OnePlus 6 vs Pixel 2 XL Honest Feelings! By Nick Ackerman

One plus six versus Google Pixel to excel it's the speed you need with the one plus six versus the camera. You can't ignore, and the updates for three years on panda boy over here on the right. So in this video, it's an honest feeling, video. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is explain to you my honest feelings between both of them. It's subjective, and I'm going to tell you personally, which phone I found to be the better device. Overall, this might help you make a decision in purchasing one of these two devices.

Now, first thing we should talk about is that price gap, because the pixel to excel comes in at a whopping, eight hundred and forty-nine dollars here with tax wit cases with screen protectors. This is basically a thousand dollar phone, so you better bring out the moneybags if you're going to buy it from the Google store calm. However, you should keep in mind. The pixel to Excel can be found on third parties like swap and eBay for in the $500 price range, which puts it on par with the one plus six, which comes in the $500 price range for 256 gigabytes on the one plus six. You will get yourself six hundred and twenty-nine dollars out the door, but you do have taxes.

You do have to get a case for the OnePlus six. If you want one, they do include one in the box, but that one's kind of flimsy, so you're, looking at around 700, maybe a little under for the best one plus six for the cheapest one. You can get a case, and you know the one plus six for under 600, so good deal here for a brand new one plus six. You might find a slightly used one for the same price of the pixel to excel. If you want it in that 600 price range, this one I personally got on swap and look at that condition.

It's perfect so definitely recommend it. Anyway. Let's begin with the first thing, which is their key specifications. I'm going to run through some basic ones, the ones that matter six point two eight inch display here 1080 by 20 to 80 pixel resolution. We have a 16 plus 20 megapixel camera on the rear, shoots in 4k 60, something the pixel to Excel does not do.

This is the 8 gigabyte of RAM version, and it does have 128 gigabytes of storage. This is the $579 model 3300 William hour battery and I do want to mention that just because of six point, two eight inches because of the notch. It goes up here to the top, so it's not full a 6.2 8-inch display. In my opinion, it's more like a 6-inch display with a little extension there up at the top like the galaxy s.9 and the note series are, those are true.6.3 inch displays. This is more like a 6 inch with just this little extra extension at the top, because when you watch a YouTube video, it doesn't extend into this portion just, yet it might in Android P, with the update to not support.

But currently it feels more like a 6-inch display over here on the Google Pixel to excel. You do have a true 6-inch display no notch on board so, depending on how you feel about the notch. Just might be your choice right off the bat. This has a 1440 by 2880 pixel resolution. So this thing is much higher in the resolution than the 1 plus 6, and that resolution does play a role when we are talking about sharpness of that text.

Now you can say all you want about the blue tint with the pixel to excel. It hasn't bothered me one bit after getting used to the display. Also, you do have yourself the colors' mode, which brings you to the saturated mode, which was a much-needed update and the display is very enjoyable and sharp on the pixel to excel now.12 megapixel camera on the rear, 2160p recording, 4k 30, and it can. It does have 4 gigabytes of RAM and Snapdragon 835 with 35 20 William hour battery. This guy over here does have this Snapdragon 845, so it does have the processor improvement over the pixel to excel and those are the key specifications that really matter when deciding to pick one up.

Ok, so let's talk about the design in the build of the OnePlus 6 you're talking about a glass back with a kind of humped camera there. You also have the headphone jack on this guy, any of that notch design on the front. So you know it's got a mash-up of a galaxy s, 9 plus iPhone 10, a little of pixel and the software. It's a mash-up phone, in my opinion, but overall I, don't really like glass backs too much because of the fingerprint, but they do feel very premium. There's no wireless charging here, which makes it you know kind of pointless to have a glass back, but maybe it's just for aesthetics, and maybe you like them aesthetics.

This phone weighs 177 grams. So it's pretty light, and it does have Gorilla Glass. So that's pretty good as well. It does have an aluminum frame around the sides, no ip67 or ip68 rating for this device, but it does give you that nice silent, switch on the body which I think a lot of people do appreciate about the OnePlus devices. So overall I think it's a classy, clean design definitely looks premium.

