The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL were congenital by altered manufacturers. This is appealing accepted ability amid Android admirers at this point — Google's abate Pixel 2 was congenital by HTC, while the beyond Pixel 2 XL was congenital by LG. What would the Pixel 2 XL attending like if HTC had followed through and delivered on the beyond phone for Google? Today we accept some answers.
Earlier this year it was appear that HTC had been appointed to body both phones, but their beyond alternative (codename Muskie) was scrapped in favor of LG's. Many wondered why Google fabricated the somewhat aberrant accommodation to accept two OEMs body the Pixel 2 line. Google invested almost $1 billion into LG's POLED affectation business, so this provides some acumen abaft the call. Still, it's adamantine not to admiration what an HTC-built Pixel 2 XL would accept looked like.
According to a report from The Verge, the HTC U11 Plus provides a appealing bright picture. Sources at Google and HTC accepted that the Muskie affairs did not die, but rather developed into the HTC U11 Plus apparent today. The phones were not one and the same, but the architecture carapace and engineering is aggregate amid the devices.
If you absent the advertisement beforehand today, HTC's new U11 Plus flagship has a abominable set of centralized specifications. The phone appearance a 6-inch Super LCD 6 QHD affectation (18:9), Snapdragon 835 processor, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage, a 12 MP UltraPixel 3 camera, and 3,930 mAh battery.
Aside from the absorbing accumulating of internals, the architecture of the phone is evocative of Pixel architecture in a cardinal of ways. Comparing the Pixel 2 XL that LG fabricated with the advanced of the HTC U11 Plus, it's bright that these 18:9 designs accept a lot in common. The bezels are abate than acceptable HTC style, but not as baby as those on the Note 8 or LG V30. The rear-mounted fingerprint sensor on the U11 Plus additionally looks a lot like those featured on both Pixel phones in 2017.
It's accustomed to added admiration if a Pixel 2 XL akin the U11 Plus could accept abhorred the affectation crisis Google's adverse with LG's POLED technology. The acknowledgment to that is acceptable no. While the HTC U11 Plus appearance a LCD panel, Google has been absolutely invested in OLED technology on the Pixel devices. If HTC had congenital the beyond Pixel 2 device, OLED would accept begin its way into the Muskie carapace at Google's request.
In fact, this leads me to admiration if Google went with LG over HTC due to a curtailment of Samsung OLED panels to fit central HTC's device. If so, we can acknowledge the iPhone X for that. Either way, an HTC-built accessory wouldn't accept abhorred issues with the Pixel 2 XL launch. The POLED issues may accept been nonexistent, but accumulation constraints would accomplish the Pixel 2 XL abundant harder to buy. No agnosticism that Google had a difficult best here, bright problems abide with either option.
At the end of the day, the U11 Plus is acceptable not advancing to the US at all, so best of us in North America will not get a hands-on allegory to the Pixel 2 XL. This seems a bit apprehensive to me, and leaves one to appraise whether Google imposed an embargo on HTC affairs this accessory in assertive markets. Whether this is accurate or not, it's a abashment HTC absitively to not action the U11 Plus in added regions, absolution the bodies adjudge if the apparition of Muskie is bigger than the Pixel 2 XL we concluded up with.
What do you anticipate of HTC's new flagship? Is this the Pixel 2 XL we all deserve? Sound off in the comments!
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