Hands-On With Google's New Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL Smartphones

[pappy53]

Seems like iPhone Xs best screen just got dethroned. Can't wait for Samsung to take the crown in March, then Apple, then Google, etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/9msiw2/google_pixel_3_xl_oled_display_earns_the_highest/

It says "a" best display award, not "the" best display award. There's a difference. Samsung note would kill the Pixel screen. XS is still king.

 

[pilotpat]

True, but is it free when they use the photos/videos to gather information about you for advertising? Do they offer you free unlimited uploads and downloads to that cloud storage via your wireless plan? It could have changed, but I know in the past Google would compress the images and video reducing the quality. Yes, resolution stayed the same, but images were compressed losing critcal data. This is why I chose a different provider to store my photos.

No they don't offer free unlimited data plans for uploading your stuff.
For images and videos captured on Pixel, the image is uncompressed.

 

[Rogifan]

If this was Apple we’d have #scratchgate already like we did with iPhone 5.

Ron Amadeo (@RonAmadeo)
10/9/18, 3:20 PM
This is what the soft-touch coating on my demo Pixel 3 looked like. Scratched to hell. This is day one.

Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD)
10/9/18, 3:23 PM
⁦‪@RonAmadeo‬⁩ Scratchgate ha. Mine had several microscratches within minutes of unboxing, never been in a pocket or on a table

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

Right. Because everyone enjoys looking at media controls on their home screen when they aren't playing any media.

I'm happy to do without.

I personally think that this looks much better than just a grid of icons as one example
Edit: This is a denotched Huawei P20 pro

 

[chagla]

Well, the beauty of Android is that, you don't like it? Remove the widget. You can nearly change everything to your personal taste, unlike ios. But then hey you can also pay someone else to decide for you. Your post shows how little you know about Android. It literally takes 2 seconds to remove a widget.

Right. Because everyone enjoys looking at media controls on their home screen when they aren't playing any media.

I'm happy to do without.

 

[Khedron]

Right. Because everyone enjoys looking at media controls on their home screen when they aren't playing any media.

I'm happy to do without.

Yep for people like you it's better that Apple decides for you what you can and cannot have on your home screen
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What do you do with your videos more often, just keep them in your photo library? Or export them to things like instagram? That's where having the fastest processor available starts to make a difference. Yes if you only read email and browse the web on your phone, the CPU is less important (of course, if you have a heavy javascript webpage, the iPhone is going to fly through that compared to any Android phone's cpu).

Your export speed will likely be bottlenecked by Apple's poor network connection anyway, not your CPU

 

[Internet Enzyme]

The iOS homescreen is complete joke these days

Android is so far ahead with widgets allowing things like media controls and live information

Maybe a couple of years from now Apple will have the courage to add another column of icons

There were rumors about ios 12 prior to wwdc that claimed major redesign was pushed back to next year. I expect ios 13 to be a major redesign

 

[pilotpat]

You need to check DxOMark. XS and XS Max rated best cameras.

Actually you need to check DxOMark. Huawei P20Pro rated best camera.

 

[Blaze4G]

Right. Because everyone enjoys looking at media controls on their home screen when they aren't playing any media.

I'm happy to do without.

Well for those who would want it they have the option. Android isn't forcing you to put it on your home screen you know.
But hey you don't need it so no one needs it because you are all that matters and to heck with whoever else wants something on iOS that you don't want.

 

[rocknblogger]

I mean it literally says it in the quote I replied to you with “leaving 8,000 unredacted emails to be read by employees”. The WSJ article is behind a paywall but if you search and come in through a search engine you’ll find even more explicit confirmation that personally identifiable information was not redacted in those mails.



Ok, so in the last post you were convinced that selling that information would be the death of Google



But now you think they’ll give it away for free instead, which somehow won’t be their death. Makes sense.

Anyway, on-topic. These devices are garbage. 32Gb eMMC tablet for only slightly less than iPad Pro.

This is probably going to be pointless but I’ll try anyway.

Somehow a marketing firm or two or three got past Google’s vetting process. The API’s are supposed to be used by app developers who create 3rd party apps that offer various features for the end user. In doing so they were able to read the emails of 2 million users who themselves gave permission to do this. Maybe read that last sentence again.

So out of more than 1 billion users only 2 million were careless enough to give this information away. Again...Google does not sell anyone’s private data. It would be suicide to do so.

Please...exercise some critical thinking here.

 

[Feenician]

This is probably going to be pointless but I’ll try anyway.

Somehow a marketing firm or two or three got past Google’s vetting process. The API’s are supposed to be used by app developers who create 3rd party apps that offer various features for the end user. In doing so they were able to read the emails of 2 million users who themselves gave permission to do this. Maybe read that last sentence again.

So out of more than 1 billion users only 2 million were careless enough to give this information away. Again...Google does not sell anyone’s private data. It would be suicide to do so.

You say that this is limited to "two or three" marketing firms. It's not

In another case, employees of Edison Software, another Gmail developer that makes a mobile app for reading and organizing email, personally reviewed the emails of hundreds of users to build a new feature, says Mikael Berner, the company’s CEO.

I get that you don't like the facts here, but please don't make things up and pass them off as fact

Please...exercise some critical thinking here.

Lovely. There will be no further replies from me.

