6 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 68
There’s no notch on the Pixel 4 XL (front),
but the bezel is very much still there
bottom edge, and from afar, the Pixel 4 XL will look
more like a budget phone than a premium one. And
even up close, there’s nothing about it that looks like
it should cost £900.
Around the back you’ll find the phone’s most
obvious upgrade: a dual camera. Like the iPhone
11, the Pixel 4 XL has a giant square camera array
in the top left corner that’s designed to stand out,
particularly in white or orange. However, while the
camera array is very much a fluid part of the iPhone 11
despite its size, the Pixel 4 XL’s camera bump feels like
an afterthought that was tacked on after the phone’s
design was already finished.
That said, Google’s handset has the nicest hand
feel of any phone I’ve ever used. From the frosted
