**A Closer Look at the Google Pixel 4 XL**

When it comes to choosing a new Android phone, there are only a few options that really stand out from the crowd. For those who want a stock Android experience, the Google Pixel series is often the top choice. But with great power comes great price, and the Google Pixel 4 XL is no exception. In this article, we'll take a closer look at the pros and cons of this powerful phone.

**A Great Alternative to the OnePlus Phones**

One of the main reasons people might choose a Google Pixel over an Android phone from another manufacturer is that they want the stock Android experience without the hefty price tag. And in this case, the Google Pixel 4 XL offers a great alternative to phones like the OnePlus 7 Pro and OnePlus 7t. The only downside to buying a OnePlus phone is that you won't get access to Google's camera app, which is a major selling point for many Android fans.

**The Camera App: A Major Differentiator**

For those who want to take professional-quality photos on their smartphone, the Google Pixel series is hard to beat. But in this case, the lack of access to the Google camera app might be a deal-breaker for some users. Fortunately, it's easy enough to download a third-party camera app and get similar results. However, if you're willing to invest a little time and effort into setting up your camera app just right, the Pixel 4 XL offers some amazing image quality.

**A Design That's All About Functionality**

The design of the Google Pixel 4 XL is all about functionality, with a focus on making it easy for users to interact with their phone. The phone features a series of motion gestures that can be used to navigate through different menus and apps. For example, swiping down from the top of the screen will take you to your notification panel, while swiping up will bring you back to your home screen. However, some fans have pointed out that this gesture-based interface can feel a little clunky at times.

**A Great Display with Some Limitations**

One area where the Google Pixel 4 XL really shines is in its display. The phone features a beautiful OLED screen that's perfect for watching videos or browsing through web pages. However, some fans have pointed out that the lack of HDR support means that this phone isn't ideal for watching movies or playing games with high-end graphics.

**Speakers That Are Loud and Clear**

When it comes to audio quality, the Google Pixel 4 XL really delivers. The phone's speakers are loud and clear, making them perfect for listening to music or watching videos on the go.

**A Smooth Stock Android Experience**

One of the biggest advantages of the Google Pixel series is its smooth stock Android experience. This means that users get all the latest features and updates as soon as they're available, without having to wait months or even years like with some other phones.

**The Price: A Major Drawback**

However, one major drawback of the Google Pixel 4 XL is its price. At $999 for the 64GB model, this phone is certainly not cheap. However, if you're willing to invest in a top-of-the-line smartphone, it's hard to find a better option.

**A Perfect Example of Going into Things with an Open Mind**

Finally, the Google Pixel 4 XL is a great example of why it's so important to go into things with an open mind. When I was first watching the event from my house and then receiving this phone to review, I had some major reservations about its camera quality and other features. However, after using it for a little while, I found that it really delivers in many areas. So if you're considering purchasing a Google Pixel 4 XL, don't be afraid to give it a try before buying – you might be pleasantly surprised!

**A Shout-out to All My Fans**

Before we wrap up this article, I just want to take a moment to thank all my fans out there for their support. Whether you're rocking the floss or following me on Snapchat, I appreciate your enthusiasm and dedication. If you're not already doing so, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Google+, Instagram, and Snapchat – I'll see you in all of those places!

**A Special Shout-out to All My Boxers**

And finally, a special shout-out to all my boxers out there – you know who you are! If you're rocking the loose cream on Sundays, then this article is for you. Don't forget to hit that like button and leave a comment below if you have any thoughts or questions about the Google Pixel 4 XL.

