iPhone XR vs. Pixel 3 By CNET

When you're choosing a phone. Your biggest decision is whether you're going with iOS or Android we're comparing two of the most affordable options from Apple and Google. This is iPhone 10 all versus pixel 3. It cost about the same, and they're both premium phones. So let's see how they compare, let's start with what they look like both have shop screens, but the pixel has a 5.5 inch OLED display, while the 10r has the biggest 6.1 inch, LCD screen they're water-resistant and have stereo speakers, but there's no headphone jack on either of them, so you have to use Bluetooth, lightning or USB see headphones. So it's been about six months, since both of these phones have been released, and rather than talking about all the specs.

That's been done in a lot of different places. Let's talk about what it's like to use both of these phones as your daily driver. Now then, you've been using the pixel three. Primarily. What do you like about the design? My favorite thing about the pixels design is how small and lightweight it is.

These days. Phones are just too big just like that one. So it's kind of a relief that the that this phone fits so comfortably in my hand or in my jean pocket I really like that. But that being said, it doesn't look as premium as the iPhone. Besides, the glass shade, there's no unique characteristic about it and the not pink color, which is the quirky color for the pixel, isn't actually that colorful, like it's really hard to tell what color it is unless you're really close, it's literally not paint I.

Think a lot of people didn't like the colors on the 10r when it first came out, I have to say it's really grown on me and I do like the options that you have there, and this is actually the first iPhone I feel really comfortable in using without a case just because it is tougher than you would expect. So we've done our drop tests, and it actually survived a couple of drops when it did crack, though it was on that camera lens, and that's the only concern that I do have is just because it juts out so much and also look at this, put it down on a flat surface. Without a case, yet that drives me crazy. I know I'm OCD, but it does annoy me a lot, fortunately for the pixel, it's not as it doesn't jet out as much, but the camera does isn't completely flush right and let's talk about the durability in terms of like water resistance, I know these each have IP ratings. The pixel three can go down to 1.5 meters and the iPhone 10 are is rated for one meter at 30 minutes we did some extreme water testing with the 10 R and the 10s and the 10 R survives eight times it's rated limit so went down to eight meters before it totally died. So when it comes to the screens, a lot of people were a little hesitant to choose an LCD over an early lead, especially when the 10r came out, and it was announced that it was going to be that LCD versus the pixel 3s OLED.

But in terms of side-by-side, it's like not that many people are probably going to be comparing them side by side right, yeah well, on OLED screens, colors are a little richer, especially your greens, blues and reds there's a little more contrast, and it's a little more vibrant. But again you only notice that when you have an LCD screen and an OLED screen both in your hands, most people aren't going to have it so photos and videos, look just fine on the iPhone and photos and videos. Look just fine on the pixel to the iPhone 10 R and pixel 3. Both have a single 12 megapixel camera at F 1.8, but the Soft camera is pretty different. The iPhone 10 has a 7 megapixel, true depth, camera that can scan your face and the pixel has to eight megapixel units.

So the first thing I want to mention, of course, when it comes to the pixel 3s, camera is night sight, I, love, night side, I think it works like magic. It does such a good job at lighting up, dim settings. I think I'll never use my flash again. I totally agree, and I'm very, very jealous of night side on the pixel 3. That being said, the iPhone 10 R is not bad in low-light, it's just not as good as night side on the pixel 3 I've done an extensive test, a camera test of both of these phones side by side, and you can find that on CNET.

Another thing I like about the pixel 3 is its super resume I'm, not a huge doom user, but um whenever I use it I am impressed by how clear objects are from a thousand feet away, and it's pulling this off on a single lens with just software when it comes to the lenses themselves, the 10r has a slightly wider lens in the pixel 3, so you'll get a little more in your photos, especially if you're shooting landscapes, but your portraits will look slightly different, especially if you're coming from a portrait mode on something like the 10s or the iPhone 10. With both of those cameras, it does look a little wider and a slightly more distorted, so you'll need to move in and a little closer. Then again, you'll only ever go to notice that if you compare portrait mode from both phones, one big thing about the 10r that I really wish they could change making it. So you can take photos in portrait, mode of pets and anything. That's not a person like come on.

It's all just software, the pixel 3 doesn't know problem at all with one lens. It's all computational photography. Let's get that happening on the iPhone 10 are it just says no person detected when you're trying to take a photo of something? That's not a person. I would really love that to see that in you, software update, it just seems like it would be an incredibly easy fix. As for the front-facing camera, what's new to the pixel 3 is that it has a secondary wide-angle lens.

This is not the first phone to have it. Lg, for example, has had this feature in a few of its recent phones and on the pixel I use it a lot actually, especially when I'm trying to take groupies, and I'm trying to fit all my friends. It is really helpful to fit more content in each frame, so it sounds like so far. The pixel 3 is doing a lot better when it comes to the camera than the iPhone 10 are. But it's not like that when it comes to video, it's the total opposite, the iPhone completely smokes the pixel.

The image quality is much better, especially in low light, and the audio is perfect too. If you want to find out more about the cameras on both of these, you can find the deep dive on CNET the iPhone has apples are in a 12 chip. While the pixel uses a snapdragon 845 from Qualcomm, each have wireless charging and the pixel three can charge a lot faster with rapid charging. As long as you have the Google Pixel stand or any make for Google chargers, and they also have similar sized batteries both clocked in really solid times in our lab tests. But the iPhone 10 are lasted longer, playing back a video on a continuous loop in airplane mode.

