Android Advisor - UK (2019-11)

44 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 68



dropping the fingerprint entirely) and the Pixel 4

becomes harder to recommend again. Then there’s

the battery life – unquestionably the worst in any

phone around this price point, and the single biggest

reason that the Pixel 4 is difficult to recommend.

Yes, the camera is absolutely phenomenal (as long

as you don’t care about video or ultrawide) and the

Pixel operating system is still about as good as Android

gets. But plenty of phones have just as good cameras,

and Samsung and OnePlus give the Pixel a real run

for its money on the software side. There’s little the

Pixel 4 does that you can’t find elsewhere, and enough

compromises and irritations throughout – whether in

design, software, or battery – that this phone is only

for the faithful. Dominic Preston

Specifications

• 5.7in (2,280x1,080, 444ppi) P-OLED capacitive
  touchscreen


• Android 10


• Qualcomm SDM855 Snapdragon 855 (7nm)
  processor


• 6GBRAM


• 64/128GBstorage


• Dual rear-facing cameras: 12.2Mp, f/1.7, 28mm
  (wide), 1/2.55in, 1.4μm, dual pixel PDAF, OIS; 16Mp,
  f/2.4, 45mm (telephoto), 1.0μm, PDAF, OIS, 2x
  opticalzoom


• Dual front-facing cameras: 8Mp, f/2.0, 22mm (wide),
  1.22μm,noAF,TOF 3D camera


• 802.11acWi-Fi


• Bluetooth 5.0 with atpX HD