Notches are in, no matter how bad you want them to be out. Apple wasn’t the first company to put a display cutout on its flagship, but the iPhone X kicked off what’s turned into a trend. There are very few high-end phones that go without a notch despite the love-hate relationship so many consumers have with it. Don’t be discouraged by the notch on Pixel 3 XL. It arrived on this...
The Pixel 3 is the first Google device to feature an all-glass back that allows for wireless charging. To keep the Pixel’s patented two-tone design, Google made a portion of the glass frosted to keep the signature look. Unfortunately, the device’s durability has been called into question as many users are discovering unwanted scratches. In adding the frosted glass, Google added a...
In the first two years of the Pixel line, Google made very questionable design choices that didn’t push the envelope. The company finally made some strides with the Pixel 3, but still dropped the ball in some areas, mainly the notch. What if Google made a phone that eclipsed all of our wildest expectations? A new Pixel 4 concept imagines what Google’s next phone could look like and it...
Google finally jumped on to the wireless charging wagon with its new Pixel 3 devices. It even supports fast wireless charging at 10W, but Google just took a drastic and disappointing step to limit the feature to just one charger, and that’s conveniently its own Pixel Stand. The limitation of fast wireless charging was first spotted by a Reddit user who noticed the Pixel 3 was not...
Google left us unsurprised after it announced the Pixel 3, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It just turns out there wasn’t much to spring onto anyone due to the countless number of leaks and reports leading up to the global debut. Now the Pixel 3 is here, which matters more than anything else. It opens a new era for the Mountain View-based company. Google relied on hardware...
Google’s latest Pixel phones are alike in many ways. Still, there are some not-so-obvious differences starker than you might think. iFixit did a teardown earlier this week for the Pixel 3 XL, and it revealed an OLED panel from Samsung. The smaller model, however, doesn’t share a similar structure for its edge-to-edge screen. It turns out that, despite last year’s controversy, LG earned...
Verizon is proving that it just can’t get out of its own way when it comes to its customers. The carrier is the only one of the four major U.S. carriers to offer the Pixel 3 and 3 XL devices, but a new policy is making the process of using the phones with other carriers very difficult. Potential Pixel 3 customers who buy the phone outright at full price from Verizon will be required to...
Google won’t make the same mistake twice, at least in one area. It chose an industry leader as the supplier for the edge-to-edge screen on the Pixel 3. In a teardown performed by iFixit, we learn everything that went into Google’s latest flagship. The display, however, should be the most interesting part of the entire teardown. Last year, the Pixel 2 XL turned out to be pretty...
Google last week revealed the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL and it’s wasting no time in letting the world know. Through two generations of the Pixel line, Google’s marketing has taken a backseat to other bigger smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung. It does advertise its phones, but not to the level as those other companies. That’s changing with the Pixel 3 and Google is ready to get the...
Android isn’t ideal for anyone who likes software updates, but being the owner a Pixel phone certainly helps. If you purchase the Pixel 3, you’ll be taken care of until 2021. In a support document, Google confirmed its latest flagship will get software updates for the next three years. It’s an improvement over what Google’s promised in the past. Normally, we saw Pixel and Nexus devices...