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what's up guys long hear from Andrew authority and the pixel 3 and pixel 3 XL are probably two of the most highly anticipated smartphones of 2018 and a lot of that probably had to do with the heavy abundance of leaks which sort of created a lot of hype for these two phones and in this particular video I'm going to primarily be focusing on the pixel three XL because that's been my daily driver for the past week but a lot of the stuff that I say for the pixel 3 XL will still apply for the pixel 3 because they are both pretty similar and whatever differences there are between these two phones I will point those out as we go along but I just want to start off with just the raw numbers and raw specs and get those out of the way so we can get to the more interesting stuff about the pixel 3 so inside there's a snapdragon 845 processor and 4 gigabytes of RAM you also have either 64 or 828 gigabytes of internal storage there is still no headphone jack there wasn't one last year and there wasn't one this year so no real surprises there and as far as general performance goes these phones are very fast and fluid nothing short of what I would have expected from a pixel phone that's also running stock Android and I feel like the touch response on the pixel phones are pretty much on par with the touch response of an iPhone it definitely feels way better to me than any other flagship Android phone on the market everything just feels instantaneous when you're opening up an app or just simply scrolling through a webpage it's just a buttery smooth experience and it's great the big question mark here is the four gigabytes of RAM and with so many smartphones out there nowadays shipping with six and eight gigabytes of RAM Ford just doesn't really sound like a whole lot anymore but as of right now it holds up just fine as the how it's gonna hold up six months a year two years down the road after multiple software updates remains to be seen but I trust Google I trust Google's software updates and the pixel to excel has held up just fine after a bunch of software updates so I kind of assume the same thing is going to with the pixel 3xl but we'll just have to wait and see as for the battery life on the pixel 3xl it's been ok the most amount of screen on time i've gotten so far is around four and a half but it typically hovers around the three to three-and-a-half hour mark and if I'm using this phone pretty normally I'm just checking emails checking social media texting maybe a couple YouTube videos here and there I can get through a full day perfectly fine but if I'm really hammering down on this phone I'm watching a lot of YouTube doing a lot of gaming taking a lot of photos with the camera I can barely eat out a full day so I really wish the battery life was better but unfortunately it's not on the front of the pixel 3 and pixel 3 XL you still have an OLED display just like last year's model the pixel 3 has a 5.5 inch 1080p display and the pixel 3 XL has a six point three inch 1440p display and the OLED displays on this year's pixel threes are leaps and bounds better than last year's pixel twos you don't get any sort of weird color shift and these screens are vibrant and colorful right out of the box they look fantastic I do however wish that they were a little bit brighter they seem a little dim to me and they don't really get that bright until you're around 75% or higher but if you're hovering around the 50% mark it seems really dim so that's my only complaint with the screen but overall it's a really good looking OLED panel now obviously we can't talk about the pixel 3 excels display without talking about that knotch yes it is a very big notch it's a notch that only a mother could love if there was a beauty contest for notches the pixel 3 XL would not win but just like any other smartphones that has a notch you get used to it and I got used to it pretty quickly it only took me basically the first day to get used to this notch and it doesn't really bother me anymore but if you are completely anti not you hate notches at all costs that's what the pixel 3 is for the pixel 3 delivers a close to bezel a screen experience without having a knotch but at least the knotch on the pixel 3xl serves a purpose for how big it is it is housing two front facing cameras and it also houses one of the front facing speakers the other one is on the bottom chin and for having dual front-facing speakers these speakers are not as impressive as they seem on paper they feel a little bit quiet to me especially in comparison to other phones that i've listened to that have front facing speakers and they also lack a lot of low-end punch the sound delivery is really flat so it is pretty nice to have that stereo sound but I wish the audio was a little bit better one of my favorite things about the pixel 3 XL is the way that it looks and feels even though it doesn't really look all that different from last year's model Google's made some pretty subtle changes that makes this phone feel a little bit nicer to hold so the sides are rounded and tapered now so it feels thinner in the hand even though it's actually not it's exactly the same dimensions as lasher's model and the other big change here is the entire back panel is completely made of glass but it still has that familiar two-tone pixel look so the bottom 3/4 is coated in this satin like finish which accomplishes a couple of things one it gives the phone a lot more grip and two it does a much better job of hiding fingerprints and I'm honestly amazed that nobody has thought of this or done this before but it's definitely something that more manufacturers should do especially if they're going with a glass back the other benefit to having an all glass back is this enables wireless charging so you can use any wireless charger of your choice but if you use Google's own wireless charger the pixel stand this will actually turn your phone into a Google home so you can talk to Google assistant obviously and you can also do other really cool things like have it show you a slideshow of photos that you've taken which i think is pretty