The Ultimate Google Android Comparison.

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of all Google smartphones since the inception of Android with the T-Mobile G1. This phone is actually a partnership between Google HTC and t-mobile and from some perspective it came out a year after the first iPhone. Google was already late to the smartphone game and in some ways the t-mobile g1 had to be better and sadly most would agree that it wasn't at all. Packaging is a two-tiered affair, we are talking about an era when buying a smartphone. It was a great deal, so in the top half you get things like some old looking headphones as well as a mini USB cable, even before the micro USB which is about to disappear, now there's also a t-mobile pouch and, To be honest, the bottom half is an even more extravagant t-mobile g1 CD containing the user manual and some really interesting looking stickers.

You have to remember that Google was designing this before they knew about the iPhone, so it's built like a lot of the not-so-smart ones. phones that came before, like the first Blackberrys with the slide-out keyboard and shipped with Android 1.0 before Android versions had nicknames. I also want to thank ez skins for sponsoring this video, but we'll get to that. Google's first phone did a lot. true, but the second smartphone was a big leap towards what we know today. I should clarify at this point that it was a long time before Google started building its own hardware and therefore, for its first smartphones, it nominated another manufacturer to build for them in this case.

HTC, so inside this box again, Google put a bag which was a much more common way to protect your phone back then, we still had the same mini USB cable and a headset. This is much simpler packaging than last time and one more thing. It's a completely standard removable battery at a time after its first phone, which had many relics of the non-smart era. When this came about, the company had a much better idea of ​​what the smartphone should be, so with the HTC. Magic, they ditched the physical keyboard and opted for a slimmer, smoother chassis plus Android 1.5.

This combination of being more portable and having a better screen meant that the phone didn't make as many waves as this guy because yes, Google moved away from HTC. to Motorola to launch Android 2.0 Eclair, the packaging is unlike any other Google phone and the same could be said for the device, this is quite strange, oh and the Droid was the first Google phone to use a micro USB, the Droid is tough with his aggressiveness. design its top-notch specs and premium materials, we're talking about a screen with a resolution of 854 by 480, this was class-leading at the time and instead of Motorola's not-so-great UI, you'll get a simple Google experience. 2010 era Android was booming in popularity, but the only problem Google faced was that each of these manufacturers that made Android phones like Samsung were loading their own third-party interfaces on top of Google's to the point where software based on Google was almost unrecognizable, so Google introduced Nexus which they partnered with.

HTC again to make the Nexus One pure Google software and sold directly by Google online, we have a small thermal top and below we have the back, we have a bag with the original Android logo, the Nexus One. was a beastly phone, it was a good start for Google's new line, they used a first generation Snapdragon chip and it absolutely worked and more importantly the phone received an update that gave it multi-touch, finally this was a small thing but also Huge for Android. We take it for granted now, but everything from zooming with the camera app to finding a location using Google Maps takes advantage of this, which is why this was a great phone.

It's a shame sales didn't rule out the idea of ​​paying full price. a phone without a contract without being able to test it first, as people were used to in stores, it sank like a lead balloon also in 2010 we saw t-mobile's successor to the g1 that started it all, this is the t-mobile g2, a thing for What I know is that they completely redid this hinge mechanism and I have to say I like this one, although since it wasn't a launchpad for one of Google's new Androids, we'll move on; In fact, 2010 was a crazy year for Google.

Not only the year the original Nexus One came out, the year of the t-mobile g2, but also the year the Nexus S came out as a successor to the Nexus One, I now realized that having an S on a phone today in day is associated with a very small increase. but this was a completely new phone, very similar to the Nexus 2 and that in the name means that instead of working with HTC, Google had changed some and you can see that it has a Samsung Super AMOLED panel, the typical Samsung plastic finish that they used in the Time and companies also curved slightly.

