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i've been daily driving the pixel 4xl for a little over a week now and i have

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got some thoughts you know i never thought i'd miss the

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display notch but this forehead is more of a five head

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wow my voice sounds really weird a front-facing radar might be the

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biggest feature i never knew i needed i just wish it worked a lot more

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consistently this can't be my voice this doesn't sound right

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apple i hope you're taking notes because this

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is how you refresh a product every year without losing track of your unique

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design language gone are the two-tone back the large chin bar and the rear

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fingerprint sensor and yet somehow the off-colored lock button

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smooth finish and the feel in the hand including of course the delightful

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squeeze to summon the assistant are all unmistakably pixel

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which isn't to say that every pixel fan is gonna like google's latest refresh

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let's begin with the good it's faster than ever with a snapdragon 855 chipset

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and six gigs of ram the oled screen is brighter and more beautiful than ever

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and is variable refresh rate to boot allowing it to drop down to 60 to save

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power and jump up to 90 hertz for that buttery smooth scrolling and gaming and

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the software continues to be clean and responsive with some amazing features

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both now and in the pipeline live caption blew my mind the pixel 4 has the

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ability to subtitle most of the media that plays through your phone it's not

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fully supported for calls or songs yet unfortunately and it does take a toll on

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your battery as it uses your cpu that's why it's coming to the pixel 3 and 3a

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devices in december but apparently never to the pixel 2

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but this is a game changer for anyone who wants to watch a quick video clip

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without disturbing anyone on the bus or who just generally has a hard time

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hearing phone speakers which i guess transitions me perfectly

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into the controversial stuff don't it in pursuit of slimmer bezels google has

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ditched the dual front-facing speakers that i praised last time around in favor

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of a single bottom firing speaker and an amplified earpiece speaker the sound

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quality stereo effect and overall loudness is still comfortably flagship

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though so as far as i'm concerned no harm no foul but i can't say the same

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for the available storage options 128 gigs on your top of the line sku

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what kind of game are you playing here google the i three gigs of ram is enough

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phone moved to 256 gigs three years ago

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i mean this might not be obvious to you but lots of us store things other than

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our photography portfolio on our phones and 128 gigs with no micro sd expansion

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is a straight up deal breaker for a lot of people that was a rhetorical question

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before by the way it's fairly obvious that the limited storage game here is

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getting pixel users to sign up for google cloud storage because here comes

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middle finger number two the fourth generation pixel no longer includes

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unlimited storage for full quality images

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big oof now let's get to the big one the

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pixel 4 series's technology loaded forehead is actually slimmer than last

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generation but you'd never notice it because of how out of place and last gen

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it looks compared to i mean if i'm speaking honestly even the iphone 11

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series so why would they do this well in

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addition to the usual ambient light sensor front-facing camera and earpiece

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speaker google has jammed in a carbon copy of apple's face id sensor array for

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accurate fast hands-free unlocking and

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a mother fracking radar chip so it's these last two that power their new

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flagship's biggest new features face unlock and motion sense

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the idea is that the radar can sense when you're about to pick up your phone

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so it can prep the cameras for its face unlock when the device is still on its

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way to your face and it works pretty well

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yes you still do have to have it pointed at your face before it actually unlocks

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something that is not true of a fingerprint reader rear mounted or

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otherwise but once it's there it unlocks in what i would describe as a reasonable

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if not impressive amount of time and thank you google there's no unnecessary

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swipe up like on the iphone your phone is just open

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open for business like lttstore.com

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is face unlock faster than a fingerprint reader's best case scenario though

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no but considering how often you need to unlock a phone while your hands are wet

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covered in gloves or otherwise occupied i would wager that the pixel 4 has the

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faster average unlock time across every scenario i mean it's definitely faster

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than pulling out my galaxy fold whose review is coming out really soon so

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subscribe so you don't miss it and it was surprisingly reliable for a

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first attempt but motion sense is also supposed to be

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useful when you're not picking up your phone it can turn off the screen when

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you're not around only to light up again when you reach for the device and allow

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you to control apps by simply waving at them letting you skip tracks

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silence alarms and buzz phone calls

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too bad and i'm sure i'm not alone when i say i saw this one coming

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it barely works it's about as consistently inconsistent

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as the lg g8 air motion which is a

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crying shame because i actually had one really good run where i was walking down

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the street with my bluetooth headphones in and my phone in my hand just like

