**A First-Time Pixel Device Owner: Unboxing the Google Pixel 2 XL**

The moment of truth has finally arrived - I'm unwrapping my first-ever Pixel device, the Google Pixel 2 XL. As I carefully remove the packaging, I notice that it's wrapped in a sleek and premium-feeling plastic cover. The box itself feels substantial, with a sturdy design that exudes quality and attention to detail.

As I continue to unwrap the contents of the box, I'm greeted by a small, adhesive sticker that reads "Welcome to Team Pixel" - a playful touch that immediately puts me at ease. Beneath this sticker lies a comprehensive set of accessories, including a SIM removal tool, a power adapter, a quick switch adapter, an earbud adapter, and two USB-C cables. The latter is particularly exciting, as it highlights Google's commitment to adopting the latest and greatest connectivity standards.

I also find it amusing that Google has included a dongle - a nod to the trend that Apple started with its decision to eliminate the headphone jack from its iPhone 7 series. As someone who's never been opposed to using wireless headphones, I must say that I appreciate this forward-thinking approach. It's clear that Google is following suit and embracing the future of mobile technology.

The contents of the box also include a USB-C to USB-A adapter, which will undoubtedly prove to be a valuable tool for those who still rely on traditional wired accessories. As I continue to explore the packaging, I notice that it's remarkably well-designed - every element seems carefully considered to ensure that the user experience is seamless and efficient.

Moving on to the phone itself, I'm immediately struck by its sleek design. The Google Pixel 2 XL may not have a bezel-less display like some of its competitors, but it makes up for this with its thoughtful balance of form and function. The top and bottom bezels are similarly proportioned, creating a sense of harmony that's both visually appealing and functional.

As I examine the phone more closely, I notice that it features a fingerprint sensor on the power button - a feature that's absent from the iPhone 10. This is an interesting design choice that speaks to Google's commitment to innovation and pushing boundaries in mobile technology.

Finally, I must comment on the absence of a home button on the Pixel 2 XL. Gone are the days of the traditional Android navigation pattern; instead, we're presented with a sleek, gesture-based interface that promises a more intuitive and immersive user experience. While it may take some time to get accustomed to this new paradigm, I'm excited to explore its possibilities.

With the phone unpacked and prepared for setup, I'll be diving straight into my camera comparisons - featuring not just the Pixel 2 XL but also its rumored rivals, including the iPhone 10 and possibly even the Samsung Note 8. Stay tuned for a comprehensive review that will put these cameras head-to-head and help you decide which one is the best for your needs.

A special thank you to Verizon for making this possible - I'm grateful for their support and enthusiasm. Without it, I wouldn't be able to share my thoughts and experiences with all of you, so thank you again for your backing.

