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hello there my name's go Sims from Andrew authority now google recently launched the pixel and the pixel XL Android smartphones and this really has shaken up the status quo because not only now is Google competing against Samsung and HTC and LG and other smartphone manufacturers but it's also pitching itself directly against Apple because now Google controls the hardware the software and the ecosystem just like Apple controls its hardware its software and its ecosystem now we've done some excellent reviews here on Android all thority if you want to check out the user experience views please go and see LAN and Josh's review it really is X and I wholeheartedly recommend it over today and they take a different approach I want to look at the technology behind the pixel XL so if you like benchmarks charts tables and numbers in general then stick around so let's just remind ourselves of the specs of the pixel and the pixel XL the pixel comes with a 5 inch full HD AMOLED display whereas the pixel XL comes with a 5.5 inch quad HD display they both have the Snapdragon 801 processor they both come with 4 gigabytes of RAM and they both have this excellent 12 megapixel camera with the large pixels inside of it now what I'm going to do today is look at the different aspects of these phones now I'm testing using an actual Google pixel not a pixel XL have a lot of what I've got to say applies to going with the phones so let's start with the display the Google pixel comes with a 5 inch full HD AMOLED display which means going to get deep blacks and some vivid colors but let's have a look at the color profile as you can see here from this graph in the areas of the Greenwood you'll find up there towards the top of the graph they tend to move left slightly towards the blues and the yellows move slightly towards the greens that meet overall the display has a kind of a bluish tint to it but probably you can't detect that with your eyes this is just something picked up by our test equipment so you look at the Reds and the blues and the purples they really do seem to be spot on true representations of those colors now if you look at the graph you'll see the results square boxes that shows you what the color should be at any particular screen brightness and you'll see that actually the dots are the actual result and they're not perfectly matched up but overall this is a pretty good display except that slight twist there in the area of the greens now talking of brightness the Google's hexyl will give you a brightness of 406 nits when it's on 100% brightness inserting after you put it on adaptive display brightness and then you shine a bright light into the sensor actually it manages to turn out 110 or 410 nits so basically looking at a 400 nits display which of course is very good for both indoor and outdoor usage so moving on to the processor both the pixel and the pixel exhale have the that dragon eight-to-one system-on-a-chip from coal coal now basically this is a quad-core processor which has got four 64-bit ARM compatible cause now it uses something called heterogeneous multi-processing which basically two of the cores are high performance they're tuned for giving you the best performance of the phone and there are two calls which are tuned for a high energy efficiency and these four chords work in tandem and when there are light jobs to be done then the two more power energy efficient cause I use when there's lots of complicated stuff and lots of heavy lifting to be done the two bigger calls are use now these four calls are actually all used simultaneously because there are lots of tasks running on your mobile phone lots of things happening at the same time and basically they use according to the scheduler to to the best of their ability to try to get that best performance and yet the best energy efficiency out of your phone so the two high-performance calls on top of 2.15 gigahertz whereas the two energy efficient cause are clocked at one point six gigahertz cause inside of an SOC that's much more than just the processor cores is also the GPU and a DSP and an image processor and of course the modem and those are all excellent components inside of Snapdragon into one in fact if we turn ourselves to performance we find that the a Snapdragon 801 in the pixel actually is faster in terms of the antutu score than both the galaxy s7 both variants of it and the huawei mate nine however when you look at Geekbench you'll find it has a score of 1500 for the single core test and a score of 4154 for the multi-core test and these are actually slower than the ki-rin 960 which we'll find in the mate nine now also ran my own benchmark suite against the Google pixel I've got some benchmarks I've written myself and the first benchmark does some sorting and some stuff with prime numbers and some table hashes and things like that and basically the pixel has got the highest score of any phone eyes personally tested which of course includes the ki-rin 960 and include the galaxy s7 so the pixel is definitely fast when it comes to these overall performance however I have a second benchmark which could have put water droplets into a physics simulation and the idea is it runs for 90 seconds how many droplets of water can it put in if it's running at 60 frames a second um two droplets are put in every single frame now the Google people doesn't score the highest mark at the moment that is still the champion there is the quirian 960 you find the while m89 however it does score ten thousand one hundred and seventy eight out of a possible score of ten thousand eight hundred so at a pretty good score I also have a 3d terrain that I built in unity 3d with a flyover that kind of just flies through a different aspect of the terrain to see what framerate we can get out of this and again the Google pixel has the greatest frame rate but I've seen on any phone I have tested actually managed 37 frames per second which is greater some phones are down in the 19 18 frames per second so this really is a good result so overall the Snapdragon 801 in the Google picture map it of a hill is an excellent processor it's that quad core heterogeneous multi-processing setups and it's got a good GPU and there will be no problem in terms of performance for day-to-day use and when it comes to the battery the Google pixel has two thousand seven hundred and seventy million power battery and the XL has a three thousand four hundred fifty million power battery now the difference there is mainly because the google excel has the bigger display and the big display takes more power and according to Larne and to George basically both phones give the same kind of battery performance because the difference in the size is really just to cope with the bigger screen now they're testing and my personal testing has shown that you are definitely gonna get around five hours of on screen time during an average day and I've done some artificial testing