GOOGLE PIXEL & PIXEL XL REVIEW


Google launched its the duo flagship android smartphone namely Pixel XL & Pixel in india which is priced starting at 67,000 & 57,000 respectively. It is available is Black & White shades. The online links are given below so check them out to keep track of current price & availability or to pick one of them.


SPECS OVERVIEW

5.5 inch 1440p AMOLED Display
(5 inch 1080p on pixel)

8.5mm Slim & weighs 168gms
(8.5mm & 143gms on pixel)

32GB/128GB Storage 

12MP Rear & 8MP Front Cameras

Snapdragon 820 (Quad-Core CPU)

Adreno 530 GPU with 4GB RAM

Android 7.1 Nougat

NFC, Fingerprint & Gyroscope sensor


Non-Removable 3450 mah Battery
(2770mah on pixel) 

Lets Dive Into The Review!




DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is pretty good. It has corning glass 4 on front and an aluminium / glass unibody back and feels quite great in hands. It is slim at 7.3mm and weighs 178gms. It has 5.7 inch Quad HD AMOLED display of resolution 1440 x 2560 with 518ppi (5 inch display of resolution 1920 x 1080 with 441ppi for pixel). The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Excellent. It runs on Stock android User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 32GB/128GB of internal storage which is not further expandable. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like google play music for songs and a stock gallery and a video player which are good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Wifi Dual Band, Wifi hotsopt, USB Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.2 LE (Low Energy). But has NFC & lacks IR blaster. It also has Fingerprint scanner and supports gyroscope, barometer sensors.  

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 12.3MP rear camera (1/2.3 inch sensor, F/2.0 Aperture, 1.55 micron pixel size) with phase detection & laser autofocus along with EIS(Gyro based stabilization) and Dual LED (Dual tone) flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Excellent overall. Daytime the images are Excellent and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is also quite very good. It does 4K 2160p@30fps, 1080p@30fps HDR, & 720p@120fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 49mbps for 4K & 17mbps for Full HD respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Excellent overall. Daytime the video clarity is Excellent and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is also quite pretty good. It also has a 8MP (1/3.2 inch sensor, F/2.4 Aperture, 1.4 micron pixel size) front camera for selfe's which does 1080p video recording and clarity is great.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 7.1 Marshmallow out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 (MSM8996) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-Core processor which is a combination of a Quad-Core processor clocked at 2.15 GHZ (Kryo) & a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.6 GHZ (Kryo) with 2GB RAM and Adreno 430 (650MHZ single core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 40970 (41534 for Pixel).
ANTUTU :141186 (142123 for Pixel).
NENAMARK 2 : 58.5fps (60 for Pixel).

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a non-removable Li-Ion 3450MAH (2770MAH Pixel) Battery with Qualcomm quick charge 3.0 support & power saving options. The battery life is quite great which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 9(7:30H Pixel).
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 10:30H (11H Pixel).
TALKTIME : upto 26H(2G)(22H Pixel) / upto 24H(3G)(20H Pixel).
STANDBY TIME: upto 580H(2G)(460H Pixel) / upto 500H(3G)(440H Pixel).

PROS
*Great build quality.
*Quite Excellent display and viewing angle.
*Excellent Performance.
*Excellent camera and video recording clarity.
*Very good loudspeaker.
*NFC & USB OTG.
*Fingerprint & Gyroscope sensor, USB Type-C.
*Quite great battery life.

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery.
*Steep Price(Way more than Previous Nexus devices).
*No Micro SD support.
*No OIS(Optical Image Stabilization) for the camera.
*No Wireless charging support.
*No IR blaster. 
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.3/10 & 8.4/10 (Pixel).
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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Pixel 
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SNAPDEAL :http://sndl/pixel
Pixel XL
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AMAZON.COM : http://amzn.to/2lc2FJR (128GB)
SNAPDEAL :http://sndl/pixelxl

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