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it is versus time here at TechnoBuffalo and for this battle we've got the two kings of Android and I'm ready to piss off 50% of you in one corner we've got the latest from Samsung this is the note 8 in the other the latest from Google this is the pixel to excel on paper and objective tests these two sit atop the Android throne I'm sorry for UV 30 or P 10 fans out there these are the two phones to beat it is 2018 so you change up the categories a little bit we've got six categories to pick a winner and like all of our verses it will not be a cop-out whatever is best for you type answer we're gonna declare a winner so to round out our six categories the first is Hardware this is now including the build and spec so device we've got camera display software battery and intangibles so our first category is Hardware this used to be build in previous verses but now encompassing everything inside and outside of the phone so on paper these phones are extremely similar the US version the Galaxy Note 8 which we're talking about the Snapdragon 835 the RAM stories a bit different the note eights got 6 as opposed to the 4 in the pixel 2 XL I have not had any sort of slow down at all with the note 8 in fact performance has been incredibly fast and things that are usually pretty intensive things like multitasking no issue with that whatsoever really intense gaming no issues I have had no OS slowdown I've had no OS stutters and no OS issues so if you had issues with other Samsung phones in the past leave that aside the note 8 is incredibly quick for the build side of things aesthetically this might be one of the most beautiful phones ever made in my opinion I love the way this phone looks I love the way this phone feels the glass on the back certainly makes it fragile but from a purely aesthetic standpoint the note 8 is a work of art so we'll talk later at length I promise about the display but the infinity display on the phone rounds out the way the phone looks and feels I love the curve and how it sits in the hand and on the negative side I've talked long and hard red in the face like the stupid location the fingerprint sensor I don't care if he's a case or it's fine for you I'm the one making this video and for me that's a stupid location I wish they'd put it somewhere else which we'll probably see in the upcoming Galaxy s 9 so yeah so the story for the note it's fast it's beautiful and it's really quick but it's not to be necessarily outdone by with the pixel to excel brings to the table and you think just cuz it's got to be server and less it gonna be slower not the case it's amazing what can happen when software and hardware at least for the most part get vertically integrated this phone is a beast on the design standpoint the pixel choose a nice phone it's a goodish looking phone it's gotten bigger bezels than we've seen on late 2017 I guess now 2018 standards but you do have front facing speakers which are nice the screen is still pretty good so the two-tone look of the pixel is not for everybody's taste I like the metal feel I like the way the metal complements the glass least aesthetically on the device I've said it quite a bit in other videos I do not like the ridge that comes around the side of the screen my finger hits it I prefer the infinity edge that I've got on the note it's a functionally designed phone it is function over form here that's what Google is known for it's this phones not gonna win any design awards and might win awards later on but it comes to design it's certainly not going to take the cake from the gorgeous things that we've got from Samsung and on the positive side they put the fingerprint sensor we're fingerprint sensors belong not next to the camera sensor where you can reach it without having to turn your phone around so hats off to you google for actually doing what you should do the fingerprint sensor I know a lot of this is probably the hardest category that I've had to pick a winner that was a theme that came through throughout all these categories but I'm not gonna cop out and say anything a tie for me when the best features about the no-dick that I use all the time and that is the s-pen having that option to use the s-pen being able to plug in headphones listen to music are things that I have used that give the Note 8 its lights but I'll be in an edge over the pixel 2 XL Samsung takes this round so next let's jump into camera and I want to say these are two of the best smartphone cameras on the market it's hard to take bad pictures with either of these but there are many factors to make one of them better let's start with what we've got from Samsung and a no date there's a case you can't recite foe inspection the top of your head here's what the Galaxy Note 8 is packing so it's a 12 megapixel dual pixel sensor F 1.7 aperture and 2 times optical zoom and dual o is so portrait shots are all the rage on smartphones it's no exception that it's in the note 8 and it takes incredible portrait shots I love they can do the focusing afterwards it's really easy to bouquet and blur out the backgrounds incredible job on portrait things and low light things in highlight any picture that I take with the cameras just tend to look good perhaps by some taste a little a little bit saturated I like the poppy colors you can adjust it in settings if I really like what Samsung has done out of the box with the cameras and the front sensor is no slouch either it's got smart out-of-focus 8 megapixels it takes really good selfies I made that I take probably more selfies than I should and often times I find myself reaching for the note 8 the more with the note days is it's hard to take bad pictures in fact