Pixel 4XL - Over 6 Months Later By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the Pixel 4XL has been out for over six months, and this is a phone I. Carry with me every single day now I know. A lot of you know me for my iPhone videos and things like that, but I actually carry the Pixel 4 XL with me everywhere, I go since it's been released, and so Google actually sent me this a little before it came out, and I've been using it regularly ever since, in fact, it's my normal alarm clock I, like it a little better than what you get with iPhone. For example, I, like the built-in alarm clock, where it sort of just fades in the sound and then now you have the new bedtime options and things like that: I, don't really care for bedtime and I just downgraded this back to Android 10, since it had the beta on it. So I wanted the public release, but it's got these nice little features that I use all the time, and also I used the sold radar with it as well. So I know a lot of people thought that was a gimmick, but, for example, when the alarms going off, if you just swipe your hand, it's really helpful to actually silence the alarm or snooze it or shut it off or any of those things, and, as you bring your hand close to it, it actually starts to get quieter.

So all of these little things I find to be very helpful over the past 6 months, so I do use it every single day. Now. I also use this a lot for the phone. The reception and the overall network connectivity is perfect compared to that of an iPhone, for example, and that's because this has a Snapdragon processor in it with their Qualcomm chipset. That allows for fantastic communication so because Apple's using Intel, for example, this I find to be much better and much more consistent.

So just the overall connectivity is better in general, and so, when I place, many phone calls. It's usually on this I. Don't really make a lot of phone calls, but I usually grab the pixel instead of my iPhone to make a phone call. I use. Google Phi on this, and I've been using it for a long time and just recently, when I set this up, I thought it was fascinating that it asked me in Google.

Phi do I want to use both SIM card and the e sim at the same time. So I have a Google five SIM cards in here, but it asked me if I wanted to use both SIM card slots to help with it. Switching between networks, more quick, so I turned that on it rebooted the phone and I hadn't seen that before now, as far as the overall design, it's really grown on me in fact, I like it a lot except maybe this camera in the back. That looks a little goofy, but this generation all sort of looks goofy with the camera bump. It's a very minimal camera bump and I.

Don't use this with a case, and it's held up incredibly well. It's held up better than my iPhone as far as scratches or anything like that. In fact, there are no scratches on it whatsoever and I, just put it in my backpack or in my pocket or in my car when I'm driving, like I, said I use this very regularly for a lot of different tasks and I, just like the design. I do use the squeeze for Google Assistant, so squeeze what's the weather today and I find it to be well, it's terrible weather today for this time of year, but I find this to be really nice to use just in general, day-to-day. It's a great design, I love the textures on it.

It's held up really well, I, don't have any Nick's or scratches anywhere around it and I just think. Furthermore, it's really durable and very underrated. In general. Now the display is nice. It's got that 90 Hertz display that ramps up and back down.

So most of the time it's super smooth. So if we're going into something say, chrome here, and we go to the Google Play Store on Chrome, you can see we could just scroll through superfast. Maybe we'll go back! Look at what's, you know today, feed here, and it's just really nice to use that faster display at 90 Hertz, so I have that turned on I like it a lot, and the colors of this display are very accurate as well, which is something I value. I usually tend to put it on neutral, I'm, not sure. If I did that this time, let's see here or natural rather I, don't really like boosted or adaptive boost, it is really saturated.

I like a natural look, that's color accurate. So this display is great. It has great viewing angles. It does go bright, not as bright as some others. So it's okay I would like to see it maybe go a little brighter, but other than that I really have no complaints.

The speakers are nice and loud. So here's my Android 11 beta 1 video. So let me turn it up here. So it's nice and loud I think it sounds good. It's got a great stereo, sound and I pick this one up quite a lot instead of my iPhone to use for watching videos.

I just think it's a great experience. Overall now one thing I really like about the pixel lineup, as opposed to say the s20 or any of the other phones out. There is the regular monthly updates now I cover these videos regularly. If you didn't see that in my feed here, I'll, let it reload, but you'll, see if I go through every time, there's an update. We have a pixel June, 20th update or June 2020 update in the pixel feature drop, and you continually get updates with this phone.

So you get three years of updates minimum with monthly security updates and then feature drops throughout the year and that's something you don't necessarily get on other phones and while the pixel may be bringing other features like a bedtime. That was a newer one in the latest. One bedtime was one of the newest features. While you may get this on other phones, it's not implemented the same way right into the OS, so it just feels more polished on this particular device. In my personal opinion, so I love that you get regular, updates, it's nice and secure and then, of course, with that you get stability.

So this phone has been very stable. It's very rare that I need to restart it or anything like that. I, don't have many app crashes. Everything just seems to be nice and fast all the time, so I really enjoy using this phone and then battery life well. I know some people had some issues earlier on, but they keep increasing the quality of the battery, so you'll see it said it should last until about 11:00 a.

m. that means 24 hours from now, based on normal use now battery saver. Of course, you could turn that on a schedule. If we go to battery usage, you can see that this one, while it hasn't been used very much today, like I, said I rolled it back to Android 10. Just so I could use it on the public release, but in general batteries pretty good.

It gets me through a day without a problem. I have no issues with it. Six hours of screen on time, something like that. No problems whatsoever and then there's my favorite thing of this phone, and that is the camera. The camera is by far the best on most smartphones, in my opinion, regular pictures, in fact I, can rely on it to take a quality picture when I want to do a thumbnail for a video, for example.

So any of the photos that you see when I'm outside I did a lot more of those. Last year, based on current situations, any of those thumbnails were taken with this phone. It's got a nice quality camera. It does great, as far as its dynamic range and with the computational photography. Furthermore, it's just super clear and clean you'll, see as I zoom into the lenses of the iPhone 11 Pro max.

Here you can see the dust nice and clear, and most people, especially on a thumbnail, could never tell the difference between this and a regular camera. So it does a great job, especially if you have great lighting other than that I think. The one thing that held it back is its price, not necessarily its design or overall, look or anything like that. I think the price when it came in new was just a little too high for the specs that it had had. Google added, maybe four more gigs of RAM I, think less people would complain, but in general I think, if you added a little bigger battery more RAM people would be incredibly happy, but if this is around $500, whether you get it used or refurbished or even new on a huge discount, this is well worth that price.

So maybe we'll see something different with the next generation, the pixel 5 or the 4a, but right now this is a fantastic phone and I still recommend it. If you can get a great deal on it, but let me know your experience with the Pixel 4 XL in the comments below, if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper, I'll link it in the description as I always do and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe, and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time.

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