**Get Ready for My Next Review**

Last but not least, I just wanted to let my fans know what's in store for next week's review. As you all know, I'll be getting my hands on the new Google Pixel 4 XL and putting it through its paces. Stay tuned for a full, uncut review of this amazing phone – it won't disappoint!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyo what's up everybody should boy floss back again with another video and today we're gonna do a quick unboxing of the Google pixel for now you can pick this up at the Google store I'll put a link up in the description the price on this one 64 gigs 800 bucks 128 gigs 900 bucks now I know what I'm getting ready to say because I said the same thing too the price is tgh but check this out just like any other product that I review we're gonna go into this with an open mind now shout out to Google for sending me this one a review and being the gentleman that I am we're not gonna roast all ya savages calm down we're not gonna roast we're gonna go into this with an open mind now I pre-order the picture for Excel and yeah I know I do when I get mines next week I'm gonna give it to y'all raw and uncut but in the meantime the keywords of this video open mine alright so let's go through all of the specs now this phone is available for all of the carriers sure shout out to everybody with Sprint and Verizon you finally not asked out welcome to the party that comes in three different colors you got just black clearly white and also orange for the display you got a 5.7 inch OLED panel with a resolution of 1080 by 20 to 80 now that's 444 for the PPI patrol it's IP 68 dust and water resistant you got Gorilla Glass 5 and the 9 th refresh rate for the processor you got the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 with the adrenals 640 GPU what does that mean in English flagship specs bro flagship specs now you've got 6 gigs of RAM 64 128 gigs of storage and no micro SD card slot for expandable memory it's run an Android 10 with the stock UI for the battery you got a non removable two thousand eight hundred million battery that features 18 watt fast charge for the cameras on the rear you got a dual setup so you got a 12 megapixel and a 16 megapixel and on the front you got an 8 megapixel with the 3d time-of-flight now you also got bluetooth 4.0 NFC USB type-c charge in dual speakers always-on display and the radar assistant face unlock now on the side note when I did my iPhone video 2 of the day I said the iPhone got the best face unlock on the planet somebody from Google hit me up and said hold my beer so we're gonna put it to the test and see if this is the best face unlock on the planet all right first things first shout-out to white shoes back in the building white shoes calm down all right here we go google picture for nice clean white box giggity we got the oh so orange on deck here we go rah one more okay let's see what it is okay they set the Oh so orange color on the side note i pre-ordered the white shoes white let's see what else you get in here sim ejection tool got your usual boxes pluck them follow them to the side now you get OTG OTG this is our USB a two USB type-c my shoes do you think USB type-c charging cable alright and let's see what else is in here this is gonna be your 18 watt fast charging brick that's pretty much it now they also sent over a case let's check this one out real quick one more got a nice case I actually ordered the same case - I love this one has that textured feel to it got your little Google insignia soft Alcantara pattern on the inside pixel for I like that I don't like that alright so let's check out the picture for okay nice wait on this one let me do the smell chest on this smells tgh on the back here's your dual camera set up on the side note the I know this shoes always bounces when I do the smell test I think I'd be scared then with that I shoes calm down all right so you got dual camera setup on the back there's your laser autofocus and your flash I don't know how I feel about the big square pattern on the back maybe I'll grow me like the iPhone one did maybe it won't matter on the sides so you got a power volume up and down now one thing I noticed okay there it is they got rid of the George Jefferson hair line items you got a big giant forehead little bezel on the bottom on this side there's your sim tray dual speaker grilles on the bottom USB type-c on the top another mic no headphone jack that shit's whack Google yeah can have that daddy ain't even mad at hashtag boss alright so I'm gonna pause the video I've dropped my information in then we'll breeze through the OS talk amongst yourselves alright Josh we'll be back in not just put my information in the phone got everything all set up and I got to be honest with job just like any other pixel phone that I've owned it's a love-hate relationship I've always hated the price I hated the look and I hated the lack of features but I've always loved the small performance I love the lag free stock Android experience and I love the camera this one is no different let's break it down real quick first things first the build quality now I know I gotta say it feels so good in the hands ladies you know the procedures now I usually hate the pixel look but this one is actually the best-looking pixel a date you got that smooth matte feel on the back now on the black one you're gonna have the glossy feel but an orange and the white nice and matte no fingerprints minimum Brandon it's kind of growing on me now I usually don't like this big square camera hump but if you compare it to the past pixels with the single camera on the back that made your phone look matte old-school at least now with this dual camera set up in the big square your phone kind of looks more modern kind of looks just like an iPhone alright so this is the trend you want your phone to look trendy and like I said this look is definitely gonna grow on you now the phone is water-resistant got wireless charge no problems with the build quality on this one now there's a couple of different ways you can open up the device you can swipe up put on your pattern your PIN no finger prints and so on deck but you got the face unlock now everybody's saying this is the best face unlock let's try it out let's get a little wipe down let's try it out now I'm gonna pick up the phone off the table and just look at it and there it is now let's try it out