Soldato
My brother got his for his Pixel 2 a couple of weeks back now. Not heard anything from my Pixel 2 XL, but that was a month after the 2, so I guess I have two more weeks to wait.
**** The Official Google Pixel 2/Pixel 2 XL Thread ****
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Soldato
Not great, but I got one off ebay its called screenknight.
Will do until someone makes something better.
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The speakers kinda suck considering they're front facing. I was expecting them to be as good as my HTC One Max but they are quite far from that. Not too bothered tho
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Yeah they aren't quite as good as I was expecting (and not as good as my M8), but they are a LOT better than the crappy bottom firing speaker of my S7E. Much clearer. You're never going to get hifi sound out of mobile speakers though.
Soldato
Guessing Pixel 2 and not XL?
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Razor phone apparently has really good audio but sadly the rest of it makes it too much of a compromise for me.
I found the sound on the iPhone 7 to be really good - it used the bottom speaker and the earpiece and produced really clean and bassy audio. Really surprised me.
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I thought the only compromise was the camera? Even then the camera wasn't too bad
Soldato
Correct, yeah. Hadn't realise the question was specifically about the XL. Sorry!
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Sorry mate for me. Razor is too big as well, I also personally dislike the 18:9 ratio.
Good thing it's 16:9 then.
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Picked up a Pixel 2 from Carphonewarehouse at the weekend, some indecision over which model to go with actually finding both quite visually appealing but went big in the end and with all the negative reports floating around it felt like a bit a gamble. Two days in and it's good, happy to report no hardware issues at all. Love the feel of the device and in particular the coating on the rear, zero complaints about the screen or the muted colours, now thinking I was wrong to prefer the saturated punch of other displays. Of course no complaints about the performance. Only niggle so far is the absence of the stereo jack and the colour of the included adaptor, black phone and my black headphone cable - connected with a big chunky white cable.
Currently have a U11+ on it's way from HK, it's going to have to be something special to replace this one.
Currently have a U11+ on it's way from HK, it's going to have to be something special to replace this one.
Soldato
I just got a pack of three adaptors to convert my existing usb cables to usb-c. Seem to work well and fine for topping up at my desk or in the car.
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Ah. 5.5" too big for me though still.
Soldato
Same. I got a pack of 3 Anker adapters when I got my XL last year, think it was around £2 or £3, they've done a good job. I think I'm limited more by the micro usb cables that I'm using rather than the adapters.
On another point, contrary to what I wrote further back about only using the Saturated profile, I've now moved to boosted and it's so much better especially for videos and photos. Yes some of the app icons look 'washed out' in comparison but it's totally worth it for all round media consumption.
Soldato
Yes, the adaptors are doing a good job so far.
I use boosted as well. It's a good compromise!