This was the way Google showed off its new Android 2.3 Gingerbread. It seems like Google learned a lot from their mistakes with the Nexus One because they completely made sure it could be purchased in stores as well. It was a big improvement, but what came next really shook things up. 2011 was the year Samsung launched its all-singing, all-dancing Galaxy S2. They had pretty much the best screen you could get on a phone and a dual-core chip that blew away the single. previous flagship phones, this would have been a problem for Google if they hadn't decided to collaborate with Samsung again for the Galaxy Nexus, which is Samsung's Galaxy merged with Google's Nexus and at this point Google has greatly simplified the packaging of these phones, becoming the phone you don't really get much more, no bags, no CDs, but it's good to see we've got some half-decent headphones for the first time, emphasis on half, so this phone in a way It was the best of Samsung and Google.

It was one of the first phones not only with a Super AMOLED panel but also with a 720p resolution. Plus, aside from the mediocre camera, it was very complete and came with possibly the biggest Android overhaul yet. 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich here now had a completely new visual identity focused on the holo theme new fonts new home screens new icons everything and quality of life improvements across the board things like being able to place icons on top of each other to create folders and being able to dismiss notifications with a swipe of the cherry The best thing here was that the Galaxy Nexus came in at $399 compared to $529 for their last phone.

When have you seen that happen? It gets stranger because the year after Google partnered with LG for something even more affordable, the Nexus 4 at just $299 was a phone good enough to make people jealous, it has glass on the front and back. back in a way that I instantly loved. It was also, in my experience, the first Android phone that was completely lag-free for two reasons: it shipped with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean for which Google pretty much focused on performance with a scheme called project butter and this is one of the few phones with the Qualcomm s4 pro chip, which was a big win for both Google and Qualcomm for the first time in the history of the Android experience. catch up on the Polish iPhone experience after a top-notch collaboration with LG.

Google continued this with the X's 5 and it wasn't as big a statement as the Nexus 4, which cost $50 more, but it was a very good iterative update. So compared to the Nexus 4, the phone increased the screen size from 4.7 inches to 5 inches and brought the practically god-level Snapdragon 800 chip to a still affordable price. The only criticism was that its camera is easy to forget given its quality. Pixel cameras are the cameras that used to be one of the weaknesses of Google brand phones. The Nexus 5 was also known as the KitKat phone, being the launch device to use Android 4.4 KitKat and for me one of the most important things here was the immersive mode.

Suddenly, developers could use every available pixel on their device by hiding the navigation keys while all this was happening around the time of the Nexus 4 on the Nexus 5. Google had bought Motorola and the Nexus 6 was the first fruit of this. Big, on the one hand, this was easily the most enjoyable software experience Android has ever seen. Android 5.0 lollipop secured on the basis of material design that is still used today, bright colors and subtle animations that made it feel instantly modern, it's just the hardware itself with a Nexus 6 was a little less appreciated with a screen of approximately 6 inches, fleshy bezels and a thickness of 10.1 millimeters.

It was a tough sell for anyone without big hands and even at this size the battery life wasn't great, it would have been a lot easier to swallow. if the price hadn't also skyrocketed from about $350 to about $650, but look at the size difference just as a quick reference point Nexus 5 Nexus 6 the size difference is crazy, it was at this point that Google's strategy started to change 2014 was the first year they had a two device launch strategy and this is something they have maintained ever since due to their past success with LG. Google turned to them again for its lower-cost Nexus 5x and top-tier phone.

They brought a new Huawei player to build the hardware of this phone. Well, let's look at the 5x first and I have to say that this year Google really improved the packaging. This presentation is much more elegant like a Nexus card. above, which also doubles as an instruction manual, plus this was the year of us BC, which at the time had some people scratching their heads, but has stood the test of time, the Nexus 5x was an exciting phone whose price was noticeably limited with its 1080p LCD screen, but at the same time, at $379 for an excellent Snapdragon 808 chip and clean Android 6 Marshmallow software, people were happy that the 6p was a little more polarizing.