while I'm holding the phone bong bong bong all right so I'm gonna keep it real I'm impressed hey I'm impressed now am I ready to say it's better than the iPhone give me a few days I let me play with it but the one thing that I do like about it as opposed to the iPhone you don't got to swipe up all you got to do is pick up your phone and look at it and it's automatically open to your home screen now I tried this about 30 times off camera it has yet to not recognize my face now I'm gonna have to take it outside and try it in complete darkness I tried why I'm wearing my sunglasses and one of my disguises and see if it still works but the face unlock is pretty sick all right so shout out to Google like I said we're going into this with an open mind so far face unlock a plus now just like the other pixels you got your squeezed ology what's the weather for tomorrow bum and like I said one of the best things about buying a pixel phone besides the stock Android experience it's a lag free and it's super smooth that's why to this day even to this day right now the pixel 3xl that's my work phone and before that the 2xl was my work phone and before that the regular pixel was my work phone it's not the best looking phones out on the market but when it comes to lag free stock smooth Android experience the only thing that could even come close to this it's a one plus other than that Samsung huawei HTC you're not gonna get this butter smooth soft Android experience soft butter smooth soft Android experience but again love-hate relationship there's a lot of things missing now like I said I'm a gentleman so we're not gonna roast we're just gonna keep it simple right now when I do my full review be prepared for a serious ring in the meantime let's go through the toggles all right so you got your basic stuff you got battery saver let's click on order rate to our order rotate you got your dark theme I'm gonna activate that in a second one thing missing no screen recorder now you got a screen shop button and if you hold down the power button there's a screen shot but no screen record quick toggle iGoogle we need that we need that I hacked it I just activated one of my other phones all right let's keep it moving all right let's go over the settings matter of fact I'll activate dark theme in a minute because it's easy to see without the dark theme activated okay so you got your VPNs private DNS no problems with that Bluetooth NFC no problems with that battery now this one um 20 hundred million battery how is this gonna perform in the real world like I said open mind keep an open mind because I know when you hear 28 28 million battery the first thing you think it is that's trash same thing when you hear 6 gigs of RAM I know what you're saying I don't know what you're saying when you hear 6 gigs of ram the first thing that comes to your mind is hold up hold up you just did the red magic 3s the other day snapdragon 855 + all right not the 855 855 + 12 gigs of ram 256 gigs of storage 90 Hertz refresh rate for under 500 bucks I know that's what you're saying but here's the thing a lot of times the specs on paper don't match out to the real world now one thing about Google phones they work in the real world one of the downsides with all of those other little Android phones that I see me reviewing perfect example a supe zenfone 6 all right this is a beast but all of these phones you here 48 megapixel Sony camera and y'all get hype oh 48 megapixel camera let's go then when I do the video test the camera looks like trash well one thing about these pixel phones you're not gonna have a problem with the camera let me show you something real quick let me show you some pictures I just took yo check this out this is just a point-and-shoot now i'm gonna upload these when i look look at this yo the pixel camera i'm telling you out of all on all the Android phones you got the pixels the galaxy and the wall wave phones those are the top three camera phones not to mention Sony does a good job - then LG's close behind that but no one can deny the camera and the pixels is the truth now we're gonna have a full rant about a lot of other stuff that's missing let's go back to settings real quick let's see that we miss anything now one thing about basic stock Android experience no bloatware all right none of that crap let's see let's go to display alright so here's your dark theme that does look kind of dope let's go to advanced you got your ambien ambien each you always on display on deck on this phone let's see anything else blah blah blah accessibility if you're hearing a visually impaired all accessibility settings swipe gestures got your digital well being that's pretty much it now you do have smart lock now with the smart lock on this one let me just make sure if something before I say it looking for I say that it's not true I would I just do let's go to smart lock I accidentally hit back for smart well smart like you got on body detection trusted places trusted devices and voice match no more trusted face but you're not gonna need that with this one because it is sick face unlock and I here's you're always on display look at yo yeah I go front I go for it yeah cement yeah I seen that look at this I'm trying to show y'all always on display but if I tilt the phone a little it catches my eye in the background it just caught a little bit of my ID now behind the camera I'm behind the camera when you see those things on the bottom that means your phone is unlocked so right now you see it says swipe to open I'm just gonna I'm gonna start tilting I'm gonna start tilting and see when is it catch my face there it is oh no not yet not yet okay okay maybe those things don't activate the face I good my bad my bad let's see what let's see when it catches my face there it is now I wasn't even all the way up I wasn't up like this I was halfway up alright the face unlock is sick alright I'm gonna give him that I'm gonna give him that my gurus I got that face unlock is sick so I put from the bottom activate your Google assistant you got your voice transcribe up real nice now one thing somebody asked me to check out was the motion gestures now if y'all watch my LG G 8 video now see me ready to rage quit because those motion gestures just wasn't working let me try it let's try it on this one ice I'm gonna open up let's open up you two music alright let me I'll turn the volume down all right so we