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yo guys johnathan here this is the Google pixel - and the pixel to excel the almost perfect smartphones now these were announced everybody was excited the Excel mark scores through finally a bezel display at least on the pixel - Excel but then devices started rolling out people started getting them in hand and it almost turned into this horror story for Google now aside from the beatdown Google has taken over the past couple of weeks there is actually a lot to like about the pixel - and it's bigger brother so it's kind of weird about the pixel - in pixel 2x I'll come different color variants with the regular version we have just black clearly white and kind of blue like the XL - screen is that right on a serious note I actually really like the kind of blue it is a super soft almost blueish mint color I even prefer over last year's really blue jump it over to the pixel 2 XL this actually comes in two colors just black and black and white aka panda now if you ordered a regular pixel and you need some of that panda action in your life the easiest fix for that is it hit the robots and throw a D brand skin on that this is not a panda but it sure is how it looks like one they even got you Dodger fans covered - links are below so when you stack the pixel - in pixel to XL side-by-side the very apparent bezels on the regular pixel to really stand out the pixel to XL looks like it's a phone from 2017 whereas the regular pixel - kind of feels a little dated regardless though the layout on either these phones is awesome I really enjoy the location of the fingerprint reader on the back it works flawlessly the volume up and down buttons are right smack next to your thumbs super easy to access same thing with the power button it just feels good now the bottom of the pixel - there is a USB C port which is always awesome there is no wireless charging with this which for me is not a deal-breaker some people either really really love wireless charging or some people don't care at all I would love to hear what side of the fence you're on but girls so wireless charged and not A+ with the pixel twos you're getting up to seven hours of battery life with 15 minutes of charging and there's absolutely no room to complain about that from there you might notice that USB seaports kind of just hanging out there by himself there is no headphone jack and the only weird part about that it's Google made a really big deal about the headphone jack last year when the pixel debuted and this year they were kind of like on a serious note though I don't think not having a headphone jack is a deal-breaker especially for me any time I can go wireless I am going to go that route yes there's the whole debate about audio quality and having a wired cable but for me there are tons of fantastic sounding wireless bluetooth headphones out there so I'm gonna go that way so why Google did come off the headphone jack one giant feature they added this year is water resistance and that might be one reason alone to upgrade over last year's pixels maybe or someone who always has their phones near the water if you're in a shower or a bath super safe now when you pick up your shiny new pixel 2 or pixel to excel in the box you get an 18 watt USB C charger the USBC cable and a USB c2 3.5 millimeter audio adapter so just in case you're holding on to those wired headphones you can use it out of the box what's kind of weird though is there are no headphones in sight within this box it would've been really nice to have a pair of USB C headphones with the pixel two on the other hand you have companies like Samsung going above and beyond included a nicer pair of headphones so if that matters to you that is some food for thoughts from there it's time to hop over to probably the most controversial subject with the pixel - and that is the display specifically that is geared more towards the pixel 2 XL display as opposed to the regular pixel - that features a 5-inch 1920 by 1080 AMOLED display whereas the pixel 2 XL features a 6-inch 28 80 by 1440 Peola display which seems to be causing all kinds of problems like there is no denying there is a very apparent problem with the pixel 2 XL screen there is major blueshift Rito's off access like any sort of way the power work it's a little tricky though is I think if you just handed this phone to the average person out there they are not gonna pick up on this it is the super tech audience that is going deep diving deep and really getting crazy technical with this like throwing it down to ten fifteen percent brightness with a gray screen like that is kind of crazy is that reason enough just for the screen to not buy the pixel 2x so I'm gonna say no because there are many many enticing features with the pixel 2x though it's just very disappointing because if there is ever a company that you would root for to put Apple and kind of kick their ass it is Google they're giant this is a flagship phone with flagship pricing and you would expect better from them so with that it's kind of confused and it has me a little tour on one hand you have the regular pixel 2 which has a totally fine display but really really big bezels and then you had the pixel to excel which is kind of like that person that you see from a distance it's good from far but you get it up close and it is far from good on top of that I do get that Google is going for that non-saturated look that we've kind of grown accustomed to with smartphones over the years but the fact the matter is certain colors just look really off especially with red again it's not a bad display and I don't think it's just solely be a reason to turn you off from the pixel 2 or pixel 2 XL but when you compare to something like a Samsung Galaxy s8 or Note 8 there is no comparison now pack inside the pixel 2 snapdragon 835 4 gigabytes of ram there is no microsd card expansion but there is a really solid amount of storage with these the base pixel 2 comes in at 64 gigs or you can bumped all the way up to 128 gigabytes on top of that you also do have unlimited storage with google photos so yeah that is definitely a thing from there don't now that we've got the ugly controversial part out the way there is a lot to love about the pixel 2 in pixel 2 XL for starters out of the box you are getting sweet sweet pure unadulterated Android 8.0 Oreo it's super clean super smooth and unlike other Android phones Google is promising 3 years of support and updates I really really love the wallpapers especially the live versions those are just kind of fun to look at and zone out at and what is really really freaking cool with these is that it's smart enough to know what your wallpaper is so if you have a dark one it's gonna automatically switch the theme of your phone to dark and if you have a light wallpaper it will automatically switch it to lights now one minor complaint it is geared specifically towards the pixel 2 XL is because it has that extra tall 18 by 9 screen I wish they would implement some sort of feature like Samsung does where we can punch in or crop it on YouTube videos it's not the end of