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hey how's it going Dave Tootsie here and there's a lot of hype on the market right now for the pixel to excel not so much the pixel - but the excel is pretty hot right now but there's another phone on the market that I've always felt was under marketed underappreciated and just more importantly under hyped especially on YouTube and that's this phone the LG V 30 so this is made by the same company as the pixel 2 XL they're both made by LG this one in particular was the gray and silver one but I've actually put a marble D brand skin on it cuz I didn't love the silver trim I wish I'd just gotten the black one the black trim looks way better than the silver trim in real life and a D brand skin would look good on that one as well so the reason why I made this video is because the pixel 2 XL and the LG v 30 have a lot of similarities both are running snapdragon 835 with 4 gigs of ram which is going to give you kick-ass performance they both have a rear fingerprint sensor which I'm a big fan of they both have big batteries the one on the pixel 2 XL is slightly bigger haven't tested it fully but the V 30 gives you a full day of use and I wouldn't be surprised if the pixel to excel gives something very similar they're both quite water-resistant now the higher number on the V 30 I would consider insignificant its IP 68 instead of IP 67 on the pixel 2 XL and it's probably because the pixel 2 has larger speaker apertures upfront so it's harder to keep water out is my guess they both have awesome 1440 PP OLED displays supposedly they're both using the same panel beautiful colors really inky blacks but there's one big difference the V 30 has significantly thinner bezels than the pixel 2 XL when you compare the two side-by-side you can't just help but tunnel vision on the difference now the reason why the pixel 2 XL has a bigger bezel I'm sure a big part of it is because it has the speakers that's got two front-facing speakers I'm a big fan of those on smartphones but the V 30 just looks so much nicer to me and then the more I use it the more I look at the hardware the more just feels like a much better phone in terms of its hardware first it has the microSD slot I mean that's something that I personally don't care too much about but I know a lot of you guys are really interested in expandable storage and then you look at the cameras the V 30 is obviously a very different looking camera setup than the pixel to excel but it's also a really good camera the pixel to camera is gonna be amazing I took a few photos of the event and they just looked really really clean but this camera is also fantastic it's one of the best on the market right now it's got a wide-angle lens which can be awesome so a lot of phone companies will use black and white lenses or a portrait lens as the secondary camera this one uses the wide-angle one and by far it's my favorite of all the secondary camera lenses it's just so much more useful for the photos that I take and I know the pixel to excel has the highest DxO mark right now which may or may not be important to you but numbers aside v30 awesome camera and the video mode on this thing is surprisingly good the lenses and the sensor are obviously good but the software and the amount of control you have over the footage is unbelievable and it even has log footage so if you want to capture the most color data I mean see log on a phone is crazy the v30 still has a headphone jack but more importantly it has a really high-quality deck but no amount of me explaining things or me describing how the audio sounds is gonna do justice it really is like looking at a 4k screen versus a 1080p screen except it's for your ears and it's one of those things where you need to have good Hardware like a good set of headphones and I guess it'll depend on the hearing of each person but if you have a good quality source file and decent headphones even the difference in audio quality is phenomenal so if you're into music or you think you'll get into music and you want good sound quality a high-quality DAC on a phone is amazing and they even include a very respectable set of earbuds in the box the V 30 also supports wireless charging which for some people might be a small detail but it is a nice feature to have if you look at pricing both of these phones are pretty expensive the V 30 is going for around 800 bucks off contract the pixel 2 XL starts at 8:50 I wouldn't call it like a better value or anything just because you're getting a bunch of free stuff with the pixel to you right now you're getting like the Google mini plus some carriers give you discounts and stuff currently I would consider them a wash in terms of their pricing the software though is gonna be the biggest difference between these two phones the pixel 2 XL is going to run the latest stuff from Google which is awesome I love stock Android the V 30 it's running 7.1.1 which is good it's not the newest stuff but it's also running a skin the LG you I and I don't love it I personally think there are better-looking skins and this there's significantly worse ones but I still don't love the LG skin now what I've done for my phone is that I just nuked the skin I'm running at Google launcher and it's close to stock because Google has enough apps in the Play Store to replace the LG apps if you want but it's never gonna be 100% stock okay if you're on the market for a phone for particularly the pixel to excel take a look at this thing if you're interested in hardware because quite frankly this has better hardware but if you're in it for the software and you want that smooth buttery newest Google experience sure pixel to excel is the way to go but I want to leave one last thing on your minds this phone not just the v30 but the flagship LG phone so last year the V 20 year before that the v10 they've always been great phones but they've always been kind of underrepresented under marketed because just that's how LG does stuff they don't have like crazy billboards they don't have the celebrities that just kind of rock these phones this is a fantastic phone if you look at any publication online or print and you see the reviews for this phone everyone loves it but it just gets buried by the hype of other phones which is unfortunate because they nailed it this year okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs have you liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time