iPhone 11 Pro vs Pixel 4: GAME OVER By Jon Rettinger

When the iPhone 11 Pro came out. There seemed like there was always something hanging over its head. A specter yet to be tested was a pixel. For now that we've got it in hand, was a weight worthwhile. We've got a full pixel for review coming, it's gonna, get into more minutiae and more detail about the devices, but generally, how do these to flagships behemoths compare most importantly, which one should you buy ever been? What Google has been going for with the pixel now? Having said that, I think this is the best-looking version of any pixel device, but that's not to say it is objectively beautiful. Nor is the iPhone 11 Pro it's a decent looking phone, but I don't think it's particularly beautiful.

It's not the best-looking iPhones ever been put out. Looking at these two phones side-by-side definitely looks like they were inspired by the same design, language. Let's say it's metal, it's glass they've got the same square camera humps. The iPhone is a better looking device, though it's a like a Ron Howard Clint Howard situation here, but neither of these to our beauty queens, there's a lot to talk about when it comes to screens. I, don't think Google has done a very good job with screens on pixels.

In the past, there's been burning issues, color saturation problems. This is a perfect screen and I commend Google for going the 90 Hertz route, things look beautiful. They look smooth, there's dynamic, refresh switching here, so for doing something that Google doesn't deem 90 Hertz worthy. It will scale itself down. It is a perfect screen.

That's something: I haven't been able to say about pixel screens in the past. Colors are bright and vibrant. Blacks, look obviously really black with the older technology. It's definitely not. The brightest and sort of the best instance I can give of that, and that was again taking pictures of my kid at a soccer game and I had a hard time seeing the screen on pixel 4, so doesn't matter how good a refresh rate is.

If you can't see a screen, that's going to be a problem on the iPhone side. In the same situation, the screen gets brighter, I see the screen at that same soccer game. It's not ninety Hertz. It doesn't look as smooth, but amongst the non ninety Hertz panels, I think it's still one of the best screens going I initially started testing the pixel using a regular pixel for not the Excel and I thought. My device was broken.

I thought I had a defective pixel come 4:35. I was almost at zero percent battery life turns out. My phone was not broken. The pixel 4 has absolutely horrendous battery life. Now it's better on the 4 XL I could almost get through a full day.

It gave me a bad extra 20 to 25% battery life, and that is a giant deal. The battery life on the pixel 4 is almost inexcusable to the point where you can't use this phone. If you're not going to be near a charger all day and the battery life was so horrendous, especially you compare it to battery life on the iPhone now, admittedly you're sacrificing that 90 Hertz green, which to some might be a big deal, but the iPhone 11 Pro and the pro max are almost 2 day, phones, the very least day and a half, and they are so good at battery life. It made the pixel for look that much worse face. Unlock is also a big deal here.

It's a first time. Google themselves have included it on their phones and obviously comparing it to face ID. It works insanely fast. It is quicker than the already quick face ID, but on the other side, very happily will unlock. With your eyes closed and Google said.

The fix is coming in months, but until that fixes here, I can only evaluate it. Based on eyes closed now, I don't have anything that I'm really worried about somebody holding my phone up while I'm sleeping, but it's a security risk. If you're, comparing these technologies side by side, you get to decide which one's better for you. So I've said it before, but I think Google, including the 855 and say 55-plus, was a Miss. V55 is a bit outdated but a very capable processor.

On the Apple side, the a13 Bionic is an absolute beast. It's four gigabytes of RAM on the iPhone side versus six on the pixel side, and what that means in use case is really almost nothing. Both phones are incredibly fast, I didn't have any stuttering, I know some have had Ram and even issues on the iPhone side, but I haven't experienced. Those booms were incredibly quick and anything I threw at him. So if there's one category that separates these phones above most others and is the biggest issue of contention debate, it's a camera.

The pixel has been the camera King for years. I. Think the benchmark of camera quality set by the pixel three was unmatched. For almost an entire year, Apple came back with an answer. They came back with holes that were being filled.

We've got night mode, better HDR, video improvements, but Google stepped up their games too. So, looking at the images that just straight up come out of the cameras from auto mode, you might not see that much of a difference, I think the pixels images look a little more processed, but to some eyes that actually looks a lot better. The iPhone photos look a little more true to life, so what Google did with one relatively generic Sony sensor on the pixel? Three again, it's pretty amazing, but they're. Two now onboard you've got the regular wide-angle that we saw last year, and now you've got a two x telephoto, and that was controversially. A lot of folks are hoping that ultra-wide I'm, clearly in the telephoto camp, I like having it ultra-wide, is nice to have -.

If I had to pick one I'm going to go telephoto and when it comes to the photos taken from the telephoto well, I do have issues with Google's UI I. Think generally, the photos that come from telephoto look better to my eye on the pixel than they do on the iPhone. Just regular photos taken from the wide-angle I think it can be a draw. Sometimes the iPhone photos look better. Sometimes a pixel of phone looks better.