got YouTube music now if you look closely at the top you see that you can see a little white line that means that you can use your motion gestures right look at that now one thing I will say definitely works better than LG g8 Wow you know except when it gets to the mix all wah wah you know say you know I like this I don't like this now this is gonna come in handy for me because I use google music all the time all right YouTube music and I always got stuff in my hands is I'm playing on my playstation and I'm saying I'm doing some scumbag activities well my hands are full of greasy all right now it's not as dope as the s-pen but this is kind of Wapping oh wow oh let's do it Wow Wow now I know to see if I play with it when you swipe slow it does work too it does work slow but that's no fun you want to be like wow I I I'm doing it too fast I was do slow alright so slow is the way to go slow is the way to go I'm too high I'm too light that's why I was like this bum ahem sound too high bong it does work alright it does work not supposed to work for some other features too will test those out later I will test those out later you got your swipe gestures alright there's no back a home button so you're gonna have to get used to using the swipes now usually I hate these swipe gestures but I will say they work the best on the pixel any other phone that I get all these new Android phones and they have the swipe gestures I'll delete them immediately clear all I clear all tab look when I did the iPhone video the other day people was like oh I'm being petty because I said you can't clear all the tabs at once you are not scumbags eyed anybody I live in a scumbag life you're gonna appreciate why you need to be able to quickly clear all those tabs I assure you say let me take a look at your phone real quick you don't want to be like hold on a second hold on a second give me a second swiping all those tabs out you don't want to do that you want a black hole this thing clear all here you go hey like a gentleman you want to be able to do that alright so let's not let's take a look at the display and what not the speakers matter of fact let's do the let's try the let's try the squeeze ology go to amazon.com pull up go to amazon.com oh that's fast alright that's fast now one thing I noticed too with the squeeze ology you don't squeeze and hold it while you're talking just squeeze it to activate it go to amazon.com bung it's pretty dope all right let's try a split screen multitasking another thing that a lot of people is trolling say oh who cares about split screen multitasking I care alright I care I need to be watching my youtube videos and shopping at the same time I do it every day alright so let me pull up a video real quick and we'll test out the speakers all right so I got my usual test video cued up max volumes here it is oh it looks beautiful these speakers sound great let's cut off the bottom top earpiece speaker has a nice full sound to it I know more notch like I said I don't mind having a big bezel if there's a juice for it but I radar face detection I'll take the big bezel oh this is dope I let's try something real quick Wow hello wow I'm feeling it I'm feeling it yeah that's what I'm talking about okay okay yeah I like this I like this all right so now let's take a look at the camera now you got your WorldStarHipHop button I so I'm gonna make sure I pick it up without looking at it press the power button twice there's your camera let's check out all the different modes all right so you got night sight you got portrait mode regular camera video and if you click on more you got panorama photosphere slow-motion time-lapse and your google lens simple is sweet now like I said you already know let's go to settings real quick you got motions got timer you got flash see anything else oh you seen how fast that picked up my face alright let me calm down let's see got the camera sounds turn that off immediately let's see full resolution I will leave that on back camera for Kate 30 frames per second okay no 60 frames per second add that to the list front camera okay 1080p video stabilization we'll leave that on now I'm not gonna do my usual camera test I'm gonna save that for when I do the picture for Excel full review next week but you already know you already know I'll show y'all a quick test photo again you already know look at this portrait mode shot right here it's unbelievable let me get a regular shot to see that I catch shoes and a regular look at look at look at the detail on this look at that cameras pretty sick now let me throw the case on real quick just in case you I want to see how that's gonna look I ordered this case too this is the best case for the Google pixel all right they always come with this one minimum rate Zippity on this one bottom is wide open but it has that soft kind of sweater it has a sweater feel to it smell just on this one yeah this one smells like a first cardigan sweater you know I'm saying I like this one definitely feeling this alright so overall let me wrap this up overall the best thing I'm loving about this phone so far the face unlock is insane the speaker's sound great nice beautiful display always on display I like that too it's just smooth fast lag free experience but the downside I like the downside it's missing a lot of stuff when I say a lot of stuff I mean a lot of stuff I'm a gentleman so I'm not gonna talk about that now when I do my full review that's missing a lot of things which makes the price tgh but if you got money to spend right and you want that stock Android experience you really only got two choices you got this and you got a one plus seventy or the one plus seven dot the one plus seven pro or over one plus seventy or one plus seventy Pro you know what I'm saying but the downside to buy the one plus is you're not gonna get this camera now I know which I get ready to say Oh download the Google camera and all that you could do that too you could do that too but you see the motions now look I know I might be making too much of a big deal about that I might be making a big deal let me let me pull that back up I might be making a big deal about the motions but me personally I like it too let's open this up I like being able to go like this like that I'm eating a turkey sandwich I got grease all over my hands got mad chicken grease bong oh I'm feeling that now one thing that would have been better don't