you got to be a really crappy photographer to take anything that's bad in any sort of light and that's a theme that colds true with the pixel as well and it's looking at aspect you think this would be a blowout because you know one sensor versus two but damn Google did a great job this time around anything I threw at the pixel to excel just took good pictures and that's true with the note 8 as well where I became really impressed with what the pixel to excel could do within its portrait modes uses machine learning and neural networking to get better it's recognized what a person is recognized hair to recognize the area between fingers junkit strange spider-man webbings and I think that's where the pixel to excel starts to shine while the note 8 is awesome as is the pixel to excel is going to be getting better and already seen it get better over the two ish months as I've been using it yeah it's not perfect I wish to 4k wasn't capped at 30 frames per second but I can overlook all those things for an incredible rear facing camera and incredible front facing camera with portrait mode if I had to pick a device just based on camera in fact if I had to pick any phone in the entire world based just on camera maybe hard-pressed to find one better than the pixels to excel and that's saying something because the Samsung is really good but the 2xl is definitely taking this round alright so next let's go to display and I'm not I'm not gonna belabor this point much longer than it than it needs to we've told a lot of stories I made a whole video about how this planet pixel 2 is not as bad as everybody says and it's really not especially asked in November update it looks a lot better you look at the saturated colors that people tend to like and it's a fine display in its own right when you compare it against the best display and I think is ever bid on a phone 6.3 inch display on the Samsung Note 8 is incredible pictures look incredible the Black Codes are incredibly black obviously the colors are extremely vibrant I say this a lot it looks like there's a sticker on this display I've had this phone for now a better part of three and a half almost four months and I'm still impressed with how good the screen looks even direct sunlight you just cannot beat the screen on the note 8 I'm gonna short this category a little bit because it's not necessary you should have seen this one coming for a mile away Samsung's clearly taking a display category alright so next let's jump it to software this is a new category for us when we reserved we're comparing two phones right in the same operating system and at least on paper they're the same operon system they're both running Android albeit aesthetically very different takes on what Google's OS can offer so I'm not Samsung on the past for their take on Android TouchWiz modern UI or whatever you want to call it it's gotten way better but they're still fighting that stigma from the galaxy s5 and earlier when they threw everything at the kitchen sink at a samsung phone Vivint used a modern Samsung phone if you same device since they need the s7 you are missing out it's gotten a lot better and maybe it's exactly just to say this maybe I'm I'm gonna be screamed at by the Android purists but there's a lot of things that Samsung does on their version of Android that I like better than what Google does on stock OS I like the setting menu I like the dialer like how gestures are integrated I like how handles multitasking at pairing there's a lot of really good things inside of the note 8 there are some annoyances though of what Samsung's done having duplicate apps for it to the Google stock apps are super annoying I don't wanted a separate Samsung only app store super annoying but I guess they can be hidden suppose but I think one of the biggest compliments I can give to the modern Samsung skin Fork of Android ever you want to call it so that when I use the Samsung device I'm not putting a third-party launcher on it it's not something I can say for many phones they've done a really nice job here utilizing what their phone can do and taking advantage of all the features and sensors that are built into it and the mortal this section here is don't knock the Samsung skin and so you've tried it on the negative side though Samsung is notoriously slow for software updates so assume the version of Android you get when you buy the Samsung phone is pretty much what you're gonna have for a super long time Oreos been out for a while we're still stuck on nougat I wish Samsung was faster with the OS updates I get that it takes time but it's frustrating when devices like the pixel get updates much faster which brings me to the 2x elf so this is pure Android as Google intended or I guess now it's pure Android as Google intended on the pixels I know a lot of Android purists holds a pixel in a previous Nexus line up to this huge esteem for what Android flagships phone should be and to say anything negative about it is completely sacrilegious but there are some things that I don't like about this and I'm just gonna say it I don't like the weather widget at the top I wish I could change it resize and remove it all together I don't like the search bar at the bottom for my eye and my aesthetic F belongs at the top and maybe I'm just not used to it I wish I could change it which I could tweak that's Google doesn't let you spend strange you took a bit of Annapolis approach to telling you how things should look on their phones and obviously I know if their party launchers can fix app talk about the experience just out of the box so having said that really like a latest version of Android the most up to date the most secure the latest that Google has to offer I know I