torbach1
Well-known member
If battery life is important to you, I'd lean towards the Pixel 2 XL. It's standby time is awesome. The Note has a smaller battery, and terrible standby time.Thank you all for your input (up to this point). I haven't decided yet because I'm apparently in that space where I'm the only one who can decide and I am indecisive about what is most important to me.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this but my highest priorities are split, I want a high quality screen, which means Note, but some have said the pixel screen is good enough. And I value clean software (I'm used to Moto phones), which means Pixel, but many have said Samsung's features can be useful or disabled. My third priority is battery life, although that seems to be a push between these two. I also *think* I'd like the s-pen functionality, although many have said it was nice for a while but now they don't use it.
So there it is . . I was hoping there would be some 'silver bullet' input that made me say 'thats it's, but what I probably need to do is just go down to a store and play around with them (I live pretty far away for any store like that), but what I hate about that is I can never get a good hand feel for the phone because of all the security cabling on them, and it's hard to get an idea of 'usage feel/flow' because it doesn't have my apps on it. . . Wow, reading back on this sounds like a mess and a lot of first world problems, eh?
tl:dr . . Thank you
I recently did an experiment with my S9+ (same battery size as XL 2) and Pixel XL 2. I did exactly the same thing on both phones all day. Same emails, YouTube etc. The Pixel won hands down because anytime I wasn't using the phones, the Samsung drained much more than the Pixel did.
This was also my experience with the Note, except I sold it and switched to the S9+ because the Note's battery was 3,200 mAH and it just wouldn't last me through the day with my usage. Always had to charge it at least once a day.