That's all for now; I'll catch you in the next installment of my Pixel 2 XL review series.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eniphone 7 plus please that's so last year hello guys where are you david proctor here david franco.com with my unboxing of the google pixel 2 xl huge thanks to verizon for hooking me up with this i have it for about a month i'm very very excited now i did send back the note 8 i loved my time with it but i actually might be more excited about this for two reasons number one it's pure android there's no samsung skin no lg none of that this is pure android and plus it's my first phone ever from google so that alone is a huge deal and number two and this actually might be bigger than reason number one the cameras apparently the cameras on here are even better than the cameras on the iphone 10. now i do have the iphone 10 coming next monday it would be nice if it came earlier in time of the weekend vlog but i don't see that happening that's okay that's okay because i have this thing to keep me busy but the only reason i mentioned the iphone 10 is because it's going to be very interesting to compare the cameras on that phone to the cameras on this phone so here we go my first pixel device ever very interesting packaging do you just pull it yeah wow this thing is tight here we go pixel 2 xl all right opening the box right away you see the phone wrapped in plastic gotta say it feels pretty good but hold on let's put that aside let's put that aside guys we gotta save the best for last gotta say that looks just like an iphone packaging little attribute but then again there's only so much you can do with packaging in regards to picking up a piece of whatever this is plastic cardboard ish okay anyway next in the box we have yay welcome to team pixel it literally says yay which i think is pretty funny let's take this little adhesive off and see what's in here you get a sim removal tool which i will not be using safety information more safety information be safe okay thank you thank you for caring let's get started from google inside the box you have the pixel the sim tool power adapter quick switch adapter earbud adapter earbud adapter keep that in mind usb c cable activate your new pixel blah blah blah i'm not a manual kind of person guys are you let me know in the comments right below i like to learn it myself and we have a little usbc two usb connector usb c to usb a very cool dongles are the future guys dongles are the future look at this okay you know what i find this so amusing people mocked apple because they killed a headphone jack did i not call this movement did i not call this look this is a common thing moving forward whether you like it or not do i care no because i don't use wired headphones i absolutely love my airpods the best headphones i've ever owned okay so sure they don't have the best sound quality in the world but the convenience alone is just incredible so this i find amusing and well awesome at the same time so google thank you thank you for following the trend now i was wrong a while ago i said watch the note 7 or the note 8 or whatever is going to take away the headphone shack and it did not so props to samsung in that regard but i'm just kind of really happy to see google following the way of apple again you may hate this i love it moving forward guys moving forward and you get a usbc cable for charging and speaking of charging power adapter completely white i love that google props okay let's take the plastic off the google pixel 2 xl all right wow so it's obviously not a bezel-less design in regards to the top if anything it looks like a note 8 a little bit i'm assuming this is the power button top right it's vibrating it's vibrating and there you go okay actually the bezel is pretty thick i'm not saying it's a bad thing but that's definitely something to keep in mind if you're into bezel-less phones nowadays but design-wise i gotta say it looks nice regardless it's very balanced we have the same amount of black space up top and on the bottom which i like a lot it's almost bezel-less on the left and right sides it kind of wraps around barely hi there thank you google for that nice introduction back here we do have a fingerprint sensor something the iphone 10 does not have so keep that in mind as well camera on the back camera on the front and no home button no home button whatsoever which i think is great i'm sorry guys i love the fact that companies are taking away things that we've taken for granted for years and i realize that might sound very odd but you got to understand with my technology i've always been a forward-thinking person so i love when a company takes away something we're so used to for years upon years and they introduce new ways of using phones tablets pcs macs whatever so there you go a very brief unboxing of the google pixel 2 xl i'm going to set this up myself off camera but i promise you this is just the beginning of my coverage you can expect a ton of coverage in regards to the camera comparisons again with this compared to the iphone 10 and maybe the iphone 7 plus i mean if that's something you want to see the 7 plus isn't that relevant but let me know i appreciate it and of course my review and all that stuff so guys thank you so much for watching huge thanks to verizon for making this possible i appreciate it so much i am extremely hyped to get started with this but for now i must sign off if you guys have any questions or requests or feedback regarding the pixel 2 xl i will keep them in mind moving forward with my coverage thank you so much your support is amazing and i'll see you next time youiphone 7 plus please that's so last year hello guys where are you david proctor here david franco.com with my unboxing of the google pixel 2 xl huge thanks to verizon for hooking me up with this i have it for about a month i'm very very excited now i did send back the note 8 i loved my time with it but i actually might be more excited about this for two reasons number one it's pure android there's no samsung skin no lg none of that this is pure android and plus it's my first phone ever from google so that alone is a huge deal and number two and this actually might be bigger than reason number one the cameras apparently the cameras on here are even better than the cameras on the iphone 10. now i do have the iphone 10 coming next monday it would be nice if it came earlier in time of the weekend vlog but i don't see that happening that's okay that's okay because i have this thing to keep me busy but the only reason i mentioned the iphone 10 is because it's going to be very interesting to compare the cameras on that phone to the cameras on this phone so here we go my first pixel device ever very interesting packaging do you just pull it yeah wow this thing is tight here we go pixel 2 xl all right opening the box right away you see the phone wrapped in plastic gotta say it feels pretty good but hold on let's put that aside let's put that aside guys we gotta save the best for last gotta say that looks just like an iphone packaging little attribute but then again there's only so much you can do with packaging in regards to picking up a piece of whatever this is plastic cardboard ish okay anyway next in the box we have yay welcome to team pixel it literally says yay which i think is pretty funny let's take this little adhesive off and see what's in here you get a sim removal tool which i will not be using safety information more safety information be safe okay thank you thank you for caring let's get started from google inside the box you have the pixel the sim tool power adapter quick switch adapter earbud adapter earbud adapter keep that in mind usb c cable activate your new pixel blah blah blah i'm not a manual kind of person guys are you let me know in the comments right below i like to learn it myself and we have a little usbc two usb connector usb c to usb a very cool dongles are the future guys dongles are the future look at this okay you know what i find this so amusing people mocked apple because they killed a headphone jack did i not call this movement did i not call this look this is a common thing moving forward whether you like it or not do i care no because i don't use wired headphones i absolutely love my airpods the best headphones i've ever