 Hey guys, welcome to Trending Reviews. My name is Uma and today I'm going to be showing you my new Google Pixel 2 XL and I'm going to give you a comparison with my Samsung S8 Plus So I've been using the Google Pixel for about five days now And I just wanted to give you an overview of how I can compare this with the camera Video and audio quality as compared to my Samsung S8 Plus So let's have a look and let me know what you guys think and we'll get straight into it Okay guys, so let's have a look at this first picture so I went to the local park and I took a picture of the the hills And some of the architecture that is there. So this landscape picture the left one as you can see on the Google Pixel 2 Compared to the one on the right with the Samsung S8 To me it seems like the S8 has a little bit over the edge with the quality here But just to let you know the pictures that I have on the S8 Plus Are turned on with the HDR mode so it does enhance the pictures a bit more However, the one on the Google Pixel you can see a bit more of the sky So you see more of the natural blue shining through some of the clouds there Everything else seems to be pretty much almost the same This next picture is of a little seesaw And again on the left-hand side It's a little bit more vibrant, I guess except the one on the right-hand side with for the S8 Plus To me is a little bit sharper But again, this is not the best image to tell As we go into having a look at some of the different lighting effects Now this next one is one I've aimed directly at the Sun Shining through the clouds Now is a little bit of a variation in the color scheme here So the one on the Google Pixel you can see a little bit more of a sepia kind of filter Coming through with the Sun shining through those clouds The one on the right for the Samsung It seems to be a little bit more natural I see more of the blue in the sky Whereas I see a very tiny faint part of the blue sky on the Google Pixel However, having said that I see more of the grass on the Google Pixel Then on the S8 Plus you see more of the shadows and the darkness Some of the houses are a bit more visible as well on the Pixel Next picture, I actually managed to catch a bird flying past as well, if you can notice there However, the qualities are pretty much aligned here I think the blue sky is almost on point in both pictures You can zoom in and get the same quality for each of the views from this angle Both phones are took pictures in 16 by 9 ratio at the highest megapixel that the phone offers So now I'm going to show you a couple of videos And I have the optical image stabilization on for each of them And let's see how they look So judging by the Google Pixel, it's starting off a little bit more steady I can see that the Samsung is equally a bit more steady coming down the hill Overall, it seems like to me the Pixel slightly is a little bit more steady on the video But again, let's have a look at another video later on Now I'm just having a look at the portrait mode versus the selective focus mode on the Samsung 8 So from the front selfie mode on the Samsung 8, on the right hand side there You can see a bit of the blurring around my glasses on the left hand side And a tiny bit of my hat Whereas the one on the Pixel on the left there, you can see that it's managed to gather the lines perfectly around the shape of my head The glasses, the cap and blurred the background pretty well actually So that definitely goes to the Google Pixel for a plus point there So moving on, a couple of more images I took just walking through You can have a comparison and see what you think stands out a little bit more I tried to take one in different scenarios with trees in the way of the sky Places where there's a little bit more shadow And you can see the vibrance in the water for example in the pond here I also did a portrait mode versus selective focus mode on a leaf in the bushes here I think the Pixel picked it up a little bit better because on the Samsung S8 You can see that the selective focus runs out a tiny bit on the right hand side On the corner there however it's almost similar to the Pixel For both very good quality Now here's a selfie pic with the sun in the background I can see that the Pixel wins here because you can see a lot more vibrance and higher quality in the face as well Whereas it's way too bright in the Samsung S8 And you can see the sky in the background is almost white Whereas in the Pixel you can see actually the blue shining through as well So the front camera is actually doing really well there Now going back to the videos Now here's me just running down a path Just to check the stabilization So you can see from there the S8 starts jolting a little bit more Now I can see the Pixel is jerking a bit more than the S8 It's not as quiet as smooth as I initially thought it was going to be when I first got the Google Pixel Now if I'm being honest I think there's not a massive amount of difference in the image stabilization for both phones I think they both do a really good job But it all depends on the type of activity you're doing to utilize that as well So moving on I'm going to show you some indoor pictures I took So this is of a plant with some lighting that I have in my house Now just to see the colour in I think the Samsung S8 stands out a little bit more vibrant in there Whereas the Pixel seems like more natural colours But again remember I did have the HDR mode on on the Samsung S8 The next picture shows my TV screen with Philips LED lighting behind the screen Now the Pixel stands out much more than this because it brings out the the vibrance in the actual lighting from behind the TV which you can see shining on the walls And now this picture is when the sun has completely set It's a cloudy day from my back garden I can see the sky in the Google Pixel is a lot darker with the blue tint Whereas on the S8 you see the clouds are completely grey Now I think the S8 wins on this one I think that's what more realistically it looks like when I took this photo So it depends on low lighting the conditions and the mode that your phone is on But the S8 wins on that on that front Again this is a shot of the street in front of my house And I think for me naturally it looks like the S8 has got a better photo on this one The Pixel has a bit of a greenish tint to it But overall not too far off from each other Here's one of a tree Now there's a big difference in this one With the Pixel most of the tree is hidden in darkness This was completely at night at night time The only light that you see there is coming from our lamp posts And on the Samsung S8 there on the right you can see pretty much all of the tree With the brightness coming down from underneath It looks more natural and displays more of a real life scenario Okay so let's have a listen to some of the audio recordings from each of the phones I used a voice recorder app on both the Pixel and the S8 Plus And let's see how they both came out So let's start off with the Google Pixel audio recording first So this is the Google Pixel 2 XL audio recording I'm using a voice recorder app to record this piece of audio Now it's been reported quite a lot online by Pixel users Specifically on Google forums that the Pixel 2 XL Audio recording quality is a little bit high-pitched and distorted But let me know what you think in the comments below on the audio quality here And we can compare this with the Samsung S8 Plus Okay so now let's have a listen to the S8 Plus audio recording I use a very similar voice recording app And I've recorded it at the same distance from my mouth to the phone So the comparison has to be pretty much exact But let's see how the results came out Okay so this is an audio test on the Samsung S8 Plus I've seen a lot of good positive reviews online for Samsung's video recording But equally there's been some positive feedback on the audio recording quality On the Galaxy phones So let me know what you think in the comments below If you think this quality compared to the Google Pixel 2 Is a lot better Or if you think you prefer the Pixel 2 then do let me know But this is a good comparison just to see the difference using a voice recorder app As you can see even just from the waveforms right there The S8 wins by far And I know that a lot of people have reported On the Pixel audio quality in general Being poor and high-pitched and that kind of stuff So the S8 quality is far beyond The one that Pixel can do at the moment Which is a real shame because I was hoping the audio would be a little bit better by Google But unfortunately they haven't gone that way But the S8 quality is more vibrant It stands out a bit more And you know you can compare very easily With one of the top-end phones out there In terms of audio So unfortunately the S8 Plus wins on that part But I did have high expectations for the Google phone Unfortunately that didn't happen But hopefully we can see in the future Some better updates by Google on the actual audio Overall if I have to hand it to one of them It would most likely have to go to the Google Pixel I think because the portrait mode is a lot better than the selective focus That's one of the reasons why I got the Google Pixel And generally the quality is almost unparred I mean these two phones are in my opinion The phones which have got the best cameras out there today So I think overall the camera would win on the Google Pixel The HDR sometimes will take better quality pictures on the Samsung S8 But again that's your opinion Let me know what you guys think If you've had both of these phones Which one do you prefer And which one has the better video quality Image stabilization and so on So thanks for watching guys I hope that was useful and I hope you enjoyed it If you liked it please do give it a thumbs up And I'll see you at the next video