66 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 45FEATURE
have to write reviews for a bunch of smartphones with
very similar specs.... Core features are table stakes
now.” Osterloh has a point: The Note 8 is easily the
best phone Samsung has ever made and arguably
one of the best smartphones ever, but its software
is still its weakest link.Android as intended
The Pixel 2 won’t turn heads like the Galaxy S8 or
iPhone X, but it might be the best Android phone ever
made. Not just Android at its purest, like Nexus phones
represented, but the version of Android you can’t get
anywhere else. No one is buying a Galaxy phone for
the Samsung Experience, but Google thinks peopleActive Edge on the Pixel 2 lets you squeeze to launch Google Assistant