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yo guys johnathan here and this is my review of the Google pixel 3 so I think it's safe to say the pixel 3 and more specifically the pixel 3 XL and that notch it's been a pretty polarizing release you pretty much have two reactions the extremists and the nothing is wrong everything is okay what are you doing Google it's not that this NOS looks like anthony davis new Debray not a not really if you look at Google's not a tear drop not just cuz y'all got tears get your camera's and good it looks like a Google Chrome tap those the oneplus come out just hating have you seen this nuts why would they do that I'm getting sick so definitely let me know what side of the fence you're on with a comment down below my job however is to find some sort of middle ground and present this as balanced as possible also shut up to the awesome scooter Magruder not to be confused with shooter McGavin say that 10 times fast now the pixel 3 is by no means a perfect phone there's bad but there is also a lot of good so when I see it I want to point that out specifically in an area where I cut punched Tim Cook in the face for sorry Tim that's a fact the iPhone 10s starts at $1000 doesn't include a headphone adapter and doesn't include any kind of fast charger in the box which is crazy so the pixels to be unboxing experience is actually kind of Awesome to begin with the pixel three starts out around 200 hours cheaper than the iPhone 10s and you pile on the fact that they include pretty much every single dongle and adapt you could possibly need fast charge in the box and even a pair of USB C headphone now granted the USBC headphones they're not amazing but I got to give Google credit for going all out on the unboxing experience I don't think too many people are gonna rock that Google sticker on the car but still I'm sorry for what I did I guess you haven't checked Twitter yet sorry man what are you gonna do I will be if you give me one a Google pixel battery okay so alongside improved water resistance the pixels reading now support two glass back which leads to wireless charging they did not go the Apple face ID route but you do have a fingerprint reader on the back that works as advertised out of the three colors I'm gonna say that not pink looks the best subtle but it's really nice now the concern about this thing scratching is definitely real it is a little sensitive so if you can makes you throw a case on or better yet this beautiful D brand skin which fixed up Austin's broken pixels 3xl real nice link down below now this might upsets people but I think the regular pixel three is the better value one it's hundred bucks cheaper with that kind of cash you can buy an external battery bank you could buy some better headphones you can buy two-thirds of a Google Home Hub or maybe you don't need that extra screen size and you can be nice and buy something for your boyfriend for your girlfriend for your wife for your husband for your kids you don't really need that extra screen size and two there really aren't that many differences between the pixel 3 and pixel 3 XL oh and if you want to see how this shot was done make sure you guys check out the exclusive TLD breakdown membership which covers behind the scenes tricks and a look into the production that goes into these videos both a pixel three and three XL feature a snapdragon a 45 both of them feature four gigs of ram and yes I realize that is less than your oneplus insert any number here but more importantly both of these run Android 9pi now as far as the differences we of course have one the display the pixels resizes in with a 5.5 inch F HD Plus is play and then we have the bigger brother the pixel 3 XL which has that larger monster 6.3 inch qHD plus display and the knotch now I realize you got people out there who love their pixels the PPI police but honestly for the most part I think 1080p is more than enough for the average person and if you're gonna argue with me most of those fancy flagship phones that come with a 1440p display are set by default at 1080p out of the box also with that said I think the pixel 3 non XL is the better form factor it kind of just fits better in one hand so for the everyday kind of one-headed tasks I'm going to roll with that next from there we have battery capacity the pixel 3 comes in at just over 2900 milliamp hours whereas the pixel 3 excels sitting pretty at a hair over 3400 so it's not a huge difference but it's definitely there with that said though I think war maybe I would have liked to have seen some differences with the pixel 3 exercise I kind of would have separated itself a little further from its little brother maybe would have been a bigger battery capacity somewhere north maybe like 3,800 maybe 4,000 like the note 9 or how about you give us 6 gigabytes of RAM make this more of a pro feeling phone also maybe it would have been nice to have a higher storage capacity on the pixel 3xl both of these cap out at 128 and I realize yes Google is giving you infinite buzz lightyear storage on google photos but with no microsd card expansion i would have liked to see one higher option at least on the google pixel 3xl so it's time for that not not Zilla not City nacho cheese and finally my favorites buenos noches I'm sorry for real though that notch on the pixel 3x tile is undeniably not good-looking and you pair that with the chin and it's arguably one of the ugliest phones to ever exist if you hate it I get it but the beautiful thing is if you don't like it you don't have to buy it in fact there are a ton of other options out there including the smaller regular pixel 3 which has no not to be seen my complaint is not so much that the notches there or how deep it is because believe it or not you do get used to it and if you think about it your field of view is usually pointing towards the middle or the bottom of the phone but regardless is moreso how Google uses that space what drives me insane kind of makes me want to punch myself in the faces when the clock is sitting there by itself in the top left-hand corner with no rhyme no reason and definitely no symmetry so from a design standpoint it kind of makes you ask what the heck is going on yes you can absolutely hide the notch but doing so through the Google developer option isn't the ideal way because you are essentially pulling the plug on a ton of pixels it