am always going to have on my pixel device and that's a peace of minds that you don't get with something like Samsung and quite honestly I just enjoyed the experience it's fast everything about this phone just feels screamingly quick its way the things work together I like how Google's services are presented the way they were meant to be this one's tougher to call than I expected but a slight edge this round is going to Google and the pixel to excel but credit to Samsung freaking credible UI ID so next let's jump to battery in previous verses videos I've just told you my use case and which one lasted longer but it's a new year we want the new test to see which battery is actually better and going to last you longer so here's what we did we took both phones a note with it's 33 hundred million power battery and the pixel XL if it's slightly bigger 35 20 mil and our battery and we drained them to 0 which is harder than you think and we use the in box accessories to charge these phones up and see which ones charge faster so after one hour the note 8 was at 59% and the pixel 2 was at 62% so we wanted to try and drain the phone so we charged them up to 100% we turned max brightness on be close all apps we kicked on airplane mode but kept Wi-Fi working and we streamed the same three hour YouTube clip and that's where things got interesting they were exactly the same after 8 and a half hours both phones died so those tests were surprisingly close we gave this category a slight edge and I'll admit it I'm aware of the irony of giving a battery category to the note this one goes to Samsung by virtue of doing more with less milliamp hours last but not least let's jump into intangibles all the little things that come together to make the phone and awesome package of both of these bring a really long list of intangibles on the note side you've got things like the s-pen wireless charging Samsung pay which is different than Android pay ip68 expandable storage you've got a headphone jack a lot of little things that make this an incredible device to use and to hold the picture to excel brings a ton of awesome things to the table and I can't overstate this enough one of the things that brings is a fingerprint reader and they're really nice to use location but aside from that you're getting incredible speakers again the latest updates from Google you're getting stock Android is important to a lot of folks and of course Android pay is built into this of course you're missing some things you get with other phones like expandable storage that's been oddly a staple of the pixel ina Nexus line before that and that phone jack is gone we look at the laundry lists of extra features that phones bring to the table the note 8 just taking intangibles so now that I've got your foaming-at-the-mouth either with happiness because you are super pissed off let's recap and declare our winner of this versus Hardware went to the notes camera went to the pixel display went to the note software it went to the pixel battery went to the note intangibles went to the notes in any great battle ali-frazier there can only be one winner no matter how hard both people fight there's no participation trophies and vs. and despite the pixel to being a badass baller phone only one winner and that is the Galaxy Note 8 it did an incredible job with this device I think everything about it is borderline perfect but it's pretty crazy that I just happened to be texting you on my Google pixel Excel - and you said that another iPhone was better so I just kind of had to come here to argue that ladies and gentlemen it's a starting tackle from the LA Chargers mr. Joe Barksdale Philip Rivers was only sex 18 times this season sorry what were you saying he's the guy that's protecting mr. Philip Rivers so I'm saying I'm saying the notes is the winner and if somebody who's used both phones we've talked at length about both phones so I actually have actually had the note and I was probably one of the most excited people for that phone I'm excited like because I had to know 7 and you know we all know the battery things and all that but in that time also you know waiting for the note I had a Google pixel excel and when I got the note I really missed the pixel excel and what I meant by that was the software features the user interface the ease of you know notification dismissals I mean it's just an easy phone to use it just works you know it's not the sexiest or most extravagant but at the end of the day you know this is the phone that I would want to have every day and for the record for anybody yells at me about why I picked the note or how much Samsung paid me I convinced Joe to get the pixel to excel I legitimately love both phones the week we played the Patriots yep you convinced me to get it he was just sitting there at hotel board I was like going to make now it just came out you loved it I limped on over and got it I just didn't know that you were gonna abandon your first love of the galaxy Galaxy Note 8 I didn't know you were gonna be so wrong with your assessment against a fight again I thought I taught you I can't even say that laughing are you physically intimidated by me very do we look the same height sitting yeah cuz standing up is super funny I met Joe thanks for coming Joe come on we have an album coming up 25th January 25th it's called butterflies rainbows and moonbeams and I'm sure you know you guys are here music and hopefully you John will have me back again well link to will link to where people can cool yeah no pre-orders but when it's our pre-orders but one is on the side to check out pre talented musician thank you got a good friend Joe thanks for probably coming on but I'll take it easy on you next time you