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now this is a video using your reactions via a tweet and also the YouTube comments on my hands on video so it's about the Google pixel and I think I should address the elephant in the room I am just worried about the guy who tripped in your 6p comparison I hope he is alright let me assure you guys that no one was harmed in the making of that hence on video a fresh cigar from Android authority what's going on everybody and we're here to talk about the Google pixel and the pixel excel now we are looking forward to getting those devices in our hands and doing our full reviews but even just right after the announcement of the two phones you guys had a lot of stuff to say about it so what I'm doing in this video is using tweets and also comments on my hands-on video so that I can relay back what you guys have been making the discussion about these phones now I'm not going to go through the trouble of actually trying to pronounce anybody's names you can go in and see it just over on the side who tweeted or commented on that particular video so let's go ahead and get started and I alluded to it earlier the big elephant in the room is of course the price of these phones number one costly number two should have started with 64 gigabytes it's definitely a beast but the price tag may be the biggest obstacle in considering to get one I actually kind of agree with all of this the 32 gigabytes might be good for the typical user especially somebody that doesn't take a lot of pictures and let's say videos in 4k which definitely takes up all of the space in the phone really quickly but 128 gigabytes is still a really good option to have starting out at 64 gigabytes well that would have been a nice thing to have I agree the Nexus 5 was $350 the Nexus 5x was 380 the pixel is 650 and I thought Google phones were all about good specs at a good price it's a shame that it's not that case anymore now there are a lot of people being very vocal about this particular aspect of the pixels and we have talked about this on the andr thority podcast Joe Hindi in particular kind of put it very succinctly that all of the Nexus users got a little bit too used to having their phones be at a good price that was the case of the Nexus and well the pixel is very much a different beast at this point now whether or not you agree with that I can understand I'm also a little bit peeved about the very high price of these phone so I can see where both sides of the argument are coming from pretty nice phones but definitely too expensive I would buy two oneplus threes instead and they would be just as fast so one of the best parts about Android is that you have a lot of choices but one of the worst parts about it for the pixel is that you do have a lot of choices one kidney might not be enough just canceled my pre-order can to justify the damn price well it's great that you pre-ordered it but shouldn't you have known that the price of the phone was that high when you were actually pre-ordering it or maybe thought about it after a while and decided to cancel it because well maybe you realize the price really is that high it looks like an older iPhone and I think the low price points is what made the Nexus phone so cool I'll wait for sleeker hardware in the future that may justify the price points now to go back to a point that I made earlier it might be better to think of the pixel line as a completely different beast rather than actually connecting it to the Nexus line just because it's coming from Google doesn't mean that pixel and Nexus are at all the same thing galaxy s7 and s7 edge over the Google pixel and pixel excel because water-resistance microSD card supports and in addition I wish that gone with dual front-facing speakers now having a microSD card I can kind of agree with that especially if with a 32 gigabyte model I will be the nice to have some extra storage but at least you get the unlimited storage in Google photos so you can have everything in the cloud and you can save some device storage that way here comes another iPhone one I don't see I'll put the word C there anything special I just want this phone to be snappy just like the iPhone software and hardware are made by Google it has to be faster and for now I'm going to say that when I was at the Google event it did seem like the pixel phones were really snappy they were definitely polished and because google makes Android nougat and there's the 7.1 version that's in it well yeah it did seem like it was streamlined and definitely as smooth as you would want it to be they are awesome I wasn't happy to see the chin at first but I'm over it now the chin is kind of big after all if this is indeed an HTC designed device maybe this doesn't come as much of a surprise but then again you also have a very powerful what should be a very powerful microphone in there so it can always be picking up your voice and accurately do speech-to-text so I guess I can see where this is coming from but I also understand why there might be a lot of chin there and just for the sake of a little bit of fun there Jaime Rivera actually said what's up with the chin himself - so he's this person's not alone in what he's saying about the design of this device and then one of the big portions here in q4 there's a lot of competition and the pixel devices are missing the right feature to really stand apart now I do agree with this as well like I said earlier there's a lot of devices that are available in the Android space and the pixel is kind of trying to nudge itself in there and I don't know if it really has the staying power to actually do so if Google assistant will be made available to other devices I hope that it does personally but I also understand that if it's what really makes the Google pixel stand apart from everything maybe that's the future you were trying to look for it's an iPhone hashtag made by Google only with the home button placed on the back I hadn't really thought of it that way but if you take a look at the back of that device it's kind of funny that you make that connection no oh is no IP rating no wireless charging no SD card no dual camera no stereo speakers no physical button Google obviously wants to make sure that the focus of the Google pixel and the pixel excel are the Google assistant and also the camera which they did a good job with in the Nexus 6p so there are a couple of trade-offs here and yeah a lot of people out there want these particular features to be in the phone but then again you have other phones if you really do want those - now even though a lot of the criticism might be coming through these tweets take a look at this comment right here am I the only one who is excited for the phone no not at all we're super excited I'm super excited to get my hands on a pixel excel and to review it I actually think that Google assistant is pretty cool actually so there's a lot to like about the phone I'm gonna put the camera through its paces and know you're not the only one that's excited I think the transition from Nexus to pixel has changed the very reason people bought these phones earlier on never been more excited but they took away the affordable in their flagships something we loved about hashtag Nexus now I actually really like this response because it takes into account the fact that Nexus probably had its own identity and thus had its own features and price so while it isn't completely valid for many users to feel like they are being let's say overcharged or maybe these funds are too expensive for them because they're used to previous Nexus phones it's important to understand that the pixel line is completely different I totally get where you're coming from and I feel your pain trust me but it's kind of clear now that we're not gonna have Nexus phones for a while if at all so you know this is what Google has brought us and to end this video just a couple of final tweets some fun ones rather from a couple of our friends a quick shout out to you guys just pre-ordered an XL I'm gonna hate returning my note 7 but at least the pixel won't explode on me god forbid the pixel actually has to get discontinued the way that the note 7 has and of course just making sure that we're all very practical about all this lawn responds with you don't know that just yet they make me really blue they speak to my quite black soul I think I'll remember this day until I'm really silver now the only question I have for that is what exactly do you mean by really silver so that should do it for this reactions videos I just wanted to bring you guys a look into what you guys are saying about the pixel and pixel XL and about this and change in Google's mentality at large now in the future we might do more reaction videos like this so stay tuned to andrew authority for hands-on device videos and make sure you let us know how you feel about various pieces of news and if you see a tweet from us asking your opinion you can always respond to that and maybe you'll be featured in a video like this as well keep it tuned to Android Authority for even more about the Google pixel and the pixel XL and future devices of course and stick around for that full review if you're still on the fence and have them out pre-ordered your device already of course there's a long wait for it still so keep it tuned here for that and even more because we are your source for all things Android