Google Pixel 3 XL, 64GB, White, SIM Free

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The Pixel 3 XL has the exact same camera as fitted to its smaller sibling, and as such as genuinely brilliant, capturing richly detailed and vibrant images in practically any lighting condition with little to no photographic skill required. But the Pixel 3 XL is more functional: It has two selfie cameras, dual front-facing speakers, and Active Edge, allowing you to squeeze the sides of the frame to trigger Google Assistant. We prefer this over a dedicated AI button, something that annoys us about Samsung and LG’s new phones with dedicated, often-mispressed AI buttons. It can also act as a sunrise alarm, lighting up the screen 15 minutes before your morning alarm goes off in warm red to yellow tones, and lights up with a live feed from the front door if someone rings the Nest Hello doorbell you might have.

Brownlee, Marques (December 18, 2018). Smartphone Awards 2018. Event occurs at 4 minutes 26 seconds – via YouTube. Some users are reporting that some camera photos are failing to save. The issue may be related to Google Camera. [57] Google has released a fix for this in the December 2018 update. [58] If you prefer to exert manual control over this, you can open the camera app and select More > Settings > Advanced and toggle on HDR+ control. You’ll then see a new icon in the camera app, and you can change your HDR+ settings. You can turn HDR+ on or off, but you can also select HDR+ Enhanced. While HDR+ Enhanced will give you the best possible camera output every time — including impressive white balance — it does take longer to snap a shot and process. Select the best shot with Top Shot Jain, Aman (October 22, 2018). "Some Users Seeing Multiple Notches On Pixel 3 XL And On Weird Places" . Retrieved October 31, 2018. The second is it turns the smartphone into a portrait Google Assistant smart display, a little like the Google Home Hub. When you put the phone on the stand with the screen off it launches Google Assistant mode, which either lights an ambient display with time, date and notifications like normal, with an added Google Assistant box at the bottom, or displays a selection of your Google Photos.The new 16MP f/2.4 telephoto lens offers a 2x optical zoom, and hits a hybrid zoom of up to 8x. The camera app switches to the new lens at around 1.8x zoom with barely a hitch, which is a nice touch, though the telephoto shoots slightly less warm photos. But oh, what photos they are – combined with the Super Res Zoom introduced in the Pixel 3, zoomed-in photos are much crisper. Computational Raw - outputs DNG+ JPG aligning and merging [up to 15] multiple frames to improve dynamic range and reduce noise [27] Some Pixel 3 XL users have reported random notches displaying on the side of their screen. [48] [49]

But the Google Pixel advantage has never been in lenses - it’s in the software, which has worked wonders with even a single lens. The Pixel 4 XL’s main shooter is still 12.2MP though the aperture has been improved slightly to f/1.7. It manages a 77-degree field of view (FOV), which is far from the 123-degree FOV in the Samsung Galaxy S10, for instance, but it gets the job done.

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Note that it works whether you’re on or offline, as all the computation happens on the device, and Google claims it won’t leave the device. The company shrunk the storage footprint of the neural language processing for this feature and Google Assistant, allowing much of the machine learning-assisted tasks to be done locally for faster help.