The Pixel 3 XL against Galaxy Note 9. Banal Android against Samsung Experience. Back I began this comparison, I anticipation the Pixel 3 XL would be unfairly outmatched. But afterwards attractive at the specs side-by-side, you'll see a altered picture. This year, Google delivered a aces another to Samsung's best offering.
The action amid these two phones has been absorbing over the years. While Samsung has been an agent for the Android operating system, affairs millions of units, the bigger complaint has consistently been how abundant its bark is. However, because of the Galaxy Note line's top-tier specs, abounding aloof abdomen the bark in adjustment to adore bigger hardware.
Compare that to Pixel (née Nexus) series, which has gone through some changes. At first, Nexus phones were alone a way to appearance off the newest adaptation of Android on an bargain device. Back Google switched to the Pixel lineup, they afflicted their focus. Now, Google is aggravating to accomplish a top-tier phone that additionally happens to run banal Android. And afterwards three iterations, it seems Google adeptness accept assuredly bridged the gap amid their best phone and Samsung's.
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Software
With these two phones, the software will apparently be one of the top affidavit you adjudge to accept one over the other. Either you adulation Samsung Experience, you are indifferent, or you abhorrence it. Depending on area you fall, how you appearance the added specs will be afflicted and ultimately actuate which phone you choose.
Like best years, this is not alone a aberration in the beheld changes of Samsung's skin, but additionally what adaptation of Android you appetite to run. Android 9.0 Pie (which comes with the Pixel 3 XL) looks altered from 8.1 Oreo and includes a cardinal of accepted improvements. Based on Samsung's clue record, it will be a few months afore the Galaxy Note 9 is active an official version, and this will be the case with the abutting adaptation of Android, Android Q.
Also, Samsung has been awfully bad at blame the Android account security patches, clashing the Pixel devices. Pixel 3 XL will get security patches for three years in accession to two letter updates (Android Q and Android R). While the Galaxy Note 9 should get a letter update, it will added than acceptable stop at Android P and break abaft in security patches, abrogation it accessible to exploits that Google already patched.
Camera
While on paper, Samsung has a bigger camera, specs don't acquaint the complete picture. Alike with the Pixel 3 XL's distinct lens, added than likely, Google will already afresh accept the best camera on a smartphone. Alike now, abounding still accede the Pixel 2 (and 2 XL) the best camera on the market, alike assault the brand of new Galaxy Note 9. With a year of data, Google has alone bigger the quality, consistent in an alike bigger camera.
With the Pixel 3 XL, it starts with the Beheld Core. The Google-developed NPU is acclimated to action all abstracts captured by the lens and administer apparatus acquirements to advance the affection of the photos. Whether it's Google's HDR+ or new appearance such as Top Shot and Night Sight, AI is acceptable these appearance based on the accountable of your photos.
The Galaxy Note 9's big new affection is a capricious aperture, a affection aboriginal alien with the Galaxy S9 and S9+. With capricious aperture, one of the bifold lenses can automatically (and manually) acclimatize the breach to let added or beneath ablaze canyon through to the angel sensor. These not alone accomplish low ablaze photos easier to capture, but accord you options for ablaze subjects.
The additional lens is a telephoto lens that adds 2x optical zoom. This comes in accessible for both abroad shots and low light, and is a affection we achievement Google Pixel will accept in the future. Google's apparatus learning-enhanced agenda zoom is impressive, but it can't exhausted optical zoom.
Display
In about every assessable category, both phones are analogously akin back it comes to their display. Both are application their bigger awning yet, with the Pixel 3 XL agitation a 6.3-inch affectation and the Galaxy Note 9 application a 6.4-inch display. Both are OLED, with Pixel 3 XL opting for LG's POLED (unconfirmed) and Samsung application their Super AMOLED.
Both use the aforementioned resolution of 2960 x 1440, which construe in a hardly college pixel body for the Pixel 3 XL. The Note 9 has a bigger screen-to-body ratio, and it accomplishes this after a affectation notch.
The accurateness in affectation affection goes alike further. DisplayMate gave the Galaxy Note 9 its accomplished brand of A+, adage the awning was alone baffled by the iPhone XS Max. But they've additionally rated the Pixel 3 XL with the accomplished A+ score, so we'll accept to delay on their abounding analysis to see which of these two phones has the bigger screen.
Battery & Storage
Now that one year has anesthetized after any above issue, Samsung already afresh feels assured in its adeptness to advance the admeasurement of the array they accommodate in their Galaxy Note series. For the aboriginal time in the series, Samsung has added an impressively ample 4,000 mAh battery. This accommodation added than makes up for the beyond affectation and aerial resolution, accouterment it all-day battery.
The Pixel 3 XL is a altered story. Google autonomous to abatement the array size, acceptance it to advance the 0.31 inches abyss in both devices. This is both a acceptable and bad thing.
The acceptable affair is the phone charcoal attenuate and whether you use the Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL, the activity of the phone in your duke is added agnate than different. However, back you agency in the ample screen, array activity will booty a hit. To compensate, Google underclocks the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 to 2.5 GHz (from 2.8 GHz) on the Gold Cores and 1.6 GHz (from 1.8 GHz) on the Silver cores to abate ability consumption. And while this should help, this makes the accessory beneath able than the Galaxy Note 9.
As for storage, Galaxy Note 9 additionally has an advantage. Not alone does the Note 9 accept a beyond starting centralized accumulator (at 128 GB), it additionally has ample best accumulator at bisected a terabyte. The Note 9 additionally supports microSD, article the Pixel 3 XL doesn't support. And with the better microSD agenda at 512 GB, that agency you can accept up to 1 TB of accumulator on your phone with the Galaxy Note 9.
While the 64 GB and 128 GB are abundant accumulator options, for some, this isn't enough. And although we do see some accumulation as a result, because the gap in appraisement isn't too large, this adeptness be chief agency for many.
Price
The aberration in amount isn't too bad this year amid these two devices. The Pixel 3 XL starts at $899, admitting the Galaxy Note 9 starts at $999. With a $100 difference, the accommodation is beneath about amount and added about what you want. Do you charge a ample array like what's begin in the Galaxy Note 9, or do you adopt accepting a best camera? Would you rather accept all the software appearance imaginable, or would you adopt a smoother software experience?
This year, you are not penalized for demography one over the other. Instead, the Pixel 3 XL is an alternative. You (along with abounding others in the Android community) will be allurement these questions back chief amid these two phones, and area is added about what's the appropriate phone for you.
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