Gadgetory

okay it's been six months since Apple first announced the iPhone 10 and around five months since Google first announced the pixel 2 and the pixel 2 XL so these are both great phones which is what you might expect because they're both flagship phones but after actually using them for a while it's clear to me at least which one of these is the better phone you mean the one that doesn't cost a thousand dollars and it's still a fantastic phone no no I missed this now the iPhone 10 was a pretty radical redesign for Apple it's the first iPhone without a home button it has an OLED display it sizes somewhere in between a regular sized iPhone and a plus iPhone and you can unlock it with your face ok the smaller pixel 2 doesn't look all that different from the first pixel but the pixel 2 XL looks different it has a nearly all screen front design both have OLED displays and keep in mind this is only Google's second generation of pixel phones and already they're up there competing with the top smartphone makers okay well the iPhone 10 is fast like ridiculously fast its processors faster than processors and a lot of laptops and in the time that I've been using it I've been kind of blown away by it okay well the pixel 2 is no slouch either it's running on a snapdragon 835 processor which is powering all of the top Android phones right now it might not be a bionic processor but it's still pretty fast one of the biggest changes with the iPhone 10 though is that Apple has also redesigned the way you interact with the phone so the way you switch between apps or swipe to see notifications now that I've used this for a while I really like it okay I'll admit it took me way longer to get used to these interactions than I thought it would and I wouldn't be surprised if other people got the new phone and hated it but now when I pick up other phones I just think the iPhone tends UI is probably the way to do it the pixel 2 has some UI changes too although that's because of Android and not specific to pixels like the search bar is now at the bottom of the home screen and the display is always on which seems like a small thing but after a few months you kind of find that you can't live without it I mean one of the things that really annoys me about that phone is that if you just want to see time you have to pick the phone up no I don't okay what time is it now if you've been seriously considering these phones for the past few months then you've probably read all of the camera comparisons in fact the verge did one that you should go check out but to sum it up both of these phones have excellent cameras on the pixel to excel a lot of the camera improvements are happening on the software side so for example this now shoots in portrait mode with a nice soft background which the iPhone has done for a while but this phone doesn't have two cameras yeah but the iPhone 10 not only has portrait mode it also has studio lighting now like this that looks awful well it's pretty great when it works okay also we think that the pixel 2 XL shoots a little bit better and lo white just saying yeah but not that much better also the iPhone 10 and the iPhone 8 both support wireless charging which your phone doesn't yeah but you can charge the pixel 2 and the pixel to excel with USB C which is how I charge my macbook which means I'm just carrying around fewer cables okay well your phone doesn't have a headphone jack neither does yours I'm just pointing out you're finally catching up with the times your point makes zero sense another thing you're only going to get with the iPhone is Siri now I know you may be thinking Siri is useless but the more I've used it the better it has gone you're kidding right no ok let's do a test I'm gonna squeeze the phone who is the star of the movie the post Meryl Streep Tom Hanks and 13 others no problem hey Siri who is the star of the movie the post I found nine movies for you to choose from post-grad the post post pop depression live at the Royal Albert Hall the last post new mommies how to get your body back functional post pregnancy ex yeah I'm sorry Google assistant is just better it just it just is but I have faced ID I wouldn't go as far as saying that face ID is the best feature of the new iPhone 10 but I think it's the most significant it means the one that feels like it's propelling us forward into the future now I need to unlock my phone or log into apps or even just pay a friend with a peer-to-peer app I just I just use my face okay we literally wrote an article about how face ID was unusable if the phone's not directly in front of you like when you're in the car and said that you missed having the home button yeah but it's it's grown on me I mean I still think the in-app experience is a little bit more useful than using it to unlock the phone but how's your fingerprint sensor it's fine it's totally fine and it works and it's in the right place where it should be on the back of the phone yeah so what happens when you have your phone down on the table face up well I guess that's bad if you're the kind of person who puts the phone down never also I have an ammonia oh good god what this really comes down to after using both of these phones for a while is ecosystem which ecosystem do you want to live in or be locked into but really this is a point that we agree on I mean it's all about the apps and services that you use the most like I message you love iMessage then no matter how fantastic the pixel 2 or the pixel 2xl are you're not going to really want that phone because you can't get iMessage and if you don't care about iMessage and you don't care about using airplay or airdrop or having an Apple watch and you want the most highly optimized version of Android that you can get then you're going to want this phone I mean I still use the same google apps and services that you use on that phone and I didn't pay thousand dollars for this what she's really trying to say is that they're both great phones and you probably can't go wrong with either of them but there is one that is slightly better which is why it costs slightly more you would say that so these are my long-term impressions of what it's like to use the iPhone hey you're back I'm back where have you been I was off shooting my Virg fiddy Oh series next level oh is that your average video series about innovation yes you should watch it you would learn something