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hey what's up guys MTV HD here back with a bit of a different type of video in the midst of all the Galaxy S 10 hype so last year I did my smartphone awards for 2018 and that's always a mix of a bunch of objective reasoning which phones are best plus a little bit of opinion injected in there for some discretion as well but what I didn't have in that Awards was a favorite smartphone of the year to use category but hindsight 2020 I kind of think my favorite phones of last year to use that I ended up using the most often came down to it probably toss up between pixel three XL and one plus 60 and there were plenty of other good phones that year but a lot of you've noticed in the past couple of videos where I'm just using whatever daily phone it is it's sort of switched back and forth between one plus 60 and pixel and one plus and pixel again that's because in real life I was getting fed up with one and switching to the other and getting like missing the other one in switching back and then going back and forth it's kind of a blessing and a curse having both of them available to me so why was I switching back and forth between these two main phones so often for me really it had two major things to do with the pixel and it's not the knotch that would be the performance and the camera so it's a step away from the oneplus for a second on the pixel the camera is a plus that's first of all the pixel 3 camera consistently takes the best quality photos of any smartphone I've ever tried so far and it's kind of not even close but it's a big but the performance issues including even in the camera app itself have stuck with the pixel from last year so here's the thing there really are actually two best cameras there's the camera that takes the absolute best quality images and then there's the best overall camera experience which is a combination of image quality and speed and a bunch of other things so pixel keeps for me winning best camera quality it's that best camera and I love that about it but I would give best camera experience to some other phones the iPhone for its speed or for its video or for Samsung for wide-angle edit just added or the may 20 Pro all kinds of others do the experience better especially with speed so that was what was so disappointing so I've had all kinds of various lag and performance issues with this pixel after a couple of months which is disappointing for a second year in a row especially when Google makes this phone I mean you would think they have all sorts of control over it but when I have some other apps open or when things like music apps are working in the background for GPS apps etc one of the early bugs would be it would just quit that background app whenever I open the camera and that bugs since been fixed but there are still issues that are not totally gone I'm thinking maybe four gigs of RAM actually really isn't enough so the oneplus the 60 this is the McLaren edition by the way that I've been using for a couple weeks and I really like it the performance has been fantastic a plus performance actually it's the fastest Android phone I've ever used but and that's another big but the camera not so great so if the if the pixel had a better performance more consistently this would be my far and away favorite phone or if the oneplus had a better camera then this would be by far and away my favorite phone it kind of comes down to that feeling that there's just never any perfect phone so the dilemma is pixel a plus camera C plus performance or 1 plus 60 a plus performance c plus camera which do you choose and for me that was why i kept going back and forth now i got to give some credit to the Google camera apk for those wondering it does make a difference so you can install what's essentially a port of the Google camera app on the oneplus 60 instead of the oneplus camera app and using that turns out it's really good it gets you better dynamic range better contrast and exposure and even white balance more consistently and even better detail and better low-light shots and then you get a night sight built-in which works pretty well too but it's still nowhere near the pixels actual camera in the detail department and overall image quality is still clearly going to the pixel I mean maybe it's unfair to compare it to the pixels camera because nothing quite matches up to the pixel but by itself this app brings the camera from a c-plus to a B b-plus so I'll link it below because I think everyone +60 owner should know about it now that's of course not the only difference here's some thoughts I've had on some other little things between the two over the past couple months the display on the pixel 3 is definitely better than on the oneplus but it's not massively different enough to make a huge difference to me you would think for me you know a pixel peeper a larger higher resolution display would automatically take the advantage over the 60 but then again the 60 has a way less obtrusive notch but honestly at this point neither of the notches bother me that much so the display was a net 0 it wasn't a deal-breaker at all for me in either direction but for you it might be different matter of fact most people will agree that the oneplus 60 has one of the notches that's easiest on the eyes for any phone that come out last year and it wasn't too weird interfacing with most apps it fits neatly in the notification bar and didn't get in the way of icons so if you're one of those people that really hates notches then that could actually be a big swing point for you build quality is also different between these two in materials and construction of these two phones the batteries are different sizes one of them's water-resistant the other isn't one of them has wireless charging and the other doesn't and that turned into one of the main things I really missed about the 1 plus 60 is it not having wireless charging and a lot of other phones coming out now just generally you kind of expect a flagship to have wireless charging and I missed it now I know they love their dash charging and they're fast charging is super good but I have wireless charges in all kinds of convenient places and it was just really disappointing to not be able to use them as I use the oneplus 60 so that's the one thing I miss and now it looks like oneplus is probably also not going to have wireless charging in the oneplus 7 at least according to recent reports also pretty disappointing then the speaker of course I got to give that edge to the pixel as well you know any time you try to get rid of bezels you basically have to sacrifice speakers but the one upside to the pixel having some of the thickest bezels in the game is it still has huge stereo front-facing speakers while everyone else is including one pluses are pretty average at best and then there's an operating system so oxygen OS versus pixels Android and as I said my review of the phone's pixels Android is smarter it has more useful features like call screening and then now playing song identification and top shot a night sight in the camera etc etc the list goes on but oxygen OS isn't exactly slacking with features either it's it's fast and then it's got things like the shelf it has dark mode it has - charging it's clean and it also gets frequent software updates it's ahead of most of the rest of the skin phones even if it's right behind the pixels so it's got a lots of useful stuff on its own so what it really comes down to and the point of this video is I really enjoyed using each of these phones in the respective times that I use them for different reasons but the question of is the oneplus 60 this one better then the pixel 3xl objectively no it really isn't actually like if you look at it on paper you get wireless charging you get water resistance you get a better camera you get a better display you get all these exclusive software features better build its a better phone than the oneplus 60 but the experience of using the 60 was often better than the experience of using the three which is even more impressive because of the price difference the 200 plus dollar difference between these two phones which is even more if it isn't the McLaren Edition which by the way just has two extra gigs of RAM it's not a crazy huge difference in specs but I have enjoyed this phone so for those asking all seven or eight of you wondering why I keep switching back and forth it's the performance that keeps pushing me away from the pixel and then the camera that keeps pushing me back easily my next favorite phone to use is one plus 60 because it's got all these amazing features and it's got excellent performance but then I go to take pictures and I remember how good this camera is and then I switch back and I'm disappointed by the performance again and so you can see how that vicious cycles played out either way we'll see 1 + 7 + pixel for this year in 2019 along with a bunch of other phones I mean this is an exciting year for phones it's sort of turned out for those who are asking if we've reached peak smartphone now we have a folding phone launching this year we saw all that stuff at Mobile World Congress and we have new patents for a Motorola folding phone and all these other flagships we haven't even expected yet the note 10 is totally under the radar it would be a good year for phones but let me know what you're looking forward to we got plenty of videos coming up on all that stuff including of course the s10 reviews let me know what you guys are into either way thanks for watching this one talk to you guys later peace