Pixel 2, XL hands-on: soft sides and a souped-up camera

Google's new pixel phones, the pixel 2 and pixel 2 XL, area unit able to conclude against the iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and LG V30.

The smaller-sized pixel 2 includes a 5-inch OLED screen, whereas the larger pixel 2 XL comes with a 6-inch show. These 2 android oreo cookie phones area unit Google's high-end devices for the leadup into 2018, and so far, we have a tendency to like what we have a tendency to see.

In some ways that, the pixel 2 phones buck today's biggest trends. they do not have super-thin bezels and dual cameras just like the competition (but Google says it's tech's so smart, it only needs one camera anyway). In alternative ways that, the constituent 2s work right in with the newest crazes, by adding water resistance associated showing off an uncommon additional -- during this case, soft sides. They conjointly shake off the earpiece jack, a dissentious move that upsets many individuals.

These Pixels are the primary phones to launch with Google Lens, a camera feature we have a tendency to beloved after we 1st learned of it back in could.  (They're not, however, the primary to launch with Oreo OS; that is the Sony Xperia XZ1.) 

To Google, the new Pixels' most vital feature is that the camera, that may be a vast shopping for issue for several. constant camera seems in each the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, and Google hopes it will high the best-in-class low-light photography of last year's pel and beat out the fine-detail quality and portrait modes of phones that have 2 camera lenses. All whereas doing the work with only one camera -- that is right, neither of the new phones have twin cameras.