- Today we are checking
out the Google Pixel 4XL.
(upbeat music)
Let's turn it on.
So here it is.
This is the Google Pixel 4XL,
and this is the just-black color.
It's running a Snapdragon 855 processor
with six gigs of RAM.
You can get storage
configurations of 64 or 128 gigs.
It has a 90 Hertz display,
which looks really beautiful.
It's got dual cameras, but no ultra-wide,
which is kind of unfortunate.
It also has these new radar sensors,
which is known as motion sense.
So this allows for faster face unlock
and other sorts of fun hand gestures
that may or may not work very well.
It starts shipping on October 24th,
and it starts at $799 for the
Pixel 4, and for the XL, $899.
The thing that I'm most excited to try out
is their night sight.
Obviously, the Pixel has taken so many
incredible low light photos in the past,
so now with some of their
improved hardware and algorithms,
they say you can take
longer exposure photos
for astro-photography.
It'll, then, use AI to clean
up photos for a better image.
It is all set up.
I still have to pop a
SIM card in this thing
before we head outside.
I'm so excited to test out the photos,
and also very interested
to see how the video is,
because they made zero mention of video
in the press conference at all.
So, let's see how it does
on a trip to Catalina.
(electronic music)
We are in Catalina.
I've got the new Pixel 4.
I've got my sister, Jenna,
and the first thing that we're gonna do
is we're gonna go get
some breakfast and coffee.
Can you map the breakfast and coffee place
on my new Pixel 4?
- Well the first thing we
did was get a golf cart.
- We did and we are already in it, okay.
Oh god, oh god, its not
stopping, its not stopping!
Whoa.
Okay, first stop.
(electronic music)
Oh my goodness, hello.
Hi.
- [Jenna] What a cutie!
- [Justine] Thank you.
Jenna.
This one's mine.
(laughs)
Look at that bagel.
I'm gonna zoom into it, just really.
Get into that crevice.
The pictures look good,
but like, the composition.
Like, how do I make this look good?
I don't think I can.
- [Tyler] Maybe, for the
coffee, pop the top off,
and get some of that texture on the
top of it.
- [Justine] All right.
- [Tyler] You know on the ice.
- [Justine] Oh that's nice.
Oh that's a nice texture.
Maybe I'll take a selfie with it.
The front-facing is a little
more wide-angle, which is nice.
But then as soon as you switch to video,
it's not very wide at all.
So let's switch to video,
so you guys can see it zooms in so much.
Here's the video test.
Oh my, holy.
This is so good.
Where are we?
Catalina Coffee and Cookie.
You gotta come here for
an iced vanilla latte.
(synth music)
Oh boy, oh boy. Sorry. (mumbles)
So we've been driving around Catalina
getting some photos and
some videos, and so far,
one of my favorite features
is the dual-exposure mode
that they have.
So you can adjust the highlights
and the shadows on the fly,
and what's cool with the live HDR+,
is when you're taking a photo,
what you see in the viewfinder
is actually the photo
that you're taking, so before,
it used to have to do a lot
of processing and computing
to actually make that photo be what it is,
but now the viewfinder is
showing you the actual picture,
which is great, because sometimes,
you just kinda have to guess,
like is this photo gonna look good?
And obviously,
the new Pixel 4 does not
have the highest video specs,
so comparing this to the iPhone
is almost kind of unfair,
but the fact that this
phone is starting at $800
and you're not even getting
a 4K front-facing camera,
that to me is a little bit
upsetting, but honestly,
for most people,
it's not gonna make that
huge of a difference.
But now, I feel like most new
phones that are coming out
that are going to be rivaling the iPhone
should definitely have
4K front-facing video.
So I've taken a few photos so far,
and looking at some of these,
like the portrait mode,
this picture of Jenna right here,
like I'm looking around her hairline
and around the sunglasses,
and it did a pretty great job.
Here's a few other pictures that I took.
These are some little birds
getting a little birdie bath.
The choice to not put an
ultra-wide camera on this phone
is kind of shocking.
I don't know, I really like
the look of ultra-wide photos,
so I definitely have missed that.
The front-facing camera is a
little bit wider of a view,
so let me take a selfie here.
Now I'm gonna take a
picture using the iPhone,
just with the regular front-facing,
not with the wide-angle mode,
and you'll see that
there's a huge difference
between those photos
Did the, did the, wait a minute.
The Pixel flipped the front-facing,
so it's, that's not what
I actually look like.
