Pixel 4 XL vs 5 Which should you buy in 2021? By Ben Clarke

If you're looking to pick up a flagship pixel in 2021, should it be the previous generation premium, pixel 4 series, or should it be the new hotness, the pixel 5. , the pixel 5 was quite a large departure from what the pixel line stood for before it went from being a competitor with the iPhones and Samsung Galaxy s's of the world to being one of the pioneers in the new budget flagship section, accompanied by phones like the s20 Fe, along with the OnePlus 8t. The build on these two phones could not be more different. The four has a glass back with aluminum side railings. The five is an aluminum body with a bio-resin coating on the back. What's bio-resin, you ask: to put it simply: it's fancy plastic, but don't let the word plastic fool you.

This! Isn't your Samsung s4 era sort of plastic where it feels cheap and nasty in that aluminum back is a cutout which is covered by said bio resin for wireless charging, which enables both phones to have wireless charging and reverse wireless charging is only present on the five overall out the two. The more premium build and more premium feeling build is the 4, but I would only feel comfortable, not using a case with the 5. The 5 is also only available in the regular compact size, a 6-inch display in the same body as the 5.8 inch pixel 4. This is achieved via the hole punch as it doesn't have the big old forehead that was present on the pixel 4 series. If you're after a bigger device, there is the Pixel 4a 5g, which is a pixel 5 with certain features cut back.

But if you're looking for the top pixel offering in a plus size, the Pixel 4 XL is your only option and the reason for these design differences is on the pixel 4 google implemented solely for their motion gestures as well as face unlock, which is not present on the fire. They have gone back to their traditional rear, fingerprint scanner. I absolutely love the face: unlock implementation on the pixel 4. It feels like magic. It feels like you simply look at your phone, don't even think about it and you're in and nobody else can get in.

And whilst I speak, these praises of the face unlock it's not exactly useful. During a pandemic and speaking of screens on paper, the 4xl has the best screen we have ever seen on the pixel line, a 1440p 90hz display, whereas the 4 and the 5 both have 1080p 90hz displays. But if you watched my Pixel 4 XL review, you will know that my only complaint I had about the pixel 4xl was, I didn't think it got bright enough and the pixel 5. Whilst it's still not one of the brightest displays on the market, it gets a fair amount brighter in terms of the differences in pixel densities, one the fact that the phone's smaller and two it still has a high PPI of above 400. You would only notice the higher pixel density and thus the crisper text on the 4xl if they were right next to each other, and you were pixel peeping.

Otherwise, the display on the 5 is absolutely fine for its use case. Then the cameras on these phones, they're pixels. You know that one of their main selling points is the camera. This comparison's, pretty simple. The main sensor is the exact same, and the front-facing camera is a little wider on the floor.

However, the secondary lenses are where it gets different. There is two times, telephoto lens on the four series and on the five that is then swapped out for an ultra-wide, but you would think that this means that the difference in zoom capabilities is drastically different. This isn't actually the case. The five keeps up quite well using google's super red zoom, which this then means in terms of photography that the pixel 5 is just a more versatile phone overall. However, the main images that you'll be getting from the main sensor, which we'll use the majority of the time, will look near enough, the same, which is both absolutely fantastic and some of the best on the market in the camera department, where the ford does start to win back some points is it features the pixel neural core, which was dropped in the five, and what this is essentially is a special processor dedicated to images and because of the amount of processing that occurs on Google's photos.

This means that, whilst you're waiting, maybe one or two seconds for a photo to be fully processed on the floor, you can wait what feels sometimes like a small eternity on the 5 and in many reviews it was noted as one of the downsides and whilst we're talking about performance along with that neural core. The pixel 4 features a snapdragon 855 with 6 gigabytes of ram and the pixel 5 features a 765 g with 8 gigs of ram and using geek bench as a reference. The 765g in the single core is only somewhat behind the 855, but in terms of multi-core performance, the 765g is around 20 slower than the processor found in the pixel 3. So what this means is heavier tasks that you throw at the 4 and 5. They will near unanimously perform better on the 4.

Don't think that that means that the 5 is slow by any means, but it just means that the four is fast in every single way and because of its top of the line processor, it also came with the top of the line. GPU, and thus this means that your games will look better run smoother and at higher frame rates on the four, as opposed to the five, and this could also potentially mean that for long term usage, we will see the pixel 4 outliving, the pixel 5. , due to the fact that the 4 just has more raw horsepower available to it. And then battery life is a completely different story. The 4, when it came out, was controversial for its battery life and the regular sized pixel 4 still to this day doesn't have great battery life.

It's mediocre at best the 4xl isn't such an issue. I can easily get through a full day of heavy usage on the 4xl's battery, but the 5's battery is simply incredible due to that lower resolution display, as well as the fact that it has a less power hungry processor. So, whilst I'm getting a full day with the four, I can easily go a day and a half, maybe even two days with the five. If you want the pixel with the best battery life, simply ever, the 5 is 100 the way to go. The next section is the intangibles, and, whilst I don't usually cover this, I feel it is worth covering in how the pixel brand transitioned from competing with iPhones to being in this new category.

A good example of this is the 5 with its bezel-less design. This resulted in them putting the speaker underneath the screen. Whilst this means the front of the phone looks absolutely fantastic, I will not argue that the speaker setup is far worse than what is found on the 4. The four speakers were considered, one of, if not the best at the time when it released the feature to squeeze for the Google Assistant, is no longer present on the 5, which I absolutely love, and honestly it encourages me to use the Google Assistant more and then the haptics, whilst on the 4, it feels like a proper click experience. For example, if you have vibrated on key press, and it's the only phone that I found can really match the iPhone's haptic engine on the pixel 5, it feels much more like your standard buzzer.

However, of course, there is the fact that the pixel 5 comes with 5g support and, depending on where you live stroke, how important it is to you that could be a dealbreaker for before, as well as, of course, due to the fact that it released the year later by default, it will have one more year of software support than the four and in the pixel feature drops we're already seeing five exclusive features, such as adaptive sound the prices these phones can then be found at, however, is when it starts to get a bit tricky. If you buy a brand-new pixel 5 today, it will cost you 600 pounds. Maybe you can sometimes find it for a bit less than that, maybe around the 500 pound mark. But if you look pixel fours and specifically, four XLS, which I would say is the only one out of the two worth considering in 2021. They can be found for less than a brand-new Pixel 4a, if you're a gamer or a heavy user.

That throws really demanding tasks at your phone, or you're. Looking for the best value out of these two, the 4xl is the way to go, but if you want longer, software support significantly better battery life as well as 5g connectivity. The 5 is the way to go, so it entirely depends on what your use case for your phone is, which in conclusion means that there isn't an outright better one. It does not mean that the five is straight up an upgrade from the four, and it does not mean that the five is a straight-up downgrade from the four. I would describe it as more of a.

It depends on where your priorities are. If you want a phone that can easily last you all day and well into the next, you want the five. If you want the phone that will be best for gaming out of the two you'll want the four so that and wraps up this conclusion, let me know in the comments below what your opinions are and, if you're going for either of these, what was your deciding factor and which one you went for, so that's in it for this video, if you liked it, please like, if you want to see more videos like this, that subscription will be very much appreciated and that's then it from me. Thank you very much and goodbye.

Source : Ben Clarke