There’s been a ton of controversy over the past few days as Pixel 2 XL reviews come in. Though some reviews are glowing, a number of reviews (here’s one launch point we posted yesterday) are taking the Pixel 2 XL to the woodshed.
Vlad Savov, The Verge:
Look at that New York Times icon in the image above. Stop flinching and really look at it, soak in the kaleidoscope of colors washing over it. Just to make sure we’re all on the same page, I’m seeing a haze of green in the middle of the gothic “T”, which then blooms into a red that eventually transitions into the white that the icon is supposed to be. But the fun isn’t over; when you get up real close, you’ll see the edges of the icon are all fringed by a sort of purply-red and, again, green. The neighboring heart icon, which is also supposed to be white, presents us with a crosshatch of red and green and white micropixels.
Click to Vlad’s review and really get up close and personal with that image. Hard to argue with his logic.
There is probably nothing wrong with the Pixel Phone’s screen. It is being compared to Samsung OLED comic tooklook.
Back in the film days, photographers would argue incessantly regarding film choice and the look of a certain emulsion. Truth was they were all good, just different.
I find it quite odd that premise of the article is that the Pixel 2 XL would be the best phone in the world if only for the screen, yet that exceptional claim is never supported (other than to list all the other things the author is willing to compromise on with the phone). Maybe I shouldn’t try to make sense of clickbait, but it still strikes me as bizarre.
“Best phone in the world”? Really? I highly doubt it, and I think not many people outside of tech field will care for it much.