throughout running some videos and running some web browsing and some 3d gaming and if you do that then you will get over five hours or on your phone if you're doing a specific car something much simpler for example like watching a video actually my testing is show me you'll get over ten hours ten and a half hours even out of the goo who picks ups now if you're doing that with a screen brightness at 47 percent which is 200 nits on the Google pixel then you're gonna get ten and a half hours I wondered what would that mean if we bump that up to a hundred percent to over 400 nits and it didn't go down by half by it by any stretch actually went down to just eight and a half hours so even watching a video on full brightness you can get eight and a half hours out of this setup and that's really quite good so both the pixel and the pixel excel come with quick charge from Qualcomm and you can charge the pixel from below 5% up to a hundred percent in around about 100 minutes that's one hour and 40 minutes now if you want to just have a quick boost if you've got not very much battery life and you can get up to 50% in just 30 minutes and likewise you can get 25% in 15 minutes however with all quick charge system the initial charging is much faster than the later charging so you can go from 0 to 70% in maybe 50 minutes but to go from that 70% to 100% takes another 50 minutes so quick charging works very very well for 0 to 70 0 to 80% and then it does tail off as you top the battery up to its full limit now of course the camera is a very important aspect of any smart phone and Google has put a lot of work into the cameras on the pixel XL and the pixel now basically you get that 12 megapixel rear facing camera with the large pixel size which is good for low-light situations you also get phase detection focus you get laser detection focus you can record 4k at 30 frames a second you can record HD at 240 frames per second so this really is technically a good setup but I wanted to test it to see how good it really was so I set up a little scene inside of a light box and I took some photos with the pixel and at the same time took some photos with my Canon DSLR a digital camera and I wanted to see what they came out like now here are the photos and as you can see the pixel is slightly worse than the big expensive Canon camera in good lighting situation seems to me the Canon gives better lighting depth there's some more nuances to the others and the pixel seemed a little bit washed out however the really surprising thing is when you go down to low light situations you will find that actually the Canon did quite a bad job compared to the pixel in fact the pixel did an excellent job in the low light situations and if you look at the zoomed in picture here that I did on with both phones with both cameras you can see that the again the pixel did a better job of picking out the definition of that writing there then you get on the Canon so well done for Google which really is a good camera setup both technically and now I've seen practically it works very well now when it comes to the software of course on the Google pixel you're running and with 7.1 which at the time of making this video is still not officially available for any other phones or some beta versions out now as I'm recording this but it's not officially available so you do get that unique aspect of having handling 7.1 and of course you've got the Google assistant built into it and there are also some good changes in Android 7.1 there's a whole load of videos out there about all the different things in 10.1 but just two things I want to mention one is this storage saver option that allows you to kind of delete things and put Muhtar the cloud to free up space on your phone that's a really good feature that can be automatically launched by any application and that's the new thing that comes with Android 7.1 and of course there's some big changes for VR basically when you're doing VR you want your VR app to have the highest priority running on the device so it can deliver that performance and deliver that experience for the VR headset now in Android 7.1 they've done some stuff that when you're running in VR mode though the app is sort of scheduled at a greater priority so that it can get things out onto display at the frame rate that's necessary so that's a good thing there of course that ties into Google daydream and the VR experience that Google is pushing with this phone and of course with other phones now what's interesting when you boot up the phone's got four gigabytes of RAM and when you boot it up it uses about 1.3 gigabytes and I must say but during my testing running various apps I wasn't doing anything particularly heavy but videos web browsing that I didn't actually see the average uses go over to gigabyte so four gigabytes of RAM is sufficient more than sufficient for a device like this and we talked about internal storage the pixel I've got has 32 gigabytes of internal storage that's about 29 gigabytes once it actually has been formatted and Android itself will use about 6.5 gigabytes for its the system and for the default app so you get about 23 gigabytes free to play with for your apps of your videos and for your photos now all this has been great I must say that the you've got a top processor you've got good display technology you've got a top-of-the-line camera all this stuff is exiting the Google pixel however there are some things missing and we need to mention the things that are missing from the Google picture one of course is an SD card slot I redo like SD card slot to shame the pixel hasn't got one then of course there is no wireless charging some people we like that I use that on my note 5 it's just great in the earrings plot the phone down and it just starts charging that's really quite useful there's no optical image stabilization of taller though there are some software system software image stabilization and of course it would have been nice to have some front-facing speakers to really get that full multimedia experience and finally there isn't actually much in the terms of waterproof II really ip67 would have been nice on a phone like this so although we've got a good package got some good things in it good process a good display good camera good memory excellent software Android 7.1 there are some things missing you need to be aware of that particularly when you consider the price and this is maybe the biggest bug bear that people have the price of the Google pixel is not what we're used to with the Nexus line and really here we can see that Google are competing now directly head-to-head with companies like Apple controlling the hardware the software and the ecosystem and the price tag is coming with that and then we have it my technical overview of the Google pixel and pixel excel I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do give it a thumbs up also don't forget to subscribe to and 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