel XL gets the same 4 gigabytes of RAM as the pixel, the iPhone 7 plus picks up an extra gig of memory above what the iPhone 7 offered, bringing its total to three gigabytes that may help a bit with really serious multitasking or maybe with all the extra data manipulation need it for the pluses dual camera setup. But it's not like. We are running into a lot of memory problems before consider this. Just the icing on the cake.

Larger phones go hand-in-hand with media consumption, whether you're watching videos on their big screens or enjoying extra-long music playlists thanks to their big batteries. So it's nice to see that both phones offer plenty of storage. Once again that starts at 32. Gigs it'd be nice. If we took a page from play books of some other phablets and made that 64 gigs, but 32 will suffice for a lot of users and there are always 128 gig options or even 256 for the iPhone.

If you need a little extra space. Sadly, there's no micros support for either both Android 7 nougat and iOS.10 offers a lot of upgrades too, like from new messaging experiences, to improve notifications to a host of other upgraded apps, but since we're checking out the impact that system software has on these two phones in particular. Let's look at how well these platforms accommodate big screen handsets like these one, big plus for the pixel Excel, is nougat split-screen app mode. It worked just fine on the pixel, but with a bigger higher res screen. Here, the ability to interact with two apps side-by-side feels that much more useful Apple, meanwhile has decided to keep its own multi app mode and iPad exclusive, and the smallest screen are able to take advantage of it on is a 7.9 inch. iPad Mini on the flip side iOS does a slightly better job at encouraging one-handed operation, with the ability to easily pull things down to the bottom.

Half of the screen. The best Android can manage is an on-screen keyboard that shrinks and slides over a little but leaving other UI elements out of reach voice control is another important part of both these interfaces. With the pixel excel helping to introduce the new Google Assistant and the iPhone 7 plus enjoying the latest upgrades to Siri, including enhanced third-party app support, despite the promise of the Google Assistant, the polish on Siri really shows while using the service. Meanwhile, the Google Assistant stumbles on seemingly basic tasks that his predecessor Google now had no problem with the pixel excel and iPhone 7, plus both sound a lot like the pixel, an iPhone 7, there's no big audio upgrade and either not like the move from mono on the Nexus 5x to stereo on the 6p and once again, Apple manages to bring us the more impressive speakers. The pixel XL is just as loud as the iPhone 7 plus, but apple's handset manages to sound a little less muddy with crisp eyes and distinct lows.

Unfortunately, despite the larger size of the iPhone, 7 plus Apple still hasn't found room for, or probably more accurately, actively decided to do without its analogue headphone jack. And while both phones are happy to connect to your Bluetooth headphones. Those of us with a favorite wired pair can use the pixel XL without having to carry around a separate adapter. A decided bonus for Google voice calls deliver no real surprises. These are two premium priced flagship handsets while we certainly don't take anything for granted.

Nor do we expect a phone like either of these to drop the ball on something so utilitarian and neither do call sound fine on both phones, bigger phones mean bigger batteries, and we've got two such components here: a 3450 William hour battery on the pixel XL in a 2,900 William hour, one on the iPhone 7 plus both of those are big upgrades over what the smaller versions of these handsets offered, but that doesn't necessarily mean that each lasts longer. Instead, we found the pixel XL getting just about as much screen on time as the pixel, actually a little less, that seems counterintuitive, but more screen. Surface area and more pixels ended up offsetting the excels larger battery, giving us a little under seven and a half hours' usage. The iPhone 7 plus, meanwhile, adds an hour and a half to the 7s runtime, giving us about nine hours on a charge. The pixel XL does pull ahead of the iPhone when it comes to recharging, though taking under two hours, while the seven plus needs to charge for over three.

How about those cameras? The pixel XL has the same twelve point three megapixel sensor as a smaller pixel. We already really liked what that could do so decision to keep it here makes plenty of sense. Apple, meanwhile, adds a telephoto camera company, the existing 12 megapixel wide-angle camera combining data from the two to create the best possible pics, while also offering the option to take advantage of a two time: optical zoom, while that zoom effect is nice to have access to and the dual camera can pull off. Some neat tricks like the new portrait mode with blurred background bouquet effect. We didn't notice that pronounced change in image quality compared to the iPhone 7 images are very sharp on the iPhone 7 plus with natural-looking colors.

That sometimes contrasts with the extra saturated use picked up by the pixel XL, and it's impressive, Auto, HDR plus mode which output you like better, is going to be pretty subjective, and these are both really high performance cameras. When we asked you in a blind comparison, which you preferred phone arena, readers overwhelmingly sided with the pixel XL pricing starts at seven hundred seventy dollars for both handsets with another hundred bucks, upgrading storage to 128 gigs. As with the smaller phones, the iPhone 7 plus is available in a wider variety of color options.5 ? the pixel, excels 3 and enjoys better carrier availability with the handset present in stores from all the major networks. The pixel XL also has broad carrier support. If you bring your own device because in stores it's a Verizon exclusive, once again, it's a close race and comes down to what matters to you.

The pixel XL has a high-res screen. Charge is quick and is a camera with a really pleasing output. The iPhone 7 plus, has a brighter display longer-lasting battery and put this extra camera hardware to good use with optical zoom and that fun portrait mode, hopefully now that you've seen how these two heavyweights compare you're better equipped to make that decision for yourself, I'm Stephen shank with phone Arena thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe for more smartphone reviews on the way. Soon.

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