My love affair with the Pixel started with the OG 1st gen Pixel last year. Before that phone, I was agnostic to Android phones. They were just tools to handle calls and text primarily with some pics and data use mixed in. When I got the 2016 model, I couldn't believe how much I loved the UX and I thought there was no way I would upgrade until Pixel 3. I just didn't think there was any way I could like any phone more than that phone, but I was wrong.
The Pixel 2, for me, is that next level in UX and ecosystem. I've always used the Assistant, but it wasn't until the Pixel 2 that I broke open the Google Home speaker that I've had since July and put the mini I got for free to work.
I'm using the phone like no other device I've ever had before. I'm using GA more because of the Active Edge feature and took things up a notch when Lens was made available in GA as well. Case in point, I'm enjoying a late lunch at a rum bar yesterday (don't judge me!). The bartender pours me one of the best sipping rums I've had in my life and I'm not a fan of rum at all. He's telling me the story and brings the bottle down. As he's talking, I hit the Lens on the bottle and grab all the info instantly. He's still giving me the story, and I'm already putting the phone back on the counter.
I'm taking more pictures, more video.. Battery life is incredible and I'm on the Pixel 2, not even the XL. I took the device off the charger at 5:30 a.m. went to a conference for the first half of the day, took a ton of pictures, hit a jazz brunch at 1:00 and took a load of video. It's 6:04 p.m. and I'm at 42%
Honeymoon..???? This device is taking my use of the system up to a greater UX than even what I had on the OG. I'm all the way on board with Google and their vision of computing. It's hard to describe how great the device is to people that don't have it. It's not for everybody and that's okay because Android is about choice.
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? 2 or 2 XL?
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