Pixel 3 Xl Vs. Iphone Xs Max: It's A Boxy Bout Amid The Two Ample Flagships

Besides the Apple vs. Samsung competition, few battles are as articulate as the action amid the best Pixel and best iPhone. This year, it's the Pixel 3 XL and iPhone XS Max, two phones that are able with accessory accouterments updates from their predecessors, admitting both advertise cogent OS-level improvements. As with best years, anniversary smartphone curve up appealing able-bodied adjoin anniversary other. They both accept affectation notches, they both accept displays beyond than 6 inches, both use OLED technology, and both accept stereo speakers. However, the differences in cameras and amount will advice accomplish the accommodation for... more

Besides the Angel vs. Samsung competition, few battles are as articulate as the action amid the best Pixel and best iPhone. This year, it's the Pixel 3 XL and iPhone XS Max, two phones that are able with accessory accouterments updates from their predecessors, admitting both advertise cogent OS-level improvements.

As with best years, anniversary smartphone curve up appealing able-bodied adjoin anniversary other. They both accept affectation notches, they both accept displays beyond than 6 inches, both use OLED technology, and both accept stereo speakers. However, the differences in cameras and amount will advice accomplish the accommodation for those on the fence.

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Before we get to the talking points, let's analysis the specs ancillary by side.

Display

The Pixel 3 XL accustomed a baby advancement to its awning admeasurement over the Pixel 2 XL, from 6 inches to 6.3 inches. This is the bigger affectation in any Nexus or Pixel phone and will advice users adore videos added than ever. The console is additionally OLED (we accept LG POLED, but this wasn't confirmed). It is certified by UHD Alliance for HDR abutment and has a 2930 x 1440 resolution. It does accept affectation cleft that is absolutely big, but it houses one of the two stereo speakers, one of the affidavit for its ample height.

For the iPhone XS Max, the affectation is area it shines. It has already accustomed the accomplished mark from DisplayMate which declared it the best smartphone display. The awning is additionally the bigger in its lineup, upgraded to 6.5 inches. Unfortunately, Angel didn't accept to use a 1440p panel, instead opting for the untraditional 2688 x 1242. While this after-effects in the aforementioned pixels per inch as its little brother, it does leave it far abaft the 523 ppi of the Pixel 3 XL.

The iPhone XS Max's console is additionally an OLED panel, bogus by Samsung and based on their Super AMOLED technology — one of the affidavit for its aerial acclaim from DisplayMate.

Apple additionally chose to alternating the blow brace amount from the display's absolute brace rate. The blow brace amount (or how generally the awning checks for touches) is bifold the awning brace amount (how fast the awning can aftermath an image). The aftereffect of this aggregate is a smoother, faster awning in which animations alpha faster and touches are added responsive.

Cameras

Probably the bigger differences amid the two accessories will be begin in the cameras. Both heavily await on their avant-garde HDR action application their onboard NPU. For the Pixel 3 XL, that starts with the new Visual Core. This able NPU is able of processing the angel so calmly that Google has already afresh autonomous for a distinct lens for its rear camera. It's a 12.2 MP camera with a f/1.8 aperture. And with this one camera, Google can action all the appearance of a avant-garde smartphone camera including Portrait Mode.

Google additionally includes some new appearance which advance photography, all of which are candy application the bigger Google Visual Core. Top Attempt takes assorted shots of a accountable and, application apparatus learning, determines the best photo based on whether the accountable is in focus, has its eyes open, and is smiling. Night Sight uses AI to enhance colors so that pictures appear out ablaze and able-bodied lit alike in low ablaze — afterwards the flash. Super Res Zoom combines several photos demography into annual your movement (e.g., our accustomed addiction to move afterpiece afterwards optical zoom) and creates a zoomed-in image.

Also, clashing Apple, the Pixel 3 XL will now let you shoot RAW application the absence camera app. The iPhone XS Max needs a third-party app to do the aforementioned thing.

For the iPhone XS Max, Angel uses two rear cameras. The capital lens is a wide-angle 12 MP lens with f/1.8 aperture. The added lens is a 12 MP telephoto lens accouterment 2x optical zoom. However, the absolute ability of the iPhone XS Max's camera comes from the 8-core Neural Engine.

The iPhone XS Max has Smart HDR which takes a alternation of photos to abduction altered accommodation and combines them for an alike bigger photo. Abyss Control let you acclimatize the abyss of acreage afterwards demography the photo for alike added customization. Bokeh aftereffect (Portrait mode) has additionally been bigger for a added in-focus subject.

However, Google additionally has a affection to acclimatize abyss in a Portrait Approach image, as able-bodied as one that lets you color-pop your accountable by gray-scaling the background.

As for the advanced cameras, the above aberration amid the two phones is the Pixel 3 XL's added camera, the wide-angle lens, which makes accumulation selfies a breeze. With it, you can accommodate added bodies in the attempt instead of banishment bodies to clasp into the middle. The Pixel 3 XL additionally has added megapixels at 8 MP verus the iPhone XS Max's 7 MP.

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Other Specs

Both phones use 4 GB of RAM which is a bit low for the Pixel 3 XL. You won't acquisition a headphone jack on either phone, but the Pixel 3 XL still includes the dongle, clashing the iPhone XS Max.

While both phones do abutment USB Ability Delivery, alone the Pixel 3 XL includes an 18-watt ability adapter for fast charging out the box. Angel continues to accumulation the beneath able 5-watt charger for slower charging times, acute users to buy the USB-PD ability brick (and accordant cable) for the fast allegation times.

Although the Pixel 3 XL's array did compress a bit from aftermost year, it is still beyond than the iPhone XS Max's. However, accommodation doesn't acquaint the accomplished adventure and iOS has consistently been bigger at ability efficiency, acceptance Angel accessories to get all-day array admitting application a abate battery.

Regarding accumulator variants, both access levels are 64 GB. However, Angel offers as aerial as 512 GB accumulator for the iPhone XS Max admitting the Pixel 3 XL maxes out at 128 GB. But Google does accord its users chargeless absolute accumulator for photos and videos on Google Photos to accomplish up for the abridgement of space.

Both are IP68 baptize and dust aggressive and both abutment eSIM. If you are attractive for bifold SIM, alone the iPhone XS Max supports that option, acceptance you to use both a Nano SIM and eSIM at the aforementioned time, while the Pixel 3 alone supports application a distinct Nano SIM or distinct eSIM at one time.

Price

Like its abate counterpart, the Pixel 3 XL's bigger advantage is the price. While both phones action agnate specs, the Pixel 3 XL is $200 cheaper. At $899, the Pixel 3 XL is a abduct compared to the iPhone XS Max which starts at $1,099.

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At $200 cheaper, the Pixel 3 XL is a abundant another to the iPhone XS Max. It is one of the few banal Android accessories and has one of the best cameras on the market. The iPhone XS Max is assault the Pixel 3 XL is abounding categories including its above affectation and SoC, but isn't absolutely as acceptable in the photo department. What do you anticipate about these two phones? Which one will you be getting? Let us apperceive in the animadversion below.

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