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the true story of the Google pixel reads almost like a Hollywood movie it's got executive backstab me introduce dr. Eric Schmidt Google's CEO billions of dollars being spent to acquire Motorola's mobile handset business for about 12 and a half billion dollars and despite all that drama and money being spent still seems like nobody cares about the Google pixel so before we got the pixel phones its its precursor its cousin its ancestor was the Nexus line of phones it started back at 2010 with the HTC made Nexus One and it served the purpose of kind of showing how Google thought Android should look Google obviously was making Android they're the ones that were developing it but the products have got the consumers hands with Samsung's take on Android it was HTC's and LG's and Sony's at the time so the Nexus One represented what Android should look like and what Android could be as envisioned by Google so the original Nexus the Nexus One it was made by HTC was a crazy time for phones it was it was 2010 the phone market was still changing and moving everybody was still trying to play catch-up to Apple and I remember when the Nexus One hit had a scroll ball for navigation and that was sort of different but one of the coolest things about it was actually the wallpaper you could tap the wallpaper and it was almost like a little snake pattern wouldn't move around and that seemed really cool and it seemed like something very unappetizing tiny little thing made the original Nexus phone the original Nexus One seemed appealing and that was a Google's vision of Android so there's a couple Nexus phones that stand out obviously the Nexus One I don't weigh there the design of the Nexus 4 always sticks out in my head and a shimmery shiny back wireless charging we had the Nexus 5 that I think was still like the flagship pinnacle of Nexus phones the gigantic at the time Nexus 6 made by Motorola these phones brought with them Google's new operating system you know that was where you saw the next generation of what Google was offering whether it was cupcake whether it was doughnut Eclair Froyo whatever came next that was where you saw it and that was kind of the reference phone this you could see what it could be from Google's software team working nicely with another manufacturers hardware team so it seems like the Nexus line of phones was totally an experiment for something that was going to come bigger it had been rumoured ever since original Nexus 1 that like Google was going to make their own phone and then for years up until the Nexus 6p it was still something that was going to happen it was around the corner so it seemed like a trial period for Google sort of learn what people wanted and during that nexus years of phones there wasn't like a one killer flagship feature so today I'm very excited to introduce you to a new phone made by Google we call it pixel so 2016 comes around and Google made what seemed like a crazy decision at the time to sort of pivot away from the Nexus line of phones and give us what became the pixel in my fits of insomnia I've often wondered this on say what I think about it 3 in the morning why Google abandoned the Nexus line of phones and pivoted to the pixel and there's a few reasons that I can come up with first was to show what they could do as a harvard manufacturer to show other OEMs what Android could and should look like and perform like and they did it with a clean slate so to speak with the pixel it was a new name it was fresh it was something that was a unified form factor in Android when you buy or consider buying a pixel phone you're kind of getting an unofficial pixel promise from Google what you're going to be getting I think paramount amongst that is software support so you're getting at least three years of timely OS and secure the updates so you know your Android phone will have the latest and be as secure as Android can be you're getting as close to a pure Android experience as can be so you're getting Android as a Google envisions it and usually does special features thrown in there to getting things like nitesite top shot and call screening things that are value adds to the pixel line of phones and perhaps the biggest pixel promise is one of the best and getting better all the time constantly learning camera experience and I can't overstate enough how amazing and awesome and sometimes seeming like magic Google's learning engine is with their cameras the pictures get better as the phones age and that's something that's very unique to what Google is doing three they're getting a phone that was made and manufactured you know by Google or with Google's oversight they're probably expecting the phone to age you know like the John Stamos get better as it gets older but six months in that phone has been more a Benjamin Button style of aging it hasn't worked and hasn't gotten better as it's gotten older see famously the pixel 3 has been plagued with memory management issues which is almost unforgivable in the phone world it has slowed down incredibly and was until the phone had been out for almost four months before Google finally fixed the problems so you're spending flagship money for phone to get a degraded and user experience so and don't misinterpret any of this is saying the pixel is not a good phone it's a very solid phone and people who have them tend to fall in love with them it's just not selling well and even Google is admitting as such so it's interesting too about the pixel sales numbers as Google's bring in like the word level Thunder for the advertising campaigns I mean literally lower level Thunder it was featured everywhere in Avengers end game we've seen commercials national campaigns everywhere there's been a lot of dollars spent to push the pixel which kind of losing to believe that Google is in this game for the longer haul and they're not just trying to get people to see what Android could be they want people to actually buy their phones so kind of begs a question with all the money that Google is putting behind launching these phones and promoting these phones and advertising them why they're not selling well and so the answer may be software bugs I mean as far as the pixel to goes there was OLED burnin the screen was perhaps subpar to a lot of people's eyes pixel three issues at launch with photos not being saved to the camera roll and then shortly after they had memory management issues these are problems that affect almost every user of the phone and if they're not affecting every user they're certainly changing that perspective at least of the devices and the big selling point for the pixel is awesome camera and software updates are sure the two giant selling points that come with it but now the competition has gotten so much better and you generally get a lot more so comparing the Android world to the Galaxy S ten you're getting things like an in screen finger / reader you're getting a wide-angle camera you're getting a lot of things that you're not getting with the pixel and the Delta between how good the pixel camera is versus the competition has gotten smaller and smaller and smaller so the reasons to want to get a pixel have also gotten smaller with it so obviously Google's had problems selling the pixel phone you can see that just by the sales numbers they might also have a solution to this to get more pixel phones and more people's hands so Google's clearly had problems selling the pixel phones despite them being a really solid options in the smartphone market and the problem might have been the price and Google has perhaps solved that with the new pixel 3s the 3a and the three XL bringing I think the best features of their Big Brother's the down market at a price point where they become much more affordable and also I think more appealing to the mass market so you're getting the amazing Cam Ranh getting a pretty awesome build quality despite it now being a polycarbonate back you're losing some things like the IP rating you're getting some things - like a 3.5 millimeter headset jack the price point that the a in the XL are at right now my opinion should be where rule is competing at that's the sweet spot and at that price point there's tolerance for perhaps some software or memory issues there's tolerance for maybe not the best screen in the market but you're still getting that flagship camera I think Google is gonna move a lot of units and when you look back at six months later on the 3a and the 3x hey Excel thinks may be a different story than the three and a 3x over Brizzy a lot of phones that got moved off shelves perhaps more availability people will maybe look at the pixel line again or reconsider whatever might come next me Google so I 399 now the pixel of 3a is a really compelling phone you are getting that amazing camera experience out having to spend 700 bucks to get there I think it was a brilliant decision by Google and I would imagine they're still probably gonna be losing money on each phone right now but they may not for Gen 2 and Gen 3 of the new a line I wouldn't be surprised if those a and Axl version phones just drop the and become the next version of the pixel so since that video was films have been rocking the pixel 3a for about five days and the impressions is still hold true it is a really solid phone I don't mind the plastic build it still feels premium and I'm more convinced now than I was before that this is the market Google should be competing it I don't think they belong competing with the flagship Samsung flagship LG and Apple this is a perfect space for them to be in you get the best that Google has to offer with the amazing cameras at a price point that's more affordable and I think will help Google ultimately sell more phones which it seems is the goal but certainly there's a lot of competition here including that guy right there behind me the oneplus 7 so I think the pixel 3 a-line is perfect I still hope that this is where the pixel line goes and don't interpret this video as me not liking pixel foam that's never what this has been about the pixel line of phones have been very good they've had a troubled past all the way back to the Nexus line of phones but their future for the first time it seems promising