Pixel XL Review: The Best Android Experience? By Andrew Marc David

About a month ago, I reviewed the iPhone 7 plus gave it a good review, not to be outdone. Google has released its own flagship smartphone that it developed from the ground up with the help of HTC hi. My name is Andrew from AMD tech, and this is our after the hyper view of Google's pixel excel. Let's find out if it's worth its premium price tag, let's find out if it's a buy or a DOM by Google, made the bold decision to ditch the Nexus brand and make a flagship premium phone on their own. With the help of HTC they developed the pixel XL, let's find out. If that gamble paid off what you get under the hood is a Snapdragon 820 one CPU, the adrenal 530 GPU.

It has for KIA bytes of ram and starts with a paltry 32 gigabytes of on-board storage. Although you can pay $100 more and get 128 gigabytes, and it starts at seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars a very premium price. Indeed, the pixel XL weighs 5.9 three ounces, only 0.33 inches thick. It is pretty spelled and light and has a very I phone. Ask look to it.

It is a very understated, look with all aluminum, except for the back, which has glass which no doubt aids in the wireless reception. The packaging is very simple and understated, but yet classy at the same time. What you get in the box is the pixel XL itself, of course, and a sim ejection tool to help. You obviously put your sim into your phone included in the Box is a USB adapter type, a 2 type C, and you have your USB type-c charging cable, and you get your charging adapter. It is a quick charge.

Adapter we'll talk more about that later in the video, and you get a USB type-c cable that allows data transfer from one device to another. But the star of the show has to be its 5.5 inch. AMOLED display covered in Gorilla Glass 4, with a resolution of 1440 by 2560 and for those keeping score. That's 534 pixels per inch. It does get pretty bright at 433 nits, although not as bright as the iPhone 7 or some of the Samsung phones and unlike the iPhone 7 plus, it does not have an ip67 rating.

Unlike the note, seven made rest in peace, they would not be dropping this in water and surprise. Surprise, look what we have here: a 3.5, millimeter, headphone jack, take heed Apple, moving to one side to get your power button and your volume rocker up and down. Moving to the other side. You get your SIM tray. Now you can get it at Verizon retail, and you can get it from Google, but it will work with all major carriers on the bottom of the device.

You have your microphone, and you have your USB type-c. This is, will charge your device, and you have your one mono speaker, we'll talk more about the sound later in the video moving to the front of the device you get an 8 megapixel, F, 2.4, 1080p camera, and on the back, you get a 12 point, three megapixels F 2.0 that could shoot 4k at 30 frames per second and a dual LED dual tone. Flash and, of course, your fingerprint sensor on the back, just like the Nexus 6p, its predecessor. Now the pixel XL does feel good in the hand it does feel solid, and it's not too wide so for a 5.5 inch, phablet I'm actually kind of impressed with the design. It's quite evident that Google tries to play it safe with the design, and that is why you're not getting those bold features or bold, look that many were expecting, but they wanted to play it safe and I.

Think, overall, it's a pretty good design, nothing special, but this is not where this phone shines that comes in its software and speaking of the software. This is, of course, is going to run the latest version of Android, that's nougat, 7.1 and, of course, since it's Google you're going to be getting all the latest security and low. The latest updates. First Google is touting the Google Assistant as a Google. Now on steroids, let's take a look at it in action.

Okay, Google set a reminder: what's the reminder film new video review of yoga book? When do you want to be reminded 2 p. m. tomorrow? Okay, do you want to save this? Yes, okay, reminder saved. Okay, Google, who is Steve Jobs, is occupations are entrepreneur, film, producer and others, okay Google, who is he married to Steve Jobs with married to Laurene, Powell Jobs, ok, Google? How many kids did he have Steve Jobs? This number of children is four okay Google. What company did Steve Jobs found Steve Jobs, founded Apple and next ok Google? What did Steve Jobs invent display? Although not perfect, it is definitely a good start and there is a lot of potential with Google Assistant.

It really is a very souped-up Google now experience, and it is a lot better in terms of context than Siri that you get with the iPhone 7 and 7 plus I found myself using Google Assistant, far more than I thought. I would be good job on the Google Assistant and as Google updates it is will get even better. The pixel excel also has a very similar force, touch feature. If you press and hold an icon or certain icons, you get a contextual menu. As you see here and as we stated earlier, it has a front-facing 8, megapixel camera that shoots.1080P selfies were pretty good, and it would do pretty well in low light situations overall, pretty good, front-facing camera and on the rear. You have a twelve point, three megapixel camera f 2.0, and it can shoot 4k at 30 frames per second now it doesn't have. Oh, is or optical image stabilization built-in, but it does make up for it in the software.

