OnePlus 8 Pro vs Google Pixel 4 XL By Christian David

The OnePlus 8 pro is one plus best phone to date, offering an awesome display top performance and more of course, it's not the only great phone out there. The Google Pixel series has been gaining steam over the past few years as a great way to get that stock. Android experience fast updates and an incredible camera. The OnePlus 8 pro may be an awesome device, but it's also relatively expensive at $900. It can no longer really be given the title of flagship killer. Instead, it's more of a flagship, so which phone should you go for if you have access to both the Google Pixel 4 XL and the OnePlus 8 Pro? It's a tough choice.

I put the two phones head-to-head to find out, which is really the better option. If you liked this video, please subscribe to my channel, it really helps support my work and I would appreciate that support. The first thing to notice about these phones is their design, and it's pretty different. Both phones look modern, but they take a pretty different approach to looking modern and ultimately is the OnePlus 8 Pro that wins the design category. The OnePlus 8 pro has a huge edge to edge display with a hole, punch cutout for the front facing camera.

It's a little different from the pop-up camera that was found in the OnePlus 7 pro, but in the end, I think the hole punch perch is the better way to go as it ensures. There are no moving parts. The front of the Google Pixel 4 is pretty different from the OnePlus 8 Pro. Instead of offering an edge to edge display the Pixel 4 XL has a relatively large forehead and chin, and while that forehead does house the devices solely Tech, and it still ends up making the phone look pretty dated. The OnePlus phone has also adopted.

The curved edge approach found some modern phones and while it's a good look OnePlus as palm detection, isn't exactly the most advanced out there, and I regularly found myself accidentally pressing the display and controlling aspects of the software on the back. Things are a little different. The OnePlus phone has a vertically aligned camera bump, while the Pixel 4 XL has a square camera bump in the top left corner. The camera bump on the OnePlus 8 pro is quite a bit thicker than the pixel for Excel and, as a result, it wobbles quite a bit on the desk when you press on the screen, the Pixel 4 XL wobbles a little too, but not nearly as much and considering the fact that the camera module is on the right. It only wobbles when you touch one side of the display.

The phones come in different colors too, and while I do really like the OnePlus, as colors I, actually prefer the matte look, the wider orange pixel phones, they're just a little more fun and I think they feel better too. That said, ultimately, the OnePlus a pro is the better designed phone. This largely has to do with the edge to edge display on the front of the phone and I hope that Google finally adopts an edged edge designed for the Google Pixel 5 in the hand, both phones feel pretty good, but in my opinion, because the pixel for Excel is slightly shorter and because of its smooth matte finish, it feels a little nicer to hold again, though the glass back on the OnePlus phone helps give it a generally premium feel, and neither of these two phones feel cheap by any means. The display on the phones is a little different too they're, not a lot different. The OnePlus 8 pro offers a six point.

Seven eight inch AMOLED display with a 1440p resolution and a hefty 120 Hertz refresh rate. It's really the perfect display everything looks smooth. The display gets bright and colors are vivid and deep. The pixel for Excel, on the other hand, offers a smaller six point. Three inch P OLED display with a 1440p resolution and a 90 host refresh rate, though that higher refresh rate only kicks in certain animations.

In the end that display on the OnePlus 8 pro is better, but that on the pixel is still very good, OnePlus is display, can still get a little brighter, but again the pixel for excels display, still gets bright and I. Don't think you'll be unhappy with the other display. Both phones offer pretty good speakers for a smartphone, and they can both get pretty loud too. That said, I felt, like the Pixel 4 XL speakers offered a little more depth in detail. Here's a quick comparison of the speakers note that the actual audio quality will be different in real life, considering the microphone I'm using and the speakers that you're listening on, but at least you might be able to get an idea of the difference between the two phones.

Next up is performance, which is pretty different between these two phones, which makes sense. Unfortunately, for Google. The pixel releases. Schedule means that it's hardware is almost always out of date, while the pixel for Excel offers a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 with six gigabytes of RAM. The OnePlus 8 pro offers the newest Snapdragon 865, with either eight gigabytes or twelve gigabytes of RAM, and that does translate to a much better performance now in day-to-day use.

Both phones perform perfectly well. Neither of the two devices started at all, and they can both handle heavy multitasking and mobile gaming with ease, but the OnePlus 8 pro does perform that extra bit better and benchmarks confirm that in both Geek bench 5 and enter to the OnePlus, a pro seriously outperform the pixel device and as a result, if you're a really heavy user, then the OnePlus 8 pro is probably worth going for. That's not just because it may perform slightly better now, but because that better performance means that it'll do better a few years down. The line to the battery capacity on the two phones is pretty different, but in my experience you should still easily get through a full day of use and even more with both phones. The OnePlus 8 pro has a 45 10 million power battery capacity, while the pixel for Excel has a 3700 William hour battery.