I. Just think that you know you do miss out on wireless charging here, and also it's kind of like you know, that's not unique to put a notch on your phone, and we all know what I'm talking about there. Let's get on to the pixel to TO the design that nobody really thinks stands out too much, but a lot of people think is unique, including me. I think this phone is a unique design. It's a conversation starter in that and people might say what is that phone that you are using? It might be quite surprised to know that that is a Google made.

The vise actually LG built this, but this is a Google branded device. So you can say this is my Google Pixel 2xl. Has a glass insert at the top plastic feel on the back, but it's more of an aluminum. It's actually aluminum coated in a plastic feel so overall it feels sturdy, strong and the more practical day-to-day phone that you wouldn't mind dropping on the table versus this one. You might get scratches all over the back of that glass, although the OnePlus has been holding up quite well.

The pixel 2 has a more square design and I think that v1 plus 6 definitely has the more comfortable design in the hand, definitely over 2 pixels to excel, but the pixel to Excel has this uniqueness about it that I really enjoyed overall. If I had to choose one of them, I probably would choose the pixel to excel here, just because it didn't really follow the industry by you know, making a notch it kind of stands out as its own, but at the same time this phone came out before the iPhone 10. It was already being in design before the iPhone 10 came out. So if we see a match and a pixel three that opinion might change, but for now I do like the pixel to excel design more than that of the 1 plus 6, that's my personal opinion, but if you're looking for a comfortable design, you'll want the 1 plus 6 if you're looking for a more unique design, you'll want the pixel to excel. I should also mention that the pixel 2 XL is slightly lighter at 175 grams, and it does support water resistance at IP 67, and that is pretty good over this device.

It also doesn't support wireless charging, however, and there's no headphone jack on this design for the pixel to you, but it does give you do a speaker, something you don't get for the one plus six. You get a single mono speaker here and that's one of the corners they had to cut to get this phone down to the price point. It's at all, right guys. So let's talk about the software here on the 1 plus 6, you do get oxygen, OS five point: one point: five I think it's updated to five point. One point six I haven't seen it yet on my phone, though eight point one Oreo and you know a lot of people might buy this device because it's less than a pixel to Excel, and it gives you a very similar software, and that is true.

However, it's a little more feature-rich than any pixel to excel, in that it gives you a little more customization over the UI. So you have you know the ability to swap your buttons with gestures. You can change them around. You could bring them down. Furthermore, you have all these actions with those buttons.

Furthermore, you also have you know theming. Furthermore, you could theme this to a dark theme which you don't have on a pixel series. Just yet in display settings you have a little more control of your display like one or two more modes, then you do on the pixel 2x. So you have the ability to hide the notch or keep the notch. But you know just because you hide a notch, doesn't mean it's not there.

It still kind of appears in your visual sight. Sometimes so it still has a notch, but you can remove that if you want to you have the default theme. Dark theme like I, talked about different accent: colors, we go on the font sizes, that's the same as the pixel, but overall there's just a little more that you can deal with this device versus the pixel to excel and that little more includes things on the home screen like the ability to go ahead and change your icon size right on the fly. So if you go to icon packs, you can change the packs, and then you can also change the size of those right here, home screen, layout columns and sizes. So this makes it a different experience over the pixel to exon, and it gives you a little more control and some people might like that especially Android people who always love to customize devices, I think the one plus six will be the better software if you're really into customization.

Now the pixel 2 is Google's software, and it's its baby, this phone, so this phone does run a very clean, very bare-bones operating system and a lot of people will enjoy the minimalism that is on board with the pixel to excel, and I really enjoy it as well. Now, I find myself missing a feature or two from both of them when I'm on both, so I missed the minimalism of the picture to excel when I'm on one plus six, although the one plus six is very minimum. I'd like the pure Google feeling of the pixel to excel and I, like that, it's just a little cleaner to me than oxygen OS, and it also has a little of a smoother feel. It's really hard to show on camera, but the way that it actually operates is about the same in speed but to the eye. It just feels a little more fluid on the pixel to Excel.

