Is The Google Pixel 3 Worth It? #Helpful Post

hey guys saw sting put the pixel three

side-by-side with last year's model

you'll find something that looks a lot

like a pixel 2.5 at least until you look

at the display which is slightly

style-challenged thanks to the giant

knotch

look past the looks though which is

sometimes difficult and you're going to

find a truly excellent smartphone

there's no doubt that the pixel 3 is a

nice piece of hardware it's an all

aluminum and glass build with a few

interesting touches the rear has a

two-tone finish again it is all glass

while on top its glossy the bottom is a

much more matte finish which not only

matches the previous pixels but still

feels really nice by adding a little bit

of grip to the phone importantly this

also enables none of the ip68 water

resistance but importantly the brand new

fast wireless charging on the pixel 3

which is all fine and great until you

realize that well a slight drop on the

concrete

might shatter the entire back of your

pixel 3 specifically if a certain friend

of yours borrows the phone to shoot some

footage and the wind blows it onto the

concrete guys we're supposed to tell him

through although this dropped from like

3 feet and the entire back is shattered

and even the front corner is shattered

yeah I mean I think it hit just right

but this is gonna crack either way

oh yeah it's it's does scratch pretty

easily here so fun fact don't drop your

pixel 3 or the glass back of shatter and

you'll have to ask jerryrigeverything

very kindly to fix your phone for you

get a case at Austin Emma's comm slash

pixel cases great ok I'd like to make it

better URL know something I appreciate

is we have the same squeeze feature to

access Google assistant from last year

in my opinion this is way more useful

than say if a company were to put a

hardware button on the phone which can't

be remapped and is only useful for a

very useless voice utility feature

Bigsby anyway what do you do is you

squeeze it what's the weather tomorrow

tomorrow and Clermont it'll be sunny

with a high of 85 and a low of 61 it

should be no surprise the pixel 3 only

has a single USBC port there's no

headphone jack to be found but what's

nice is it now has there a pair of USB C

headphones in the box

would you also have the USB C power

cable the fast charger and importantly a

headphone jack adapter and a USB a

adapter you know like none of the things

that Apple includes with the iPhone 10

which is more expensive so yeah the

stereo speakers have returned and while

there's supposedly 40% louder I've got

to say the pixel 3xl sounds know slowly

better than the standard pixel 3 now a

big part of that I think is that this

one seems to distort a little bit at

higher volumes whereas the XL sounds a

lot richer and specifically doesn't do

that same Distortion now my June neither

these phones are going to compare to

something like the razor phone 2 but

they sound pretty good

just the 3 XL is a lot better it might

be a small thing but something I

appreciate on the pixel 3 is the smaller

camera bump we lay it down flat on a

table it doesn't really rock as much

especially compared to the iPhone the

pixel 2 has the best camera of last year

and arguably this year as well and it

should be no surprise that the pixel 3

steps it up even farther what most

impressive things here is not like just

the dynamic range but the overall color

things look so so good on this camera I

don't think it's really an exaggeration

to say that this makes every other

smartphone camera look bad serious let

me just look at some of this stuff the

portrait mode is also fantastic even

though it doesn't have the telephoto

lens to get that extra depth data Google

does such a good job of being able to

isolate a subject and really pull it out

of the background of a photo I've said

it before I'll say it again

this camera is straight-up awesome now a

lot of it really just does come down to

the level of AI machine learning

buzzword are' that really just makes

this camera dope I'm just gonna keep

saying that because it's really good

well the pixel 3 still has a single

rear-facing camera what it has new this

year is a pair of front-facing shooters

a standard angle camera as well as a

much wider angle which is what like 184

percent wider than the iPhone 10's

did you all stick around in the back of

me what school is that there's a zoom

slider that will seamlessly move between

the front-facing cameras and when you go

wide it is really really wide so you

know when you want to take a photo with

all your friends you can get them all in

a shot with a pixel three right friends

friends friends yeah there we go all my

friends with my pixel three it's great

take that west this is what for cape

video looks like straight off of the

pixel three it's not lis can you tell if

there's a decent amount of dynamic range

and pretty good stabilization but on top

of that in this really good autofocus

all you do is tap on a subject and it

will track it around so as I get closer

or farther away from the camera the

focus shouldn't actually follow the only

real downside here is that there is no

4k 60 support unlike most other phones

this year but with all the processing

that's been going on here the pixel

three looks seriously dope as far as

video is concerned at the launch event

Google heavily focused on features like

cloud computing AI machine learning

other cool buzzwords but whether they

didn't talk too much about his

performance which actually is really

really solid the pixel 3 has very

standard specs for 2018

you've got the snapdragon 845 only four

gigs of ram as opposed to six or eight

and 64 or 128 gigs of storage if that

sounds a bit underwhelming in a world

where the much cheaper poco phone has

the same processor and more memory than

you aren't alone at the press conference

