iPhone X vs Pixel 2 XL: We're All Wrong By Jon Rettinger

We're going to do this: we're going to put the iPhone 10 up against the pixel to excel this video is guaranteed to piss off 50% of you. There won't be any cop-out. Whatever is best for you, I'm going to declare a winner at the end, so the five categories we're using to determine a winner, our design camera display performance and intangibles. Clearly we could have done another 30 categories, but I want this video to be 45 minutes. So I picked the five that I thought best sum up a phone and hit every aspect of the device can't offer. So, let's start with design every company's trying to make a rectangle look.

Sexy and Apple is no exception. Holding the iPhone 10 is like holding a screen, albeit with my hairline, not right at the top. People need to be pretty split on the notch. It's not my favorite design feature, but overall I really like the way the phone looks I like that the front is completely devoid of buttons. It is a beautiful looking device.

The glass on the back makes a phone feel really nice and premium as well. I'm split on how I feel about the banding on the sides: I like it on the Space Gray version on the silver version you look shiny prone to scratches. It makes it look cheap to my eye. The back is made of glass and Annapolis claims. It's the strongest glass ever on a device, and it may be I, don't want to test it, but is a fingerprint magnet.

So at least bear that in mind. The biggest design flaw of the iPhone 10 comes from the camera and the hump that comes with those two 12 megapixel sensors. You can't put it on a desk and use it without it. Wobbling back and forth understand why this still has such a big camera. Top I would easily settle for a thicker phone, the bigger battery and no camera hump.

But if your photo on a desk you're, constantly typing you're watching a video that wobble is going to get really annoying. So next, let's jump over to the pixel 2x L, the two-tone designs, not for everybody. I've got the black version here, I kind of dig the look it's more of an industrial design. It is certainly not bezel, as a lot of companies are going nowadays, but the fact that it does have bezels on the top and bottom mean you get front-facing speakers. The phone has a very functional feel to it.

I love the way the aluminum fits on the back. It's got that cold kind of feel to it, the fingerprint sensors on the back, but they meet the texture inside the button. The same as the texture on the back of the phone I really like that at set, designer pixel 2 is relatively uninspiring. I'll be an extremely functional on the camera outside. It's got a teeny, tiny ones, but not nearly as egregious as what you get on the iPhone.

So when it comes down to just design looking at both of these phones, you can see clearly different design directions. The iPhone 10 rises far above when it comes to design. Category goes to Apple. So next, let's jump to cameras and both these devices have incredible camera setups. But let's start with the iPhone 10, it's got two 12 megapixel sensors in the typical format.

You'd expect a wide angle and a telephoto, it's almost an identical setup, actually just different orientation than what you've got on the A+. Except now both sensors have oh, is built-in. I was really impressed with the dynamic range I thought. Saturation really hit a sweet spot and pictures came out. Looking perfect overall and almost every scenario that I threw at it on the video side.4K at 60 frames per second was pretty nice, but while you are recording video again, oh is you can almost run with this thing and the video is gonna. Look really stable.

Portrait lighting, on the other hand, has been a completely mixed bag. In fact, I stopped using completely excited entire lie on the results. Perhaps when it comes out of beta, beat a bit more useful. But if you have a long hair, you can pretty much cross off whatever finding much would be used for it. Alright, so onto the front, it's got.

A true depth sensor enables all that stuff like face ID, but it also enables portrait mode through its 7 megapixel sensor, which is awesome, at least in theory, for a front-facing camera. It looks awful, sometimes half of a background would be blurred half wouldn't it was completely inconsistent and all over the board I expected much better from Apple. If you're taking just regular non portrait, selfies though they do look pretty decent, alright. So on to the pixel, if you look at this just on paper, you think this would be a blowout from the iPhone standpoint. It's got two megapixel sensors, as opposed to just the one on the pixel 2xl, but fortunately that is not the case damn.

This is an incredible camera that Google is put into the pixel to excel. The pictures in normal light, looked incredible about being over saturated, it really shined in low-light and direct sunlight. It was perfect. I couldn't find a scenario where this camera didn't take good pictures on the video side. The 4k is capped at 30 frames per second, it did look.

Good portrait mode is also here on rear and the front, and it works incredible on the rear. It uses machine learning to sort of get better as you use it all right. So it's a familiar story. Pork remote looks good on the back, but what about the front pixel to excels rocket? An eight megapixel sensor, pictures coming out of the eight megapixel sensor, especially on the portrait mode, setting, look ridiculously good, and again they've gotten better over time when it comes to front-facing portrait, the pixel span, the iPhone 10, the rear photos. That's really a coin toss which one you like, but all around package of cameras.

Google did an incredible job here with the pixel through the pixel 2xl. It is definitely a win for Google. That's an X, let's jump over to arguably the most important part of the phone with the display, and this is essentially the OLED Wars. Let's start with the iPhone, Apple is really first to move into a lot of new technologies, but when they move in that direction they usually do it right and OLED is no exception. They did a perfect job with the screen on the iPhone 10, so the 5.8 inch OLED panel is extra tall. It's a little strange to hold it first.

It's got an aspect. Ratio of nineteen point five by nine. The PPI is not as high as what you get on the pixel 2xl. It's only 458 with a 24 36 by 1125 resolution is plenty of pixels. Here the screen is a great job.