Furthermore, it's really hard to show this on camera. You would actually have to use both devices. So if you want speed, get the one plus six, but if you want that performance that feels very fluid, you're gonna really want the pixel to excel here. So that's how I feel about both of them. When it comes to software, if I only had to choose one I choose the pixel to excel because of the faster updates and the longer-term support that Google will give you with the pixel to excel.

So, for me, software is a win on it, the pixel to excel, but the one plus six gets quite close to a pixel. If you want a pixel, and you're on a budget so quickly, I want to discuss performance, you might be wondering what is the difference between a snapdragon 835 and the 845 and honestly there's not much of a difference at all. At this point, I don't think that most applications are taking full advantage of the 845, but longer-term the a45 will have more power than the 835. The Google Pixel 2 out, however, is very you know, optimized, so the 8:35 runs almost the same as the a45. So if we go into calendar, for example, 3 2 1, you can see the performance nearly identical on both.

What's going to clock, you can see maybe slightly on the 1 plus. Let's go on a calculator, you can see. I mean this performance is almost the same. So you know maybe a slight main faster smidgen, faster on the 1 + 6. If we go into Instagram, you could see about the same.

So performance is slightly faster for the 1 + 6. If we go into the multitasking you're, not gonna, see too much of a difference. However, with the 8 gigabytes of RAM, the likelihood of the pixel to excel choking on multitasking many apps is gonna, be first, so like I say, if you want the strongest performance, that's still the 1 + 6 here all day every day over the pixel to excel, but I still think that the to excel just feels a little more fluid. It's a little more visually pleasing to look at then of the animation style and just the overall smoothness of the one plus six. But the one plus six is incredible for the price: okay, so talking about their battery life differences.

Now I've used both of these extensively on the day-to-day and I. Could tell you right now that their battery is not that much different. However, for battery life, I would choose the pixel to excel. It has a larger battery capacity, and it also has better standby time than the one plus six. However, both of these will get you through one day, I think some people can go.

One point five on the pics with to excel now one area where the one plus six crushes the pixel to Excel is in its ? charging capabilities. This thing that they include in the box, the brick love ? charging is so fast that you basically can go. Take a shower. You know, do your thing in the bathroom put your phone on charge when you come back, this brick will have you back up an incredible amount of power. Now, there's only one other phone: the charge is faster than the 1 plus 6, and that is the Huawei P 20 series, with their supercharging abilities, but the pixel to excel gives you fast charging as well, but its nowhere near as quick as ? charging.

So if you want fast charging get the 1 + 6, if you want the longer-lasting battery, which is what I would definitely choose, get the pics of 2. Unfortunately, both of them do not support wireless charging at the bottom. They both will support the standard. USB C, which is pretty great, so overall battery is close, but slight edge goes to the pixel to excel. In my experience, what a no actual screen on time I get about 6 hours on the pixel to excel, maybe five and a half where I'm getting like 5 even for the 1 plus 6.

So that's, basically, what I've been getting in terms of the actual screen on time. I want to bring up storage, because the pixel to Excel offers 128 gigabyte model, but it doesn't go up to the 256 gig. You can get on a d1, + 6. However, what I do want to mention is that the Google photos on the pixel 2 Excel works the best out of any Android phone I've used, and it also gives you high resolution, unlimited storage on this device. You get unlimited google photos for the OnePlus 6, but they're not high-res, like they are on the pixel to excel and I.

Don't find myself ever running out of storage on the pixel to excel, even with a 64 gig motto: it's very efficient at its storage with smart storage, so just because it doesn't offer 256 gigs doesn't automatically give the win to the one plus 6. But if you do want physical storage, you want the one plus 6, because it can give you a higher capacity. But if you care more about software stories like cloud storage- and you know things like that, the pixel 2 is the way to go for me, I personally, like the smarts of the pixel to excel how it you know it has high-res photos are constantly syncing very smoothly and efficiently. In the background, so I do, like the storage abilities on a depicts with to excel a little better. It just seems to work better because if you ever miss them photos or lose them.

