Android Advisor — November 2017

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 21 REVIEW Geekbench 4 What’s impressive is just how fast it feels in general use. Performance is flaw ...

22 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW GFXBench Manhattan GFXBench T-Rex ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 23 REVIEW Google Pixel 2 Google Pixel 2 XL Price £629 (64GB),£729 (128GB) £799 (64GB),£899 (128GB) Op ...

24 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW snapper, though this time it has the support of optical stabilisation. It has an f/1.8 lens ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 25 REVIEW Video is shot using both OIS and EIS – Google calls this Fused Video Stabilisation – for sm ...

26 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW it’s the best camera on a smartphone, but Google has good reason to be confident. In just a ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 27 REVIEW exposure is well managed: note that the street lights don’t have huge flaring in this shot. ...

28 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW Pixel 2) to make your phone more helpful in real-life situations. It’s fine if you just wan ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 29 REVIEW Daydream 2 It’s little different from the first generation, but using the VR headset with t ...

30 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW or microSD slot. This is where the Galaxy S8 Plus comes in: it’s cheaper and has both of th ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 31 REVIEW H uawei is the biggest telecoms company on the planet, but the brand is still relatively un ...

32 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW and it’s no overstatement to say this is one of the best-looking phones around. It’s also o ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 33 REVIEW millimetre or so and aren’t part of that rear glass, they should continue working even if i ...

34 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW to let in more light than before, but only the 12Mp camera benefits from optical stabilisat ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 35 REVIEW Another oddity is that the Pro doesn’t offer expandable storage via microSD whereas the sta ...

36 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW The 18:9 aspect ratio screen is becoming more common, which is a good thing for the Mate 10 ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 37 REVIEW makes it sound as though the recordings were made under water. It’s a stereo soundtrack, to ...

38 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW There are lots of modes to play with including slo-mo video (which works a lot like the iPh ...

ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 39 REVIEW Photos) and both portrait mode and ‘wide aperture’ mode. The latter is usable with the stan ...

40 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44 REVIEW Performance Huawei uses its own-design processors in its phones and the latest is the Kirin ...