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It’s the standard spec-sheet for a 2018 flagship phone. 4GB does seem slightly meagre when there are more and more phones with 6 or 8GB, and the Snapdragon 845 is likely to be replaced in the coming months by a rumoured Snapdragon 855 with 5G support. Yet, having used the Pixel 3 for an extended period, I am not worrying about performance. This thing is fast, churning through everything I can throw at it without lagging or feeling bogged down. Games play smoothly and open as fast as any other Snapdragon 845 phone.
It is, however, slower than the iPhone XS when opening the same game or app – but then comparing iPhones and Android phones is virtually impossible as there are so many different factors. See the below charts for performance in synthetic benchmark tests. Benchmark results in Geekbench 4 Scores from Antutu 7 The real test for the Pixel 3 will come 12-18 months down the line. That’s when the amount of RAM could become an issue. We’ll just have to wait and see. Audio quality from the stereo front-facing speakers is truly excellent.
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As the sound is aimed towards you, it’s not blocked by hands when you’re watching a video and Google Assistant queries can easily be heard across a room. There’s no headphone jack here, but Google does include both a 3.5mm headphone jack adaptor and a pair of perfectly fine USB-C earbuds in the box. These earbuds look a lot like the Pixel Buds from last year and they boast some of the same translation functions too. There’s Bluetooth 5 support too, if you’re more a fan of wireless headphones. A feature often forgotten about on Android phones is haptics: that vibration buzz you get when a message or call comes through.
The vibration on the Pixel 2 was very weak and the one used here is a big improvement. Google seems to know this and as a result you’ll get a lot more small haptic responses throughout the OS. There’s one when you pull down the notification panel and another when you flick through apps. With lots of other phones switching to the face unlock systems, it seems a bit odd Google is holding steadfast with fingerprint authentication. The rear sensor is ridiculously fast and I would take this any day over an in-display option that doesn’t work to unlock apps, but some form of face unlock would have been nice.
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Google Pixel 3 – Software The Google Pixel 3 runs Android 9 Pie with the Pixel launcher on top, and it’s the best software experience on any Android phone. It’s certainly missing some features; a deep and customisable battery-saving mode being the most obvious to me, but the general experience is fantastic. The UI is clean and simple; fast to navigate and never overbearing. There’s the essential Google apps pre-installed and absolutely nothing else. As a user of Google services, the way everything works and syncs together is nothing short of fantastic.
Google Photos remains the single best way to back up and store snaps, with the Pixel 3 offering unlimited full-resolution uploads to the cloud. We’ve already got an in-depth look at Android 9 Pie so I won’t go too much into the specifics here, but here are a couple of the standout features… Related: Android 9 Pie features The big Pie addition is Digital Wellbeing.
This lets you not only monitor your phone usage – including seeing how many times you unlock the phone a day and how many notifications you get – but helps you curb it by blocking out certain apps during selected periods and halting notifications when you’re sleeping. Digital Wellbeing remains in beta and a full release should come later in the year. It’s quite basic, but visually it’s easy to quickly glance at your usage, and being able to limit, say, my Instagram time to an hour a day is much needed.
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