iPhone XS vs Pixel 3 XL vs Pixel 2 XL vs Galaxy Note 9 | Which Has the Best Camera? By Gadgets 360

Google has managed to deliver truly flagship level experience with its new pixel 3 and pixel 3 X and smartphones, as everything from the features build, quality and performance have been improved. Now in the past, the pixel phones have been known for their standout cameras, and this year it's no different like every year. This time we'll be putting the pixel three XL against two of the best smartphone cameras around the Apple iPhone 10 s and the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. We will also be throwing in the Google Pixel to excel in the ring, given his new selling price of 45,000 499 rupees. It might just be a good bargain by if your top priority is the camera. Our first landscape test has an interesting mix of colors and textures and objects at varying distances, even after looking at 100% crop of the images, all of them capture very good details in the leaves and the creepers of the pillars, as well as the high rises in the surrounding area.

The Galaxy Note an does the best job of suppressing noise, but in doing so tends to flatten some textures in the buildings. In the distance, the sky also appears at are overexposed compared to the others. The Google Pixel to Excel does a commendable job too, with details, but fails to capture the blue hue of the sky. The iPhone Tennyson, the pixel 3 go toe-to-toe here, but we found the iPhone to do a slightly better job in details and noise reduction, which is why we picked this as a winner for this round. In a matter test, we check for accuracy of colors details in the textures and how smooth the both is.

The iPhone tennis has the most neutral color tone here, as the others have a slightly warmer hue. As a result, the pool shade of the flowers appear brighter and more vivid. The pixel 3xl, on the other hand, has a slightly better sharpness around the edges of the petals, the pixel to excel. Isn't too far behind than the pixel 3 in this one, the Samsung Galaxy note 9 sharpens the flowers a bit too much, giving it an almost artificial look here. We would pick the pixel 3 excel for having the most natural-looking shot.

A second test is a bit more challenging as it was shot under direct sunlight. This shot taken from the iPhone 10s is the brightest, but the shadow cast by the flowers on the leaf isn't as well-defined as the other three. The orange shade also looks a bit jarring in comparison to the others. The Galaxy Note line once again cranks up the sharpness a bit too much for a liking, the pixel to excel, and the three XL tie-in for top spot, followed by the iPhone and then the note 9. So far, we've seen that shooting under ample natural light, the sensors of all the phones, do a very good job for the most part.

But what happens at night when the light isn't ideal? In our first test, we mainly check to see how the sensors handle noise with very little light sources. Around surprisingly, the iPhone tennis has actually the cleanest image of all, with no visible noise in the sky or the shadows, while still maintaining good detail on the building. The colors and dynamic range might seem a bit flat compared to the others, but it best represents the actual scene and the pixel to excel and 3xl have slightly noisier images, but the new model is able to resolve better detail compared to the to excel. The pixel 3 excel also has the most dramatic and striking looking shot, even though it might not actually represent what the scene looked like. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 shoots the brightest image, but this also introduces quite a bit of noise in a second test.

We have a better lead subject: that's not too far from us here. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 comes fighting back, producing the cleanest image with the least amount of noise. It also has the best white balance and very good sharpness in details. The pixel to excel exaggerates the Blues here, a bit, giving the image a cooler tone, while the iPhone 10s viewers a bit towards the warmer side. The pixel 3xl does a slightly better job with the color temperature of the image, but it's still a bit noisy and nor as clean as a guide.

C note 9, shooting macros in low-light can be a challenging affair, as we found out with the iPhone 10s in our first test. Here. The iPhone really struggled to lock focus on a subject, but eventually did after many tries. However, we weren't really happy with the end result as the detail and colors were quite poorly represented, the pixel to excel and the three Excel managed nearly identical shots. There's excellent dynamic range sharpness and the colors are easily identifiable.

The Galaxy Note 9 didn't have any trouble focusing either, and it actually produces a brighter image, albeit with some noise in a second test to be sure a subject under better fluorescent lighting. Here, the iPhone 10s was quick to lock, focus and managed to produce the most neutral color tone. However, looking at 100% drop, you notice that the edges of the petals in the leaves are slightly blurry and not well-defined the pixel to excel and the 3xl have a cooler color tone here, but have much sharper edges. The Galaxy Note line has the brightest image, but I use the pink color of the flower. We would pick the iPhone 10s over here for having the most accurate colors, even though it lags behind a bit on the detail, while shooting in low-light isn't a huge challenge for these phones.

There are times when you do need to use a real flash in this test. We had a subject standing in complete darkness to check how the flash illuminates our subject, while still maintaining good detail. Well, let background the iPhone trainers triggers its slow, sink flasher, which lights up a subject evenly, while still maintaining very good details and natural colors. In the background, in fact, the iPhone tennis has the least amount of noise and best detail in the objects placed at a distance. Although details on a subject could have been better, the pixel to excel manages slightly lesser noise compared to the three excel for the background and produces the most dramatic looking image, which probably would have been to most.