definitely looks more appealing but all that useful information doesn't gravitate towards the top of the notch rather it sits below which kind of defeats the entire purpose there is actually a better option through an app called nacho notch love the name what this does is allow you to quickly access and turn on or off set notch but what's awesome is it actually blacks everything out and gives you that useful information towards the top so point is if you want the bigger display if you want that bigger battery there are options and more than anything hopefully Google listens and implements this natively so not traversée aside I swear I will stop these soon the actual displays on the pixel 3 and 3 XL are much better than last year's offerings yet there definitely still the slightest bit of blueshift with the pixel 3xl but it is nowhere near compared to last year it doesn't bother me and you got to think about it you're definitely not gonna be using or looking at your phone like this now one area where I kind of want to point out some positive it's got to be those front-facing stereo speakers I've kind of talked about it before where alongside those dual cameras that's a big reason why that notch is as big as it is again it doesn't excuse it but let me tell you it makes a huge difference these things sound fantastic it's not quite like razor phone too good but if I'm being honest I think I might prefer the pixel three over the iPhone 10 sq the incoming comments in three two one the iPhone 10 S is definitely louder but I think overall the pixel 3 is better balanced if you have headphones though grab them now throw them on here's a side-by-side comparison to the pixel three XL versus last year's pixel two XL from there more than likely the number one reason why you're interested in the pixel 3 has got to be the camera so the camera picks it to is arguably the best of all of last year and the pixel 3 does not disappoint the colors in the sharpness and the details are insane and then when you hop over to portrait mode you can get some amazing results portrait mode fortunately is not just limited to living human beings if you're a skeleton looking to grab the pixel 3 it works just as well for those curious about low-light here is a pretty fantastic example this is purely street lights and the pixel 3 is doing its thing now yeah while the low-light performance is awesome on the pixel sorry I don't think the gap between its and the iPhone 10s is as big as Google made it seem during the keynote like this is honestly a reenactment of what they did here is the Google pixel 3 and they had to literally drag the exposure down on the iPhone 10s to make it that bad so if you missed that joke on Twitter I'm sorry personally this is one my favorite shot taking on the pixel 3 from the background blur to the sharpness everything is butter from there hopping over to a human portrait shot shout-out to my guy Courtney aka mr. fresh the only thing sharper than this image is that fade next from there hopping over to the front-facing camera and those portrait selfies I am gonna go and say it this might upset some people but I sometimes feel like the pixel three selfies are a little over sharpen like Google's like hey we're just gonna sharpen the hell out of these shots which kind of gives the image of super fine detail but in certain cases it can be a little overbearing with that said though yes you can get some amazing results with the portrait selfie camera and the addition of that wide-angle lens is awesome trying to get a group of people or in this case my guy Viper who went back to the future is amazing having that kind of quality with that flexibility of that wide-angle lens is actually really handy now as far as the video goes that is not nearly as impressive as the actual camera it's not that it's bad Google just kind of came up short in certain features there's no 4k 60 which i think is almost kind of a must on smartphones in 2018 most of them have that feature what is awesome though is their motion tracking so in this case you can see me locked on to a leaf moving around and then from there hopping back to mr. fresh it is locked loaded and not letting him out of its sights also just in case you really wanted to stick a dog or cat to the ground or in this case a human you can do that as well now jumping from the camera the other huge reason why you're more likely interested in the pixel 3 has got to be the fact that it's running pure unadulterated Android in this case Android 9 PI from my experience the pixel 3 has been snappy it's been fluid and I get there's a concern the picture story only has 4 gigs of RAM yes 6 would have been nice but I also think Google did a really good job of optimizing things where the bigger concern lies I think is the fact that the Snapdragon 8045 inside the pixel 3 is actually very close to being outdated with new processors right around the corner now that is not pixel 3 specific the note 9 faces that problem even the upcoming one +60 also faces that problem but again it ultimately comes down to optimization how that actually performs with the phone and again I think Google did a really good job really though only time will tell but where I do really like Android 9 pi is the swipe based gestures yeah it's very similar to that from 10s but I got used to it that way so so to have it implemented over here is nice as well what I think is absolutely genius though is Google's call screen feature on the pixels free which I think every phone should have if you're an Android user and you want to brag to your iPhone friends saying hey can your phone do this this is absolutely the feature to do that because I guarantee you their phone can't all in all though yeah I get the pixel three isn't the most attractive phone I guarantee you there will be people out there not shaming judging people look at that notch as saying what are you doing bro but the fact is the pixel three has a lot of really good to offer so thank you guys very much for watching hopefully enjoyed this lengthy video if you did and you are feeling like being awesome make sure you guys go nacho libre that like button last one I swear if you're feeling like double awesome maybe you guys can subscribe or maybe if you just really really hate that notch and are considering an iPhone 10s check out my review here this is Jonathan and I'll not you guys later sorry