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Hands-On With Google's New Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL Smartphones
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This post sounded like a Google hardware engineer defending the ugliest phone of 2018.
Seriously, it's objectively hideous and the spyware that is Android is a big enough reason to not buy it.
I'd literally rather use an iPhone SE over the Pixel 3.
"bit of a chin" that thing is huge, Jay Leno would be jealous.
Funny, anecdotes abound from Pixel owners who say people often ask if it’s an iPhone.
Once you put your iCandy phone in a tacky case, the luxury is no longer apparent.
I honestly cannot possibly see how anybody would want one of these over an iPhone X or XS. Google really messed up this one.
Aesthetically and functionally, there is simply no justification for that notch if it doesn’t have face recognition and an edge-to-edge display. Let’s couple that with the fact it’s still expensive as hell, chews through your personal data like Gregg Wallace at a buffet, has half the CPU performance, and has very poor support with excessive week+ repair times if something goes wrong.
Google are a massive company. If they made this at a competitive price point for marketshare, I can see the appeal. At this cost and what it offers, it doesn’t even blow other Android devices out of the water, let alone the phone it’s trying to mimick.
Aesthetically and functionally, there is simply no justification for that notch if it doesn’t have face recognition and an edge-to-edge display. Let’s couple that with the fact it’s still expensive as hell, chews through your personal data like Gregg Wallace at a buffet, has half the CPU performance, and has very poor support with excessive week+ repair times if something goes wrong.
Google are a massive company. If they made this at a competitive price point for marketshare, I can see the appeal. At this cost and what it offers, it doesn’t even blow other Android devices out of the water, let alone the phone it’s trying to mimick.
The Pixel 3 doesn't have a notch. Check the specs at the Google store. Only the bigger 3 XL has a notch.
The 3XL has a notch; the standard Pixel 3 doesn’t-it’s mentioned in Dan’s video.
Two points.
One, this doesn't offer any kind of proof of anything. It has a "better" camera and otherwise is inferior in just about every other aspect. The device is one thing. The software and associated services is another. There is undeniably a value placed on the software. The Pixel obviously doesn't run iOS. It's all subjective.
Two, Apple should get as much for the hardware it sells as the market will accept. That's basics of any business venture. They are not a monopoly. You, as a customer, have choices. Want an iPhone? Pay a premium. Can't fault them for that. Aside from this, the cost of the hardware has been pegged somewhere in the upper $400 range, which would give Apple similar margins to any other retailer, less alone a tech company with a considerably higher R&D budget. The only exception where I may agree is the cost of upgraded storage.
From Google’s tech specs:
The 3: FHD+ flexible OLED at 443 ppi
3XL: QHD+ OLED at 523ppi
Pretty sure the Pixel 2 used to have a pOLED...
The sad part being, a lot of these self proclaimed elitist are serious about an iPhone being a status symbol! They tend to exhibit what is referred to as an illusory superiority, as they identify themselves with expensive/flashy materialism.
Seems like a lot of comments from people who have probably never seen a Pixel, never mind, owned one. I have an iPhone XS, I came from a Pixel 2, a Pixel before that and Nexus before them. They are very polished and a very smooth OS. Funny how a chin is now completely frowned upon, iPhones always had the biggest but little was said.
By the way, I like my iPhone XS, it's fabulous, what will be my next phone in a couple of years? Any one of the flagship devices from Apple/Samsung/Google, I don't know which one yet, but it is nice to be prejudice free.
By the way, I like my iPhone XS, it's fabulous, what will be my next phone in a couple of years? Any one of the flagship devices from Apple/Samsung/Google, I don't know which one yet, but it is nice to be prejudice free.
Apple's pricing is based on the quality experience it affords you.
What I don’t understand is that on the iPhone X design language the outer rounded corners have the same radius. Compare that to this Pixel design where the top rounded corners radius is not symmetric to the bottom. It just comes across as a cheap knockoff. I would not have expected this from a multi-billion dollar company.
4K60 is still not available. Only the iPhone can do true 4K60. OK the Galaxy S9 can, but only for a couple of minutes, then it overheats.
Sure it will, but a phone is not only made of a camera, is it?
Google incorporates the notch because everyone is doing it now. What strikes me as odd is that like the Mii Mix 2 the components in the notch can be integrated into the chin.
The two most compelling phone designs is the iPhone X (not a fan of the notch, however not distracting as some make it out to be) and the Mii Mix 2.
Everything else seems like the design and engineering department were intoxicted and high and sent this to production without any vetting process, shameful.
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Hilarious to see all the bashing of this phone. Of course if it were an Apple phone people would likely be praising it. It will definately have a better camera than the 10s and has a much better price point as well.
Looks fine to me. Pixel is the way to go for android.
Meh more like a Pixel 2.5 year vice 3. That low light image supposedly captured on the XS does not seem right to me.
Is 4K60 really something people care about in the real world? Don't most people prefer to shoot 4K content at 24 or 30 fps?
