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what's going on guys it's your average consumer and today we're gonna be spending a real day in the life with the Google pixel to excel you guys are gonna be spending a full day with me and the phone and we're gonna be testing out things like the battery life performance that display that's been causing all kinds of drama on Twitter and in common sections and we're gonna see how it all performs in the real world so let's see how it did alright guys so right now we're using the front-facing camera on the pixel 2xl it's about almost 11 a.m. starting today this thing's got a 100% battery but I'm actually in the middle of a shoot I'm actually gonna be shooting a video as we speak so I need to get back to that but like I said front-facing camera so you can expect this this kind of video and audio quality when you use it alright guys so we finished wrapping up that video working on exporting it now but it is time for me to completely spend the rest of the day with this phone it's got about 90% left I haven't really done much with it since I recorded that first video now something I'm kind of digging with the stock Android is that when you jump into the battery settings now it tells you exactly what you're looking for as soon as you jump in so you'll see that it says screen usage since full charge it's been about 14 minutes of screen on time so have you been using it month a lost 10% that was a lot of standby but we'll see how it lasts throughout the rest of the day now one of the biggest things about this phone which I'm sure all of you already know is that it's got some issues with the screen and there are three different problems but I think my biggest personally is the fact that it has way less color than I would like and this right here is one of my favorite live wallpapers I usually like this one because it looks very vibrant the colors are really nice and they pop but on this display you really just don't get that so putting this side-by-side with the Galaxy Note 8 you can see a very big difference this is the same brightness on both screen but you can tell this looks way more faded than it does on the Galaxy Note 8 and while the Galaxy Note 8 usually looks very nice it kind of looks like this with every other phone that I use but over here you just got way less color and for me that's of a problem now unless you're coming from something like the galaxy s 8 or note 8 you probably won't see a difference but it is something to keep in mind but luckily Google says this phone is capable of having all of those vibrant colors so if something that can be tweaked within a software update so we'll have to see what happens there but hopefully they do come out with a fix now the other issue is the fact that this has a blue shift whenever you have it at different viewing angles so when you're looking at it straight up it looks normal but once you tilt it back you tilt it to the sides those different viewing angles will cause it to have that blue shift in the screen and that's really not something you want to see with a phone at this price range honestly I think of that more as a defect some people have it way worse than others so it depends on the device how bad it is but honestly you don't want to see that at this price range it's just doesn't make sense but I'll let you guys know how much it bothers me throughout the day and the last issue is that some people are complaining about burn-in for these on-screen buttons here at the bottom but they usually have to pull it up in a very specific manner with a gray screen and it's kind of weird that they have to go through a set a whole process to kind of see that that's the nature of OLED panels after extended use so seeing it here is a little bit weird too especially so early in the phone's life but supposedly Google has done some testing and they found that this doesn't have a worse screen than any of the other phones out on the market so we'll have to see what it looks like with extended use and I'm not just saying that for the sake of defending Google listen I bought the device on my own Google didn't send it to me Google's not sponsoring me in any way so Google's not affecting my opinion by any means I just think we really have to wait and see if some of these issues are really issues lighter note these D brand skins the different did a pretty good job with these re yeah I really wish they sent the Panda ones I like the Panda No well either way you can switch up your pixel to however you want it to look D brain all day but yeah I'll have links down below in the description if you guys want to check these out they got a lot of different skins alright guys so right now we're on our way to Gundam planet because my beautiful beautiful wife decided she wanted to destroy one of money one of mine no no you knocked into it and then he said oops and then you stepped on it she crushed it do we still have the footage you know what boom clip and now you guys saw that she reads some crazy havoc in the studio but we're headed to gun the planet now we got a GPS going we've got about 20 more minutes we're at 76% battery so we'll see what kind of impact this drive is gonna have on it percent battery left so that 20-minute drive took like three percent which is really yes very solid the pixels have good battery life so no surprise here alright guys so we're done them plan it and they've got all these kinds of cool figurines here this is Godzilla fall you kids who might not know about it he's a legend time to test out the camera we got to do I guess a regular shot will save the portrait mode stuff for a little bit later let's just get a regular shot this is pretty weak lighting so I say low light let's give it a shot that's a clean shot did I have Porsche motor on because that is clean no no what's it one for those of you who don't know pixels have amazing cameras okay so you guys see this guy right here this is like or zero this is definitely a throwback right here this is actually really really good that's a good paint job see this that's what I love like you can zoom in and see so much detail so much sharpness it's such a sharp camera that is just a clean shot and that is a clean shot what's crazy is that this is behind this little not glass like plastic but it still came out super clear so impressive so guys one of the favorite features about this phone is the fact that it can detect what song is being played in your environment so as you can see it says say I buy fabulous and trey songz so that's what's playing right now this is especially nice if you're at a restaurant or maybe just out anywhere and you don't know what song is being played but you like the beat of it or you like the tune and you can find out by just looking at your phone and it doesn't have microphones that are listening in and sending anything to the cloud or anything like that you can be in airplane mode and things still works it's not doing anything online it's all on the device which is pretty insane it ain't perfect though I've had a lot of times where a certain song would work and the same song wouldn't work so it can be hit or miss but it's a cool feature nonetheless it's right now Ares got some ramen I've got some curry but like I said we were working on a video today we dropped it today and now I'm responding to comments but one thing that I like here is that it's pretty easy to type on this even with one hand so for