I was kind of disappointed the 8:45 has

been around for quite a while at this

point and the next generation is

definitely right around the corner now

this is a complaint I've levied at other

phones have come out recently including

the Galaxy Note 9 but it's just as

relevant here on the pixel 3 this is a

smart phone with specs that will be

outdated very shortly however after

about 10 seconds with a pixel 3 my

doubts quickly vanished this thing is

straight up fast and when you compare it

to the 1 plus 6 which up until now has

been the Android speed King this is even

faster and even smoother and that might

not be a huge surprise considering that

Google hopefully knows a thing or two

about optimizing phones for Android and

to be fair there are definitely some

other advantages here including nolle

does it running Android Pi right at the

box they've got the animations nicely

tuned but the long story short here is

that it is incredibly fast it's

incredibly smooth

it's well maybe not the most outdated

SPECT in the world because it works with

Android 9pi onboard you're getting a lot

of nice little additions but one of my

favorites is the gesture navigation now

I'll be honest this is one of my

favorite parts of using the iPhone 10 is

it's really easy to move between apps

and it is almost as intuitive here on

the pixel there are a lot of other

smaller features including some that

will be coming to previous pixel devices

but my favorite by far is call screen

the way this works is similar to Google

duplex is if you get a call in and you

don't want to answer it you can just

allow Google to screen the call and you

get a live transcription oh look

Matt's calling I'm going to screen it hi

the person you're calling is using a

screening service from Google and will

get a copy of this conversation go ahead

and say why you're calling do you need

to get a hold of them urgently yes just

so it's clear go ahead and say more

about why you're calling they can't talk

right now but they'll give you a call

later thanks and goodbye

automatically hangs up this is like the

greatest thing ever that's so cool

I'm never gonna answer anyone's phone

call ever again looking back I think

it's safe to say that pixel 2 is aged

well it's hard to avoid the elephant in

the room while the pixel 2 did pretty

well the pixel 2 XL had some major

screen issues smelly did the XL have

some color issues rather the box was

brand new but it also had some fairly

severe burn in with those early units

now to be fair your software is solved

some of these problems and they've

replaced most of the issues with the

actual burnin but still pixel to excel

screen not too hot which brings us to

the pixel 3 so first of all we have the

standard pixel 3 which does have a

larger 5.5 inch display now this is I

believe still an LG panel but the gist

of it is is that while it is OLED we

don't have any of those same issues that

we had last year colors very vibrant it

looks to be fairly accurate and that

also applies to the pixel 3xl of course

there's no overlooking the knotch and

the chin yeah okay look I'm gonna be

completely real with you this is one of

the ugliest phones I've seen in

a while now for some people that's

probably going to be no big deal I mean

you know you're looking at the screen

not what's around the screen but I've

never seen a notch I didn't like until I

saw the screaming tortured face of the

pixel 3xl

unlike other large notches like on the

iPhone which has Knology front-facing

camera but all of the face ID tech here

we've got something a little different

to front-facing cameras as well as the

front firing speaker

now the speaker does sound good but it

just sounds like the little bit of a I

don't know is it really worth this huge

notch maybe they could have just moved

some things up or made it not quite so

deep and don't get me started on the

chin it's just not symmetrical I mean I

don't mind having a little bit of a chin

but I mmm not good looking not not uh it

still is a great phone but as far as I'm

concerned I would much rather use these

standard pixel three which doesn't have

a notch but it also doesn't look ugly

and unsymmetrical and there's also a

normal human size phone I like something

that's gone up this year is price so

where the pixel to last year was six

hundred and fifty dollars the pixel

three now this year starts at eight

hundred bucks

now it's not quite a big of a difference

when it comes to the Excel models last

year was eight hundred fifty dollars and

this year it's nine hundred bucks but

regardless this is definitely a more

expensive phone this year I can't

believe I'm saying this but it actually

isn't totally unreasonable this is

definitely a year where $1000 flagships

have become the norm so $1,800 is kind

of not that bad what I really want to

see is a comparison between the iPhone

10 R and the standard pixel 3 now this

is a smaller phone it's about $50 more

expensive but they have similar aluminum

build with a glass back a single great

camera on the back of it as well as what

should be pretty decent screens if only

we could do a comparison test of these

two phones when the other one comes out

soon an intent wink-wink subscribe for

the full video coming soon whether it's

the smaller pixel 3 or the larger pixel

3 XL as well as a pair of sunglasses so

you don't have to look at the chin and

the notch all day I think it's pretty

clear that the pixels are worth this

year if you're looking for a very

high-end flagship not only are these

some of the best phones of 2018 but

probably some of the best phones of 2019

as well yeah you know so you have to

look at the chin of the knotch

just quit it's fine what's the problem

just look just I can't see anything

besides my glorious screen that notch is

just not even there it's it's blinded