![]() ![]() The power button on the white Pixel 3 is mint green. ![]() The Pixel 3 can also charge wirelessly at up to 10w, which is a little slower than via cable but still faster than some phones charge from their bundled chargers. ![]() It’s possible that over the next couple of weeks battery life may continue to improve, although it is unlikely to be by vast amounts.Ī full charge via the included 18w fast charger took 101 minutes. Part of that is undoubtedly down to the Adaptive Battery technology in Android 9 Pie that learns your usage pattern and limits power to apps you don’t really use. That was with consistent use as my primary device sending and receiving hundreds of emails, messages and push notifications, listening to five hours of music with Spotify on Bluetooth headphones, watching 30 minutes of Netflix and shooting about 10 photos a day. A couple of days later it scrapes through 24 hours, meaning it would make it from one morning alarm to the next without charging after a week of testing – the bare minimum that is acceptable in 2018. The Pixel 3, however, has been gaining around 10% of battery life each day over the last week, starting with poor 15-hour battery life that wouldn’t get through to bedtime. Normally smartphones stabilise to a fairly consistent level after a couple of days of first starting them up. It’s not quite as brutally rapid as the OnePlus 6 in operation, simply because the animations play out for longer, but it’s easily faster and slicker than any other Android device.īattery life for the Pixel 3 is a moving target. The whole system, from switching apps to pulling up the camera, has a level of polish only matched by Apple’s iOS on the iPhone XS. While it might lose in a game of Top Trumps, it’s not noticeable in daily use because the Pixel 3 is so buttery smooth in operation, with top-notch gaming performance too. The Pixel 3 only has 4GB of RAM, compared with 6GB or even 8GB in some top-end Android competitors. The Pixel 3 has Qualcomm’s current top-of-the-line processor, the Snapdragon 845, as used in the OnePlus 6 and most other current flagship smartphones, with the exception of the UK versions of Samsung’s S9 and Note 9 and Huawei’s phones, both of which use their own-brand chips. The sim slot is in the bottom next to the USB-C port. Processor: octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845Ĭamera: 12.2MP rear camera with OIS, dual 8MP front-facing cameraĬonnectivity: LTE, wifi, NFC, esim, Bluetooth 5 and GPS There’s no headphone socket to be seen, but the camera only sticks out the back less than 1mm. The bottom of the phone has a USB-C port and a sim tray, while the right side volume button is joined by a mint green power button. There are no other biometric security options, such as face unlock, despite the Pixel 3 having two front-facing cameras. In the centre of the back below the glossy panel is a fingerprint scanner as good last year’s. The combination feels wonderfully smooth and luxurious in the hand. The frosted bit is etched glass, which is super smooth, but is surrounded by polished glass and coated metal sides that aid your grip. Gone is last year’s coated aluminium back, replaced with two-tone glass. The two-tone back is one continous slab of Gorilla Glass 5, with one section etched and the other polished. ![]()
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