Pixel 3 XL vs. iPhone XS Max: Google is aiming at Apple

The newly announced Pixel 3 XL is Google’s answer to the iPhone XS Max. There is no escaping Apple’s popular smartphone and to keep up Google borrowed some of its best features while adding a few wrinkles that will help differentiate it. Please subscribe my cuckoo channel to know more on phones and coolest products

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Unlike past iterations, the Pixel 3 XL seems to have grown up to its full potential. Gone is the all-metal design that most flagships have long ditched, paving the way for a glass back that introduces wireless charging. The same theme carries over to the display where Google went with a notch, just like most Android flagships out there.

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The iPhone XS Max is the bigger version of the iPhone XS introduced this year and as such, it only really adds size to the iPhone line-up. That comes in the form of a beautiful 6.5-inch OLED display with a notch and all the goodies iPhones offer nowadays—premium design, wireless charging and iOS gesture-based controls.

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However, the biggest battle between the two comes down to camera quality.

We still have a lot of testing to see which is the better device, but in the meantime, look over the side by side spec list below to see how they compare.

	GOOGLE - PIXEL 3 XL	APPLE - IPHONE XS MAX
DISPLAY SIZE	6.3-inch, 1440 x 2960 pixel display (522 ppi)	6.5-inch, 1242 x 2688 pixel display (456 ppi)
RESOLUTION X	1440	1242
RESOLUTION Y	2960	2688
DISPLAY TYPE	QHD+ flexible OLED	Super Retina HD display
OPERATING SYSTEM	Android 9.0 (at launch)	iOS 12 (at launch)
PROCESSOR	Qualcomm Snapdragon 845	A12 Bionic chip
RAM	4GB	N/A
STORAGE	64GB 128GB	64GB 256GB 512GB
EXTERNAL STORAGE	No	No
MAIN CAMERA (BACK)	12MP	12MP
SECONDARY CAMERA (FRONT)	8MP	7MP
NETWORKS	CDMA EVDO Rev A: BC0/BC1/BC10 FDD-LTE: Bands⁷ 1*/2*/3*/4*/5/7*/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25*/ 26/28/29/32/66*/71 GSM/EDGE: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 WCDMA: W1/W2	CDMA EV-DO Rev. A (800, 1900 MHz) FDD‑LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 66, 71) Gigabit-class LTE with 4x4 MIMO and LAA GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) TD‑LTE (Bands 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46) UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)
BLUETOOTH	Bluetooth 5.0 + LE	Bluetooth 5.0
BATTERY	2915mAh	N/A
NFC	Yes	Yes
CONNECTIVITY	USB Type-C	Lightning Port
SENSORS	Accelerometer Ambient light Barometer Fingerprint Gyro Proximity	Accelerometer Ambient light Barometer Face ID Proximity Three‑axis gyro
GPS	Galileo GLONASS GPS	Assisted GPS Digital compass Galileo GLONASS QZSS
HEIGHT	6.2 inches (15.75 cm)	5.65 inches (14.35 cm)
WIDTH	3 inches (76.2 mm)	2.79 inches (70.9 mm)
DEPTH	0.3 inches (7.6 mm)	0.30 inches (7.6 mm)
WEIGHT	184 g (6.49 oz)	13.24 oz (375 g)
COLORS	Black, Pink, White	Gold, Silver, Space Gray
SUPPORTED AUDIO FORMATS	N/A	AAC‑LC, HE‑AAC, HE‑AAC v2, Protected AAC, MP3, Linear PCM, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Dolby Digital (AC‑3), Dolby Digital Plus (E‑AC‑3), and Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+)
SUPPORTED VIDEO FORMATS	N/A	HEVC, H.264, MPEG‑4 Part 2, and Motion JPEG

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Google Pixel 3 Phone hands-on—Not the best first impression, only succeeds on its hardware design

NEW YORK—After an almost endless number of leaks, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL have finally been unleashed. After scavenging the show floor for info and some experience with the new handsets, we're back to talk impressions.

The first thing you notice when you pick up either Pixel 3 is the back texture. The Pixel phones have traditionally had a two-tone look, accomplished in the past by a mostly metal back with a glass top. This year the back is all glass, but the two-tone look remains thanks to two different treatments to the glass. The top is bare, shiny glass and a fingerprint magnet, while the rest of the phone has a soft-touch, satin-like matte coating.

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The coating feels great, but it doesn't seem very durable. There were already visible scratches on both of the demo units I photographed, which you can see, and it's easy to damage the back with something as mundane as a USB-C cable. Both of the demo phones I photographed at the show already had several scratches on them. Harsh camera lighting is pretty much the worst-case scenario for finding scratches, but I've never seen demo units this beat up before at a launch. I was disappointed by the change from metal to glass, but this is a double whammy: all the fragility of glass with none of the scratch-resistant hardness.

The coating on the back stops before it hits the edges of the phone. Since the matte coating feels so nice, I immediately wanted it to coat the sides of the phone, too, but I wonder if this was cut for durability concerns. The phone has a glass sandwich construction, with a glass panel on the top and bottom and a band of material in between. Google tells me the side material is aluminum, but it has some kind of coating on it that gives it a glossy finish and attracts fingerprints.

I'm sad to say the front design is just as disappointing in real life as it is in pictures. Google has turned in two phones that just aren't up to the 2018 competition. The Pixel 3 XL follows the notch display trend, but Google has the biggest notch in the industry. The cutout extends so far into the display that it doesn't fit inside a normal Android status bar, so the bar is twice as tall as normal, which looks ridiculous. The width of the notch means you only get to see three notification icons on the screen before you run out of space. Combined with the 3 XL's sizable bottom bezel, I don't think there's a single 2018 phone in the Pixel 3's price range you can point to and call a worse design. Google is pretty much at the back of the pack here.

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The Pixel 3 isn't any better. It has top and bottom bezels that are bigger than pretty much any other 2018 smartphone in its class. At least it's not as ugly as the Pixel 3 XL; it's just dated and doesn't feel like a 2018 flagship design.

The justification for both of these compromised front designs comes from two features: the dual front-camera system and the dual front-facing speakers, so they had better be fantastic. I'll have to try the speakers somewhere quieter than at a large event, but Google claims they are 40 percent louder than the Pixel 2's speakers. That's a good sign, because, despite how they looked on paper, the Pixel 2's "front-facing speakers" were not any better than the more space-efficient earpiece and bottom speaker combos on devices like the iPhone.

The camera system is another thing that will have to wait for the review. The dual-camera front system can switch between a wide angle and a normal camera lens, allowing it to "zoom out" and have a better view of a group of friends or a selfie with something in the background. I have some disappointment that Google hasn't built any kind of face unlock system, despite carving out a big chunk of the front for extra sensors.

The displays looked great at the show and in pictures. The shots you're looking at are just under the singular lighting of the show, though, so it's too early to say much. Apparently DisplayMate has done some early testing and came away a big fan of the Pixel 3 display, so it sounds like Google finally nailed down a respectable display provider. The Pixel 2 XL used an LG OLED with banding and burn-in issues, so hopefully those days are behind Google. (I'm guessing it switched to Samsung displays.)

On the software side of things, the Pixel 3 is running Android 9 Pie, so there are not a ton of changes. The biggest change is that gesture navigation is now mandatory—it's on by default and you can't turn it off. It's a very strange decision considering it was almost universally panned online throughout the entire beta process and during the release. Google doesn't seem to care about the feedback in this case.

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