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what's going on guys you drive which consumer and today we're gonna be spending a real day in the life with the Google pixel 3xl now for those of you who have never seen one of my real day into live videos you're pretty much gonna be spending a day with me as well as the pixel 3xl and we're gonna be testing things like the performance the battery life camera and all of the cool smart features that it has so here's how it did okay guys so we're officially starting our day is about 11 a.m. and we're shooting right now with the front-facing camera of the pixel so this is the video quality that you can expect as well as the audio quality but one thing I will say this does look a bit crop there's a perfect time to take advantage of that second lens that's on the front-facing camera see if we can get a wider shot alright and here we have a wider shot now this is so much better I wish there was more functionality out of the lens but this is so good like if I wanted to go ahead and vlog like this this makes it so much so much easier yeah this is a way to shoot with the front-facing camera but guys we do have a lot to do today I got should a video got a couple places to go so you guys will see all of that and how the pixel kind of survives during the day alright guys so first stop we're gonna make is actually to our old apartment we have to pick up the razor phone too unfortunately it got sent to the wrong address but before we had any where I gotta talk about the body of the pixel 3 and pixel 3 XL it honestly guys just feels like the best pixel that's come out yet the feel in the hand is really nice it just feels like a quality quality phone so this is clearly white but it actually has the mint button it's as close to teal as Google is gonna get so I'm okay with that now the body is great feels good in the hand the only thing is that not sucks obviously everyone knows it is a really deep knotch and after using it for a couple days it really takes some getting used to but we'll talk about the knotch later one thing I'm noticing while I'm outside right now though is that you really need the phone on max brightness to be able to see anything and let's see this together if a bright of wallpaper makes a difference and this isn't bad it's not bad let's turn the brightness down to let's say 75 let's see that's hard to see in the that's hard to see in direct sunlight I mean you can use it no problem but you might squint a little bit and it's a little unfortunate alright guys so right now we are driving over to get the phone we've been driving for about three minutes we got seven 14 minutes left on this Drive it's at 88 percent which is a little surprising I definitely expected to have more battery left but you know we'll see what the stats are once we get out the car also streaming some music and you know just got a little drive to do we'll give you an update so we're looking at about 83 percent battery left so - like a 5 percent hit on that's what 17 minute ride let's go get this other phone though alright here we have it now it is time to get some more stuff for you but yes so we got back from ups we're headed into a studio but check this out guys tons and tons of boxes gotta bring it all on the side now so you guys got to see a couple of video samples but the big deal on the pixel is of course the camera and we got to get some picture samples I really want to try out the portrait mode because that's like my personal favorite feature of the camera so I'll just top this little flower right here this now this is a big test because this thing is thin and it has a lot of edges so we'll see how that edge detection does it's so good so check this out guys when you zoom in it looks completely bird in the background but the little plant itself everything is in focus that's amazing guys you are able to still change around the things that are in focus so you guys can see as I'm tapping around different things in the photo you come in focus and it's doing a pretty good job at keeping the things that I want in focus but not that B that B didn't stand a chance okay so we've been messing around with portrait mode a lot but let's just take one normal photo with just a straight up camera BAM so this is actually pretty nice because in the shadowy areas we're not losing a ton of information we can still see the leaves on the inside it's just not super dark that's actually really good and all of the white petals you can see them very clearly so the dynamic change on the pixel you get really really great dynamic range even the areas with the direct sunlight like over here not washed out completely you still get a lot of information and in terms of sharpness if i zoom in quite a bit still a ton of detail but something I do want to test this top shot all right so I've got my buddy here Malcolm and basically what top shot is it's going to identify the best picture after taking a few shots and if Malcolm blinks or something it'll know and pick a shot like right before he blinked so we're gonna see if that works even with his little glasses on or whatever it's I got you and focused so I want you to blink in three two one and let's see if Top Shot actually works here oh you and you held your blink for a little while - it works with blur - three two one go yeah that is cool cuz I definitely took it after you move one more time one more time just for the sake of science here one pixels pixels too fast for you dad Wow so top shot is legitimate okay guys sorry I just wrapped up a voiceover so that's going to be for another video but I just want to give you guys a quick battery update it is 4:18 yes I'm still wearing my Apple watch because I don't