ISSUE 66 • ANDROID ADVISOR 65BUYING GUIDEyou don’t get a photo where people have their eyes
closed and are smiling properly (or goofing around,
but it works well).
Along with this is Super Res Zoom where the phone
can detect your hand shaking while using digital zoom
and corrects the photo accordingly, mimicking what
you’d achieve with a second telephoto lens. It works,
but it’s not as good as actually having a second lens.
Whether or not these sorts of features are
gimmicky depends on how long you end up using
them, but just like with the previous two Pixel
generations, using the Pixel 3 XL simply made us
take more photos with our phone.
It’s noticeably better than the iPhone X and
dependingonyourtastes,thenewerXS.TheHuawei
P20Promightjustedgenight‑time photography still,
but Google is promising its own mode Night Sight in
a software update soon that could change that,
The 3 XL continuously chooses the right balance
of colour and contrast and can handle light amazingly.
You won’t be disappointed, and you get unlimited
GooglePhotostorage.
Thedualfront‑facing cameras are an interesting
choice,allowingforwideangleselfiesandmulti‑
face detection to keep everyone in focus. Aside from
this there is no immediate advantage to having two
lenses – and you get them both on the regular Pixel
3 without the notch, if the notch bothers you.
Software
Older Pixels and the Sony Xperia XZ3 already have
Android 9 Pie but, of course, the Pixel 3 XL ships with