I was bad, apart from being a little hot when opening the package, it's okay, it's more the design of the phone. people had a problem with it it was criticized for looking like something out of the show Futurama although to be honest I don't hate the way the aluminum joins the glass on the back, it was new but it allowed for better signal transmission, plus a Google home. The best camera yet by far, it's also something of a stepping stone towards the two-tone design that Google ended up adopting for the Pixel phones and this phone is a great example of how Google is not only experimenting but learning from its past mistakes. compared to the Nexus. 6 this was much more manageable, a smaller display panel, thinner glasses and a thinner body, finally the time came for the Pixel, the first smartphone designed and developed by Google and it never made it clear specifically why they made this move, but I was able to make a good guess. controlling both hardware and software, Google could guide the markets, show other manufacturers how to make Android feel better, but also introduce a little more competition to pressure companies like Samsung to make even better Android phones and also just sell hardware and getting people to buy a Pixel locks them into Google's hardware ecosystem and encourages them to buy things like Google Daydream Chromecast and Google Wi-Fi anyway, the phone itself was good, it was good and it can definitely be To say that Google has found its groove when it comes to presentation. and if you look inside the box you can see that everything is a little more seamless than with the Nexus line and Google also started including an adapter to let you quickly switch from your old Pixel now that looked and felt different to any previous Android .

I'm definitely treading the line of looking a bit like an expensive toy but you can't argue that the build quality wasn't great and now there was no compromise with the camera, the pixels were delivered with the HDR plus mode and I'd say This was one of the most important advances in computational photography in the history of smartphones from the time I started using this feature. I was instantly connected to the phone. The results in photographs of dark and bright areas were well exposed. Also, on a software front, the Pixel Launcher was a I love using uniform circular icons, buttery smooth animations, and Google's response to the iPhones' 3D touch, and I really liked how the company offered quality unlimited storage. total.

If you bought one of these phones, this has never been done before, considering how exciting that first Pixel company was. was that their sales got off to a bit of a slow start when it comes to phones, people stick to what they know and the Pixel was just the new kid on the block, it had toprove itself: it sold around 3 million phones in the time that Apple sold around 20 million iPhone 7, so they tried again, the Pixel 2 came with better materials, this kind of matte finish on the back , which people liked, had a dual front speaker and an even better camera, and it still didn't make the sales numbers stand out.

It's a bit of a misconception, although no one buys a pixel, therefore the pixel is a failure, but you have to remember that Google is new to making phones. Very few of these companies are instantly successful. B. Google only sells two versions of a phone right now. point compared to Samsung which has like 50 models a year and Z, many Google phones are not available globally, many regions covered by their competitors are not part of Google's plan that takes us to the pixel 3, you may remember this. photo and you saw it about five months before it was introduced, it was actually the most leaked phone at the time and there were two reasons to start with the leaked design because I guess too many people were involved in it, but then there were still two .

Months before the launch, a Russian phone distributor called Binh Shop managed to obtain the actual devices and they began selling and distributing them in Russian media, so of course at this point everything was leaked anyway, the phone when it finally was released was quite well received, of course. even better than the previous pixel two, but I remember not attending the launch event for all three simply wishing Google had made it a little more balanced, for example taking the standard. Photos with this camera are amazing, especially at night with the introduction of Google's night vision mode, but if you wanted to take a video or use a zoom or ultra-wide camera, you were missing important things like battery life and storage, they also took a backseat and Once again, the Pixel Three isn't a sales marvel, but in 2019 Google did something different and I think this could be its best decision yet, aside from its flagship phones. 2019 is the first year they also launch a lightweight phone, in this case the Pixel. 3a is a really good phone and in some ways I feel that Google's software advantage over other companies lends itself well to creating a great mid-range phone better than a flagship;

They can convert a mid-range processor and a mid-range camera. hardware in a film that is fast and can take photos that rival flagship quality. All three could be the start of something for Google. Its launch completely changed its hardware sales from being down in previous years to up and I can't wait for the next one and that brings us to the pixel, and while I don't think this is the most competitive company Google has ever created, I will say that I love the design direction Google is taking in the matte finish they have on all sides. the sides, the mouth finish they have on the back in the other color variants, it makes the phone much easier to maintain anyway, let's get to the

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, so the process of setting up so many phones from so many generations It was good to call it long.