The 10 are less than nearly 20 hours, while the pixel 3 died after 15 hours. So we've done a lot of battery testing in our labs and that's obviously a really controlled situation doesn't necessarily reflect real-world situations, but it does give you a perfect idea of like how long these will last you maybe you're, watching this and thinking well, the pixel 3xl has a bigger battery, so it's going to last a lot longer in our battery tests. It only lasted 16 hours, 15 minutes, so it was only like an hour or so longer than the pixel 3. So it doesn't necessarily give you that much extra juice yeah and as for benchmarks, the iPhone and the pixel both performed really, really well, but the iPhone consistently outranked the pixel in our benchmark test, and that includes Geek bench and 3dmark. But that's on paper in the real world.

You're not gonna, see much difference in speed, especially with day-to-day tasks like opening up apps and launching the camera, and things like that yeah. The only thing that I did notice the difference between these two phones in terms of real-world performance is processing. Camera functions such as, if I'm using portrait mode I, found that it was taking a long time for the portrait mode to render on the pixel 3 or something like using HDR plus enhanced on the pixel 3 that took a long time. I also found that when it came to the front facing cameras flash it took actually a really long time to render a photo more than I, really liked iPhone versus Android. It's pretty much the biggest rivalry in the tech world.

So choosing a phone involves more than just deciding on hardware. You also have to consider the ecosystem and the best predictor of what phone you're going to go with is what operating system you're already comfortable using now. That being said, if your OS-agnostic, all looking to switch, there, are pros and cons to both so Lexi you and I use both Android and iOS pretty extensively. What do you like about iOS so at least with iOS 12 I, really appreciate how it's less buggy than previous editions of iOS, but at the same time, some issues such as the group FaceTime bug has taken a little longer to resolve than I would have expected now, as an Android user? I too, am familiar with bugs and security issues. Switching gears between Siri and Google Assistant I find that between them.

There really is no contest. Google Assistant has way more capabilities, and it's integrated so deeply with core apps, but it's not as private or secure a Siri I. Much prefer the group's notifications on iOS than on Android, but I do like the Notification Center on Android, so I kind of wish. It was a bit more of a hybrid between the two and on iOS, like there's no contest when it comes to the ecosystem in terms of messaging iMessage and FaceTime is a really tough combination to beat, especially when you go to an Android phone, and you're like well. I could hangouts them, or I could maybe duo them or a low, and I'm like what is the current Google app of choice right now, I, don't know you use one you get accustomed to it, you try and find your friends and then all of a sudden they discontinue it.

So I find that's really hard when it comes to multitasking. I do prefer the iOS implementation of it, especially since they've removed the home button. I just find it's a little more intuitive because often on Android I find myself swiping up, and I end up getting the app drawer rather than the multitasking menu to be fair, I get confused about gestures on iOS, so there you go. One thing I like about the pixel is its level of customization. The pixel is Google's ultimate interpretation of Android and even then Android is still really customizable.

I really liked choosing my widgets and my icons and my launchers. It also just makes your phone feel like your own, because your home screen doesn't look like someone else's home screen and I also really like the integration with Google's ecosystem. There are other important factors to consider that don't really fit in with any of the previous categories, like authentication, call quality and storage options. While we don't consider these deal-breakers, they are important to keep in mind okay, so the eternal question is face ID or fingerprint, which one do you prefer well on the pixel I've been using the fingerprint reader and I, really like it. It's really fast and smooth, and it's pretty reliable, so I don't have any gripes with it face.

I'd does work for me about ninety to ninety-five percent of the time. There is that time in the morning when I wake up, but I hold the phone up, and it just doesn't register me I know: I, don't have any makeup on my hair is a mess, but I still kind of get a little offended that it doesn't recognize me I, know: I should set up an alternate appearance, I didn't think I looked that drastically different though it was that it's insulting you it. It is, but it's an it's not that much of a pain point and face ideas, definitely being a lot more efficient over the past couple of us updates as well. Well, you never know, maybe the iPhone 11 will have an in screen fingerprint reader. So here's hoping um one thing that a lot of people don't usually talk about when it comes to flagship phones is call quality.

Yes, so people forget that phones can actually make calls. But for me personally call quality has been pretty good on the pixel. I've had any problems, but there have been reported by other people, some bugs related to the microphone and audio yeah. The same goes for me. I haven't really had anything to report back about the call quality on the 10r, something that I am very envious about, though, on the pixel 3 is the cold screening.

Do you use that a lot I use it more than one should have to use if it's very unfortunate, but on a bad week, I could get like three spam calls in a day, and they're very annoying, but I used call screening which I love because I just see the spam call and I could just tap, and it starts, and I could either see them, see the transcript going that it's a spam call, or I see them hang up when they realize that I'm using a cost screening service, which is very satisfying? Another point of difference between these two phones is that the iPhone has that third tier of storage available, which I think is a really nice option to have when you're making that purchasing decision, I like to take a lot of high-resolution videos and 4k, and a lot of photos, so I like having that extra option of having it on the device, rather than necessarily having to offload it on the cloud yeah. What's fascinating about the pixel is that when it comes to price per gig, it's actually more expensive than the iPhone and Google knows this. So it really tries to push its unlimited cloud service, which is free for pixel users, and you get to upload your photos and videos for free at their original resolution. Now Apple has an iCloud service, but it charges a monthly fee. So for Google Pixel users this can be a huge draw.

Both are incredibly capable phones, and you won't be disappointed with either. If you want one of the best and cleanest Android experiences, then the pixel 3 is unbeatable and the 10r is Apple's most affordable, new iPhone, with very few compromises for more details to help you make the decision check out our comparisons on CNET.

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