want to go watch lists but it has about 60% battery left at 4:18 and we've been using it for an hour and 50 minutes so 40% for about two hours of usage okay not the best when you actually jump into the settings the top of the battery settings will let you know just how long you'll be able to use it for it so it says the battery should last till 10:30 a.m. based on my usage I don't know what what they're using to factor that all in but 10:30 a.m. sounds crazy only got an hour 50 so far so we'll see alright guys so we are back on the road again we got a 17 minute drive ahead of us we've been driving for about 7 minutes now so we'll see how the battery's impacted we're currently at about 58% but one thing that I am noticing guys if you're someone who doesn't like to have your phone at 100% brightness you might struggle a little bit when you're outside cuz even right now I'm looking at this thing and it's a little Dart I can make out what it's saying but I think I need it at like above 85% in order to see it clearly so we made it to Best Buy where I headed in got some stuff I want to get from for my switch so let's see if we can find something and maybe check out that google lens okay so I've never seen this before it's an adjustable charging stand for the switch this thing is like really small so you know the switch has a terrible USBC position so having something like this could be really nice that's only 20 bucks but it doesn't hurt to see if I can find online for a little bit cheaper so we'll try it and see if we can identify it dang in no time it found it so they give you which website actually has a picture of it up so fries has it for 20 bucks as well and try and use the price matching isn't really working now but google lens is doing its job and showing all kinds of websites and finding the products pretty quickly so that's that's really nice and one thing that's always impressive with Best Buy is of course their lights so they got a ton of good lighting in here but there's a perfect chance to try out the selfie camera not for video but a straight up selfie so we're gonna try it and it maybe post it to Instagram so let's see what we can come up with in here so we got a quick shot and I'm not gonna lie I think this is pretty good guys got some pretty good detail here this is good and I still think it is so crazy how well you can mess with that depth effect so this is with nothing that's what everything such a massive difference alright so now I got a posting to Instagram of course my guys the typing experience is pretty good here I can actually type with one hand with no problem I can use this one-handed and with no real issue and this is a bigger phone I think the feel is nice and grippy so it's not gonna slide out my hand I have no problem moving this thing around and this is a bigger display so it's actually kind of surprising for me hi guys so right now we're in target just picking up a couple of things some light bulbs I think you gotta get some stuff for cookie right now I'm just checking out battery and it just we're at 36 percent which is still a little bit lower than I expected we'd have about three hours of screen on time though something interesting is that area where it told us that we would have it until 10:30 a.m. now says the phone is being used more than normal and the battery may run out soon I think this thing has a 3400 milliamp hour battery I don't know this is so good alright guys so right now Ares actually calling me perfect time to try out the screen call feature so let's check this out I'll just hit this so right now Google assistant is telling her that I'm using the screen calling feature so this is I'm calling because I need to know which music file we want to use for the video so I can finish up to get it so tell me more so she can we can see everything that she says as she's talking to it I don't know which one you want to use thing this is pretty clear let's ask her if it's urgent if she's probably gonna get so pissed hey how'd you like the screen calling okay yeah she didn't find it as funny as I did but that is awesome so for telemarketers all that kind of stuff that's really really cool that is easily one of the best features on this phone being able to see what someone wants before you actually pick up the phone it's clutch alright guys so right now we are headed to our favorite spot bot and ramen I got my lovely assistant Anna over here these they're sisters they just be giggling always behind the camera so they'd like in giggle mode so we're gonna compare it to the iPhone 10s Macs both are pretty good when it comes to the light in the back the pixels a bit more blown out in comparison to the iPhone so I don't know alright but enough camera test let's get some food I know these girls are waiting okay guys so right now we're in rotten Ramallah in the restaurant perfect time to try out the flip to shush feature if I just go like this it should be in silent mode now sorry you want to call me and give it a shot it's the ring me because you're my favorites list can you call from private yeah yeah go for it are you calling okay so then you try to use flip to shush depending on your settings your starred contact favorite contacts they'll still be able to come through I guess they're important so you don't want to miss their call but for regular people do not disturb will make sure that you don't get any calls well you don't want to be disturbed now you guys know I gotta take a picture of this food and damn let me take a picture of honest too that looks really good right alright guys so now we are getting some bubble tea after our ramen you know how we do but we've gotten 11 percent battery left at 9:50 p.m. so this thing