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oh my goodness would you look at that we have the brand new Google pixel three and three XL in the house not just these two actually every single color variation of each model is here as well for us to check out doing unboxing video initial impressions and so on this is obviously a very highly anticipated device many people in the tech space in the tech community couldn't understand couldn't believe what was going on with the camera in the previous version this one claims to be the next level right the new one it's got to be better hopefully it's better we're gonna find out I have the three XL in a color called not pink it's not pink don't call it pink that's the name of that color right there this one is clearly white of course you can also pick it up in something called just black these are both 64 gigabyte versions though they will be available also in 128 gigabytes the display on the pixel 3 OLED in fact OLED on both on the 3 it will be a notch list display at 5.5 inches on the 3x L it will go up to 6 point 3 inches with a knotch and something crazy about both of these is that they have two forward facing cameras that are inside of that notch and stereo speaker so it's a different type of implementation of the notch in the three accel giving you a wide-angle selfie capability and stereo speakers which I'm excited to check out ok let's start with the three XL sense for the color there it's a subtle hue they brought back some wireless charging finally on a Google device we have wireless charging this is actually glass in the back it's like a matte finished glass so this will work with Qi wireless chargers or in fact also an official accessory here a wireless charge dock which actually has some special functionality I'll show you in a minute a speaker grill up in the top as well as at the bottom stereo front-facing speakers this of course is a rarity in the smartphone space amongst flagships and other devices as well up here you can see those two front-facing cameras which I mentioned earlier one wide-angle and one standard fingerprint scanner is in a familiar location over here where your index finger will sit that single lens system capable of some incredible computational photography is up in this spot right here now the frame itself is made of aluminum so pretty much the whole construction is either aluminum or glass though I do like the fact that the glass back is matte it's resistant somewhat to fingerprints and smudging you have USB type-c there's your SIM card tray accent color on your power switch there is a green accent color on the clearly white version a charge brick which yes it happens to be a quick charge brick fast charge capable seven hours of battery life with a 15 minute charge nice to see the quick charge brick in the box to go along with wireless charging a rarity you don't see this too frequently anymore some headphones in the box they are Type C headphones after all there is no headphone jack unfortunately on the pixel 3 pixel 3 XL but I guess this is the next best thing you're getting some bundled type C earbuds and you also get an adapter to you can go from type C to a mini jack connector if you want to use some legacy headphones or some higher quality headphones that still use this particular connector the type-c cable itself and then also this adapter that goes from type C to the classic USB connector this could be used to migrate over to this device from your previous one okay so let's go ahead and unbox all of them and we can do a quick comparison of the various color and size options it's eight on boxing now the thing about the glass on the back of these devices is it hardly even looks like glass at first I was wondering I'm like is that even glass but I've been told that this is Gorilla Glass v soft touch glass and yes it does feel soft there's almost no fingerprint effect on this glass now the thing I like about this one is it does have a contrasting color on the front because like the whole front is black the back is white I mean it's kind of a nice little touch you get the accent button it's just a little bit more unique so here's your first look at the displays we have the XL on the left the standard pixel three on the right six point three inches 5.5 inches they're both OLED of course we do have the notch there's been a lot of discussion about this notch in particular on the XL version I did mention earlier at least in this case get an extra camera lens and the stereo speaker I've also been told that you'll be able to turn off this notch in software at a later date so it would actually end up looking kind of like the standard pixel looks here at the top you'd have a similar bezel there if you did choose to do that in software so you get a little bit more resolution in the bigger one this is qhd+ compared to F HD Plus slightly higher ppi on the XL version also so the bigger one is just under 3500 milliamp hours whereas the smaller guy is just under 3000 the regular pixel 3 it feels surprisingly foreign because you know smart phones especially flagship smartphones have been growing every single iteration I can see this being popular people who are looking for something a bit more subdued easier to hold in one hand somebody with a smaller grip it's super comfy to hold myself I'd gravitate towards the XL for the bigger display of course the bigger battery now these are not going to be the champions when it comes to screen to body ratio this is obviously an improvement over the previous version but you still have bezels here the question is going to be whether or not that's worth it for you can you be convinced with two front-facing cameras can you be convinced with hopefully better speakers that's going to be up to you to decide nonetheless that is the trade-off speaking of speakers let's go ahead and do the thing let's test out the stereo speakers on this unit this is crazy loud this is way better than the previous version first impressions here these are some speakers there's some of the loudest I've tested in here this is our first glance here at what happens with the black bars you can go ahead and pinch to fill the screen zoom to fill kind of giant bezels to be fair now there was a lot of talk about the display on the previous version OLED this looks like a completely new component to me also if you head to the settings you can kind of toggle in your preferences for the display so that it suits your taste buds specifically there's adaptive brightness which you can turn on some advanced settings here for colors which can go from natural to boosted to adaptive now you probably also noticed that the home button the navigation region down here has changed a little bit on this particular device you can now swipe up from there for multitasking and you can actually swipe across to to move between apps like this there's also split-screen as well so if I tap on an app icon here I can go to split screen mode go ahead and