Three Months Later - Google Pixel 4XL

Hi everyone,

The Pixel 4 XL l has been out for about three months I’ve been using it for about three months since Google actually sent me one a little bit early so this is something that I carry with me every single day now I know a lot of you may know me from my iPhone videos and things like that but I carry an 11 Pro max but I also carry a pixel 4 XL and I’m grateful that I do because last week when I was at CES my iPhone had terrible signal whereas the pixel 4 xl worked fine even though the 11pro max said that it had good signal on T-Mobile it still didn’t work well where the a pixel 4 xl was fine it’s on its on project Phi which actually uses T-Mobile and Sprint and US Cellular whichever is stronger and the issue for me on the iPhone was not an issue with signal strength it was an issue with it just working properly on the pixel 4 xl it was rock-solid and in fact if you followed me during that show at all I usually tweeted from this device.

When I didn’t have signal with the 11pro Mac so this was really a lifesaver in that situation and had great signal throughout so that’s probably a testament to the Qualcomm modem versus the Intel modem in the iPhone and this phone was rock-solid that way now the design after three months has really grown on me I really don’t see the top here it doesn’t bother me at all over the forehead and it’s a little bit thicker but it doesn’t bother me at all I like the kind of narrow vertical phone that this is it fits really well in my hand and its very comfortable to hold and the design overall is great because it’s sort of a plastic edge I don’t use a case on it.

It’s got this plastic sort of feel edge or soft touch edge with a nice smooth plastic back covering glass and it just is really grippy this way I have no issues with it there and I like the design where you can squeeze it just like you can with the previous pixels it’s something I find that I use a lot when it comes to Google assistant so I like that the speakers are really good and in general it’s a great phone I like the design with the exception of maybe the face on the camera but the camera is good enough that I can ignore that and I’ll talk about the camera in just a moment now when it comes to Android 10 has been really good for me I know so people have had a few issues and this one is actually on the latest version the January update I did a video about that not too long ago.

But you’ll see were on the January patch and while this was supposed to bring with it some of the feature drop things the one thing I’m not seeming to find is if I take a photo I can’t really adjust the depth later so for example if I just take a quick photo here I’ll just take one of my keyboard if I go into that photo you should be able to adjust the depth if we go here you’ll see it just has light color and pop so I’m not seeing that in anything that I’ve been able to use so some of those features still aren’t here for me but they may be for you but in general Android 10 has been super-fast you’ve got that refresh rate that speeds up to 90 Hertz it’s been great its super smooth and I really enjoy using this phone things like the camera open quickly like I showed you just a second ago and the camera is something.

That I use regularly when I do thumbnails for videos if I’m outside so even if I have my iPhone with me I use this for the camera because I like the colors they seem to pop a little bit more so if I slide in the iPhone here well take a photo and it’s nice and fast and I really like the way Google processes these photos it’s nice and punchy the contrast is good and the detail is there as well now when it comes to the video I find that I don’t use the pixel I like the iPhone video better so I go back and forth thankfully I can do that but this phone is really good with photos I put it in 16:9 that’s the thumbnail size that that YouTube likes and I take the photos with this I can frame it well and it’s just really very good the depth is great and everything else.

Now of course battery life was a big concern with this phone and while it’s not as good as some of the other flagships including the iPhone or say the S 10 plus from Samsung the battery is okay I just charged this you’ll see it’s at 95% so if we go to battery here you can see that’s the current battery state 94% I would say I’m getting about five and a half hours out of it the obviously I haven’t used this for the entire day to run this down today but it gets me through a day no problem when I was using it at CES I did have to charge it throughout the day I just charge it at night and have no problems with it so it seems to be holding up really well that way I never found that I had an issue and just in general the experience has been rock solid I haven’t had to reboot it due to issues the last time I rebooted.

It was when I flew back from Las Vegas with CES I reboot I shut it off then just to make it easier and not put in an airplane mode I turned it off turned it back on when we landed and it’s been on ever since so that was last Wednesday and recording this six days later it’s been on no problems no reboots and normally unless an update comes out I don’t find that I reboot the phone it’s pretty stable and I really have no issues now the pixel 4 XL doesn’t get enough credit in my opinion for what it is as a flagship because I think of its price the original price was so high that I think people didn’t like it based off its features and the soli radar was one of those features.

Where a lot of people thought it was a gimmick but I use this for the clock when you maybe set an alarm here and you wake up and you want to snooze the alarm you can just wave your hand in front of it I don’t find that to be a gimmick I find that to be very helpful so that’s something I found that I really like after three months I like how it wakes up with sunrise kind of brightens the screen and wakes up I just like the little features throughout the phone but that price is where I think a lot of people weren’t real happy about this phone had this come in at about $6.99 I think a lot of people would have liked it and would have picked one up and had no problems with it whatsoever so for me.

I think it’s still a great phone it’s something that I think as you get discounts or as the price goes down as you’ve seen during the holiday season or currently the prices are usually discounted a little bit now it’s worth a buy but then there’s phones like the new S 20 coming out or whatever Samsung’s going to call it and other phones that really are going to make this have to be even lower in price but we may see a new pixel for a soon and a more budget or less expensive oriented Google phone so well see what happens in the future but for now I’m really happy.

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