The three excel, on the other hand, has more natural skin tones, but the whites on our subjects should appear a bit off-white compared to the others, the Samsung Galaxy note 9 has the strongest flash and lights of a subject very well, but fails to capture good detail in the background. Using the real flash might not always be the optimal solution, especially if your subject is a great distance. This is where Google's upcoming nitrite feature might come in handy. This will be rolling out as a software update to the pixel 3 and the pixel 2 series. Soon now we managed to get our hands on a pre-release version of the software thanks to co-developers, so we could test it out now.

The way Night side works is rather than keeping the shutter open for about 4 to 5 seconds, which would completely blur an image. Nitrite takes up to 15 frames with a reasonably slow shutter. To give you an effective exposure of about 5 seconds now we tried it on the pixel 2 XL and the pixel 3 XL, and the results were quite impressive now, depending on the amount of light at hand, it takes about 3 to 4 seconds to actually finish capturing all the frames, although this could improve once the final version is out now, even though it's impossible to stay absolutely still for this long when shooting handheld the final shot was still sharp and highly detailed compared to the one taken without Night side. We've skipped the pixels from zoom tests in our earlier comparisons, but with Google touting its new super resume feature. We just had to see how it compared against the phones with optical zoom, with ample amount of light at hand, the iPhone 10s and the Galaxy Note 9 willingly switch to their respective telephoto sensors, and here the difference is quite evident.

Once you look a little closer, even though the iPhone 10s manages better exposure, we have to award this round to the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. It manages smoother color gradients, excellent sharpness and detail on the car it, along with the iPhone 10s, are the only two phone that managed to deliver plenty of detail in the trees behind the cars as well. The pixel three excels images isn't very sharp in comparison with optical zoom, but it's still better than what the pixel to excel fed. However, both of Google's phones crush the blacks and the shadows on the leaves in the background. But what happens when you push the zoom slider all the way to the max the Galaxy Note 9 and the iPhone 10s can achieve a higher rate of digital zoom compared to the pixels here.

The no time in the iPhone 10s have slightly sharper images with better detail, especially if you look at the tire the pixel 3xl isn't far behind. As for a phone with just digital zoom, it's still pretty impressive. The omission of the pixel to Excel is much softer in comparison in low-light. It's a very different story here, both the iPhone 10s and the Samsung Galaxy Note nines stick to the main primary sensors due to the wider aperture. So when we do a full digital zoom, the end results aren't great as there's way too much noise in the images the pixel 3xl, on the other hand, has the smoothest image with the least noise followed closely by the pixel to excel, while still maintaining fairly good detail.

Now, not that we'd recommend using digital zoom in low-light, but it's nice to see how these phones actually perform when they are really pushed to the limit. All four phones do a good job at stretching panoramas together, barring the pixel to excel, which captured a much darker image. All the others manage very good detail and colors in a first test under natural light, the iPhone 10s wins is round by a mile. The colors level of sharpness and skin tones are unparalleled compared to the rest. It also manages to nail edge detection here.

The pixel 3xl comes in second, as it also captures good colors, but the details on a subjects face isn't very well-defined, and it's also blurred out one of his eyebrows. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has a well-lit image, but bones of the sky. In the background and some highlights on a subjects face which once again isn't a very accurate representation of his actual skin tone in comparison, the pixel to Excel has the most dreary, looking short with dull colors and poor exposure in artificial light. The pixel 3xl has the best shot of the for capturing excellent detail and sharpness with good edge detection. The iPhone 10s fares well with edge detection, but ends up with a noisy image with lesser detail, on a subject face the pixel to excel.

Does a commendable job here, but tends to get slightly confused with the blinds behind us subject, thus resulting in ineffective, blurring the Galaxy Note 9 has the softest image of the lot, but does manage to blur out the right edges. He also has supported more on objects where the iPhone still struggles in getting the edges right here. The iPhone 10 has blurred portions of the petals of the flower to when it was not supposed to, and the white color is a little overblown. The pixel 2 XL and the 3x will do a great job at edge detection and have some of the best sharpness in this shot. The pixel 3 XL has noticeably better white balance compared to the pixel to excel.

Finally, the note 9 does detect the edges well too, but it does miss out on good detail in selfies shot during the day. The iPhone 10s has the most natural-looking shot with just right softness on the skin and the right exposure on our subjects' hair. However, it does have the narrows field of view among the lot. If you're looking for a more dramatic shot, then our guess is, you probably prefer the pixel 3x cells photo? The higher contrast does crush the blacks a bit, but the detail is pretty amazing. The pixel to Excel has a similar looking shot ?, which is not bad.