Balancing color saturation. There is some slight color shifting at off angles. A lot of people love the true tone display I mostly turned it off, but that's going to be a personal preference thing. HDR content looks perfect. Due to the wide color gamut I was able to see the screen in direct sunlight, which is a big worry that I had with OLED panels.

Overall, it's a really well-balanced panel that looks good, showing almost any content of any color all right. So next, let's jump into the pixel to excel, and I do want to say that this review was filmed post. The November update, so display on the pixel 2 XL is 6 inches in a more conventional 18 by 9 aspect ratio really high PPI 538, and it's 28 80 by 1440 HDR content here is gonna, look good same wide. Color gamut you've got on the iPhone 10, but there's a definite blue hue here to the device. Some people might like to get, it really didn't sit.

Well with my eye, the display looks good I think it looks better post update, but do you compare the quality of the OLED panels on the XL fours on the iPhone? It is a clear win for Apple and the iPhone 10, let's jump in to performance. Both these phones are the current king of speed for respective operating systems. The iPhone is an absolute screamer. The pixel to Excel is a beast and everyday usage. Both are really fast.

It's a only way like a quantity speed. Let's go to the benchmarks, so the iPhone 10th is rocking an 11 Bionic. That's got two high-powered cores and for low power cores pair with three gigs of RAM. Although Apple doesn't like to tell you how much RAM is in their phone, the pixel he's using the familiar snapdragon 835 with four high-powered cores and for low-power cores, and again you look at paper and thick benchmarks would tell. The story clearly seems like the pixel is more perceived power, but damn the results here were surprising.

So a Geek bench, the iPhone got a single core score of four thousand three hundred and thirty-four and a multi-core score of ten thousand eight hundred and forty-two. So keep that in mind when I tell you at the pixel of two XL got a single core score of 1898 and a multi-core score of six thousand 356. So those are the benchmarks and I get it the benchmarks, don't tell the full story. What matters is end user experience and both end user experiences are perfect, but I promise no cop-out. I've to pick a winner and looking at those numbers is staggering.

What Apple has done at least it perceived a lower power, at least lower ram they've done an awesome job, optimizing 11 bionic. The iPhone 10 clearly takes this category and for the last category, let's move to intangibles, phones are becoming more and more like this intangible category I think helps separate one device from another, the little things that make it shine and make it the best advice for you. Let's start with the iPhone, so perhaps the biggest reason a lot of folks buy an iPhone as Apple's ecosystem things. Like iMessage and Apple Pay make it just really easy to use you're, also getting wireless charging, ip67 water and dust resistance. It's fast charge capable CarPlay, you get the novelty of face, ID you're, getting pretty quick updates from Apple and the device is crazy fast, as we saw from the benchmarks.

Alright, so the iPhone 10 brings a lot to the table. The pixel to Excel is clearly no slouch. You are getting perfect speakers for a mobile device way faster, quick charging, lower price of 849 bucks and always-on display I use quite a bit you're getting the Google Assistant, which I prefer you're, getting the squeeze on the sides: access Google Assistant, you're, getting Android, auto you're, getting Android pay, no notch at the top again ip67 water and dust resistance and the last intangible, but definitely not least, the aluminum on the back makes this phone incredibly more durable, so you're, looking at the intangibles, both phones have a lot to offer but find it pick one based on the little things I'm going: pixel AXL it takes this round. So before we tell you up a winner and perhaps to come, your rage I want to thank our sponsors, Sennheiser and their AM BO smart headset, for making this video possible, especially in the intangible category. Both phones lost their headset jacks.

You got to deal with either lightning or USB, and these are an awesome option. So, first they do all the stuff you'd expect from a high-end pair of headphones. There's an app you can download it can control different modes, there's a perfect job with noise. Cancelling is probably my favorite way to use it. You can also get some ambient noise piped in.

If you want to hear somebody talking to you, but perhaps the coolest thing is binaural audio, which is more commonly known as 3d audio. So when you plug these things into your phone in your recording when you play it back with the headphones in you're, going to hear them as they were, when you recorded it, so you'll hear a matter the left here or the right ear, depending on where they were located. It is an absolutely incredible way to listen back to audio. So right now the no smart headset 6 advantage of the lightning protocol in the iPhone, but there's an Android version. That'll be coming later.

It's gonna work with Apple's camera app, of course, the Apogee meadow recorder, film Pro, voice memos and, with any other stereo audio recording app. You could find there's a microphone built in to each earpiece. So it's plugging point right out of the box, but there is an app of a to download and give you a lot more settings and customization options. So again, this is the ABU smart headset. Thank you to Sennheiser for making, as versus video possible, we'll link to it down below.

If you want to learn more, it's been a hard-fought battle.50% of you are probably crazy, pissed at me, but don't be pissed. You picked up one of these two phones. You got an incredible device, but only one can reign supreme. So the winner by total of three to two is the iPhone 10. It's been an incredible device.

I love having a big screen with almost no bezels on an iPhone I am getting one of the best phones. I have ever used that is incredibly fast, powerful and offers a lot of features. Furthermore, I've been hoping, Apple is going to offer like quick charging and wireless charging are here. Finally, Apple is caught up to the best of Android and a lot of ways has exceeded it. So what do you guys think you probably already? Let me know in the comments: do you agree with the iPhone 10 taking this battle? What do you want to see next for our vs.

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