you see what the LGG eight you had two dark Vador klore remember you could claw and turn the volume up and down it would have been better if it had more than one gesture instead we just swiped maybe do a punch to pause let me just try cuz I didn't see anything but that it would have been nice like if you go like this pause turn the volume up and down anything rather than just two swipes this works 100% of the time he's just gonna take your time and do it right I was going like this wha I just like making that sound Wow well if you want it to fast it's not gonna work swap I see y'all do is close go anyway Google pixel for hit me up in the comments let me know what I think about this one and like I said next week I'm getting the 4 XL I'm gonna give it to y'all raw and uncut we're gonna have a lot of fun with that video but if there's anything specifically that y'all want to see leave it in the comments y'all know how to do shout out to everybody rockin with me on Facebook for squids with a Google+ shout out to all the Google gangsters I see how old and down that Facebook page shout out to everybody hits me up all boxer and a special shout-out to everybody walking with me on Instagram y'all know that's where I'm at full-time 100% full throttle and a special shout-out to everybody rockin with the loose cream on Sundays yall already know scream gangstas on deck get your drinks ready know me boys laugh oh yeah special shout out to everybody following me on snapchat flossy underscore carter that's where i'm at and a special shout out to the notification squad i see how in the comment section early hashtags salute oh yeah one more thing I almost forgot fellas ladies say it with me all y'all haters or got rolls close your eyes and picture me rollin your boy floss about deuces Spock one to beam up energize all right so one more thing I wanted to mention now this phone is a perfect example of why I always say you gotta go into things with an open mind now when I was sitting at home watching the Google event from my house I shot at the Google they didn't invite me to the event but hey that's neither here nor there when I was watching the event from my house I was saying to myself okay I can't wait to get this phone so I could bash it alright because it's coming up short and a lot of departments but then Google reached out to me they sent me this one right here to review but that's not gonna get them off the hook yall already know how to do that's not buying them a free pass but going into this with an open mind I did come to actually like this phone not only been using it for a little while so we got to test out the battery and the rest of the other features but as far as the motion gestures I like them the face unlock is crazy the display is good the speakers are nice and loud and it's a smooth stock Android experience but it's missing a lot of stuff and the price is to get damn high so yall already know when I get my powers my full unit but I want to get my retail version unit next week you already know what it is so don't think for one second that just cuz y'all see me kind of hide right now that I'm turning into some kind of fanboy no all right I decide just this phone right now I just got that new phone sent all right you know when you get a new car you got the new car feel everything is good but by next week I'll be back into my rear form so stay tunedyo what's up everybody should boy floss back again with another video and today we're gonna do a quick unboxing of the Google pixel for now you can pick this up at the Google store I'll put a link up in the description the price on this one 64 gigs 800 bucks 128 gigs 900 bucks now I know what I'm getting ready to say because I said the same thing too the price is tgh but check this out just like any other product that I review we're gonna go into this with an open mind now shout out to Google for sending me this one a review and being the gentleman that I am we're not gonna roast all ya savages calm down we're not gonna roast we're gonna go into this with an open mind now I pre-order the picture for Excel and yeah I know I do when I get mines next week I'm gonna give it to y'all raw and uncut but in the meantime the keywords of this video open mine alright so let's go through all of the specs now this phone is available for all of the carriers sure shout out to everybody with Sprint and Verizon you finally not asked out welcome to the party that comes in three different colors you got just black clearly white and also orange for the display you got a 5.7 inch OLED panel with a resolution of 1080 by 20 to 80 now that's 444 for the PPI patrol it's IP 68 dust and water resistant you got Gorilla Glass 5 and the 9 th refresh rate for the processor you got the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 with the adrenals 640 GPU what does that mean in English flagship specs bro flagship specs now you've got 6 gigs of RAM 64 128 gigs of storage and no micro SD card slot for expandable memory it's run an Android 10 with the stock UI for the battery you got a non removable two thousand eight hundred million battery that features 18 watt fast charge for the cameras on the rear you got a dual setup so you got a 12 megapixel and a 16 megapixel and on the front you got an 8 megapixel with the 3d time-of-flight now you also got bluetooth 4.0 NFC USB type-c charge in dual speakers always-on display and the radar assistant face unlock now on the side note when I did my iPhone video 2 of the day I said the iPhone got the best face unlock on the planet somebody from Google hit me up and said hold my beer so we're gonna put it to the test and see if this is the best face unlock on the planet all right first things first shout-out to white shoes back in the building white shoes calm down all right here we go google picture for nice clean white box giggity we got the oh so orange on deck here we go rah one more okay let's see what it is okay they set the Oh so orange color on the side note i pre-ordered the white shoes white let's see what else you get in here sim ejection tool got your usual boxes pluck them follow them to the side now you get OTG OTG this is our USB a two USB type-c my shoes do you think USB type-c charging cable alright and let's see what else is in here this is gonna be your 18 watt fast charging brick that's pretty much it now they also sent over a case let's check this one out real