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waving at it to skip tracks and it felt like the future for that one

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golden moment which made it all the more jarring when the illusion was broken by literally

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10 failed attempts in a row like should i have my fingers separated should i

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have them together closer further like i could actually see myself getting

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really used to silencing my alarm clock by just

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waving in its general direction instead of picking up my phone and

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poking at it like a drunk chimp but that only matters if google can get

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motion sense to a usable state via software updates onto the sensors on the

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back of the phone it's a giant square camera bump but in

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typical pixel fashion it has one less lens than you might expect based on what

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the competition is doing two not three

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but that is one more than last year enabling the portrait mode to work on

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larger objects from farther away and honestly the pixelforce portrait mode

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clearly just doesn't need the third camera because it is head and shoulders

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above the iphone 11 pro not only does the pixel keep the shadows

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and skin detail where the iphone just smooths it out but let's take a closer

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look at our subject's hair this is one of the most challenging

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things for portrait mode to handle and where apple ends up smudging or

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eliminating wispies google i mean

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honestly there's just no word for it but wow

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that is a single strand of hair ladies and gentlemen

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across our test photos the pixel 4 was consistently the best at capturing a

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scene the way the human eye sees it this room had bar lighting that was much

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moodier than the iphone captured and the pixel 4's ai-based white balance did a

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good job of de-oranging this musician google has also given us two separate

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sliders to live preview and control the highlights and low lights in a shot a

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feature that is just plain not present on any other phone

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not only does it give you a better starting point to edit from if you're that kind of person but if you're not

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and you don't want to do any post-production work this is a really smart way to give more creativity and

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control to the user and make shot composition way more fun

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with that said google did not include an ultra wide lens so that's a creative

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tool that the iphone 11 pro offers that is outright absent on the pixel 4.

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however i would make the argument that the pixel's light and shadow controls

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are going to be more useful and more often but the gap between good and great

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phones when it comes to stills photography is absolutely narrowing and

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video is where apple still has a commanding lead over their android

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competition is what i used to say thankfully google

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has obviously put a ton of work into the video recording capabilities of the

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pixel 4. as a 4k video camera it is

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really impressive like if i didn't tell you that this wide shot was taken on a

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phone be honest i doubt that any but the most

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trained eye would have a chance of noticing the autofocus lock-on is

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intuitive to use and exceeded our expectations and so did the image

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stabilization while moving between these two shots it's very difficult to make

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out a difference between apple and google's latest and greatest and

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honestly both of them almost look like they're gimbal stabilized it's

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outstanding even slow motion recording which can be an achilles heel for even great phone

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cameras was as good as the iphone it's different i would say there's more

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softness in the edges of this frame at 240 fps and a more pronounced

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stair-stepping effect in the fine details but the sharpness of our subject

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and better dynamic range make up for this in my opinion and of course it

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wouldn't be a pixel launch without some pixel specific features and the biggest

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one of the year is the rollout of google assistant 2.0 google's engineers have

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miniaturized the assistant from 100 gigs to 500 megabytes small enough to run

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locally on the device now including natural language processing this has

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enabled a new app called recorder that you can use to make audio recordings

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with transcriptions so your phone can basically take meeting minutes now

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having text with the audio also makes all these audio files searchable and

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since it's happening on device it's more secure and you don't require an internet

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connection if you're a fan of texting with your voice then this works about as

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well as you'd expect gets it right most of the time but you got to be realistic

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if you're in a meeting with multiple people that are talking over each other

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it does tend to become a bit of a mess it also wouldn't be a pixel launch

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without some inexplicable bugs so i was browsing condos in a nearby suburb and

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the address of one of them just straight up burned onto my phone

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i closed chrome i opened other apps and it just stayed there

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guys what you're looking at is not a simulation of the effect this is an

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actual screen recording i had to reboot my phone to get rid of it like

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what i've never seen anything like that on an

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android phone an iphone any phone

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so then should you buy the pixel 4 well i spent

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most of my time with the xl so i'm going to tailor my thoughts to that one

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it feels pretty iterative but other than the galaxy fold what new

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phone isn't the battery isn't as big as some competitors which is particularly

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problematic given the 90hz display and it costs more than an iphone 11

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but it still delivers on the pixel promise

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of having a category leading camera and innovative bare android plus software

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with timely post sales support so it comes with a big recommendation

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