Unboxing Every Google Pixel 3 XL + Pixel 3

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Oh my goodness would you look at that! We have the brand new Google Pixel 3 and 3XL in the house
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Not just these two, actually every single color variation of each model is here as well for us to check out
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Do an unboxing video, initial impressions and so on. This is obviously a very highly anticipated device. Many people in the tech space, in the tech community
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couldn't understand, couldn't believe what was going on with the camera in the previous version
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This one claims to be the next level, right? The new one. It's gotta be better. Hopefully it's better
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We're gonna find out. I have the 3XL in a color called not pink
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It's not pink. Don't call it pink. That's the name of that color right there. This one is clearly white
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Of course you can also pick it up in something called just black
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These are both 64 gigabyte versions, though they will be available also in 128 gigabytes
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The display on the Pixel 3 OLED, in fact OLED on both
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On the 3 it will be a notchless display at 5.5 inches
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On the 3XL it will go up to 6.3 inches with a notch
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And something crazy about both of these is that they have two forward facing cameras
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that are inside of that notch and stereo speakers. So it's a different type of implementation of the notch in the 3XL
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Giving you a wide angle selfie capability and stereo speakers which I'm excited to check out
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Okay let's start with the 3XL. Sense for the color there. It's a subtle hue. They brought back some wireless charging
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Finally, on a Google device we have wireless charging. This is actually glass in the back
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It's like a matte finish glass. So this will work with Qi wireless chargers or in fact also an official accessory here
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A wireless charge dock which actually has some special functionality. I'll show you in a minute
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A speaker grill up in the top as well as at the bottom
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Stereo front facing speakers, this of course is a rarity in the smartphone space amongst flagships and other devices as well
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Up here you can see those two front facing cameras which I mentioned earlier, one wide angle and one standard
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Fingerprint scanner is in a familiar location over here where your index finger will sit
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That single lens system capable of some incredible computational photography is up in this spot right here
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Now the frame itself is made of aluminum, so pretty much the whole construction is either aluminum or glass
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Though I do like the fact that the glass back is matte. It's resistant somewhat to fingerprints and smudging
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You have USB type C, there's your sim card tray, accent color on your power switch
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There is a green accent color on the clearly white version. A charge brick, which yes, it happens to be a quick charge brick
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Fast charge capable. Seven hours of battery life with a 15 minute charge
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Nice to see the quick charge brick in the box to go along with wireless charging
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A rarity, you don't see this too frequently anymore. Some headphones in the box
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They are type C headphones after all. There is no headphone jack, unfortunately, on the Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL
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But I guess this is the next best thing. You're getting some bundled Type-C earbuds
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And you also get an adapter too. You can go from Type-C to a mini-jack connector if you want to use some legacy headphones
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or some higher quality headphones that still use this particular connector. The Type-C cable itself and then also this adapter that goes from Type-C to the classic USB connector
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This could be used to migrate over to this device from your previous one. one Okay so let go ahead and unbox all of them and we can do a quick comparison of the various color and size options
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Now the thing about the glass on the back of these devices is it hardly even looks like glass
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I'm like is that even glass? But I've been told that this is Gorilla Glass 5 Soft Touch Glass
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And yes it does feel soft. There's almost no fingerprint effect on this glass
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Now the thing I like about this one is it does have a contrasting color on the front because like the whole front is black, the back is white
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I mean it's kind of a nice little touch. You get the accent button. It's just a little bit more unique
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So here's your first look at the displays. We have the XL on the left, the standard Pixel 3 on the right, 6.3 inches, 5.5 inches
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They're both OLED. Of course, we do have the notch. There's been a lot of discussion about this notch in particular on the XL version
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I did mention earlier, at least in this case, you get an extra camera lens and the stereo speaker
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I've also been told that you'll be able to turn off this notch in software at a later date
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So it would actually end up looking kind of like the standard pixel looks here at the top
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You'd have a similar bezel there if you did choose to do that in software. So you get a little bit more resolution in the bigger one
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This is QHD plus compared to FHD plus, slightly higher PPI on the XL version also
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So the bigger one is just under 3500 mAh, whereas the smaller guy is just under 3000
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The regular Pixel 3, it feels surprisingly foreign because smartphones, especially flagship smartphones, have been growing every single iteration
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I can see this being popular with people who are looking for something a bit more subdued, easier to hold in one hand
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Somebody with a smaller grip, it's super comfy to hold. Myself, I'd gravitate towards the XL for the bigger display
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Of course, the bigger battery Now, these are not going to be the champions when it comes to screen-to-body ratio
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This is obviously an improvement over the previous version But you still have bezels here
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The question is going to be whether or not that's worth it for you Can you be convinced with two front-facing cameras
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Can you be convinced with hopefully better speakers? That's going to be up to you to decide
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Nonetheless, that is the trade-off Speaking of speakers, let's go ahead and do the thing
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Let's test out the stereo speakers on this unit. This is crazy loud
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This is way better than the previous version. First impressions here, these are some speakers
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And some of the loudest I've tested in here. This is our first glance here at what happens with the black bars
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You can go ahead and pinch to fill the screen. Zoom to fill
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Kind of giant bezels to be fair. Now there was a lot of talk about the display on the previous version, OLED
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This looks like a completely new component to me. Also, if you head to the settings, you can kind of toggle in your preferences for the display
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so that it suits your taste buds specifically. There's adaptive brightness, which you can turn on
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Some advanced settings here for colors, which can go from natural to boosted to adaptive
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Now you probably also noticed that the home button, the navigation region down here has changed a little bit on this particular device
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You can now swipe up from there for multitasking and you can actually swipe across too to move between apps like this There also split screen as well so if I tap on an app icon here I can go to split screen mode
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go ahead and pick my other app and then make my adjustments from there so it's right within the
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multitasking. Maybe I'll actually use it now because I don't have to go looking for it. I'm