owned okay so sure they don't have the best sound quality in the world but the convenience alone is just incredible so this i find amusing and well awesome at the same time so google thank you thank you for following the trend now i was wrong a while ago i said watch the note 7 or the note 8 or whatever is going to take away the headphone shack and it did not so props to samsung in that regard but i'm just kind of really happy to see google following the way of apple again you may hate this i love it moving forward guys moving forward and you get a usbc cable for charging and speaking of charging power adapter completely white i love that google props okay let's take the plastic off the google pixel 2 xl all right wow so it's obviously not a bezel-less design in regards to the top if anything it looks like a note 8 a little bit i'm assuming this is the power button top right it's vibrating it's vibrating and there you go okay actually the bezel is pretty thick i'm not saying it's a bad thing but that's definitely something to keep in mind if you're into bezel-less phones nowadays but design-wise i gotta say it looks nice regardless it's very balanced we have the same amount of black space up top and on the bottom which i like a lot it's almost bezel-less on the left and right sides it kind of wraps around barely hi there thank you google for that nice introduction back here we do have a fingerprint sensor something the iphone 10 does not have so keep that in mind as well camera on the back camera on the front and no home button no home button whatsoever which i think is great i'm sorry guys i love the fact that companies are taking away things that we've taken for granted for years and i realize that might sound very odd but you got to understand with my technology i've always been a forward-thinking person so i love when a company takes away something we're so used to for years upon years and they introduce new ways of using phones tablets pcs macs whatever so there you go a very brief unboxing of the google pixel 2 xl i'm going to set this up myself off camera but i promise you this is just the beginning of my coverage you can expect a ton of coverage in regards to the camera comparisons again with this compared to the iphone 10 and maybe the iphone 7 plus i mean if that's something you want to see the 7 plus isn't that relevant but let me know i appreciate it and of course my review and all that stuff so guys thank you so much for watching huge thanks to verizon for making this possible i appreciate it so much i am extremely hyped to get started with this but for now i must sign off if you guys have any questions or requests or feedback regarding the pixel 2 xl i will keep them in mind moving forward with my coverage thank you so much your support is amazing and i'll see you next time youiphone 7 plus please that's so last year hello guys where are you david proctor here david franco.com with my unboxing of the google pixel 2 xl huge thanks to verizon for hooking me up with this i have it for about a month i'm very very excited now i did send back the note 8 i loved my time with it but i actually might be more excited about this for two reasons number one it's pure android there's no samsung skin no lg none of that this is pure android and plus it's my first phone ever from google so that alone is a huge deal and number two and this actually might be bigger than reason number one the cameras apparently the cameras on here are even better than the cameras on the iphone 10. now i do have the iphone 10 coming next monday it would be nice if it came earlier in time of the weekend vlog but i don't see that happening that's okay that's okay because i have this thing to keep me busy but the only reason i mentioned the iphone 10 is because it's going to be very interesting to compare the cameras on that phone to the cameras on this phone so here we go my first pixel device ever very interesting packaging do you just pull it yeah wow this thing is tight here we go pixel 2 xl all right opening the box right away you see the phone wrapped in plastic gotta say it feels pretty good but hold on let's put that aside let's put that aside guys we gotta save the best for last gotta say that looks just like an iphone packaging little attribute but then again there's only so much you can do with packaging in regards to picking up a piece of whatever this is plastic cardboard ish okay anyway next in the box we have yay welcome to team pixel it literally says yay which i think is pretty funny let's take this little adhesive off and see what's in here you get a sim removal tool which i will not be using safety information more safety information be safe okay thank you thank you for caring let's get started from google inside the box you have the pixel the sim tool power adapter quick switch adapter earbud adapter earbud adapter keep that in mind usb c cable activate your new pixel blah blah blah i'm not a manual kind of person guys are you let me know in the comments right below i like to learn it myself and we have a little usbc two usb connector usb c to usb a very cool dongles are the future guys dongles are the future look at this okay you know what i find this so amusing people mocked apple because they killed a headphone jack did i not call this movement did i not call this look this is a common thing moving forward whether you like it or not do i care no because i don't use wired headphones i absolutely love my airpods the best headphones i've ever owned okay so sure they don't have the best sound quality in the world but the convenience alone is just incredible so this i find amusing and well awesome at the same time so google thank you thank you for following the trend now i was wrong a while ago i said watch the note 7 or the note 8 or whatever is going to take away the headphone shack and it did not so props to samsung in that regard but i'm just kind of really happy to see google following the way of apple again you may hate this i love it moving forward guys moving forward and you get a usbc cable for charging and speaking of charging power adapter completely white i love that google props okay let's take the plastic off the google pixel 2 xl all right wow so it's obviously not a bezel-less design in regards to the top if anything it looks like a note 8 a little bit i'm assuming this is the power button top right it's vibrating it's vibrating and there you go okay actually the bezel is pretty thick i'm not saying it's a bad thing but that's definitely something to keep in mind if you're into bezel-less phones nowadays but design-wise i gotta say it looks nice regardless it's very balanced we have the same amount of black space up top and on the bottom which i like a lot it's almost bezel-less on the left and right sides it kind of wraps around barely hi there thank you google for that nice introduction back here we do have a fingerprint sensor something the iphone 10 does not have so keep that in mind as well camera on the back camera on the front and no home button no home button whatsoever which i think is great i'm sorry guys i love the fact that companies are taking away things that we've taken for granted for years and i realize that might sound very odd but you got to understand with my technology i've always been a forward-thinking person so i love when a company takes away something we're so used to for years upon years and they introduce new ways of using phones tablets pcs macs whatever so there you go a very brief unboxing of the google pixel 2 xl i'm going to set this up myself off camera but i promise you this is just the beginning of my coverage you can expect a ton of coverage in regards to the camera comparisons again with this compared to the iphone 10 and maybe the iphone 7 plus i mean if that's something you want to see the 7 plus isn't that relevant but let me know i appreciate it and of course my review and all that stuff so guys thank you so much for watching huge thanks to verizon for making this possible i appreciate it so much i am extremely hyped to get started with this but for now i must sign off if you guys have any questions or requests or feedback regarding the pixel 2 xl i will keep them in mind moving forward with my coverage thank you so much your support is amazing and i'll see you next time you\n"