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GSMArena team, 11 November 2018

Google Pixel 3 XL review Comments

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  • Anonymous
  • gWk
  • 12 Nov 2018

What about the review that people hate? It seems pretty fair and on point to me.

Google made a half-@$$ed phone that, from an overall picture, is worse than the pixel 2/2xl. So here is a half-@$$ed review that the phone so deserved. I hope GSMArena continue to do reviews like this and save the comprehensive ones to phones that are worthy of it.

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    • Trump Fan 1980
    • kui
    • 12 Nov 2018

    r33fd, 12 Nov 2018Your reply is a kinda disrespectful but I do agree with the general idea. Objectivivity and... more The reality is... that, more often than not, persons who comment here, due so in disrespectful form ;-( .

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      • Anonymous
      • vV5
      • 12 Nov 2018

      r33fd, 12 Nov 2018Your reply is a kinda disrespectful but I do agree with the general idea. Objectivivity and... moreYou work for gsm arena?

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        • r33fd
        • mEA
        • 12 Nov 2018

        StraightEdgeNexus, 12 Nov 2018Wow it took you a whole month to put up a review and this is what we get? No lab tests? I don'... moreYour reply is a kinda disrespectful but I do agree with the general idea.

        Objectivivity and professional tests are what makes GSM arena reviews the best.
        If you take that away what remains is no better then a random YouTube video.

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          • StraightEdgeNexus
          • 7kh
          • 12 Nov 2018

          Anonymous, 12 Nov 2018128 GB not enough?? Why do you critisize that? Even S9 has 64 Gb.And the S9 has a microSD slot

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            • Whackcar
            • y@W
            • 12 Nov 2018

            Anonymous, 12 Nov 2018128 GB not enough?? Why do you critisize that? Even S9 has 64 Gb.You're wrong. S9 comes in 3 storage versions. 64gb/128gb/256gb. It also has a SD card slot. So it's all good.

            What's not good, is Pixel 3/XL having only 64gb/128gb options WITHOUT a SD card slot!

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              • StraightEdgeNexus
              • 7kh
              • 12 Nov 2018

              Wow it took you a whole month to put up a review and this is what we get? No lab tests? I don't care what your reasoning is, you could've taken another 15 days instead of putting up this crap opinion piece I can read in 100 other websites

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                • Brader
                • U}}
                • 12 Nov 2018

                Please do proper review, this is useless dumb review

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                  • Anonymous
                  • PGq
                  • 12 Nov 2018

                  Cons
                  -Awkwardly large body with slippery slides
                  -Back glass scuffs easily
                  -FUGLY NOTCH and chin take up significant space at front
                  -Display doesn't get bright enough
                  -Touchscreen constantly reacts to accidental touches around edges
                  -Camera has flicker under fluorescent lighting
                  -Unbalanced left and right speaker volume
                  -Low RAM bottlenecks performance
                  -Storage option maxes out at 128GB. Google, for the love of god, add the da*n microsd slot already as a CHOICE!! It's almost a decade since we weren't happy that you removed it since Nexus S!!
                  -No 4K 60 video mode for camera
                  -No 3.5mm jack since Pixel 2 Series as STANDARD (PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE)
                  -No microsd slot since Nexus S as STANDARD (PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE)
                  -Proprietary wireless charger (PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE)
                  -FORCED GESTURES-based UI. Google, give us an option to use software nav-bar keys which is straightforward and easy to use as a CHOICE!!

                  There, editor, fixed it for you.

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                    • Yasser
                    • KS2
                    • 12 Nov 2018

                    Useless review, and although we keep requesting GSMArena not to do such fake reviews, they don’t seem to care.

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                      • Shawkat
                      • PUa
                      • 12 Nov 2018

                      No lab test at all. Worst review ever from gsmarena.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • kui
                        • 12 Nov 2018

                        Whackcar, 11 Nov 2018This phone doesn't deserve a proper review. It's a trash phone and most of us are already awar... more I am more interested in Pixel earbuds, than I am with the Pixel 3.

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                          • Trump Fan 1980
                          • kui
                          • 12 Nov 2018

                          The review associated with this comment forum appeared just minutes ago, and there are already several comments. Editor's perhaps? I hope the Pixel 4 and 5 will be a whole lot better than 2 and 3.

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                            • zularif3100
                            • tDS
                            • 12 Nov 2018

                            Anonymous, 12 Nov 2018Next year, most of the consumers will be using foldable devices, notches phone will be a throwaway.next to buy bro haha

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                              • Anonymous
                              • tPG
                              • 12 Nov 2018

                              Next year, most of the consumers will be using foldable devices, notches phone will be a throwaway.

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                                • Note7 owner
                                • k2G
                                • 12 Nov 2018

                                This is one brand I can whole heartedly not recommend to anyone for the first few months. It's best to let Google work out the kinks.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • nps
                                  • 12 Nov 2018

                                  128 GB not enough?? Why do you critisize that?
                                  Even S9 has 64 Gb.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • pQr
                                    • 12 Nov 2018

                                    Gsmarena, "Most of the time, the 2x digital zoom images on the Pixel 3 XL display look very similar to optically 2x zoomed images on other phones"
                                    Not true, I have looked at multiple full resolution comparisons from Anandtech and also from your previous Pixel 3 review and Google's digital zoom is much worse. I would say it's equivalent to 1.1x or 1.2x lossless zoom. When you say that you nearly don't notice a difference, then I guess you also don't see a difference between normal digital zoom and optical zoom. Don't forget that the Pixel 3 has a 27mm equivalent (not 26mm) camera, so 2x lossless zoom should have slightly more(!) details than iPhone Xs at 52mm.

                                    Google's video zoom is much worse, too.

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                                      • AnonD-762416
                                      • JbS
                                      • 12 Nov 2018

                                      The only sensible reason I can think on for why Google released this phone was to make people realise how ugly a notch is. A phone designed to fail with the single purpose to kill the notch trend.

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                                        • dude111
                                        • 8{c
                                        • 12 Nov 2018

                                        Stan, 12 Nov 2018Agree, GSMArena should do a full complete review not this half cook review.Yep

                                        We can wait, theres no need to rush them.

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