It would be a euphemism. I faced what seemed like every problem I could have, the phones were so old that they were no longer compatible with phones that lacked the security to log into your Google account, for which I had to create a special account only. access codes and direct, unexplained errors, it's almost embarrassing. I spent all night on this, but the satisfaction when I was done when these phones were ready to test was unreal. We'll take a look at this. We'll quickly start by unlocking. each phone to show how the type of visual design has changed over time and to start where there was something as simple as tapping the Menu key and that was it, and this evolved into the swipe mechanism that Apple claimed Android stole from them, so Google then switched to a lock that you had to drag to the edge of a circle to unlock and then from 2012 onwards Google stuck with the simple swipe up, they slightly adjusted the animations when you unlock but the concept of this remains the same.

The only major recent change was with the Pixel phones, where they introduced live wallpapers that then start animating when you enter. This is a nice touch. I really like it. Anyway, it gives some life to the phone. One of the main reasons we all have these phones together is so we can compare performance, so I opened the Play Store on each of them or at least all the ones that supported it, the Nexus One in 2010, and behind That's why none of those phones got the Play Store. Stuck in the Android Market, which no longer works, but you can see how the place evolved over time.

Anyway, I will benchmark and for this I will use the Pass Mark benchmarking tool because it is one of the only benchmarks that still supports older versions of Android, even then it still won't work on those first three phones because they run very old versions Android, but we can extrapolate the score for those phones based on what we know about the power of their components anyway, looking at how this performance figure increases. The years are kind of fascinating, you'll see that in 2011, a big jump, 2012 again, a big jump between 2012 and 2010, which is like a three times performance difference and it continues to increase until 2015, where we have a bit of an unusual drop, This is because the Nexus 5x has an upper mid-range chip and the larger Nexus 6p had the Snapdragon 810, which was famous for overheating, but then this pixel performance skyrocketed, with the latter in particular the pixel for being far ahead of the rest and as always.

In this series, comparing the first with the last, there is a 130x performance increase in this benchmark, at least now, just before the camera test. I just want to quickly show you what ez skins is all about so I've dropped a color changing chameleon skin. on our pixel 4 and just for comparison, another one of their skins on the iPhone and this is one of the most affordable ways to get a new look and scratch resistance, as long as you install it correctly, even on the edges, which They are usually super delicate wood skins, they look really.

Well yes, and it's all made in Britain, but with free worldwide shipping, there's no full camera testing and in fact, while we're here, you can see each of these phones lined up with the back facing above, there's one thing I would say I generally think about. The design has gotten better every year, there are a couple of exceptions, a couple of strange decisions, but I like the direction Google has gone and their Pixel line, especially, is a huge leap from what came before. Now I still have the problem of how exactly I was going to carry 15 phones together to do a camera width test and decided to use it, well it's actually just a box anyway, the way I like to do these comparisons is by starting with a photo taken with the first phone and then go through the years taking the same photo with its successes and seeing how the HDR, how the colors, how the contrast has improved over time and then, right at the end, once we have them reviewed, it will go back to the beginning, so this here is t-mobile g1 on the left side and Google pixel four on the right, we'll try again with a different set of photos and see if you agree with me here.

I think Google's biggest improvement happened with the Nexus 6 in 2014 and after. The camera has had a lot of new modes and features, but the base image quality hasn't changed too much, of course, comparing the former to the latter is a big difference, but maybe not as big as I expected, where You'll see a huge However, the difference is that overnight we see barely improved phones in this category. It was almost like an unattainable feature to be able to take bright photos at night for many years until nitesite came along and pixel to pixel 3 and pixel 4 are way ahead. the rest, comparing the first to the last here, it's literally night and day with selfie cameras, the first four didn't even have one and then after these pretty subtle improvements over the first few years I'd say the biggest jump came in 2015 with the Nexus. 6p after this of course the pixels were a little better and with the latest Google pixel the standard main front camera had a wider lens to fit more people, so every Google smartphone is a big thank you to the simple masks for making everything possible.

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