Google Pixel XL features a unibody design, with its body made from
aluminum. The back panel has a mix of both – glass on the top and metal
on the lower side. You have a 3.5mm audio port on the top, USB Type-C
port at the bottom flanked by speaker grill. The SIM card slot is placed
on the left panel, whereas the power / sleep button and the volume
rocker are placed on the right. There is also a fingerprint scanner at
the back.
The new smartphones run on Android 7.1 Nougat OS. The user interface
on the new Pixel smartphones feature round icons, and it comes with
Google Assistant AI built-in. You can interact with the Google Assistant
to ask questions such as nearby places to eat and drink, route to
destination, general knowledge questions, ask to add alarms, send texts
and more. To bring up the Google Assistant, just long press the home
button and swipe up on the screen. It also includes contextual search
option, just like you would do it with Google Now on Tap.
Google Pixel XL specifications
The smartphone flaunts a 5.5-inch QHD AMOLED display with 2.5D curved
glass and it is protected with Gorilla Glass 4. At the heart of the
smartphone runs Qualcomm's 64-bit Snapdragon 821 quad-core processor
clocked at 2.15GHz. It also comes with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and storage
options include 32GB and 128GB.
In the photography department, the Pixel XL sports a 12.3-megapixel
rear camera of aperture f/2.0, along with an LED flash. Google has
claimed that DxOMark has given the Pixel XL a score of 89, making it the
best smartphone camera ever. There are camera includes features such as
HDR+ and Smartburst, which allows users to capture multiple photos and
then choose the best one. It also supports 4K video recording along with
video stabilization. What’s more, Pixel owners will get unlimited photo
and video storage on Google Photos at maximum resolution for lifetime.
Up front, you also get an 8-megapixel front facing camera for selfies
and video calling. The smartphone is armed with a 3,450mAh battery,
which Google claims is good enough to offer a talktime of 32 hours and
up to 552 hours on standby mode. Connectivity options on the smartphone
include Bluetooth, 4G LTE with VoLTE support, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, GPS, USB
Type-C and NFC.
Colors Very Black,Quite Silver