neat there's no real surprises with the software on the pixel 3 and pixel 3 XL it's running Android 9 Pi which we're all pretty familiar with at this point but if you want to learn more about Android Pi we actually did a very in-depth video on it so check that out up here in a card or it'll be linked down below in the description but as Google likes to do they always add in pixel specific features and one of those features is the digital well being which can show you different statistics like how often you unlock your phone how many notifications you receive and also the amount of time that you're spending within the apps that you use you can also set app timers which is in allotted amount of time that you're allowed to spend within a specific app so for example if you set an app timer for 15 minutes for a snapchat you're only allowed to spend 15 minutes on snapchat per day and once you spend those 15 minutes the app becomes paused for the entirety of the day and this is basically designed to give you better control over the apps that you use in your life the other big feature is the screen call feature which you can use to screen phone calls and it responds to these calls using an AI voice and I've used this feature a couple of times it works really well as a deterrent for random numbers or calls from scam likely which I get calls from all the time because scam likely likes to call me so screen call is amazing for stuff like that but I think it actually works a little too well because every time that I've used it the person that's on the other end doesn't actually listen or respond they just hang up immediately so I guess that's kind of what you're looking for but I think sometimes people actually want to know who is on the other end and so far nobody has actually responded to the AI voice but hey it's a cool feature it works and I think it's a feature that a lot of people are really gonna appreciate okay so it's the moment you've all been waiting for the camera one of the main reasons why I use the pixel two so much as my daily driver last year was because of how good the camera was and the Google pixel threes camera is just even better from top to bottom this camera is amazing the camera UI has been completely revamped it's now a lot easier to navigate by just swiping back and forth between the different moe and some people might say it's a little bit iOS like I say it's simple it's intuitive and it works so I love it the image quality is just as fantastic as ever Google's hdr+ image processing and their color reproduction is just completely unrivaled by anyone nobody's doing what Google is doing right now the dynamic range is amazing there's so much detail in the highlights and the shadows and this camera just performs well in pretty much any lighting situation whether it's daylight nighttime low-light or really high contrast situation with a lot of Sun this camera can just perform really well and pull out a really good image and that just speaks volumes about Google's image processing and their camera software so I'm really impressed with this camera and of course you also have all the different new modes that they've added I covered that in a separate video so if you guys want to check that out that'll again be linked up in a card or down below in the description and portrait mode is still just as good as ever on both the front and the rear cameras and on the front you now have that wide of the lens which makes taking group photos a lot easier and you also just get more scenery into your shots so your front-facing photos look a lot better and the same way that the pixel 2 was basically the best camera for the entire year I could see the pixel 3 doing the same thing again this year so I want to wrap up this review a little bit differently I want to lay out a list of pros and cons and then also answer a couple of questions I want to answer the question of should you upgrade if you're coming from a pixel 2 or pixel to excel and should you buy this phone in general if you're just looking for a phone to upgrade to let's start with a list of pros and cons and pros is the build quality is really good the screen is good as well it has great performance a fantastic camera its ip68 dust and water resistant and it has wireless charging as for the cons I don't think there's quite that many cons the speakers definitely could be better especially for front-facing speakers at least on the pixel 3xl the headphone jack doesn't have one so that could be a pro or a con depending on if you care about the headphone jack and battery life could definitely be better as well now should you upgrade to this phone if you're coming from a pixel to or pixel to excel I will have to say no because I think a lot of the features on the pixel 3 and 3 XL are potentially going to be ported to the pixel 2 through a software update so I would sort of hang around for that first and if that doesn't happen then I would maybe consider upgrading but otherwise I would just wait for software updates and see if a lot of the camera stuff and a lot of the Android 9 stuff that is on the pixel here come to the pixel 2 which I think there's a pretty good chance of that happening now what about if you're just looking for a phone to upgrade to should you buy this phone and I would say yes I think it's totally worth the price some people might consider the pixel 3 and pixel 3 XL to be $8,000 smartphone I personally don't consider it that because this phone caps out at $1,000 it doesn't start at $1000 and then goes upwards from there this is not the Galaxy Note 9 or the iPhone 10's the pixel 3 starts at $7.99 and the pixel 3xl starts at 899 which i think is pretty fair pricing and overall generally pretty competitive to other smart phones on the market but that's just me and overall I think as a whole package the camera the performance the display the design everything this phone is completely worth what it is that you're paying but that's it for this review I hope you guys enjoyed it if you did give it a thumbs up subscribe down below if you haven't already thanks for watching and I will talk to you guys in the next video