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luke loves his pixel xl but the issue with the original pixel for me was that

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while i did end up using it for a couple of months it was a bit of a one-trick

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pony an expensive one at that and a good

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camera or even a great camera is not enough for me

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i need a phone that knows what i want a

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phone that shares my interests a phone that i can't wait to greet at

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the end of the day with a great big hug

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or failing that a little squeeze

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yeah yeah

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in some ways google launched two different sizes of the same phone both

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the pixel 2 and the pixel 2 xl feature

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basically the same internal specs with the main difference being the amped up

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battery on the larger model to power the larger screen

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and i was both surprised and pleased to find out during the october 4th event

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that both phones even get the same optical and electronic image

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stabilization and portrait mode camera features a move that is much appreciated

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by those of us with both small hands and precious moments to capture

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but pretty much any flagship Android phone

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these days has the same internal specs including the galaxy s8 that launched

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six months ago so we have to look a little closer

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to see that while they are clearly related

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they are also as different as i am from my siblings

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they both still sport a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor

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satisfyingly clicky lock buttons a 12.2 megapixel single rear camera and the

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partial glass-backed design that debuted on the original pixel but is somehow

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much more refined looking this time around but then

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when we flip them over they're like

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nothing alike it's almost like they were made by

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completely different contract manufacturers with different

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capabilities so the pixel 2

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is lightweight with squared off edges making it easy to handle but a little

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chunky looking with larger top and bottom bezels to make room for stereo

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speakers and i guess the rest of the basically no compromises internals

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the xl by contrast is the far more

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2017 looking of the two devices

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little changes like the seamless transition from the body to the sexier

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curved glass and wider gamut not to

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mention much higher resolution display

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wouldn't really bother me as a pixel 2 buyer but the taller aspect ratio of the

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display makes the handling of the devices

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very different in day-to-day use the pixel puts less strain on your

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thumbs to reach the spacebar while you're typing while the xl uses its

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extra screen height to compensate for the space lost to the on-screen buttons

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by comparison it also fits a lot more

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content on the screen at a time though it should be noted that both of

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them lose out to the galaxy s8 and the note 8 in this regard

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and this affects media playback in a big way too if you're a movie watcher

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buy the xl2 period

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surprisingly they both managed to pack similar and impressive sounding stereo

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front-facing speakers like seriously htc

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boom sound lovers y'all got something to upgrade to

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finally but while six inch versus five inch doesn't

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sound like that big of a deal the pixel wastes

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far more of its screen real estate in ultra wide content so think about how

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much bigger a 50-inch tv looks compared to a 40-inch tv

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that is the difference on to day-to-day usability uh once i

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added a specifically compatible well

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thankfully inexpensive type c to three and a half millimeter adapter to my

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headphone pouch the pixel 2 and the 2xl

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are they're just a pleasure to use gone is the stress about incidental

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water splashes from last gen and i gotta

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say while i had no pressing desire for a

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squeezable phone how tall is Linus sebastian i really like it as a super

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natural way to bring up the google assistant to the point where i even

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found myself just using the google assistant a lot more

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than i have in the past now you'll hit it by accident a fair bit

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at first just trying to pick your phone up off the table or put it into your

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pocket but the sensitivity has a wide

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adjustment range so if you're not the kind of person whose

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voice saying okay google would take about three minutes to capture and steal

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okay google ok google ok google and

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you're comfortable with the reduced security of a voice recognition unlock

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man there are a lot of fast ways to get things done ok google assuming of course

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that what you want to get done isn't that complicated

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the thing for me is that the more that these digital

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assistants can do the more obvious it becomes what they cannot do

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so i can open google docs handy

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but i can't then open a specific document or start dictating without

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touching my phone i can search for drive badminton center

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and i can navigate there but then i can't add a stop at an amw on

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my way without touching my phone while i'm in the car

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and it's stuff like this that makes the whole exercise feel

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a little pointless i mean no not not pointless that's not

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fair but but definitely incomplete i mean i can see how folks

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who just want to perform discreet singular tasks like turn off the light

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or play that song that i like would be really happy with the current state of

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things but for some reason a lot of what

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i end up wanting to do is going to result in me entering it manually at

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some point anyway and if that's the case it's usually faster to just do it myself

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correctly the first time rather than relying on what is much better but still

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imperfect voice recognition a perfect example is that it recorded

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this as in perfect instead of imperfect

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and the screen turned off while i was finishing the recording because i've

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been talking for a minute psy

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and of course i meant phi not that sigh

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the good news is that even if you don't give a crap about google assistant

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Android oreo has plenty to love in no particular order here are a few things

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that made my life better versus the iphone 8 and the galaxy s8 upcoming

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events at the top of the home screen super nice to have

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holding task switcher to run multiple apps on screen doesn't work with netflix

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boo but with supported apps it's faster

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smoother and more intuitive for multitaskers than ever before

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being able to snooze notifications is a

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godsend for busy people like me so finally there is a middle ground between

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dismissing them and forgetting about them and having them just pile up and

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better management of background app power usage makes the pixel 2 behave

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very nicely for a phone with only a 2700

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milliamp hour battery i have gripe still though google allows

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bootloader unlocking but i shouldn't need to load a custom rom to

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do something as simple as swapping the on-screen nav buttons and this

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suggestion that i found on reddit was even more annoying than reaching all the

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way over for back and while we're at it i capture mark up

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and send out a lot of screenshots and stock Android screenshot management

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sucks compared to iOS 11 and third-party

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variants of Android bringing us to

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the camera even though it lacks a few shooting modes compared to its competitors like

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60 FPS 4k or ultra high frame rate slo-mo it's

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great but oh don't take my word for it

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here's our resident camera guru brandon to tell you guys how the front-facing

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camera is okay if you turn off the tier facial processing and the back shooter

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is great and you're gonna love it the front-facing camera is okay

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if you turn off the face retouching and the rear camera is

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great that's it

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i mean could you do a follow-up video next week maybe comparing the pixel 2 to

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the iphone 8 and the note 8 or something i guess

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okay well great then so

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bottom line should you buy

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it's actually kind of hard to evaluate especially the pixel 2 xl

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in the absence of its true competitor the iphone 10 but

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squeeze changed the game a lot more for me than i thought even if almost

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everything else about it especially the absence of wireless charging still feels

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like the nexus to pixel price hike was a

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bit of a kick in the balls so i like the design much better than the

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super boring iphone 8 but iOS 11 and 3d

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touch are great so is face id better than squeeze and

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google assistant how about the camera on the 10. these are all questions that

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need answers unless of course you're a die-hard

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Android user and you were never going to consider the dark side anyway so for you

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guys the pixel 2 xl gets a strong recommendation with the two just behind

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it due to its fat bezeled and last gen 16x9 screen so

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yeah you probably already knew this but these are the Android phones to have

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