is on its last leg and in terms of screen on time over here we have 4 hours and 9 minutes I definitely expected more since pixels usually have really really good battery life but this one is just ok now something you guys might have noticed is that I don't have the notch being displayed right now if you make yourself a developer you can actually jump into the settings and do not display cut out and then you can hide the notch if you want this is what it looks like without it this is what it looks like with it there so I think I actually like having it gone quite a bit more it just feels a lot better looking to me and that pretty much wraps up our day now before the phone died on me I got to check it and I had about four and a half hours of screen on time battery life has been pretty ok it's nothing amazing it's pretty standard battery life it honestly didn't improve much compared to last year's version for my usage I would have been a bit happier if it had a bigger battery and it got us to that 5 hour to 6 hour mark that would have been ideal especially since a lot of smart phones these days are really getting us past that 5 hour mark these real day-in-the-life videos we've been seeing phones blow past that 4 hour mark and this one only did it minimally even though it has three thousand four hundred and thirty milliamp hours I was hoping for a little bit better battery life but thankfully this thing has some really fast charging which kind of makes it basic battery life now Google's claimed to get from zero to 50% in 30 minutes is completely legit and honestly before the real day in the life video I forgot to charge my phone so I was able to actually throw it onto the charger and get it charged up right before the normal times that we usually start these videos and speaking of charging one thing we weren't able to cover during the real day into life was the fact that it now has wireless charging so thankfully the pixel now has wireless charging thanks to that glass back which we will touch on in just a second and that new dock that they called the pixel stand things actually pretty cool and Google actually added a few smart features so that the pixel is functional even when it's docked in I'm talking photo frames Google assistant to even alarms that brighten the screen as you wake up there's a lot of cool things about the pixel stand but let's get back to the pixel the pixel feels very comfortable to hold in the hand honestly is one of the best feeling phones that I've used in a while but the glass bag does seem to be a bit scratched prone on that and that side and it was something I was a bit concerned about when I went to the pixel launch event I saw a couple of phones there that had a few scratches and based on a couple of other reviews that I've seen today it does seem like some other people did have that issue so you're definitely gonna want to use a case to protect it overall this is a comfortable premium feeling device and I feel like Google made a lot of right choices here except with the knotch for those of you wondering why the notch is so big it does seem that google has packed a bigger camera lens inside of here so that might also mean a bigger sensor and a bigger lens meaning better pictures better low-light performance so you'll get a better overall camera out of this so that's the trade-off with the notch you get some really good selfies but you do get that cut out in your screen but either way it's one of those things that you just got to get used to if you really like the overall package which I personally do and you got to remember what this overall package includes from great performance as it is running the latest and most optimized version of Android an amazing camera that absolutely kills every aspect of smartphone photography Google's machine learning is just absolutely nuts and produces some amazing stuff this camera has easily won a spot in my pocket for taking pictures because you get great dynamic range sharpness colors this phone is honestly the king of taking pictures and it's pretty much ruined every other smartphones camera for me but let's be real guys this phone worth the money I absolutely think it is yes some people will call it ugly yes that notch is ugly but is this something you can look past I definitely think it is and Google allows you to go ahead and jump into the settings and get rid of the knotch it makes the overall screen smaller but there is an option but aside from the notch it is a very good phones used it is extremely fast that's great for performance even though it doesn't have the best specs out there kind of reminds me of the iPhone how the iPhone is optimized to run its software with lower specs you're pretty much getting the same with the pixel the while performance is great for navigating through the phone and of course playing games was also really nice is the ability to watch content the screen looks really good of course they've got those improved speakers which are 40% louder so you get stereo speakers here front-facing and they do have a bit more clarity so it is definitely enjoyable to watch some content on here if photos are a big deal for you this is a no-brainer if you love the latest version of Android again no-brainer this is just an overall really really good phone it gets my recommendation but I will tell you guys make sure that you get a case and make sure that you're okay with that not unless you want to go for that pixel 3 which doesn't have a notch at all but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it the pixel 3 XL is going to be in my pocket for quite some time that camera I I can't let it go y'all it's that good but till the next video guys to drive which consumer base