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what's up guys long hear from Andrew Authority and today I'm joined by Joshua Bogar who you will see later on in this video and we already know that the pixel 2 has a very impressive rear facing camera but it also has a really awesome front facing camera so in today's video we're gonna compare it to some of the other big flag ships on the market like the LGB 30 the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Li 1 plus 5t and the more recent honor view 10 just to see how the pixel 2 stacks up in terms of quality and features so we're gonna kick things off by comparing the pixel 2 against the 1 + 5 t + LG b 30 and having had a chance to take a look at a lot of different samples there's a few common themes so you're gonna notice as I cycle through these photos for starters the pixel 2 produces consistently sharper and more detailed results the 5 t produces pretty decent results but is a very distant second place and the LG b 30 just really lags behind both cameras when it comes to quality a lot of that just really has to do with LG using a much lower resolution sensor and if you care about how your selfies look the V 30 isn't going to be the best choice I also like the colors and skin tones that the pixel 2 produces they just look more natural whereas the 5 t + v 30 tend to be more orange e or blue depending on the lighting conditions the pixel 2 is also the only camera out of these three to offer a portrait mode on its front facing camera which I'm a pretty big fan of it isn't perfect as you can see in this example it didn't get my glasses quite right but for the most part it's pretty convincing and I like the extra level depth that it adds to your selfies the 5 T does however offer a beauty mode and I usually don't care for beauty modes that much but the 5 th beauty mode is pretty subtle and does a pretty nice job of hiding blemishes and imperfections without making you look like a wax figure switching gears now let's take a look at how they pixel to compare to the Galaxy Note 8 and on or view 10 hey it's Josh of Ag arm what's going on everybody and I thought I would chime in real quick to just give my thoughts on a couple of other phones as well I have the Google pixel 2 XL going up against the Galaxy Note 8 and then in this case the honor of U 10 which I just did a review but the reason why I'm coming to you in a video on the front-facing camera is because you're allowed to do this that's right this is beauty mode on the front-facing camera now you can kind of use a little bit of a beauty mode on other phones as well but obviously this one really focuses on that so my freckles were gone I don't really have that defining feature of my face everything's really soft now even though I'm under good lighting this is still a very soft portrait and it kind of carries over into the photos as well so what you can see here is that these photos are a lot softer even when the portrait mode or even the white aperture motor turned off of course when you turn all of the beauty mode options to full then things get a little bit crazy and that's simply not the case for the Google pixel - which provides the very opposite end of the spectrum which is going to be sharp photos with a lot of detail and of course you have all of that algorithmic processing happening as well the front-facing camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 provides a number of these options as well but they're not quite as egregious probably the main thing that it does different from the rest is this spot light where it actually takes your face and just makes it brighter than the rest of the photo even when you're in good lighting you can have your face be incredibly lit up these beautification options are not available for use during video recording but there's one thing I really like about the front-facing camera of the Galaxy Note 8 here you can record video in quad HD resolution and that's pretty awesome because you can get some higher quality video out of the front-facing camera for things like vlogs and be able to shrink it down to get even more detail and a better looking video overall when you're bringing it down to let's say 1080p size that's something I've always liked about recent Galaxy phones and it's true for the note 8 as well of course the main difference with the pixel two is that the pixel two allows for a portrait mode using the front camera but on the pixel two you get the blurred background with a highly detailed front subject so I think the main consensus here if you couldn't already tell is that the pickle 2 has a very amazing front facing camera and it steps ahead of the competitors I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing because that's only gonna push other OEMs to put more focus on the front-facing camera and that's going to result in a win-win situation for everyone but that's really it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it if you did please give a thumbs up we definitely appreciate it subscribe to the channel down below if you haven't already so you don't miss out on future videos and of course hit that notification bell while you're at it and also follow us on social media instagram twitter snapchat google+ all that good stuff is linked down below and of course check the website as well and rathore decom because we are your source for all things Android