pick my other app and then make my adjustments from there so it's right within the multitasking maybe I'll actually use it now because I don't have to go looking for it I'm not really sure but it's in the pixel device at this point now I know what you guys are most excited about you're sitting there watching this video you're screaming you're saying Lou what about the camera there's a lot of pressure on this device to live up to the legend of the previous version pixel can it do it I don't know let's launch it let's take a peek here now you can also employ some degree of digital zoom as you can see here very interesting if I tap on the face of the little figure there see how now it is tracking focus that's a nice little frame right there pixel cameras I don't need to tell you you guys already know but like there's some really nice stuff happening that's just a simple frame blue what about the portrait mode and oh my goodness would you look at that holy smokes preliminary video this is this product is not retail yet alright I can't say too much test too much but you can look at that you're allowed to look at that that's fair very vibrant very wonderful okay nice of course on the pixel there is a portrait mode on the front-facing camera there's actually also an official beauty mode but look at that would you live see it's you can toggle it off as far as I'm concerned with post-processing when it comes to complexion and things like this that's got to be an option you gotta be able to turn it off if you don't want it so they have three settings you can leave it off you go to natural you go to soft I'm gonna leave it off so currently it's in the standard focal length if I hit minus here I will go to the wide-angle selfie which actually is a different lens this will give me a lot more play if I have extra people in the frame where I want to capture something that's behind me and not just my face boom that's a nice looking guy right there hey Jack what'd you say do I look like I'm wearing makeup look at that wow this is the kind of stuff I'm looking for this level of detail the beard hairs are one step the pores on my face are a totally different step that is a ton of detail this is the standard focal length if I hit the minus here you see how much more I get in frame we get Jack in frame over there now we can go ahead and that's a nice wide selfie scenario that's the amount of range that you're gonna be able to get out of the wide lens now something else to mention about the camera in the Advanced Settings here's something I like you have control over hdr+ which will show a manual control for HDR plus if you want to toggle off the processing that's taking place in your images you can go a step further as well and right within the native photo app you shoot raw plus JPEG so you get the maximum amount of data out of the camera sensor or if you want to make sure that there's no processing taking place on your images if you're that type of person I like having these options available there's even an option to store videos more efficiently in the h.265 codec instead of h.264 all options that you can toggle on or off the back camera is 12 point 2 megapixels and the front is 8 but of course you can select various different settings if you choose to but that's the default setting now the rear camera is capable of 4k at 30fps and it also features a fused image stabilization using both optical and software based stabilization for video now there's another feature in here called top shot which will take a motion image and then through that set of frames it will aim to select the best frame automatically this whole thing is a movement you see like this and its suggestion is either here recommended another recommended one there's probably some that are not good like there or there or there now speaking of selfies is also a photobooth option allows you to just smile to trigger a photo let's see if this works Jackie ready here we go waiting for my lips to move you see this is what it takes it takes a feature like this to get a real smile now something else that piqued my interest on this particular device is in the settings menu I know that seems strange like what what are you doing digging through the settings menu there's something called digital wellbeing and if I click on this this is all about how you use your smart phone where you're spending your time how you might want to make adjustments to that time spent you can see here it'll tell me how much use I've had today and where it was spent Google camera photos YouTube you can set timers and reminders so that you're not spending too much time in apps or on your phone in general you can use a feature called Shh placing your phone facedown on a surface maybe at a restaurant at home on your nightstand we'll put the device into do not disturb mode just by placing it down like that give you a little bit more control over your consumption on your smartphone lens is built in to the camera app so just by swiping over two more and selecting lens grab some text like right here ain´t boom it'll pick it up you think lens will know about my shoe right now tap on his shoe Oh nailed it and boom these are them actually that's them right there now I mentioned earlier that this device has wireless charging um of course a big fan of wireless charging I really missed it on the previous version of the pixel and not only that they're actually making their own version first party accessory wireless charge doc that's this guy right here it's a soft touch kind of material and it works like this you just drop it in drop the phone right like that boom starts charging it's also quick wireless charging so it's not gonna take forever to charge up your device that's of course one of the criticisms of wireless chargers not in this case now this display here it kind of acts as your - you can imagine this beside your bed you have Google assistant which you can trigger sort of like a Google home you could say ok Google asked questions and so on you can also click on my day which would do you know sort of break down the weather your commute it can cycle through photos from whichever folder you identify there you go as you can tell these people they're all they all love each other very much now the other thing we do is since it's sort of a non multimedia mode is we can use this to trigger some audio some music play Drake you can see that the view looks different since it knows it's docked this piece here is gonna retail for 79 bucks I realize we didn't even talk about the price of these devices holy smokes okay the XL the 3 XL is going to start at 899 USD and the non XL the standard pixel 3 will start at $7.99 USD so obviously these things are squarely planted in the premium price range so now give it up to you guys what do you think should I switch over to this device huh you want a little bit more a little bit more testing a bit more of a comprehensive evaluation I think you deserve it I think I do too