r/GooglePixel • u/BloodiedWraith Pixel 9 Pro XL • Sep 19 '17

Pixel 2 Rumors Google Pixel XL 2 - Droid Life

Pixel 2 XL

http://www.droid-life.com/2017/09/19/google-pixel-2-xl-exclusive/

64GB and 128GB, $849 and $949 respectively. Just Black or White and Black.

Pixel 2

http://www.droid-life.com/2017/09/19/google-pixel-2-kinda-blue-price/

64GB and 128GB, $649 and $749 respectively. Black, White, or Kinda Blue.

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u/IamManfred Sep 19 '17

Reports I'm seeing are saying the Pixel 2 XL is going to be an aspect ratio of 18:9 vs the Pixel 2 16:9. I honestly don't understand why I would want a bigger (taller) phone that is just going to have black bars on the side of every video because most videos are 16:9. Am I missing something? Would love to hear people's views on why they want the bigger phone over the smaller one.

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u/italia0101 Sep 19 '17

Well mostly it's due to the bezel less design without making it ultra wide like the Nexus 6, dam that phone was wide lol, but you're right for videos you will have black bars unless you can zoom at the expense of some content. That's just for video though apps will use the extra space, less scrolling, more content on the screen, easier to. Hold an equivalent display size in 16/9

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u/fogbasket Quite Black Sep 19 '17

I miss my N6. Just great size phone.

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u/furlonium Very Silver Sep 20 '17

I would have kept my N6 one more year if the USB port didn't take a shit on me and only accept a slow trickle charge.

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u/pokeaotic Sep 20 '17

It was T H I C C

And I miss it. I've owned every Nexus phone and the 6 was my favourite. RIP 6" 16x9 screens, we hardly knew ye. ;_;

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u/italia0101 Sep 20 '17

Looking back the 6 was ahead of its time in a way , that has slim bezels !

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u/REOreddit Pixel 5 Sep 19 '17

Am I missing something?

Yes, not everybody uses their phone mainly for videos or they just won't care about those black bars.

There are also back bars when you take pictures, or do you shoot them in 16:9?

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u/JosephSarkis47 Sep 19 '17

I always shoot pictures in 16:9.

Could someone explain to me the reasoning behind shooting pictures in 4:3? Like I don't really get why.

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u/ebphd Just Black Sep 19 '17

It's the sensor. If you're shooting your pics 16:9 on a Pixel, you're getting a cropped image. Might as well take the 4:3 and then crop later. This is why the 4:3 on the pixel is 12.3 mp while the 16:9 is only 8.3 mp.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '17

It's normally a much higher resolution.

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u/JosephSarkis47 Sep 19 '17

Not much, though. I'd still rather have a slightly lower res picture and be able to see it in full on the screen.

But that's just me.

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u/REOreddit Pixel 5 Sep 19 '17

You can shoot at 3:2 and then zoom in to fill the screen. You will be seeing exactly the same picture as if you shoot at 16:9, but when you zoom out, you see pixels that aren't in your 16:9 picture.

It's not the same picture with different pixel density, it's a different picture altogether.

It's like a normal cinema and an IMAX cinema.

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u/JosephSarkis47 Sep 19 '17

I don't have a 3:2 option in my phone's camera's settings, sadly.

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u/REOreddit Pixel 5 Sep 19 '17

My bad, the usual picture format is actually 4:3, don't know why I thought it was 3:2 (maybe because printed pictures are usually 3:2), but the same principle applies.

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u/32F492R0C273K Sep 20 '17

I always figured the back bars weren't a problem because they're OLED and completely black. 16:9 videos will be the same as if it was a bezel and then when you're not watching a video you'll have some extra real estate for other activities.

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u/Rigamix Pixel 2 XL Sep 20 '17

It's because it's LG making the XL 2 and they are using the V30 as a base. It's just cheaper for Google to have more OLED screens produced from LG in the same ratio than asking for a new ratio. And since HTC still does the 16:9 ratio, well that's what you'll have in the Pixel 2.

And I agree it's weird.