The fact is that Samsung, Apple, Sony, Xiaomi and almost every other Android manufacturer has produced better looking displays.
But given that the Pixel 2 XL was always meant to be amongst the first phones on Oreo, that explanation doesn’t seem adequate enough to me. That’s because Android could only support sRGB till Oreo came along. The company says the Pixel 2 XL’s pOLED display is tuned to a sRGB+10% gamut.
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And this is only accentuated by the undersaturated colours on the screen, another problem Google aims to solve with a software update. That said, that’s still a colour shift, so it’s not a real fix by any stretch. It will make the display yellowish when viewed up front, but it looks whiter from angles. You can turn on Night Light (which is a blue light filter on your phone) and turn its intensity to lowest.
I found a temporary fix for this problem, with Night Light. That’s not to suggest that every phone has good viewing angles, but you can rest assured that all other flagships do. Flagship or not, a phone in 2017 shouldn’t be showing a blue tint from off angles, especially when they’re not even acute angles. Google says it’s working on a software fix for this problem, but I don’t see that helping with the poor viewing angles of this phone. If the Pixel 2 XL is showing problems with burn-in or image retention already, I wouldn’t blame you for not buying this phone.įor me, the larger problem is with how colours are represented on this screen. Yet, it’s an issue Google has acknowledged that will make the consumer uneasy. The review unit I have hasn’t shown the problem yet, despite keeping still images on the screen for hours on end. Let me explain how.Įvery friend or acquaintance who wanted to buy the Pixel 2 XL has asked me about the screen burn-in issue. I must admit that I’m somewhat disappointed with this device, and as it was last year, I’m not sold on many of Google’s decisions.
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And it works in a lot of ways, but if I’m being honest, the Pixel 2 XL for me has been like those TV shows my friends oversold to me before I watched them, building my expectations to perhaps unrealistic levels. It aims to deliver what Google thinks is the best mobile experience you can find. On paper, the Google Pixel 2 XL takes some of the best mobile hardware available today and tries to augment it with software. More importantly, in its quest to provide functional software solutions did Google skimp out on the hardware side of things? After all, the Pixel 2 XL, like the Pixel last year, has been plagued with issues from the get go.
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