As a result, you should expect the OnePlus phone to last a little longer than the pixel phone, but again both should get you through a full day of use. Interestingly enough, in my battery test, which involves streaming at 1080p, YouTube video at full brightness for three hours, both phones ended up with 73% of their battery left. That could be due to the fact that the OnePlus phones display can get brighter and thus uses more battery at max brightness. Both phones support wireless charging and the OnePlus 8 Pro supports one plus new AHB wireless charge, though you have to use the OnePlus wireless charger to take advantage of that. Okay, so the OnePlus 8 pro offers a better design and better performance and better display than the Google Pixel 4 XL.

But the camera is where things start to turn. OnePlus has actually stepped things up quite a bit for the OnePlus 8 pro and the device offers a great camera. But the pixel series has long offered one of the best cameras in the smartphone business. Let's take a look at camera specs before anything else. The OnePlus 8 pro offers a quad lens camera with a 48 megapixel main sense, an 8 megapixel telephoto lens, a 48 megapixel ultra-wide lens and a 5 megapixel depth sensor.

The pixel for Excel, on the other hand, only has a dual sensor: camera with a 12 point, two megapixel main sensor and a 16 megapixel telephoto lens turns out. However, more lenses don't necessarily make for better photos. The pixel 4xl generally made for photos with higher contrast and more natural colors in some settings, I found that the OnePlus 8 pro captured more colorful photos, but while those colors look nice they're a little less natural, the same is true of brightness. Some OnePlus 8 pro photos looked brighter, which can be nice, but again it's less natural and makes for less contrast, while camera quality could be down to personal preference in good lighting in low-light. The pixel for Excel is the clear winner.

One plus nights cape mode works fine, but as a hard time with lights within low-light shots, and it just doesn't take photos that look as good as the pixel for Excel. The pixel also has Google's macrophotography mode, which makes for beautifully colorful photos in low-light. Zoomed photos are always a bit hit-and-miss on a smartphone, but both of these phones offer some interesting features in that area. The OnePlus 8 pro, for example, offers 3x optical zoom and up to a hefty 30x digital zoom, which makes for very grainy but very zoomed in photos. The Pixel 4 XL, however, offers only 2 X optical zoom, but uses its super resume feature at up to 8 X digital zoom.

That makes for cleaner photo overall, despite the fact that it doesn't zoom in as far as the 1 plus 8 pro. The effects of this can be clearer when taking a photo at 8 X with both phones. But again, some might prefer the fact that the OnePlus device can zoom in further the front-facing camera on the Pixel 4 XL sits in at 8 megapixels, while the OnePlus 8 Pro has a 16 megapixel front-facing sensor both take decent selfies, but Google is able to take smarter portrait shots with better edge detection and again more natural colors. Both phones can capture 4k video, but while the 1 plus 8 captures video at up to 60 frames per second, the pixel 4 maxes out at 30 at 1080p, the pixel 4 can capture video at 120 frames per second, while the OnePlus 8 Pro supports 240 frames per second. The cameras on these two phones boil down to this.

The camera on the Google Pixel 4 XL, is better, but the camera on the OnePlus 8 Pro is more versatile because of the ultra-wide lens, the ability to zoom further and so on. The OnePlus device will be able to take good photos in a wider variety of situations, but when the pixel for work it really works and photos are simply more natural and better. Overall, the software experience on these two phones is actually pretty similar. Considering the fact that OnePlus as oxygen OS is relatively stripped back oxygen OS on the OnePlus 8 pro is even better than usual. Thanks to the fact that OnePlus has finally replaced the OnePlus shelf with the Google feed oxygen.

Os also has a few extra features that some might like. For example, it has OnePlus as parallel apps feature which allows you to have two instances of the same app installed but logged into different accounts. For me, a big part of software is getting timely updates as I like to get new features as soon as they're available. OnePlus has been pretty good at adopting new versions of Android recently, but with the pixel series, there's a guarantee that you'll get new versions as soon as they're available I wouldn't say that one of these software experiences is much better than the other I generally prefer a completely stock experience, including Google stock, apps and so on. But at this point, oxygen OS is still close to stock and, as mentioned, some might like the optimizations on offer for a full comparison of oxygen.

Os and stock Android check out the video linked in the description, the OnePlus 8 pro and the Google Pixel for Excel both offer some interesting features that might put one ahead of the other. For some users, for example, the OnePlus 8 Pro supports low band 5g, which ensures that it'll be ready for the next generation network when it's available. The eight pro also has an in display fingerprint sensor, and while the sensor isn't as fast as an optical sensor, it still works pretty well speaking of biometrics, pixel for Excel offers facial recognition, tech, and it's fast and responsive. Also in that forehead is Google's solely tech which allows users to use air based gestures for things like changing songs. It's not that useful and I.

Don't think many will fully take advantage of it, but it's still there so which device is better the OnePlus 8 pro or the Google Pixel for Excel well, when it really comes down to it. The OnePlus 8 pro is probably the better phone thanks to its fast performance, modern design and more you'll get a better camera and arguably a smoother software experience in the pixel for Excel. But if you don't mind spending the extra money, then the OnePlus a pro, is an amazing device. Thanks so much for watching this video and again, please subscribe to the channel. If you liked it, my name is Kristen, and I'll.

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