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shortcuts, which let you swipe from the curved area
of the screen to access apps. The OnePlus 7T has a
Reading Mode that desaturates the screen to make
it easier on the eyes. The iPhone 11 has Animoji and
FaceTime. They also all have some form of water
resistance, though the OnePlus 7T isn’t IP-rated, so we
don’t know how deep you can dunk it. On paper, the
iPhone 11 is the most resistant, letting you submerge it
in 2m of water for up to 30 minutes. (The Pixel 4 XL and
S10+ guarantee a depth of only 1.5m).
The Pixel 4 XL brings something that you won’t
find on the other phones here. Called Motion Sense,
it lets you control parts of your phone by waving your
hand above the screen. It’s limited to snoozing alarms,
skipping tracks, and silencing calls for now, but it works
extremely well and has incredible potential. In a world
of near-homogeneity when it comes to smartphones, I
commend Google for thinking and engineering out of
the box with the Pixel 4 XL.
Winner: Google Pixel 4 XLCamera
The camera is probably the main thing people research
when buying a new phone, and I’m just going to
say it here: each of these phones’ default cameras
will take fantastic pictures out of the box without
adjusting a single setting, despite some differences and
deficiencies, as you’ll see here.
All have multiple cameras, but you’re getting only
two with the Pixel 4 XL (standard, telephoto) and the
iPhone 11 (standard, ultra wide), while the S10+ and 7T
have three apiece (standard, ultra wide, telephoto).