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unlike most other tech youtubers I'm not at a level yet where I can get a new phone every few months so when I was able to upgrade for my iPhone 6s plus to my iPhone tennis max I was very excited and then shortly after Google decided people sent me their new pixel 3 which just made me completely ecstatic so using these new flagship devices back-to-back has kind of been like sensory overload considering what I was using previously so I wanted to share my experience with you guys and wanted to point out what I like and what I dislike about both of these phones one of the things I feel I phones always had over Android devices was just our overall the build quality there was a time not all flagship Android devices were this slab of glass and metal like the iPhone was since the iPhone 4 and when Google first released our first pixel phone it was a good first try but it was certainly some room for improvement even the pixel 2 was a little lackluster compared to its competition build quality wise but now the pixel 3 this phone does have to build quality deserving of a flagship now the pixel threes build quality isn't better than the iPhone 10 as but it is up there and even gives the iPhone 10 or a run for its money one of the reasons why I like the picks were 3 so much is because it's been bad fully designed to be used even without a case like I mentioned of my iPhone 10s max video the iPhone 10s just isn't designed to be used without a case it's way too round it's way too slippery and it's hard to know which way is up or down whereas a pixel 3 has this optional always-on display so you never end up picking this phone up upside down all of the physical control buttons on the right side making this an awesome one-handed device the chance for that just makes it super easy to hold on to and the new textured back also gives you a good amount of grip in the hand and you don't have to worry about the pixel 3 slide around the table when you place it down and not to mention the minimal camera hump now when the pixel 3 first came out there were a lot of people saying that they knew it's back scratch to weight so easily but I've been using this phone as my daily driver for the last few weeks and the back looks perfectly fine to me so for an $800 phone the build quality on the pixel 3 does deliver this time around media consumption on the pixel 3 is also up there with the iPhone 10's max since they both have OLED panels provided by Samsung you're getting comparable vibrant colors and restore blacks that otherwise wouldn't be possible on LCD screens but something that I really don't like about the pixel 3 when watching videos with it is just how much the dual front were speakers vibrate the phone it just makes it much harder to focus on or get lost in the videos you're watching Dan with the iPhone but somewhere the pixel three does fall short is its battery life plainly he said the pixel three is not an all-day phone for the way I use it but the principle three does offset this poor battery life by coming included with a fast charger right of the box something that the thousand dollar-plus iPhone doesn't and if you want fast charging on your iPhone and you're gonna have to pay an additional seventy bucks but I also want to take a moment to acknowledge the new pixel stand like I've mentioned in the past I've never really cared for wireless charging because it wasn't as fast and was wasteful compared to having a wired charger but the new picks will stand you still get rapid charging with the pixel 3 when you drop a pixel 3 and the stand is gonna start charging your phone at 10 watts instead of 5 watts like other cheap chargers so you're truly getting the convenience of wireless charging without sacrificing speed and this is truly impressive cuz for the time being there isn't an accessory for the iPhone that can match this the air power is nowhere to be found and even though Logitech does sell a similar standing wireless charger for the iPhone that charges it at 7.5 watts that charge was still wirelessly charges the iPhone slower than if it had a wired connection so what I'm saying is the new picks will stand is to the pixel 3 like air pods or to an iPhone they're a must-have accessory that elevates your user experience and you're not gonna want to live without it after you've gotten so used to it when I was got back to the phones the line between Android and iPhone has increasingly blurred over the years because they each take from one another Android has always given the user as many customization options as possible but sometimes it can get a little overwhelming and it can take a bit of trial and error to get your phone perfectly dialed in to how you want it I'm still messing around with the settings and home screen on my pixel 3 to get it just right the iPhone on the other hand has always tried to make things as simple as possible but does limit the user one of my biggest gripes with the iPhone is that you can't place apps on the bottom half of the screen unless you have extra apps up top pushing them down for you even though it did take me a little while to get used to navigating through the iPhone 10s max I've grown to really like the new gesture based navigation it's very fluid but it does force you to use two hands on your iPhone more often than not the virtual home button on the pixel 3 is fine but one of the things I dislike most about Android right now is multitasking more often than not I end up picking the wrong app or accidentally opening the app drawer so even though stock Android is much easier to use these days I still feel the iPhone still gives you a cleaner and easier user experience I'll be it more limited now even though I'm not a die-hard Android or Apple fanboy one of the things that always made me am prehensile about switching to an Android device these days what's the real mental fingerprint sensor on most devices after a few days I did get used to this rear-mounted sensor but I did notice I had significantly more failed attempts than what I was used to when I had my iPhone 6s plus and since I'm pretty indifferent when it comes to face ID you can say I'm really hoping under screen fingerprint sensors to really catch on and improve in the next year or so but one of the things I really like about the pixel 3 is the active edge I greatly prefer Google Assistant over Siri I can trust Google assistant to correctly act on my voice commands than Siri that's why I still mainly use Google assistant on my iPhone and why I have so many Google homes around the house and just being able to squeeze the pics for three and dance floor talking is another underrated feature Google's new call screening feature on the Pixlr 3 is also a pretty cool concept and I feel it has a lot of potential unfortunately right now since the general public just isn't educated on this call screening feature they either just end up hanging up or they proceed to leave a voicemail so for the time being the call screening feature has been a pretty cool feature to play around with for the first week I've had the phone but now I just don't use it because I found it's faster to either reject or just answer to call myself but now let's talk about the cameras even though the pixel 3 only has a single camera I think it manages to capture better stills than the iPhone key word being stills the pics were 3 manages to capture more color accurate cells than the iPhone the pixel 3 also manages to capture a much wider field of view than the iPhone making it much better for both selfies and indoor use Google is also doing a lot with software they have much better and sharper edge detection than iPhones remote but Google does like to get carried away with their bokeh effect so much in fact I have to go in and manually reduce it in most of the time I just feel Google is trying too hard and going hey we can do bokeh effect too and we only have a one lens but keeping on the topic of Google's software I also really like the pixel three cause of all of the baked in panoramic effects Google's software does a really good job of stitching together photos and making them look really good while also avoiding creating weird artifacts but if you take a second to look closer you'll notice it doesn't look like a real picture it starts to look more like a render than a photograph but still as time goes on Google will continue to improve on this but even though the pixel 3 does take some great stills I think the iPhone still takes much better looking video I just can't help but notice the pixel 3 video is a little more washed out the foreground and background separation is a little weak and to me the image just is an S crisp as the iPhone but overall even though phone updates are becoming more and more incremental it's obvious Google is really trying to catch up with Apple by really improving their hardware but also pushing the boundaries regarding what can be done through software when Apple first released our iPhone the biggest thing they had going for them was that they made their own hardware and were able to fully optimize it with their own software they've also done a very good job with the years of building their own ecosystem of products and services that make you less likely to leave their walled garden which means you end up giving Apple more and more of your money Google on the other hand took a completely different approach when it came to Android their operating system was open sourced that any manufacturer could use for free Google's main objective was just to get as many people as possible to use their digital services but now Google is taking a more Apple approach when it comes to releasing our own hardware like during new pixel 3 and they're really trying to compete with their own ecosystem through their physical and digital products and since phone upgrades these days are becoming more and more incremental ecosystems and digital services like cloud storage of voice assistance and timely updates are more important than ever when it comes to choosing your next phone and I feel the line between Android mainly the pixel 3 and pixel 3 Excel and iPhone is becoming increasingly blurred if you made it this far I guess you enjoyed the video so hit that like button and get subscribed it helps out more than you realize support the channel by clicking on the links down below and I'll catch you next time