![]() The shot captured by the Pixel 3 feels a little better balanced, with sharper contrast the colors on the icing look a little more true-to-life as well. The colors are a little brighter in the iPhone XR’s shot, but it also has the more jarring lighting. Take this array of multi-colored cupcakes, in which the Pixel and iPhone produce nearly identical shots. Pitting the Pixel 3 and iPhone XR against each other, there’s not separating the cameras on those two phones. You're also able to adjust the depth of focus on a portrait shot on an iPhone XR even after you've taken a photo, thanks to the phone's computational processing skills. That feature captures multiple exposures and stitches them together with the result being photos that can capture details in shadows and show off brightly lit objects. That means no 2x optical zoom, but other features that impressed us when we tested the iPhone XS and XS Max are here, including Smart HDR. The iPhone XR has a single rear camera, too, a departure from the dual-lens setups on the iPhone XS and XS Max. And the Pixel 3 now offers Night Sight, an impressive capability that produces better images in low light. ![]() (Think of it as a way to avoid taking a photo, only to find out that someone was blinking the moment you pressed the shutter.) Super Res Zoom using computation photography in lieu of an optical zoom to reframe an image as a close-up, sharpening details for a crisper shot. Google’s latest phone puts the emphasis on artificial intelligence aiding its single lens, with features like Top Shot in which the Pixel 3 will be able to recommend the best possible photo taken from all the exposures captured by the camera. And the Pixel 3 comes into this battle boasting some serious bona fides when it comes to photography. The biggest battle between the latest phones from Apple and Google comes down to cameras. MORE: 6 Reasons You Should Skip the iPhone XS for iPhone XRĭespite sharper resolution on the Pixel 3 - 2160 x 1080, compared with 1792 x 828 on Apple's handset - and the truer blacks, we think the XR’s brighter screen and true-to-life colors give it the slightest of edges in this battle of displays. The iPhone XR shows off more accurate colors, with a Delta-E rating of 0.28 compared to 0.44 for the Pixel 3. It reproduced 202 percent of the sRGB color spectrum to the iPhone XR’s 123.4. Colors are more robust on the Pixel 3, though. ![]() The iPhone XR registered 589 nits of brightness on a light meter - an excellent result that was well ahead of the Pixel 3’s 401 nits. That means richer colors and truer blacks on the Pixel 3, though LCD-based phones tend to have brighter screens.Īnd that’s something we saw in our testing. While Apple opted for a 6.1-inch LCD panel on the iPhone XR, probably as a cost-saving move, Google's Pixel 3 phone uses a 5.5-inch OLED screen. The biggest difference between these two phones is their screens. By comparison, Apple offers a veritable rainbow of choices with the XR - black, blue, white, coral, yellow and a Product Red version. The Pixel 3 comes in the traditional Clearly White and Just Black options, along with a newcomer, Not Pink. There's a lot more color on the iPhone side of the aisle. MORE: 9 Reasons the Pixel 3 Beats the iPhone XS You also won’t find a 3.5mm headphone jack on either device We found in our hands-on time with the Pixel 3 that it doesn't pick up fingerprint smudges as easily as some other phones. Both phones have glass backs, though Google deserves credit for using a two-tone design that blends matte and glossy textures.
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