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Currently, I pursue my fascination for IT, technology, and mobile devices by writing reviews and articles for Notebookcheck. The added telephoto lens produces sharper zoomed images and truer portrait mode effects, while Night Sight has improved, too.Still, it’s less annoying to groggily fling your hand over the phone than it is to pick the thing up and fumble for the right spot on the touchscreen to silence an alarm. Dependent on various factors, you can also set up some rules, such as setting the ringtone to mute at a certain WLAN or location. Otherwise, the OLED screen is gorgeous, as expected, with HDR support that shows streaming media and photos in vivid clarity. All together, the phone is more of a pragmatist’s flagship, eschewing the shimmering gradients and waterfall-edged displays of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 or Huawei Mate 30 Pro in favor of bold-hued simplicity.

The Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are the best argument that specs don’t tell you everything you need to know about a phone — because the experience of using a Pixel 4 is better than any other Android phone. Ultimately, it’s a slight discount over other plus-sized flagships, but the lack of parity in frilly features and hardware makes it hard to judge if this is an even exchange. I should mention that while I had no issues with Motion Sense detecting my hand as I reached for the phone, David did. Every Google Pixel device that we sell is fully tested and expertly refurbished; our grading system only refers to the cosmetic condition of the device, and has zero impact on system performance. If you were willing to stay in dark mode, reduce screen brightness, set the refresh rate to 60Hz, and stay away from battery-killing games, you could probably last a full day — but what’s the point?

moreSame thing can be said about a used pixel 5 , what makes you think your battery will last if it had been used?

Unpretentious, native android, fast, great camera and an easy root when Google decides to stop supporting. It’s not at the head of the pack for new, industry-leading features - but if you like shooting photos without much fuss, the Google Pixel 4 XL is for you. With the activated light sensor, it offers an average brightness of 555 cd/m², but without the sensor it is only 413 cd/m². That’s in large part because Google is using machine learning to identify objects in the frame (like faces, the sky, walls, and so on) and uses that to tweak white balance. While we appreciate seeing the bump in RAM here, nearly every other flagship now uses 8GB as the standard (barring the iPhone).

The differences are pretty negligible and we were pleasantly surprised by how well the Pixel 4 scored against some pretty heavy-hitting competition, including the ASUS ROG Phone 2, the OnePlus 7T series, and the realme X2 Pro. While the new Pixels may not need 8GB of RAM right now, given that Google guarantees updates for at least two more years, who knows where we’ll be then. While I found Motion Sense on the smaller Pixel 4 to be accurate and reliable, working around 95% of the time, David had a very different experience on the larger Pixel 4 XL, with it barely ever working as advertised. When purchased from us, your device will come with a genuine Google Pixel USB C charging cable as standard.