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rely are we really live for real this time still no one won't try anyone watching nope oh this too okay poopy okay I thought that when you select unlisted for a live stream but it means the video archive unlisted when you were done but that apparently isn't how it works and I think they changed the defaults or something I'm not sure what happened but oh man okay we've got a live unboxing of the pixel - I know we're a little late but mine just arrived so I figured you know what the hey we're not gonna do a full dedicated video around it but why not a fun little livestream Folly like like retro - Texas style like actually Brendan's probably happy to be using a phone to film it rather than what we used to use to shoot these live on box well they weren't live before but they were kind of live in the sense that I made a lot of mistakes and generally a lot of them didn't get edited out so let's check it out this is my first hands-on with the pixel - and it's the it's the Canadian pixel - Canada imported by Google Canada Corporation from other more different Google Corporation that isn't in Canada so that's why it's more expensive and later yeah Canada had a Canadian flag - we've all right so in terms of features we're having really don't talk about much no one wants to talk about phone specs anymore the back is just a giant hash tag and then we've got Google assistant built-in as if it was possible that that wasn't gonna be a thing and Google limbs built in this is a little unusual they're giving us the back of the phone as our presentation I mean you know some of us like to come up on our phones from behind I could be among them and then why don't you believe in do phone unboxings anymore I'm actually having some significant second thoughts about this what am I supposed to say I wonder when the last time somebody looked at a get started guide for a phone was okay and why do you need to label the English section in other languages if I can't read English do I really need to know that it says English activate your pixel for iPhone users turn off iMessage that is actually a great tip I got screwed over on a fairly significant deal once because I had switched from an iPhone to an Android phone and I've forgotten to turn off iMessage and they have an iPhone and they texted me okay put in your SIM power it on and transfer some stuff comes with an adapter and that's it go to the website because you freaking noob nothing comes on paper instructions any clock be safe so this is probably like don't let your phone on fire because we don't want to we don't want the bad PR around that oh I caught it yes it does not count as a drop if I catch it before it hits the ground didn't even hit the table take that suckas alright we got a quick charging power adapter what is this 5 volt 3 amp Wow or 9 volt to them I actually didn't know that Google was using an overpowered 5 volt quick charging method similar to what oneplus has been doing for the last couple of generations with their - charge that's very interesting I mean I'm sure other people knew this because they have been following Google's pixel phones a little bit more closely but I actually didn't do our review of the original pixel so I know less about it then then you guys might possibly assume oh this sucks I have the ultimate prop for this stupid headphone headphone adapter I have found you know what I'll shoot handle my headphones out of my pocket there on my desk upstairs but um does anyone else appreciate the irony of us filming this unboxing on a phone literally surrounded by camera equipment batteries for Red's other more different batteries for Reds a couple of Handy cams got a nice you know tripod head here we could be using but we're not you know that's a nice high-quality these are literally two grand a pump like each piece of it lavalier microphone system and look at me look at these lenses oh look at this thing it's like t 2.0 whatever that means I'm kidding Brandon I'm kidding just chill out I know that it's F but like more better right basically it's like F but cinema are you still dying inside I'm getting cancer all right so we got a Type C cable you're interested in buying this home right yes would you want the the two are the two XL well I think with - yeah just scientist a size don't need the size your your hands are pretty similar to a locust er yeah yeah all right hi how can I help a BOSU come on please who's a dick see that that is why they had to delay sending this phone to me so that someone at Google could be like ok Google how do I say hi how can I help in French and then I spat that out and they figured out how to spell it and put it on there that's what I was waiting for that's why my pixel t11 simulate um so yeah that's pretty much a lot slight kind of reminds me of the original pixel in that sense like it's not it's not super heavy like the galaxy where is it crying I got my Galaxy s8 like the Galaxy s8 has like a density a density to it that even though C you can see the pixel 2 is a little bit taller off the table it doesn't it feels more like a the Nexus 5 was like that too or don't quite light but they're kind of nice in the hand like that I see with the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5s doesn't like I like I personally like a device with a little bit of like hat a little bit of density to it but it also doesn't feel cheap there's not a ton of flex to it more than I you know what Martin I'd actually like hold on a second here a little more than I'd actually like it doesn't feel that premium even though this is a kind of a like a it's a nice not too slippery finish like it doesn't feel like wow I just spent you know a thousand Canadian rupees on this thing so yeah bottom we got a type-c connector asking you to drop it drop it I'm not gonna drop it did you guys realize I have like a few days to put this phone through its paces and get a video up and that's just to not be like way late so I'm gonna be I'm gonna be completely focused on this thing I don't even know where my iPhone is right now I'm holding that's right you're holding that makes sense but I'm putting that down and I'm just using the pixel to for the next a little bit so button wise you know what that's not bad I actually like this button we had a couple issues with the iPhone eight while we were trying to shoot this accidentally locking the phone between each other but this has actually got a fair bit of like yes I can hold it without without mashing it kind of feel to it I like that um volume button personally I do prefer a little bit more I prefer it to be a little bit more raised so I can really feel it in my pocket right now it's easy to slide your finger across it it's not