There wasn't anything that was too Refer indeed winner. For me on that category, where you do see a difference, though, is the iPhone 11 Pro brings a third sensor here. You've got an ultra-wide. Well, I might not be the biggest ultra-wide user. There are cases where I like to have it.

Over the weekend, I went out with my wife and a bunch of friends and I could take an ultra-wide shot and get us all into one photo. That was awesome so well. My use case might not be every day. I have the option of taking those photos when I want one of the big stories I think we saw here was night mode, Apple didn't have one and the pixels three night modes seemed perfect, but apples swung back. We've got a night mode now the automatically turns itself on.

What do you want to take pictures, and I've been blown away by what kind of shots you can get? Apple is not trying to make nighttime look like daytime they're just trying to make the shot. Look like what you can generally see with your eyes and do a perfect job at it. Now they're, not noise, free by any stretch of the imagination. They do look perfect, and again I'm not trying to make a dark sky look blue. What Google is doing is a bit different, trying to completely brighten up the images.

It's almost making a dark sky. Look, a blue, is, I think you're getting a lot more noise on the pixel side. Then you do with the IFO inside. It's also a separate mode that you have to go into to use now to something that might not be an issue, but I like that, the iPhone does it automatically as good as the still cameras have been on the pixel and other Android devices. Video has been a huge rift between what Apple is capable of and what Google's devices can do, and while the pixel 4 does take very good video comes back to that more choice.

It will not shoot 4k at 60 and to you that might not be a problem. Google said people prefer to shoot at 30, so we just that's what we did. That seems like an Apple type answer that seems like you're holding it wrong. It seems like it will tell you what you like, and you use it. It's weird to see that come from Google I would have liked you've had the option I want to shoot, 4k 60.

Let me shoot 4k 60, that's not the case here, either the front or any of the back cameras and well still, the video looks good. It's more options. We get with the iPhone, the iPhone, just stability, the video quality looks better. The HDR images look better. It's still not quite close on the video front and for the price you're paying for these devices.

The more options, the better and having more options in choice is generally not something you associate with Apple. That's usually been androids Jam, but here having the flexibility of that ultra-wide having the telephoto having a perfect regular standard lens makes the iPhone 11 Pro a more versatile camera system, so intangibles a lot of little things that make these phones unique, and one area where Google completely outshines, eclipses and beat Apple is the assistance. Google Assistant is so much better than Siri and almost every scenario it's not even close to also new on the pixel for is radars. Formerly, projects Ollie, it does work and I do want to give the caveat that it works as advertised. But what it does is not so useful waving our hands to change.

Songs are nice I, don't really have to use it. I do like that makes a phone aware of kind of what's going on so, if I'm picking it up moving my hand towards it, things like that are nice at the iPhone without radar does a lot of things very similarly, so it's nice to have it's not a reason to buy a phone, but certainly it's a welcome addition here and perhaps a software updates come it'll, add more features and give it more utility. So both these phones have a lot of things that are similar I liked. The two front facing speakers on the pixel three, those are gone now, the four and the after 11pro use the earpiece and speaker of other things here. You've got wireless charging on both apples got an official IP rating.

Obviously price is a big deal here as well, starting at 800 bucks for the pixel and then a thousand for the iPhone. That's a big deal on the flip side, though you're really going to go up to 128 of storage with the pixel. It's a hundred bucks to get to that point. On the iPhone side, you double the one to wait and go to 256. If you want more than that, though, the pixel is capped out at 128 where's the iPhone and go away up to 512.

So we've battled these phones out and in retrospect, and in hindsight, both devices are telling very similar stories. It's the software manufacturers making hardware an apples case, the only ones that do the hardware when it comes to Google, they are controlling Android they're controlling the hardware. Here, it's lately a vertically integrated product. So in theory this should be the best version of Android available. The best example of a Google software and hardware prowess can do together, but in practice it's really not the case.

You've got an amazing camera system with limited video. You've got a beautiful screen. That's killing battery life, the pixel 4 seems to be full of contradictions. It does some things amazingly well best in the industry and then some weird strange emissions that I can't understand. Why? Well I love what Google is trying to do with the pixel line, the pixel for well taking a few steps forward.

It seems like a giant step back some pixel through represented taking OS preference out. If I have both these phones on a table and I have to pick one I'll pick the one that's going to give me more flexibility on the camera. Giving more flexibility for video has a good enough screen. Has battery life, that's gonna! Last me an entire day. That's what matters more than anything! That's what matters to me more than iMessage or airdrop.

Can it last the day, and it'll give you the flexibility to do what I need it to do and when I leave in the morning I don't know what I'm going to need my phone to do. Maybe I'm going to need it to last until midnight, even going to want to take ultra white pictures, or maybe I'm just gonna, be able to charge it at noon and just take a few normal shots. I, don't know the iPhone answers those questions. The pixel still leaves a lot to be desired.

Source : Jon Rettinger