But I am not sure it was worth all of the setup time I put in this weekend. A new phone is always a nice thing to have. The iPhone has had that feature for a year or so now and I can’t understand why Google can’t match that.Īnyway, my big takeaway from spending a fair bit of my time this weekend moving from Pixel 2 to Pixel 3 is that not much changed for me. I like using my fingerprint to log into my phone, but I think I would like facial recognition even more. The biggest disappointment for me is the lack of facial recognition on the Pixel 3. I will report back on how that is working for me.

That is another new feature it comes with. I am excited about getting the Pixel 3 to screen my calls. I used to charge my earlier Pixels wirelessly but they got rid of that in the recent models and now it is back. I also bought the Pixel Charging Stand and when I get home, I just put the phone on the stand and it charges wirelessly. One new feature of the Pixel 3 that I am using is wireless charging. I have not noticed that yet but I am also not hugely particular about my phone camera. You just connect both phones with the cable that comes in the Pixel 3 box and in about ten minutes the new phone has everything that was on the old phone.īut getting all of my security set up on a new phone (2FA, passwords, etc) and then logging into all of my apps (because I don’t like to log in with Google or Facebook or anyone else) is a massive pain.Īfter using the Pixel 3 XL for the last couple days, I cannot say that it is a meaningfully different experience than using the Pixel 2. Google has made that as easy as moving from one iPhone to another.

It is drop dead simple to port over all of my accounts, data, and apps from one Pixel to another. I spent a fair bit of time this weekend moving phones from the Pixel 2, which I have loved using, to the Pixel 3 XL.

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