quick one more got a nice case I actually ordered the same case - I love this one has that textured feel to it got your little Google insignia soft Alcantara pattern on the inside pixel for I like that I don't like that alright so let's check out the picture for okay nice wait on this one let me do the smell chest on this smells tgh on the back here's your dual camera set up on the side note the I know this shoes always bounces when I do the smell test I think I'd be scared then with that I shoes calm down all right so you got dual camera setup on the back there's your laser autofocus and your flash I don't know how I feel about the big square pattern on the back maybe I'll grow me like the iPhone one did maybe it won't matter on the sides so you got a power volume up and down now one thing I noticed okay there it is they got rid of the George Jefferson hair line items you got a big giant forehead little bezel on the bottom on this side there's your sim tray dual speaker grilles on the bottom USB type-c on the top another mic no headphone jack that shit's whack Google yeah can have that daddy ain't even mad at hashtag boss alright so I'm gonna pause the video I've dropped my information in then we'll breeze through the OS talk amongst yourselves alright Josh we'll be back in not just put my information in the phone got everything all set up and I got to be honest with job just like any other pixel phone that I've owned it's a love-hate relationship I've always hated the price I hated the look and I hated the lack of features but I've always loved the small performance I love the lag free stock Android experience and I love the camera this one is no different let's break it down real quick first things first the build quality now I know I gotta say it feels so good in the hands ladies you know the procedures now I usually hate the pixel look but this one is actually the best-looking pixel a date you got that smooth matte feel on the back now on the black one you're gonna have the glossy feel but an orange and the white nice and matte no fingerprints minimum Brandon it's kind of growing on me now I usually don't like this big square camera hump but if you compare it to the past pixels with the single camera on the back that made your phone look matte old-school at least now with this dual camera set up in the big square your phone kind of looks more modern kind of looks just like an iPhone alright so this is the trend you want your phone to look trendy and like I said this look is definitely gonna grow on you now the phone is water-resistant got wireless charge no problems with the build quality on this one now there's a couple of different ways you can open up the device you can swipe up put on your pattern your PIN no finger prints and so on deck but you got the face unlock now everybody's saying this is the best face unlock let's try it out let's get a little wipe down let's try it out now I'm gonna pick up the phone off the table and just look at it and there it is now let's try it out while I'm holding the phone bong bong bong all right so I'm gonna keep it real I'm impressed hey I'm impressed now am I ready to say it's better than the iPhone give me a few days I let me play with it but the one thing that I do like about it as opposed to the iPhone you don't got to swipe up all you got to do is pick up your phone and look at it and it's automatically open to your home screen now I tried this about 30 times off camera it has yet to not recognize my face now I'm gonna have to take it outside and try it in complete darkness I tried why I'm wearing my sunglasses and one of my disguises and see if it still works but the face unlock is pretty sick all right so shout out to Google like I said we're going into this with an open mind so far face unlock a plus now just like the other pixels you got your squeezed ology what's the weather for tomorrow bum and like I said one of the best things about buying a pixel phone besides the stock Android experience it's a lag free and it's super smooth that's why to this day even to this day right now the pixel 3xl that's my work phone and before that the 2xl was my work phone and before that the regular pixel was my work phone it's not the best looking phones out on the market but when it comes to lag free stock smooth Android experience the only thing that could even come close to this it's a one plus other than that Samsung huawei HTC you're not gonna get this butter smooth soft Android experience soft butter smooth soft Android experience but again love-hate relationship there's a lot of things missing now like I said I'm a gentleman so we're not gonna roast we're just gonna keep it simple right now when I do my full review be prepared for a serious ring in the meantime let's go through the toggles all right so you got your basic stuff you got battery saver let's click on order rate to our order rotate you got your dark theme I'm gonna activate that in a second one thing missing no screen recorder now you got a screen shop button and if you hold down the power button there's a screen shot but no screen record quick toggle iGoogle we need that we need that I hacked it I just activated one of my other phones all right let's keep it moving all right let's go over the settings matter of fact I'll activate dark theme in a minute because it's easy to see without the dark theme activated okay so you got your VPNs private DNS no problems with that Bluetooth NFC no problems with that battery now this one um 20 hundred million battery how is this gonna perform in the real world like I said open mind keep an open mind because I know when you hear 28 28 million battery the first thing you think it is that's trash same thing when you hear 6 gigs of RAM I know what you're saying I don't know what you're saying when you hear 6 gigs of ram the first thing that comes to your mind is hold up hold up you just did the red magic 3s the other day snapdragon 855 + all right not the 855 855 + 12 gigs of ram 256 gigs of storage 90 Hertz refresh rate for under 500 bucks I know that's what you're saying but here's the thing a lot of times the specs on paper don't match out to the real world now one thing about Google phones they work in the real world one of the downsides with all of those other little Android phones that I see me reviewing perfect example a supe zenfone 6 all right this is a beast but all of these phones you