![]() ![]() Not least those from Nokia that run Android One, effectively also as ‘stock Android’ as you can get, and yet with prices starting from a quarter the cost of the 3 XL. Given the ubiquity of a glass sandwich form factor, genuinely off the shelf components, including a Snapdragon 845 chipset and 4GB of RAM, competing handsets with similar basic specification are dramatically cheaper. In the UK, the Pixel 3 XL is a whopping £869 inc VAT for the 64GB version and £969 for the 128GB variant. Now, without bundled software and services to help subsidise the phone, you’d expect to pay more for it, and you’d be right. ![]() You build up your software load out almost from scratch, with just the stuff you want included, just the online services you choose. Anyone who has used a Sony, Samsung, LG, or Huawei/Honor phone in the last decade will recognize all of this and there’s a massive ‘breath of fresh air’ factor with Google’s first party phones. At last we can review this properly.Īs I mentioned with the ‘3’, there’s a significant market for Android phones with no manufacturer skin, no bloat, no add-on services to push. Why the delay in looking at the Pixel 3’s larger variant? Because the Pixel 3 XL has been decidedly buggy until a day or so ago, when the December 2018 update hit from Google. The XL involves several design and spec decisions that are well worth talking about. ![]() Having reviewed the standard sized Pixel 3 already here on AndroidBeat, you’d think that a review of the XL version would involve a lot of copy and pasting – but that’s not entirely true. ![]()
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