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the pixel to excel was legendary for his epic camera destroying its competition with its single rear sensor whilst others using multiple cameras to try and get the same results pixel series of phones has seemed to have led in point-and-shoot cameras let alone in smartphone so how does the recently released mid-range pixel 3a hold up to the previous year's flagship that pixel 2x oh hey guys my name's ryan Thomas land run Authority and today we're going to find out right off the bat the pixel to excel looks and feels more premium the glass and metal back with their subtly textured coating and the smoothly rounded front glass definitely give off the impression that the Tex I was just made better this extends to weather proofing to the older model carries ip67 water and dust resistance whilst the newer model doesn't carry any kind of weather proofing at all it's easy to see how these two are related at the top at the back you've got that window you've got the same kind of placements for the logo the fingerprint scanner the buttons even the bezels look fairly similar although if I had to give a winner in this category in terms of design and build it have to be to excel for it's much better build quality on paper the displays are pretty similar six inches of 18 by 9 OLED goodness I'll be at different subtypes of OLED the resolution difference makes the two Excel appear far better on paper but I'd flip that and say that there's a three A's Full HD Plus G OLED panel is better its colors and tone look more natural and it's easier on the eyes than the heavily contrasty and otherwise bland looking peer light of the two Excel LG at the time we're known for making pretty poor panels and the Twix aisle just happened to fall in the line of fire there sure the 3a excels display is of a lower resolution but I find the overall experience to be better the colors the viewing angles and everything like that the two excel does feature some better speakers because they are both stereo and fun facing whereas the 3a XL has stereo speakers but it's more of a hybrid setup but then the three Axl gets one back again because it has a headphone port and the two XL doesn't so if I had to round this out with sound and vision category I'd have to give this one to the three Axl for its better display and the use of a headphone port next up is performance and this is pretty tricky to cover because although the snapdragon 670 is newer and is meant to be mid-range versus the higher-end 835 in the older to excel they perform closer than you may have expected surprisingly the 670 is actually based on the 845 which starts to make more sense when you see the numbers are so close in synthetic benchmarks like Geekbench they are basically a stone's throw away and in gaming the same story continues the tour Excel does pull slightly ahead here and one of the big benefits of going with the older model is the fact that you get 128 gigabyte version instead of just the 64 that you get with the 3x out and since need to have microSD expansion if you want more storage you're gonna have to go with the older model neither phone is going to give you the oneplus and breathtaking speed but neither is actually going to disappoint you and I found performance to be very good on both to these devices but since the two Excel pulls away here we have to give that one to the older model battery life is thankfully a lot easier to compare because the Sree Excel has a lower resolution screen a more power efficient system on the chip and has a larger battery at 3700 milliamp hours it handily pulls away from the 35 20 milliamp hour cell found in the older pixel to excel and I found back to your life to just be a complete win for the three XL of course neither is at that kind of 2019 standard which is around 4000 million powers but if I had to give just a clear winner it would have to be the 3a Excel and neither feature wireless charging which is bear the shame the pixels biggest feature it's camera system is something that is so contrasting on both devices that it's really weird the older pixel to excel likes to wash out colors more and add more contrast and I know give kind of a warmer image not to say that 2 XL is bad but it's just not quite up there and I would take the 3 Excel for it's much better dynamic range and with a new essentially updated software that kind of makes sense so it's 3 to 2 the newer model the 3a excellent I was kind of expecting this to happen yes I know that in the general gist of things the 2 XL has some better hardware it's got a much higher resolution screen it's got a slightly more powerful system on a chip and its overall build better however the 3 XL is just that good that it's better than the old flagship the reason we're comparing the Tuesday is because they're very similar in price the 3 XL is slightly more expensive if you want to buy one brand new but the 2 exhale can be had for 200 to 300 pounds or around 300 US dollars which is awesome when you consider what you'll get in for the money if I had to personally take one away it will be the three axl it's better camera is better screen and it's better battery life all add up to make it the better option for me even if I'm shelling out just a lift a bit more free we're really excited to see what Google does with the pixel 4 and if you have any thoughts on that please leave them in the comments whilst you're there please like and subscribe if you're new around here to never miss a video like this one thank you all so much for watching mine has been ryan thomas with android authority I'll see you later peace