You know that Google's got your back here with your pixel to excel same could be said for the 1 + 6, but they're not gonna, be in that high-res format, if you ever want to print them, and things like that. So for me, storage goes to the pixel to excel. But if you want that actual more physical storage on your phone, then you got to go with a 1 + 6, because it will give you more physical storage on the phone itself. Ok, so I want to take a quick second to talk a little more about the display. The display I mean 1.

+ 6 has a very high screen to body ratio of 83 point 8. So if you're looking for that closer to all screen design, you're really going to love the 1 + 6. But what I don't really like is the notch on this phone. However, because you can hide it, it's not too much of a big deal here. I would like to see you know a fully off-screen phone I think we're all waiting for that.

But for now, if you don't like it, you can hide it on this device. Now the 1 + 6 I do really like the calibration on this phone I. Think it's fantastic. The way they've done the colors up on this phone, very beautiful colors on this device, and you can make them a little more vibrant, or you can make them p3, which is super nice on the eye. So I think that the overall display quality is amazing for the 1 + 6, but its sharpness is just not there at the level of the pixel to excel, but I think most people might like to design a little more on this display.

I personally need the pixel to do to its resolution, gives it the slight edge it's a little sharper on the whole and with the introduction of the ability to go ahead and make this display boosted the colors section. So we go to colors. You can put out at it. This really changed the game for the pixel to excel. So, if resolution is your thing, the pixel to is your way.

If you like design up display I, think you get a little more a display here, 41 plus 6, you might want to go there for me. I personally would be happy with either, but again I'll just take the pixel to excel because of its resolution over. You know the slightly more screen to body ratio, but I am looking for a more off-screen design for the pixel to that, where a picture, the upcoming pixel, that would be nice as well as long as they don't put a notch, but I think they might be okay. So let's talk about cameras quickly now you can see single camera lens on the pixel to excel dual camera lens on the one plus six don't be fooled by just having a dual camera that doesn't make it a better camera over the pixel to excel. Now this doesn't actually have the 2 X optical.

This 2 X is more of a digital 2 X, so having the dual camera. For that reason is not the big deal here with the 1 plus 6. It actually helps a little with low-light photography on d1 plus 6. So for me, this phone has one of the best software's on any camera phone right here. The 1 plus 6 is super clean easy to use I actually like it more than the one on the pixel to excel, but the pixel to Excel also has a very nice camera UI.

Just don't like how you have to reach up here to get to settings versus at the bottom on d1 plus 6, you got an are stickers here, but the magic. What the pixel to excel camera is that when you snap it's super smart, it knows what to do, but the magic with the 1 plus 6 is. It gets darn close to the pixel to excel for much less money for the brand-new price point. So I took a few photos here to show you here live on camera, so you can see some difference. So take a look at this first one with the HDR on the pixel to excel, which is kind of how it comes standard.

You can see, there's a little more detail in the sign and that's really the big differences here between the two. It's just detail, up-close. When you look really closely the pixel 2 presents more detail. If we go over here to my ROG here, you can see a little more detail in his hair. The shadows are a little more defined, and it's just a little more realistic photo in my opinion, whereas the 1 plus 6 is perfect, but up close, it's a little soft and at nighttime it produces a little more noise than the pics of to excel.

Here's another photo right here, and you could see I mean both of them just producing some incredible details, so you're not gonna, be blown away by the 1 plus 6s camera quality. Here's a selfie photo, for example, a little soft on the 1 plus 6 and a little more detailed for the pixel to excel, but still very good on both. But you aren't going to be very happy with these photos and I think that it's pretty close, you know I'm pretty happy about it. It's pretty close to a pixel to excel, even though it doesn't have that incredible processing like this device. So if you are looking for the best camera phone, I still think you want pixel to excel, but man I don't think most people are going to have a problem.