 

[Defthand]

I personally think that this looks much better than just a grid of icons as one example
Edit: This is a denotched Huawei P20 pro

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Gilligan, is it possible to re-size icons in Android? That—and omitting their text labels—are settings that I wish were possible with any OS.

 

[ChrisMoBro]

I missed where they announced wanting TouchID under the screen. Do you have that quote or video?

Nope but just Google it or go back in time and read the many articles on this site that published report after report where Apple tried and failed to implement Touch ID under the screen.

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

Gilligan, is it possible to re-size icons in Android? That—and omitting their text labels—are settings that I wish were possible with any OS.

One can readily change the grid layout 5x6, 7x8 which varies the icon size.
It's easy to install a different launcher which can give you all sorts of controls over how the homescreens and icons look. Some can be radically different and quite unique.
And it is easy to switch between the OEMs homescreen style and the launcher style. Just Google Android launchers to find out more. I find my wife's SE homescreens to be utterly boring

 

[MattakiStar]

Im still wondering how all these companies are getting away legally with such blatant rip offs of the iPhone. Am i missing something?

 

[willentrekin]

Do Apple phones have a firm date for being able to turn off the forced beauty mode?

I mean doesn't everyone use filters for selfies anymore anyway?

Seriously, though, I thought I read this "beauty" thing is a result of enhanced computational noise reduction. I think the Halide app did a post on it. Daring Fireball linked to it.

Unseriously again, some of the users I've seen "forced beauty mode" applied to have benefited from it. I'm sure I might. It might just make me really, really ridiculously good looking!

 

[Blaze4G]

Delete

 

[RCJ]

Well, the beauty of Android is that, you don't like it? Remove the widget. You can nearly change everything to your personal taste, unlike ios. But then hey you can also pay someone else to decide for you. Your post shows how little you know about Android. It literally takes 2 seconds to remove a widget.

The classic "You don't know any about Android post" reply. I had 3 Android handsets over a 5-1/2 year period before even thinking of switching to Apple. I think I'm pretty well versed in how Android works.

 

[anthogag]

The call screening feature looks quite cool.

Can it answer a call, ask the person what he/she wants to talk to you about, then tell you about it and ask if you want to talk to this person now or leave a message?

Can this call screening feature also make reservations?

iPhone could use this kind of feature.

 

[GoBrowns!]

When you buy the notch does the phone come with it?

Ha! Best on the thread.

 

[Defthand]

One can readily change the grid layout 5x6, 7x8 which varies the icon size.
It's easy to install a different launcher which can give you all sorts of controls over how the homescreens and icons look. Some can be radically different and quite unique.
And it is easy to switch between the OEMs homescreen style and the launcher style. Just Google Android launchers to find out more. I find my wife's SE homescreens to be utterly boring

Sounds promising. One other thing that I wish the home screen did: instead of flipping between home screens to locate an app, I wish the rows of icons were scrollable and not limited to an amount that fits the screen’s width.

 

[AppleFan910]

Yep. It even loses to the Pixel 2/2 XL from last year.

Funny, the reviews I’ve seen. Especially ZoneOfTech on YouTube compared the two in a really good camera comparison. The XS was better in every way. Check it out.
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Yes, and when the majority of quality reviewers say the pixel is the best, that makes your opinion in the minority. But yes it's subjective based on who you want to win.

Go watch ZoneOfTechs camera comparison on YouTube. Pixel 2 vs iPhone XS. The iPhone was better in every way. Pixel cameras are good. But way over rated. Have you seen video from it? It looks cartoonish.

 

[SteveJUAE]

Never mind Google or Apple. Your cell phone ISP collects and sells data all the time. Think about this, your ISP/Cell provider knows every single DNS call you make while on Wireless so if you came to this site via Wireless they know it. They know when you did it. They know where you did it from (location). They know when you make a purchase using Apple Pay (traffic to/from Apple payment services). Every apps that uses the network makes network calls and your ISP knows it.

I have no idea what ISP do or do not with data that is available to them

But promoting an iPhone as some sort of all encompassing safe device is doing a diss service to the less well informed user as it's likely only a fraction of many users usage comes under the umbrella of Apples privacy. Even then many of these secure usage is equally matched by other OEM's.

Everyone needs to be mindful depending on your privacy comfort levels

Sure many like to object to most OEM's default search engine offered by Google and that's fine but regardless of which Phone you have there is a risk involved depending on what Apps or options you select. The more you try to limit this risk it's likely the dumber or duller your smart phone becomes

 

[madrigal77]

I'm an Android guy when it comes to phones, but this is the ugliest "flagship" phone of the last decade. I predict this will bomb so hard that it forces Google out of the hardware business. WTF were they thinking!?!??!

 

[Quu]

Not a very good comparison with vehicles, people use and abuse a handheld device more. If one were to compare daily usage one would conclude a mobile communication device has seen and been through it all.

You're joking right? - Cars see far more abuse. They spend all their time outside in all weather conditions, they have 1000x more parts, at-least 100 moving parts if not more. They get driven in potholes, get fender benders all the time.

All this phone has to do is move a piece of plastic up and then down again. I've seen lego actuators do the same thing more than 500,000 times at brickworld events and still they keep working, even when the plastic is wearing away from bricks rubbing together they still work.