here 48 megapixel Sony camera and y'all get hype oh 48 megapixel camera let's go then when I do the video test the camera looks like trash well one thing about these pixel phones you're not gonna have a problem with the camera let me show you something real quick let me show you some pictures I just took yo check this out this is just a point-and-shoot now i'm gonna upload these when i look look at this yo the pixel camera i'm telling you out of all on all the Android phones you got the pixels the galaxy and the wall wave phones those are the top three camera phones not to mention Sony does a good job - then LG's close behind that but no one can deny the camera and the pixels is the truth now we're gonna have a full rant about a lot of other stuff that's missing let's go back to settings real quick let's see that we miss anything now one thing about basic stock Android experience no bloatware all right none of that crap let's see let's go to display alright so here's your dark theme that does look kind of dope let's go to advanced you got your ambien ambien each you always on display on deck on this phone let's see anything else blah blah blah accessibility if you're hearing a visually impaired all accessibility settings swipe gestures got your digital well being that's pretty much it now you do have smart lock now with the smart lock on this one let me just make sure if something before I say it looking for I say that it's not true I would I just do let's go to smart lock I accidentally hit back for smart well smart like you got on body detection trusted places trusted devices and voice match no more trusted face but you're not gonna need that with this one because it is sick face unlock and I here's you're always on display look at yo yeah I go front I go for it yeah cement yeah I seen that look at this I'm trying to show y'all always on display but if I tilt the phone a little it catches my eye in the background it just caught a little bit of my ID now behind the camera I'm behind the camera when you see those things on the bottom that means your phone is unlocked so right now you see it says swipe to open I'm just gonna I'm gonna start tilting I'm gonna start tilting and see when is it catch my face there it is oh no not yet not yet okay okay maybe those things don't activate the face I good my bad my bad let's see what let's see when it catches my face there it is now I wasn't even all the way up I wasn't up like this I was halfway up alright the face unlock is sick alright I'm gonna give him that I'm gonna give him that my gurus I got that face unlock is sick so I put from the bottom activate your Google assistant you got your voice transcribe up real nice now one thing somebody asked me to check out was the motion gestures now if y'all watch my LG G 8 video now see me ready to rage quit because those motion gestures just wasn't working let me try it let's try it on this one ice I'm gonna open up let's open up you two music alright let me I'll turn the volume down all right so we got YouTube music now if you look closely at the top you see that you can see a little white line that means that you can use your motion gestures right look at that now one thing I will say definitely works better than LG g8 Wow you know except when it gets to the mix all wah wah you know say you know I like this I don't like this now this is gonna come in handy for me because I use google music all the time all right YouTube music and I always got stuff in my hands is I'm playing on my playstation and I'm saying I'm doing some scumbag activities well my hands are full of greasy all right now it's not as dope as the s-pen but this is kind of Wapping oh wow oh let's do it Wow Wow now I know to see if I play with it when you swipe slow it does work too it does work slow but that's no fun you want to be like wow I I I'm doing it too fast I was do slow alright so slow is the way to go slow is the way to go I'm too high I'm too light that's why I was like this bum ahem sound too high bong it does work alright it does work not supposed to work for some other features too will test those out later I will test those out later you got your swipe gestures alright there's no back a home button so you're gonna have to get used to using the swipes now usually I hate these swipe gestures but I will say they work the best on the pixel any other phone that I get all these new Android phones and they have the swipe gestures I'll delete them immediately clear all I clear all tab look when I did the iPhone video the other day people was like oh I'm being petty because I said you can't clear all the tabs at once you are not scumbags eyed anybody I live in a scumbag life you're gonna appreciate why you need to be able to quickly clear all those tabs I assure you say let me take a look at your phone real quick you don't want to be like hold on a second hold on a second give me a second swiping all those tabs out you don't want to do that you want a black hole this thing clear all here you go hey like a gentleman you want to be able to do that alright so let's not let's take a look at the display and what not the speakers matter of fact let's do the let's try the let's try the squeeze ology go to amazon.com pull up go to amazon.com oh that's fast alright that's fast now one thing I noticed too with the squeeze ology you don't squeeze and hold it while you're talking just squeeze it to activate it go to amazon.com bung it's pretty dope all right let's try a split screen multitasking another thing that a lot of people is trolling say oh who cares about split screen multitasking I care alright I care I need to be watching my youtube videos and shopping at the same time I do it every day alright so let me pull up a video real quick and we'll test out the speakers all right so I got my usual test video cued up max volumes here it is oh it looks beautiful these speakers sound great let's cut off the bottom top earpiece speaker has a nice full sound to it I know more notch like I said I don't mind having a big bezel if there's a juice for it but I radar face detection I'll take the big bezel oh this is dope I let's try something real quick Wow hello wow I'm feeling it I'm feeling it yeah that's what I'm talking about okay okay yeah I like this I like this all right so now let's take a look at the camera now you got your WorldStarHipHop button I so I'm gonna make sure I pick it up