too bad though it's far from the worst I've felt and it's got a reasonable click but it's a little bit mushy I'm not a huge fan of the volume button but I definitely prefer it to this approach which is your lock button here let's go this way which is your lock button on the one side and then literally no matter where you put your other your finger across from your thumb you're gonna mash volume down or even worse Bixby and to be clear Bixby does a lot of cool stuff but I mostly don't want it doing that stuff when I'm reaching for my lock button that's that's the main issue glass this is something that I've really been observing lately is that not all Gorilla Glass is the same glass feel is very similar to the s8 but I was checking out the me mix too and I have a video coming on that as well and I noticed that it had particularly slippery gorilla glass and that it was really hard to scratch much like the Droid turbo and I mentioned this in in my review of the Galaxy s8 active which is on float plane right now and coming to YouTube in a little bit but this one this seems to be the normal stuff so I'll be interested to see how easily it gets micro scratches there's only two foams now that I've encountered that have had this sort of more slippery feeling glass that seems to resist scratching a little bit more as you guys probably know fingerprint sensors on the back in terms of the actual style of it I definitely like it a lot more than the first pixel like I can see how they would want to continue with this sort of you know dipped in dipped in glossiness sort of look to the back of it but I actually like that it's a lot smaller on this one it makes it feel more like more like an accent and less like an overwhelming sort of we couldn't decide what to make the back of the phone out of so we put this on here hopefully you know there's enough there's enough exposure for the antennas that your reception doesn't suck like it seemed really like that was what they were going for last time this seems a lot better I mean that's pretty much it for now I don't really know what else there is to say I'm not gonna make you guys like oh good it does allow you to I thought they pulled an apple and they were gonna make me put a sim in to set up the phone but it looks like no that's not the case um but yeah I'm just gonna not gonna make you guys sit through the setup with me so I'm gonna go through that I'm gonna start working on this review the more I hold it though the more I'm willing to compromise some of the sort of rugged feeling this or dense feeling nosov it for like a really nice holdable form-factor actually quite quite like that so far and I have really come around to - on screen buttons now that we have these these taller form factors all the things I really liked about the SI and I could be won over if this camera is really good Brandon I'm probably gonna lean on you for the camera portion of this because I know it's really important really really important selling point for Google in this guy so that's pretty much it the box is open I managed to make quite a mess tonight look at this I've got pieces of box way over here I got some here I got some here here here all the way over to got there there it is the phone finally extracted I'm done no way by everybody all right hold on did you end it oh good cool uh if you guys haven't already go check out the iPhone 8 review that we posted today that would be tremendously helpful big floods of people going over to our videos and like enjoying them is apparently good according to YouTube we've been your thing with the algorithm lately actually this is kind of interesting this is some sort of behind the curtain fun stuff that you guys might enjoy if you're if you're frequent viewers of the channel or just pull up the studio up here so we get what's called real-time views as like a semi live feed so this updates every hour this is the last 48 hours and it's really interesting because when we launch a video that seems to and it's like it's weird sometimes it's hard to tell what the YouTube gods care about versus what the YouTube what displeases the YouTube gods but when we launch a video that is good for overall channel momentum you'll see a spike okay so you'll have like a count what I call a steady state and they'll see a spike and it'll come in to a steady state that's above or like at where this before the spike came okay when you launch a video that hurts the channel momentum then it'll go from see how its kind of settles him cuz this is people just like watching the back catalog after we launched a video that did well they'll get a spike from the video and then it will actually dip down even worse than if you hadn't launched a video at all like looking at this we might have been better off not even making the set destruction vlog that we uploaded yesterday even though by and large the that's on it and the lake dislike ratio and all those indicators that we look for to find out whether the audience liked it are positive so I don't really get it so if you guys want to go check out the iPhone video probably Nick is watching this and posting it in the chat otherwise you know oh maybe you know what Brendan here when we go up to my desk and oh oh yes there's a lot of links going in right oh there are okay well either way we should go up to my desk cuz I'm gonna post this on like Twitter or something later but this is really funny I have finally found the ultimate solution for mobile audio and it's janky its janky but it's like it's like the perfect Linus tech tip solution see someone more you know something more style oriented you know like oriented might go okay my solution to no headphone jack is to you know switch to some sick new bose qc25 s or something not me my solution is to stick with my Sennheiser ie eight hundreds and just create a universal pair of headphones okay so check check this up terms though okay so this this side is where my in ears sound better than your headphones that's how that works right here that's how they stay on okay this is broken actually but this is normally how I have a microphone on them with my remote control I don't need no you know touch you know touch control although right now I do because this broke okay down here this is my this is my cord and this is my universal adapter so watch this Galaxy s8 yeah yeah you see that okay okay this is my little tether that came with the Moto X something erotic so this yeah look at that that is my type C adapter Oh beautiful see that look at that and then and then this yeah hold on see how all this like is conveniently right there exactly where I need it this is my lightning adapter elegant right okay you can have this dream that that was all that was the point I wanted to make