I'll show you a video in just a moment, but here, as you can see, the photos came out pretty good, and it really has very good pictures. Overall I was very impressed. This is one of the better cameras out there. It's got to be in the top three between the iPhone 7 and the Samsung Galaxy s7 edge, and may it rest in peace, the note 7 as well, even though it doesn't have optical image. Stabilization did bake into it some certain software that emulates it and, as you can see here very little jag very little, shaking as my hand, is shaking filming this, but this 4k 30 frames per second video, actually looked pretty good.

Overall I was very impressed with the rear camera and also the front-facing camera. On this device, unlike the Nexus 6p, which had front-facing dual speakers, which sounded really excellent, this device only has one mono speaker located on the bottom of the device. Let's take a look at a listener or lay this video to see how its flagship level device that, while we released here in the United, States and I thought it was very good. They were very few compromises, but a lot of you viewers were telling me about another phone. That I should review it's the ZTE axon 7, and I thought I'd, give it a whirl I've been using it for the past couple of weeks, and here is my review hi.

My name is Andrew from AMD Tech, and this is my review of the ZTE axon 7/$10400 get you flagship phone premium specs. Is it a buy or I don't buy? Let's find out used to be that $400 would only get you mid-level. The sound was pretty good, wasn't as good as the Nexus 6 piece front-facing speakers, but overall, not bad I wish it did. Have those front-facing speakers, especially like the ones we saw on the axon 7, which were really outstanding and for those wondering the case you see, the pixel pictured in here is by sign and as a kickstand, it's actually pretty good, gives good protection I'll put the link below for more information. Now, as far as performance is concerned, here's how the pixel XL did on the Geek bench 4.0 test. It did a 41 74 on the multi-core score.

That's pretty good! The Adrian 530 GPU did at 6009 82 on the render script score of the Geek bench test. That's another good result on the octane.2.0 score did an eighty-eight eighty, which is pretty good and on par with other flagships in this category and for those gamers on the an tutu benchmark. It did a 135 thousand 632. Actually that was pretty good on the 3d marks. Ice storm unlimited score.

It did a 20,000 143, pretty good and performance was so good on the pixel excel on the ice storm extreme score it maxed out. They said the test was too light for this device. Try running ice storm unlimited instead overall excellent performance, very good gaming phone. If that's what you're into as far as battery life is concerned, we were really impressed. Here's the deal with heavy use screen on time was 5 hours and 2 minutes a very good figure.

Indeed, video streaming LTE ?, just under six hours. It's got a 3400 William ire battery. Unfortunately it doesn't have wireless charging, but it does have fast charging. It was able to charge from 0 to 100% in an hour and 52 minutes, so basically you're getting all-day battery life, and you still have some juice left over at the end of the day. Of course, that depends on your usage, so your mileage may vary.

So is the Google Pixel XL a buy or don't buy? Is it worth the premium price tag? I'm going to have to say it's a Buy. Here's! What I like first I love? It's beautiful q, HD AMOLED display its great performance. It's a great camera I, like the fact that it has video stabilization, great battery life, Android nougat 7.1, which means you'll continuously get updates and security patches from Google and I love. The Google Assistant, which will only get better as Google continuously updates it and I love the pixel launcher. It's really simple, elegant and very functional, but here's what I don't like about the device I think it's way too expensive I think it's two to three hundred dollars more than it should have come in at, and I think its generic design was a little too safe.

I thought they should have taken some more chances and be a little edgier with the design. I also wish it had front-facing stereo speakers like the Nexus, 6p and I wish it had. Oh, is, although it did do well with his video stabilization software, and they would have liked to have seen wireless charging on this device, especially since it does have a glass portion on the top portion of the back of the device, but with those negatives aside, this is probably the best Android experience you can get right now. Google is essentially made an iPhone equivalent in the Android arena. Great first try which will only get better through updates and through time, and that's why I'm going to give it an 8.5 out of 10 a very good buy indeed. So what do you think about the Google Pixel excels? Is something you're considering getting the majority pick one up if you did how's it working out for you so far, do you think it's too expensive? Do you think it's two to three hundred dollars more than it should have come in at I'm curious to know, leave a comment in the comment section below I want to know what you think? I think this is a phone where you need to look at the some parts as opposed to the individual aspects of this phone.

I. Think the software that Google has put on this device, the Google Assistant, the Google, pixel launcher and the hardware all come together to try to make a good experience and I think they've achieved that, for the most part, I know it can get better. This is the first iteration and I know they will get better through updates and through the next version, but I have to say they did very well first time out, and I know it. People are gonna, say well, looks a little too much like the iPhone. That's exactly what they're going after they're going after a very simple, but yet powerful experience and an elegant look at the same time and I think they, for the most part have achieved that, but I'm curious to know what you think.

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