one-handed typing I'm really not having any issues which I really like and it's actually not a very slippery phone not to me anyway so being able to hold it with one hand not worry about it falling out especially something's a bigger phone it's actually really nice hear that music playing in the back it's actually playing right on the device as we eat definitely doesn't get more real world than this this is a great future hi guys so we had our ramen our curry time for some bubble tea so I'm about to have some of this oh there we go I'm actually gonna take a selfie with this because I love this bubble tea that much okay my face is a little dark but man yeah yeah for sure it just it works every time with just one lens guys it does it doesn't make any sense I don't know how Google does it but they nail it with this software I want to see this apk go over to other Android phones and see if they can take advantage up with two I know they have the cameras have like special pixels and whatnot but it'd be interesting to see nonetheless so it is clearly nighttime figured why not take a picture of this statue over here test out the cameras nighttime low-light capabilities see how it does so let's see if I can get a decent shot here this guy's a grenade in this in its crazy Danny that's a clean shot that is a solid picture man that is a solid picture so right now me and Ari are very full with we're very full but we are in IKEA and we need to pick up a couple of things but we're just showing right now might drop a youtube video or two so you see guys you see when you're watching a video on YouTube you've got these black bars it doesn't take advantage of the full screen which is no kind of unfortunate on the s8 and I think the note 8 you can like zoom in so that the entire screen is taken up with the video I wish they would have had to added that feature here hopefully they do it in a software update but with these kind of bezels you know I want to take advantage of it you just can't do that right now me and Ari are going to take a selfie together there's such great lighting in IKEA getting this selfie even so even in motion this is a really good shot come on out so check this out guys it did it again this time in IKEA so it's got the song over here but I didn't show you guys last time that you can actually jump in and see what song it is and you can go see things like the YouTube video you can buy it with the Play Store or do a google search for it shows you all the info you need right when you tap it so if you need a little bit more information on what song it is that's playing you can always just tap the screen and it'll give you a bit more definite info on a white screen you can definitely see it so one feature I like is the ability to squeeze the phone to pull up the Google assistant I didn't get a chance to watch the Cavs game so I can just pull it up and find out how they did today so check this out how did the Cavaliers do today oh dang they lost come on y'all either way that's a cool feature Cavs need to get it together though and even though you can't use the full display for things like watching YouTube videos still works just fine for gaming so you can take advantage of that 6-inch display helps games to look really good gives you a lot of real estate and playing a game like Riptide GP over here which has a lot of stuff going on is not a problem because this thing that has a snapdragon 835 processor four gigs of ram all the specs you would expect from a flagship thing I was trying to nail that while talking but all the specs that you would expect from a flagship of 2017 and not only does that help with gaming but just the overall experience when using the phone it's snappy this is the smoothest version of Android you can possibly expect because it's the cleanest version so performance is not gonna be an issue here whatsoever and that was pretty much my day now of course I spent more time with the phone before doing this wrap-up and I had to think long and hard before I decided whether or not I'd recommend this phone when we're in a world with the Galaxy s8 the note 8 the LGV 30 and iphone all those really great phones it makes it a hard decision I feel like the issues with the display really overshadow a lot of the good things about the pixel 2xl the camera is phenomenal and you guys saw how impressed I was with both the front-facing camera and the rear camera which is pretty rare front-facing cameras are usually pretty hit or miss but this one is definitely impressive and the fact that it can even pull up a portrait mode with just a single lens it's just mind-blowing and battery life is awesome it's amongst the best that I've ever used on a smartphone you can go ahead and quote me on that I definitely think it'll last you dropped the entire day and even if you forget to charge it at night this thing has fast charging I was able to get from five percent all the way to forty-one percent within 15 minutes and when Google says that it'll give you seven hours of usage I think they're factoring in standby time because seven hours of actual usage isn't really possible with just around 40 percent or so but definitely not seven hours of just straight-up usage that I don't think is true but throughout your day yet now it does suck that this doesn't have wireless charging built into it I'm just starting to really get into the whole wireless charging thing I've got a couple of those wireless charging pads all over my place so it would have been nice to have that feature but it's definitely not a deal breaker and not to mention this phone's loaded with a bunch of other cool features like being able to squeeze the phone to pull up your voice assistant having the always-on display and also being able to listen to your environment to let you know what music is playing in the background but there's that big issue with the display I honestly feel like that's what kills the phone most people aren't gonna want to sacrifice quality in any space when a brand-new phone that cost this much I personally have way more issues with the lack of color on the screen than that blue shift are you actually have no issues with the screen at all when she took a look at it so I think it really depends on the person US techies are gonna put it under a microscope and point out all the flaws which we should because it means a better product for the consumer at the end if the companies who make these phones are listening but my biggest suggestion is to go into a verizon store and see the phone in person even if you don't have Verizon they have the phone so go take a look at it see if the screen is actually gonna bother you I think the average consumer isn't really gonna have an issue with it unless like I said they come from a phone that had a really vibrant bright screen like the s8 or the note 8 but I think in that it makes it a really hard sell to have a screen that isn't as good as some of the competitors out right now but I can absolutely recommend this phone based on its performance its features the feel in the hand how it is to actually use it but that screen is definitely up to the person looking at it so like I said go check it out in stores everyone's tasting the screen is going to different but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully you enjoy if you did be the cool guy or girl that gives this video a thumbs up I'll catch you guys in the next one till then it's your average consumer peace