the world but just something I'd like to see in the future from there I want to talk about Google assist and also roll in the squeeze feature because that is one way to access the Google assistant is this a revolutionary mind-blowing feature no but I don't hate it and it actually works pretty well schedule a timer for 12 minutes what was the score of the Bulls game the Bulls his last game was against the Cavaliers they lost 119 to 112 man it sucks to be able to end this year punching people in the face what is the traffic like to Los Angeles right now traffic from your location to Los Angeles so it'll take about 42 minutes see that is super fast so that part of this phone is awesome and it works really well just as advertised from there I'm gonna kind of kill two birds with one stone play Porter Robinson so yeah there is a ton of volume that is definitely not anything lacking there I think overall I would say if there's anything missing you would be the low-end there's not a crazy amount there but regardless I would definitely take stereo speakers over non stereo speakers any day of the week from there always on display is an awesome feature to have something that I wish worked just a little bit better was the song recognition it's not that it's bad and it's kind of confusing because by default it is turned off so if you picked up a pixel - and it's not working more than likely you have to go into settings to enable it but from there the database in the library isn't exactly the biggest so it's not always gonna recognize every song and from what I understand it actually checks every 60 seconds to say battery life so it's not always gonna feel the fastest or the quickest next we're gonna talk about hands down the most impressive thing about the pixel - and that is the camera seriously forget 294 on that DXL mark score it should just read next to Google pixel - really mean good seriously well Google is done with this camera is nothing short of incredible some of the best images of air captured are from the pixel - it's a 12 point two megapixel sensor with an f-stop of 1.8 and the color the sharpness detail everything about this camera is awesome now one thing I really like what the pixel - is that portrait mode it's gonna work on both the pixel 2 and pixel to exile you're not gonna have to choose between one of the phones because it actually works on one single lens which is kind of crazy one small thing that may turn off some people there's no way to preview that portrait mode beforehand so you kinda just gotta take the photo and hope for the best but most the time it works out really well one of the things you're not gonna get as much flexibility something like the iPhone 8 plus the Galaxy Note 8 or the upcoming iPhone 10 we can kind of tweak and manipulate things in post but regardless it is still really impressive it almost scared to see what Google is doing with a single lens and I'm stoked to see where that takes us in the future next I want to talk about portrait selfie mode it works incredible and it is super impressive but I had a hard time getting it working here for you out there it's freaking out right now same your juice an Apple fanboy you don't know how to android is too complex and superior for you know man there are threads in forums deeper than your must like I was seriously asking for help on Twitter and I got people yelling at me ask I can rename photos the simplest way is to find the update link click on it in hope that it opens in a play store because it is not publicly available if that doesn't work you got to go into settings clear cache and data on the Play Store potentially the camera app as well reset things go back into the Play Store in hope that an update shows up now for most people out there that will fix the problem but there are certain cases like I experienced where it actually affects certain Google accounts so for me for whatever reason that update did not want to show up the absolute weirdest bug fix and workaround that I've ever heard of happened with the pixel - if you have a friend where their Google account shows the camera update have them log into your phone update the camera have them log out and then magically your phone is now fixed it's crazy at the end of the day they've finally got it working even if I had a site load a freaking apk it was worth it because the pixel - selfie portrait mode is amazing now the flip side of that some people are over a critical of the pixel - selfie portrait mode like looking for any possible mistake yes it's not going to be perfect every time yes it's not gonna always get hair right yes it's sometimes may mistake a piece of the background for the foreground but overall it is crazy what Google is doing with that so yeah between the front-facing camera the rear camera portrait mode on both sides the Google pixels - at the camera overall is two giant thumbs up so we're hopping over to the 4k 30fps test here on the pixel - ralphie rich in that hard part let me get it close on that some quick autofocus also we'd love to hear what you guys think of the video quality and the stabilization drop me a comment down below lastly shout out to mr. brand on the camera makes it pretty awesome videos check them out - link below lastly battery life on the pixel - in pixel - XL overall are really solid obviously you're going to get more of a workhorse with the pixel to XL because you're getting a larger battery at the end of the day that's kind of what it came down to between these two phone battery life and the screen so clearly if you need that better battery performance the pixel to excel is the way to go and normally it would have been a no-brainer you want that bigger better display go for the pixel to XL as well but with that weird Peola display and that blue color shift it kind of makes things a little confusing on one hand you downsize to the regular pixel so you'll have to worry about those weird display issues or do you suck it up for that better battery life and go with the pixel to excel so with this video hopefully there was enough cover with the features and the software to kind of get you to that almost ready to buy point and then from there the best advice I could possibly give you is head into a store if you can and look at these displays in person I could show you a million times over a youtube video how that blue shift looks like but it's never gonna really simulate real life and then from there you can ask yourself is this enough to make me not want to buy the pixel 2xl are the bezel big enough to where they're gonna annoy me and I'm gonna want to go somewhere else and that will ultimately help you make your decision aside from that thank you guys very much for watching hopefully enjoyed the video if you did and you're feeling like being awesome make sure to smash that like button if you are not feeling the Google pixel to maybe check out the Galaxy Note 8 which you can watch here again huge shout out to debrief response from this video this is Jonathan and I'll catch you guys later Evans wait I didn't see that do it again if I get the top Dan you have a knee sucker