without looking at it press the power button twice there's your camera let's check out all the different modes all right so you got night sight you got portrait mode regular camera video and if you click on more you got panorama photosphere slow-motion time-lapse and your google lens simple is sweet now like I said you already know let's go to settings real quick you got motions got timer you got flash see anything else oh you seen how fast that picked up my face alright let me calm down let's see got the camera sounds turn that off immediately let's see full resolution I will leave that on back camera for Kate 30 frames per second okay no 60 frames per second add that to the list front camera okay 1080p video stabilization we'll leave that on now I'm not gonna do my usual camera test I'm gonna save that for when I do the picture for Excel full review next week but you already know you already know I'll show y'all a quick test photo again you already know look at this portrait mode shot right here it's unbelievable let me get a regular shot to see that I catch shoes and a regular look at look at look at the detail on this look at that cameras pretty sick now let me throw the case on real quick just in case you I want to see how that's gonna look I ordered this case too this is the best case for the Google pixel all right they always come with this one minimum rate Zippity on this one bottom is wide open but it has that soft kind of sweater it has a sweater feel to it smell just on this one yeah this one smells like a first cardigan sweater you know I'm saying I like this one definitely feeling this alright so overall let me wrap this up overall the best thing I'm loving about this phone so far the face unlock is insane the speaker's sound great nice beautiful display always on display I like that too it's just smooth fast lag free experience but the downside I like the downside it's missing a lot of stuff when I say a lot of stuff I mean a lot of stuff I'm a gentleman so I'm not gonna talk about that now when I do my full review that's missing a lot of things which makes the price tgh but if you got money to spend right and you want that stock Android experience you really only got two choices you got this and you got a one plus seventy or the one plus seven dot the one plus seven pro or over one plus seventy or one plus seventy Pro you know what I'm saying but the downside to buy the one plus is you're not gonna get this camera now I know which I get ready to say Oh download the Google camera and all that you could do that too you could do that too but you see the motions now look I know I might be making too much of a big deal about that I might be making a big deal let me let me pull that back up I might be making a big deal about the motions but me personally I like it too let's open this up I like being able to go like this like that I'm eating a turkey sandwich I got grease all over my hands got mad chicken grease bong oh I'm feeling that now one thing that would have been better don't you see what the LGG eight you had two dark Vador klore remember you could claw and turn the volume up and down it would have been better if it had more than one gesture instead we just swiped maybe do a punch to pause let me just try cuz I didn't see anything but that it would have been nice like if you go like this pause turn the volume up and down anything rather than just two swipes this works 100% of the time he's just gonna take your time and do it right I was going like this wha I just like making that sound Wow well if you want it to fast it's not gonna work swap I see y'all do is close go anyway Google pixel for hit me up in the comments let me know what I think about this one and like I said next week I'm getting the 4 XL I'm gonna give it to y'all raw and uncut we're gonna have a lot of fun with that video but if there's anything specifically that y'all want to see leave it in the comments y'all know how to do shout out to everybody rockin with me on Facebook for squids with a Google+ shout out to all the Google gangsters I see how old and down that Facebook page shout out to everybody hits me up all boxer and a special shout-out to everybody walking with me on Instagram y'all know that's where I'm at full-time 100% full throttle and a special shout-out to everybody rockin with the loose cream on Sundays yall already know scream gangstas on deck get your drinks ready know me boys laugh oh yeah special shout out to everybody following me on snapchat flossy underscore carter that's where i'm at and a special shout out to the notification squad i see how in the comment section early hashtags salute oh yeah one more thing I almost forgot fellas ladies say it with me all y'all haters or got rolls close your eyes and picture me rollin your boy floss about deuces Spock one to beam up energize all right so one more thing I wanted to mention now this phone is a perfect example of why I always say you gotta go into things with an open mind now when I was sitting at home watching the Google event from my house I shot at the Google they didn't invite me to the event but hey that's neither here nor there when I was watching the event from my house I was saying to myself okay I can't wait to get this phone so I could bash it alright because it's coming up short and a lot of departments but then Google reached out to me they sent me this one right here to review but that's not gonna get them off the hook yall already know how to do that's not buying them a free pass but going into this with an open mind I did come to actually like this phone not only been using it for a little while so we got to test out the battery and the rest of the other features but as far as the motion gestures I like them the face unlock is crazy the display is good the speakers are nice and loud and it's a smooth stock Android experience but it's missing a lot of stuff and the price is to get damn high so yall already know when I get my powers my full unit but I want to get my retail version unit next week you already know what it is so don't think for one second that just cuz y'all see me kind of hide right now that I'm turning into some kind of fanboy no all right I decide just this phone right now I just got that new phone sent all right you know when you get a new car you got the new car feel everything is good but by next week I'll be back into my rear form so stay tuned\n"