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not really sure but it's in the Pixel device at this point. Now I know what you guys are most
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excited about. You're sitting there watching this video, you're screaming, you're saying, Lou, what about the camera
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There's a lot of pressure on this device to live up to the legend of the previous version, Pixel
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Can it do it? I don't know. Let's launch it. Let's take a peek here
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Now you can also employ some degree of digital zoom, as you can see here
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Hmm, very interesting. If I tap on the face of the little figure there
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see how now it is tracking focus? That's a nice little frame right there
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Pixel cameras, I don't need to tell you, you guys already know, but like, there's some really nice stuff happening
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That's just a simple frame. Lou, what about the portrait mode? And oh my goodness, would you look at that
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Holy smokes! Preliminary video! This product is not retail yet, alright? I can't say too much, test too much
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But you can look at that. You're allowed to look at that. That's fair
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Very vibrant. Very wonderful. Okay, nice. Of course on the Pixel, there is a portrait mode on the front facing camera
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There's actually also an official beauty mode. But look at that. Would you look
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See, you can toggle it off. As far as I'm concerned with post processing when it comes to complexion and things like
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this, that's got to be an option. You've got to be able to turn it off if you don't want it. So they have three settings
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You can leave it off. You can go to natural. You can go to soft. I'm going to leave it off
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So currently it's in the standard focal length. If I hit minus here, I will go to the wide angle selfie, which actually is a different lens
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This will give me a lot more play if I have extra people in the frame where I want to capture something that's behind me and not just my face. Boom
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That's a nice looking guy right there. Hey Jack, what do you say? Ooh
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Do I look like I'm wearing makeup? Look at that. Wow. This is the kind of stuff I'm looking for, this level of detail
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The beard hairs are one step. The pores on my face are a totally different step
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That is a ton of detail. This is the standard focal length
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If I hit the minus here, you see how much more I get in frame. We can jack in frame over there
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Now we can go ahead and that's a nice wide selfie scenario
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That's the amount of range that you're going to be able to get out of the wide lens
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Now something else to mention about the camera. In the advanced settings, here's something I like
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You have control over HDR plus, which will show manual control for HDR plus
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If you want to toggle off the processing that's taking place in your images, you can go a
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step further as well and right within the native photo app, you can shoot raw plus JPEG
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So you get the maximum amount of data out of the camera sensor
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Or if you want to make sure that there's no processing taking place on your images, if you're that type of person
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I like having these options available. There's even an option to store videos more efficiently
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in the H.265 codec instead of H.264. All options that you can toggle on or off
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The back camera is 12.2 megapixels and the front is 8. But of course you can select various different settings
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if you choose to, but that's the default setting. Now the rear camera is capable of 4K at 30 FPS
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and it also features a fused image stabilization using both optical and software based stabilization
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for video. Now there another feature in here called Top Shot which will take a motion image and then through that set of frames it will aim to select the best frame automatically This whole thing is a movement you see
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like this and its suggestion is either here recommended another recommended one
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There's probably some that are not good like there or there or there
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Now speaking of selfies, there's also a photo booth option. It allows you to just smile to trigger a photo
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Let's see if this works. Jack, you ready? Here we go. Waiting for my lips to move
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You see, this is what it takes. It takes a feature like this to get a real smile
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Now something else that piqued my interest on this particular device is in the settings menu
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I know that seems strange. Like what are you doing digging through the settings menu? There's something called digital well-being
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And if I click on this, this is all about how you use your smartphone, where you're spending your time, how you might want to make adjustments to that time spent
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You can see here, it'll tell me how much use I've had today and where it was spent
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Google, camera, photos, YouTube. You can set timers and reminders so that you're not spending too much time in apps or on your phone in general
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You can use a feature called Shhh. Placing your phone face down on a surface, maybe at a restaurant, at home, on your nightstand, will put the device into do not disturb mode just by placing it down like that
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Give you a little bit more control over your consumption on your smartphone
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Lens is built in to the camera app. So just by swiping over to more and selecting lens, grab some text like right here, and boom, it'll pick it up
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You think lens will know about my shoe right now? Tap on the shoe, oh! Nailed it
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And boom, these are them actually, that's them right there. Now I mentioned earlier that this device has wireless charging
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I'm of course a big fan of wireless charging, I really missed it on the previous version of the Pixel
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And not only that, they're actually making their own version. First party accessory wireless charge dock, that's this guy right here
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It's a soft touch kind of material and it works like this
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You just drop it in, drop the phone right like that. Boom, starts charging
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It's also quick wireless charging, so it's not going to take forever to charge up your device
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That's, of course, one of the criticisms of wireless chargers, not in this case
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Now, this display here, it kind of acts as your dash. You can imagine this beside your bed
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You have Google Assistant, which you can trigger sort of like a Google Home
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You could say, okay, Google, ask questions, and so on. You can also click on My Day
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which would do, you know, sort of break down the weather, your commute. It can cycle through photos from whichever folder you identify
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There you go. As you can tell these people, they all love each other very much
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Now the other thing we do is, since it's sort of in a multimedia mode, is we can use this to trigger some audio, some music
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Play Drake. You can see that the view looks different since it knows it's docked
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This piece here is gonna retail for $79. I realize we didn't even talk about the price of these devices
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Holy smokes. Okay, the XL, the 3XL is going to start at $899 USD and the non-XL, the standard Pixel 3 will start at $799 USD
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So obviously these things are squarely planted in the premium price range
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So now I'll leave it up to you guys. What do you think? Should I switch over to this device, huh? You want a little bit more, a little bit more testing
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A bit more of a comprehensive evaluation? I think you deserve it
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I think I do too

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