If you shoot 14 photos in rapid concession while listening to Spotify, the Pixel 3 XL will terminate Spotify in the background, stopping the music. I noticed some aggressive background app handling. While it might lose in a game of Top Trumps, it’s not noticeable in daily use because the Pixel 3 is simply buttery-smooth in operation, with top-notch gaming performance too.
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The Pixel 3 only has 4GB of RAM, compared with 6GB or even 8GB in some top-end Android competitors. The Pixel 3 has Qualcomm’s current top-of-the-line processor the Snapdragon 845, as used in the OnePlus 6 and most other current flagship smartphones, with the exception of the UK versions of Samsung’s S9 and Note 9 and Huawei’s phones, both of which use their own-brand chips. The sim tray is in the bottom of the phone next to the USB-C port.
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Processor: octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845Ĭamera: 12.2MP rear camera with OIS, dual 8MP front-facing cameraĬonnectivity: LTE, wifi, NFC, eSIM, Bluetooth 5 and GPS Google is not alone in having this problem, but it is very pronounced on the Pixel 3 XL. The same goes for notification icons on the left, which have to fit in the small area between the time and the notch. If you have the battery percentage visible, the phone connected to wifi and set to vibrate, if you connect a set of Bluetooth headphones you end up with a dot in the right side of the status bar indicating there are more icons needed than can fit. There isn’t enough room either side of the notch for most of the status bar icons either. YouTube and Google Photos are the most obvious exceptions. The usable screen area therefore works out about 0.3mm taller than the Pixel 2 XL, as Android ignores the space either side of the notch in most full-screen apps such as Netflix, Amazon or most other video apps. Aesthetic debates aside, it’s important to note that because the notch is so tall it takes up a big chunk of the screen at the top, with the area either side exclusively being used for the status bar.Īs such, despite being 0.3in bigger on the diagonal than the Pixel 2 XL, the Pixel 3 XL has essentially only gained a status-bar’s height on the screen compared with last year’s phone. There is, however, a massive notch containing the dual selfie camera and speaker. It’s not quite as eye-popping as Samsung or Apple’s best, but it is very close, and the difference is now down to a matter of taste. Crisp, colourful and improved over last year. The status bar on the right is missing a few icons thanks to the notch, showing instead a dot meaning there are overflowing into the notification shade.
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