(We'll do more deliberate drop tests in the coming weeks.) Overall, these phones still look less extravagant than their rivals. The phone was left with a small chip on its top corner, but otherwise remained unscathed. I accidentally dropped the Pixel 3 from about waist-high onto a tiled floor. But they're sturdy and comfortable to hold. The phones are lighter than their iPhone and Galaxy counterparts, too - so much so that CNET editor Iyaz Akhtar said they feel almost like fake "dummy" phones. The phones are surrounded by a glossy lining around the phone and the signature glass shade on the back dips down on the bottom corners all help to elevate the aesthetics. There are slimmer bezels, especially on the smaller Pixel, and a smooth matte texture on all the color variants including the black one. While this year's Pixels look similar to last year's, subtle design tweaks add more polish to the phones this time around. See all photos Pixel 3 design: Not refreshed, but refined (For a deeper dive, check out CNET's Pixel 3 vs. The editing process is precise and easy to use. And the Pixel gives you the option to tweak the blurriness and focus of these portraits after you fire the shutter, similar to the iPhone XS and other Android phones. When I took a photo of a dog, I noticed a patchy-looking stray hair or two, but the effect was minimal. They take a few seconds to render, but the falloff between the fore- and background looks natural and not overly smooth. The Pixel 3's camera is skillful at taking portrait photos too. And while the 6T's Nightscape retained the same, if not slightly more, details than the Pixel 3 XL, the Pixel's Night Sight feature is far better at lighting up dim scenes. But when I switched to the 3 XL's HDR+ enhanced mode, it outperformed the OnePlus 6T. There were times when the OnePlus 6T had a wider dynamic range than the Pixel 3 XL in its default mode, brightening and punching up colors more. It also retained more details with darker shadows than the Galaxy phones. The Pixel also handled white-balance and its skin tones were more true to life than the Galaxy S9 and Note 9 at times. The colors are a tad more intense than you'd see on the iPhone XS, but not to a level that's unrealistic or exaggerated. In general, the Pixel 3 takes brilliant photos, capturing images that are detailed and clear. And with its superlative, easy-to-use camera, the Pixel 3 is top-notch. It may not look as luxurious as the iPhone XS or Galaxy S9, but it enjoys the extra perks that come from being a Google phone, which include unlimited cloud storage and timely software updates. At any rate, if all these phones are out of your budget, but you love the Pixel 3's camera, consider the Pixel 3A instead.īut if you are willing to pay up, the Pixel 3 is outstanding. The S9 ends up being the better value since it can hold up to 400GB of extra data, and the 256GB iPhone is actually cheaper than the Pixel 3 at any capacity in terms of price per gig. If you do want extra storage though, things get more complicated. The identically priced 128GB iPhone XR is a tempting alternative, but its camera just doesn't measure up to the Pixel 3. At face value, the phone costs as much as the Galaxy S9 and it's cheaper compared to the iPhone XS' $1,000 (£999, AU$1,629) baseline price. So is an outstanding camera ( which takes better photos than the iPhone XS), wireless charging, water resistance and Google's user experience worth the $799 (£739, AU$1,199) starting price for the 64GB Pixel 3? If you don't care about expandable storage, I say yes.
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