Nexus is dead Long Live
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in the video description yes it is true the long line
of Google Nexus phones has ended its successor will be pixel which is
currently my favorite phone yeah we'll dive into the details of that later the
pixel is a phone made by Google yet still manufactured by someone else HTC
in this case but they weren't Google's First Choice that would have been Huawei
who bailed out because Google wouldn't put their logo on the phone which brings
us to the design easily the most talked about and polarizing aspect of the pixel
visually is the gorilla glass pane on the back of the phone but it turns out
that it's not just for looks it is intended to help with cell reception
along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals which is cool and if you really hate it
you can just put a scan or a case over it anyways
debrand also on the back of the phone is a fingerprint reader which you can also
use to pull down or put away your notification tray with some finger
flicks and maybe it's because the last phone I reviewed was the LG G2 but I
absolutely love having it in this position no it's not ideal for when it's
on a table but when you pull out of your
pocket you can unlock it in one smooth motion while having your hand in the
perfect position ready to use it m so
good absolutely love that what some people are saying isn't so good is the
thickness a pixel XL is 0.33 in thick while an iPhone 7 plus is
only 0.29 in thick but to be honest guys
I really can't bring myself to care especially when the pixel XL is also
rocking a 3450 million hour battery W
seriously the battery mixed with the new software stuff which we'll talk more
about later gives me the ability to just charge whenever I want instead of having
to constantly be chasing down power sources it's awesome in the time that
I've been using it there have been a number of occasions where it has lasted
2 days with no additional
charging so good what's arguably even
more awesome than that is the camera which happen s to be the highest rated
smartphone camera ever its specs are darn impressive 12.3 megapixels f2.0
apture and a 1.55 Micron pixel size
along with 4K video recording and 240 FPS slow-mo naturally I gave our
resident camera expert Brandon Lee a spin with it and while he wasn't able to
appear on camera because he's off being a cinematographic wizard somewhere he
did leave me with some notes lens flare is an issue as others have noted in
their reviews however thanks to our natural habitat being the Cloudy
rainforest of Southwestern British Columbia he actually never encountered
it he described the lowlight performance as not groundbreaking per se but said
that it was very good for a smartphone
but then he was a little bit disappointed with the lens blur
apparently iPhone's implementation is notably better as the pixel would blur
out odd parts of an image and add grainy effects to some other images the HD r+
mode is impressively fast but a little overdone at times which can make images
look less natural though that's great if that's what you're looking for and if
you're looking for more true to life images you can still get those rather
easily after a few tweaks in a photo editor like VSCO his conclusions were
that the pixel gives detail that he never thought one could get out of a
smartphone photo and in his subjective opinion he sees this as the best noedit
smartphone on the market blam that's
awesome moving on we have the hardware for both a pixel and pixel XL you're
looking at a Snapdragon 821 an adreno 530 GPU 4 gigs of RAM and either 32 or
128 gigs of ufs 2.0 storage with the
pixel specifically you'll get a 5in 1080p screen with for its size a large
2770 mAh battery the pixel XL steps it
up a notch with a 5.5 in 1440p screen
screen and that massive battery that I mentioned earlier all those impressive
specs however might cower and fear a little bit when they hear that both
versions have an IP water and dust resistance rating of 53 meaning it's
somewhat Splash and dust resistant and that's it which leaves a bit to be
desired as it's quite behind the curve compared to other modern phones even
apple is finally rating their phones at
ip68 that's lame Google what isn't lame
however is the software pixel is running Android 7.1 and oh my gosh is it smooth
on this hardware easily the most buttery experience I have ever had on a phone
the UI just Glides at your fingertips nothing takes time everything is
effortless even when playing games the phone doesn't even notably heat up at
all because that might dare take away from the experience it's
glorious which makes the total flood of a speaker implementation that much more
disappointing especially from the likes of HTC who have ample experience with
how to do this right there are no front-facing speakers to go on those
giant bezels where they would fit right in just an unfortunately easy to cover
up sounding speaker near the USB type-c
port sad but anyways the swipe up motion
for the application tray is a little odd at first but grows on you quick
especially if you've installed a similar aftermarket launcher of your own in the
past it works nicely with the whole smooth idea of the pixel and so does the
long press option that I expect many people to overlook you can now hold your
finger on an app and it will flip up some additional shortcut options like
incognito tab in Chrome or the take a video option in the camera app pretty
neat then we have the Google Assistant what time is it
the time is 11:41 a.m. which is a more conversational version of Google now
which means it will remember the previous questions that you've asked and
will be able to provide context appropriate answers to followup
questions without you rephrasing the entire thing on the surface the pixels
are very good smartphones but not necessarily perfect ones or even great
ones for that matter it has a crappy speaker non-expandable storage bad water
resistance large bezels and it's kind of thick all of that going along with its
surprisingly high price tag but when you
use it it's not much short of amazing
it's the smoothest phone I have ever witnessed the best camera in Brandon's
opinion which is good enough for me along with
Incredible battery life it's truly more
than the sum of its parts and I am super stoked for Pixel 2 where they can fix
the speaker and water resist problems along with the other
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video description all right guys that was my first phone review in a long time
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