The Galaxy Note 9 softens the skin way too much, which removes most of the detail. The pixel 3xl can also take advantage of its second wide-angle 8 megapixel sensor, which captures slightly less detail but gets more of the background in the frame with portrait mode stand-on for the selfie camera we found the iPhone 10 has to do the best job with edge detection, as a pixel tends to leave out some gaps around the shoulder region. While the Galaxy Note 9 messes is up even more except for the Galaxy Note 9, all the other phones, let you adjust the level of blur after you've taken the shot. We tried a few selfies in those ? under dim lighting and left the flash on all phones, ? Auto. Here the pixel 3xl managed the most detail selfie and tries to the best color correct the amber light from the chandelier above.

The omission of the pixel to excel more closely represents the actual lighting and has similar level of detail as a pixel 3xl. The Galaxy Note line has a much softer image overall and a reddish hue is in ? pleasing. Finally, the iPhone 10 s has a comparatively dull image with lesser detail, but it does manage to keep the color tone neutral when shooting in low-light with the flash. We wanted to see how powerful screen flashes. When you have many people in the frame, the iPhone Tennis has the weakest flash, and we just about managed to squeeze everyone in the frame with the arm stretched out all the way with the pixel three Excel.

Getting more people in the frame wasn't really an issue. We did end up with the view reddish glow on our faces, but it's still not powerful enough to illuminate everyone's face. Now you can go wide angle on the pixel 3xl, but don't expect the flash to get any brighter. The Samsung definitely has a brighter screen flash, but the results are not very satisfying. I guess.

A lesson we've learned here is that if you want to get a good shot of you and your friends an unfavorable light have someone else take the picture for you. All phones are capable of 4k video recording with some like the iPhone 10s and the Galaxy code mind capable of shooting at 4k at 60fps in daylight. The iPhone 10s does a fantastic job with detail, and the colors in the video are most accurate to what you actually see. Audio quality is equally good too. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 comes in a close second delivering the best audio separation with equally good details and colors.

The pixel 3xl has good stabilization, but we notice a shift in white balance a bunch of times in this test, as it graduated from a neutral tone to a warm tone and back again the audio isn't very good either as a voice sounded like it was coming from afar, which shouldn't be the case. Now, if you remember, the pixel to Excel also had a similar microphone issue when recording video, but google fixes with a software update. So we are hoping this is also easily fixable on the three XL. The pixel to Excel does manage very good video quality and does not have that audio issue which is present in the three XL. However, it's in a low light, 4k test where the iPhone 10 s really gets to stretch his legs with some noise and a slight shimmer effect due to stabilization the 10 s still manages to deliver the best quality video of the lot.

The note line comes in second as far as image quality goes, but the video looks a little jumpy and not very pleasing. Due to the stabilization, the pixel 3 Excel handles noise pretty well at 4k, but the resulting footage is a little too soft and hazy for our liking. The pixel to Excel has the worst image quality with lots of chrome annoys in our footage. Now, since most people would typically be shooting a 1080p resolution, we did test this out too on all the phones here. All of them do an excellent job with details and stabilization under good lighting, the iPhone 10s and the pixel 3 Excel have the most natural-looking colors, while the note 9 and pixel to excel tend to veer a bit towards the homicide.

We didn't encounter any focus hunting issues in either of the phones at this resolution at night, the 10s and the pixel 3xl are pretty close in terms of image, quality and stabilization performance. However, the audio issue in the pixel 3xl puts the iPhone 10s ahead. The Galaxy Note 9 has decent image quality too, but the footage is once again a bit jumpy the pixel to excel suppresses chroma noise- quite well at this resolution, but the resulting footage is soft and not very detailed. Now all phones can also do slow-motion video at 240 FPS. The resolution for both pixels is still limited to 720p, while the others can do the same at 1080p and the Galaxy Note line has one ace up his sleeve as it manages to shoot small bursts of video and 960 fps, the Google Pixel 3xl might be the best smartphone camera Google has made till date, but it's definitely not a clear winner among the competition.

Now iPhones have always been very good with video and, if you see any of a previous camera comparisons, they've often paled in comparison to Android phones when it comes to still images, but all of that changes with the iPhone 10s Apple has finally managed to build a good enough camera that can go toe-to-toe with the best Android phones for still photography and more often than not beat them at their own game. The phone's new, smart HDR feature is clearly a winner here as it balances colors details and exposure superbly. Unsurprisingly, it also continues to carry the torch for being the best device for video recording, while it's definitely a close fight between the iPhone 10s and the pixel three excel for the top spot. If you were to look at all-around performance for both Stills and video, the Apple iPhone 10s is the one to beat, so thanks for watching our comparison and for all things, tech, log on the gadget, 360 com, you.

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