Like with all this technology
that's built into this phone,
wouldn't you think that they would
automatically flip this
front-facing picture
to be the right way?
Hmm.
Obviously,
I haven't got a chance to
check out the night sight yet,
so that's something that
I cannot wait to try out,
so as soon as the sun goes down,
that's gonna be one of the
first things that I test.
The video shoots at 1080, 30, 60, or 120,
and you can shoot 240, 720, and 4K 30.
So no, this doesn't shoot 4K 60,
and the front-facing camera
also shoots 1080 at 30.
All right, let's go take some more photos.
So now we're gonna head up,
I think, over here somewhere.
Wait a minute, over there.
That's where we're gonna go.
This, right now, is the
front-facing camera.
We're gonna hop back into the golf cart,
and head up to the top of the mountain.
Jen, you having a fun time?
- It's a very lovely day today.
- It is actually very lovely.
(electronic music)
This is 8x zoom.
8x zoom, hi.
What is he eating?
This is so exciting, the
sun is finally setting,
which means we can test night mode.
It's not that dark yet, but
the light is definitely lower
than it was when the sun is up.
That's what happens at sunset.
The sun goes down.
I'm so glad that I could
be here to teach you
about these very important life lessons.
We're gonna set up for a time-lapse here.
I think this'll look nice.
Okay.
Or do I want this shot?
Oh.
That looks cool.
I'm gonna hit record now.
(upbeat music)
Testing out front-facing camera here.
It's a little bit lower of the light.
The sun has kind of gone down.
We were hoping to see the sunset,
and then we realized that the sun sets
on the complete opposite
side of the island,
so we're not gonna see it,
but the view is so beautiful.
Got some cool photos, and
overall, it's been a great day.
Let's flip to the back camera now.
- Oh so I didn't take it.
And then he tried to get me to
shoot his daughter's wedding.
- [Justine] Oh.
- No, no, no.
(both laugh)
- Some people just asked
Jenna if she took a photo
on her Macbook, like
the picture of Catalina,
and they proceeded to ask her
if they would shoot
her daughter's wedding.
Back-facing camera.
Look what we have here.
Let's see if we can adjust
the exposure a little,
that's nice.
(upbeat music)
Is it dark enough for night sight yet?
Let's take a regular picture, then.
I don't think it's dark enough.
The night sight version kinda just looks
a little bit more yellow.
I think it needs to be darker.
Okay maybe take one with the iPhone.
Let's just do a little
comparison while we're here,
because we're here.
We need dark, dark.
- [Tyler] We need like, dark dark.
But this is pretty dark.
- [Tyler] I feel like there's
lots of lights around-
- There is.
What about over here?
Look, it's telling me to try night sight.
- [Tyler] That's really cool.
- This is cool, okay, we're gonna try it.
This is also difficult,
because it's water.
Now we'll do regular without night sight.
We definitely need some darker conditions.
I wanna test this out.
Okay, let's test it out on an iPhone.
Oh, okay.
We're finally making progress here.
Look at this before,
and after.
It's almost like it's freaking day-time.
I'm definitely gonna have
to look at these some more
on a computer, so that I
can put them side by side,
because obviously, these
are two different screens,
so it's really hard to tell, but wow.
I'm pretty impressed so
far with both the iPhone
and the Pixel, and now it's pretty dark,
so these photos that we're
taking now, this is legit.
(relaxed music)
So I feel like the iPhone
does such a quicker job
at getting basically the same
shots, so let's time them.
iPhone is done already.
We're still holding, still.
Like what the heck are
you doing that whole time.
The iPhone has already processed it,
and this also took some time to process.
So it's weird, because
the Pixel takes, like,
three times as long,
to take basically the
same shot as the iPhone.
We have to head back to LA now,
but this is pretty dark here.
(ship horn blows)
Oh my, Jeez, oh my god.
Anyway, this is pretty dark,
so I thought I would try to get a shot
before we get on the boat.
(ship horn blows)
Okay, you gotta, you can't be doing that.
All right night sight,
this is what you're,
this is what you were made for.
Oh, okay, all right.
This looks pretty good.
Okay, let's do one more,
and then we'll try it out on the iPhone.
Hold still for,
how long?
Three minutes?
Holy crap, this looks incredible.
(gasps)
This looks so insane.
No way, this looks so great.
We have to go,
so we don't actually get to
use the full potential of this,
but I do want to get an iPhone pic.
(relaxed music)
Oh my god, okay, but
this looks insane, too,
and that only was 10 seconds.