What do you want? Plastics camera I would in fact say that it's to most consumers, it's not even gonna matter at all here when it comes to the camera, so I probably wouldn't make my decision alone just based on the camera. Okay guys. So let's talk about audio, really quickly, stands speaker here for the OnePlus 6, but it gets very loud in comparison to a lot of other phones. Over here we have dual speakers dual front firing speakers, Honda, the pixel to excel, which is a lot of people's favorite. But let's see which one's actually louder here I got my sound meter: let's go ahead and test the max decibels and 3 2 1 so in this particular video.

This thing maxed out at 107, point 5, so very loudspeaker for the 1 plus 6, but only one which can be covered up easily when you're watching content. You see that it's pretty much gone, pretty much gone, so the same issue we had before many phones brought dual speakers exists for the 1 plus 6. So keep that in mind now over here for the Google Pixel to excel it's over here in here. So we're going to test the bottom one and then the top one we're going to replay the same clip 3 2 and let's hit max 3 2 & 1. So that was that max volume max you can see and the pixel to excel got 96.4, so nowhere near as loud as that, first speaker or that one speaker at Haney, d1 plus 6. Let's do it again now we're gonna! Do it again at the top speaker and see if we get any different results here, 3 2! So we maxed out around ninety-eight point eight here and this is unscientific, but these speakers, you've seen based on the decibels, are just a little less loud on the pixel to excel, but at the same time, when you have two of them, they feel fuller, so I.

Think overall, the pixel to Excel is the more enjoyable audio experience on the external speakers over the 1 plus 6. You do get a lot of speakers, but that doesn't make up for not having to now. You don't have a headphone jack here on the Google Pixel to excel, where you do only one plus 6, so it comes down to that. Do you want a headphone, jack or better audio experience externally, then you're going to have to choose one for me personally, I do like having those dual speakers on the front when I'm using external audio, when I do have Bluetooth headphones for so for me, the pixel to Excel is the winner here, but for you, it might be the headphone jack, that's the winner for the one plus 6? So it really comes down to your own preference. Ok! So, let's talk about their calling experience now.

I can tell you right now that I've had better signal, strength on the 1 plus 6 over the pixel to excel, but just a little now when it comes to actual call quality. I find both of these not to be great phone calls for call quality both of them. Furthermore, I've heard people tell me multiple times that they can't hear me on the device, but at the same time, I've heard that more on the 1 plus 6, so I think the Google Pixel to Excel is a slightly better phone call quality, but neither of these would be my first pick for a phone call quality. So I wouldn't make my decision of buying one of these. If you're looking for the best phone call quality that would go to the know, the iPhone series or the Galaxy series, even the Huawei series has some really phone call quality, especially on that p20 Pro.

That's the best phone call quality I've seen in a while, but both of these are serviceable they're, just not fantastic phones for well their phones. So what is the conclusion here between the 1 plus 6 and the pixel 2? In my honest experience, my honest feelings overall between these phones, you've heard it throughout this video, and I'll. Tell you again. The 1 plus 6 is an incredible value phone here and if you don't want to go a little higher in the price point, you will get most of what the pixel to Excel has to offer. But at the same time the pixel to Excel does give you them software support that you don't get on the 1 plus 6.

You know for 3 straight years you might only get 2 I, don't want to put 6, and you're going to get them faster for the pixel to excel so for software, minimalism I think you'll like the pixel to excel. For you know, maybe you can say a design feels like an iPhone 10 like a galaxy s, 9 a little more premium. Looking, maybe a little premium design you might like v1, plus 6 for all the speed you would ever want. It's the one plus 6, but overall I think the total package here is a better one on the pixel to excel. But that's just me you might differ.

What are your thoughts comment them down below in the comment section if you have both of these phones or one of them share them with the community below and let us know which one you would choose or if you just have one share that, so people can learn more about the experiences that people are having with these phones. You can't go wrong with either it's just incredible. What OnePlus has been able to do at much less than the price of a pixel to excel Nick you're, helping you to master your technology? If you haven't subscribed now, so you don't miss any of my upcoming videos. I will catch you all in the next episode be sure to be well. Thank you very much for watching and peace.

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