(laughs)
I don't know, I don't know.
Let's do one more like this.
See what we get.
This is doing 24 seconds.
Oh my gosh.
The iPhone is basically the same thing
in less amount of time.
Okay, we can go.
I will look at these later.
Hi, so I'm back from Catalina,
and I'm gonna take a look at
some of the photos that I shot,
and honestly my first
impressions of the Pixel 4,
I like it.
It's a great phone.
The fact that it is as expensive as it is
in comparison to the iPhone,
when the iPhone has
way better camera specs
and it has an ultra-wide camera,
that's one of the things that
I think is a little bit crazy.
Granted, if this phone was way less,
I think that I probably would have
a much better impression of it.
With all that being
said, I wanna take a look
at some of the photos and
the content that we shot
while we were in Catalina,
and starting here with the
ones that we took at night,
because obviously, one of the things
that Pixel is great doing
is taking those night shots.
Now, there was a lot of
light pollution here,
but in this shot right here,
it was completely pitch black.
Now looking at these
two photos side by side,
it definitely looks like the Pixel
has a little bit darker of a sky,
so I think that what the
Pixel is doing is there is
a lot more of that software enhancement
that is happening, but if I had
to choose between these two,
side by side, I would honestly
probably go with the Pixel.
Score a point for you in the
astro-photography department.
So this is the shot of the building taken
at the same exact time, and in this shot,
I think I would choose the iPhone,
mostly because of the realistic colors.
So looking at the Pixel,
it kind of just added like
a blue haze to everything,
whereas the iPhone definitely
has way more realistic colors.
So that one goes to the iPhone.
Next up, we've got this
little bridge scene here.
It took so much longer
for the Pixel to process,
basically the same exact image.
But again, both of these
photos on their own
and knowing how incredibly dark it was
when I took this picture,
these are both very impressive.
Here are two shots of my feet.
This is the iPhone.
It looks like it added a little more
of like a pinkish type of
hue, although it was sunset,
so that is probably a
more realistic color.
Both of these photos look great.
Let's not forget what this
actually would look like.
This is a photo that I took with the Pixel
without night sight.
Here's a shot of these rocks.
Both photos look really great.
Looks like the iPhone did pull
out a little more contrast
in the rocks, but honestly,
both photos look really good.
I'm super impressed,
because it was very dark.
The face unlock is incredibly
fast using that motion sense,
because the phone
automatically detects my hand,
and then as soon as I pick it up,
it's already ready to unlock my face.
Like that just happened so quickly.
I wanna test out one
of the live wallpapers.
So there's a little Pokemon one.
(gasps)
There it is.
Pikachu waves back.
Like it's following my
hand, like that's so weird.
Completely unnecessary, but
if you're gonna get a Pixel 4,
like this is why you
would buy it, for sure.
I just wanna show you the
motion sense in Spotify,
so let's play a song.
Turn it down, so Tool
doesn't copyright my video.
And then you just swipe your hand.
Like it's actually working really fast.
I don't know if there was
an update or something,
because when I tried this before,
it was not working this seamless.
So you can tell when the
motion sense is activated,
so right here, there's
like a little white light.
Can you see that?
Look at that.
This is my favorite
song off this new album.
Invincible.
(guitar music)
So good.
This is really cool.
They did this demo in
the press conference too,
so you could basically translate
live as you're talking.
So right now, I'm talking,
and I'm gonna click on transcript.
So as I'm talking,
it is automatically changing
what I'm saying to text,
but the best part about it is
I'm gonna say Tyler's name.
Tyler.
Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler.
I'm just gonna keep saying his name,
and then when I hit stop,
and I go back to this,
I can go through.
I'm going to search for Tyler.
It gives me every instance
that I said his name,
and I can click it-
Tyler's name.
And play it.
Tyler.
Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler.
You can click to the next one.
Tyler's name.
Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler.
I'm just gonna keep saying
his name, and then when I hit-
Are you impressed?
He's shaking his head yes.
I love this for meetings,
or even if we're doing notes or something,
or script-taking which,
I guess I don't really
write scripts very often,
but I feel like this actually
would be pretty helpful.
The 90 hertz screen is beautiful.
Well thank you guys so much for watching.
This was just a first look at the Pixel,
and I'm looking forward
to trying this out.
I also really love the live wallpaper.
Ah, Pikachu.
Let me know if there's anything else
that you'd like me to
test out with the Pixel 4,
or any other gadgets that I have,
and I will see you in my next video.
Bye!
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