 Hey guys, welcome to Trending Reviews. My name is Umar, so I've just bought the Google Pixel 2 XL and I've just upgraded from the Samsung S8 Plus. In today's video I'm going to be showing you after using my Google Pixel for about five days I'm going to be showing you all of the things that I miss from my Samsung S8 Plus that the Samsung could do, which the Google Pixel can't do. So there's a quite a long list, so hopefully you guys have experienced similar things to what I'm about to show you as well but at the end I'm going to give you a judgment on if the Pixel 2 was actually worth upgrading to from the Samsung S8 overall So let's have a run through some of the points and see how they look There is a lot of things that I miss on the Samsung S8 Plus, so I'm just going to go through and give you a quick run through on all of the features that I sort of regret upgrading for First one is the Edge Apps So I use this all the time and it's just a quick way for me to access a lot of my apps which I use pretty much daily So it's a shame that I don't have the Edge screen like I did on the S8 for the Google phone anymore Second one, I do a lot of running The S8 comes with a heart rate sensor on the back So I can just hold my finger over the flash And it would tell me the heart rate The next one is face unlock So I have set the phone to unlock using my face Now I know Google Pixel doesn't have that But it's something that I've started to use a little bit more So if I give you an example It's on the lock screen, so I'm just going to point it to my face now And there you go, it's unlocked Now the next one is the Edge Lighting So when your phone is down flat It's one of Samsung's Peak features that they outlined when they first released the phone When someone is calling you or messages you the outside edges of the phone They light up a specific color Another thing is the S8 has the headphone jack Now I know the Google Pixel does not have the headphone jack anymore I do use wired headphones quite a bit So I do miss that even though it does come with an adapter, it is a little bit fiddly The other thing is wireless charging Samsung S8 does have a compatibility with wireless charging The Pixel doesn't unfortunately I do have a wireless charger that I keep with me at work But that wasn't Able to be used now that I have the Pixel One other thing on the lock screen For the Samsung S8 When I have always on display If I just quickly Turn that on Now with always on display you can see just underneath there. I have the battery percentage So it's on 77% at the moment Now for some reason The Google Pixel does not display the battery percentage on the lock screens I'm not sure why But it's a limitation by Google Unfortunately, I haven't found a workaround just yet for that But that's something that's very useful and it's just a standard feature. I'm not sure why They haven't included that Next thing, if I get a missed call or a text message that I haven't seen yet on the SA Plus If my phone is down When I go to pick it up, I get a haptic feedback And what that does is it slightly vibrates the phone Once you've picked it up to let you know that you've actually missed something So whether that's a call or a text, that's pretty useful I know Samsung are really good at adding little unique features like that But unfortunately the Google Pixel didn't have that In terms of the the UI I found it a little bit easier to uninstall apps using the Samsung UI here So if for example, I wanted to get rid of an app I Installed so I'll Just press for one second and the menu pops up with an uninstall option Uh, you can do that straight away from there Whereas on the pixel If I do that here if I just go To hold down, I don't have the uninstall option Um, the other way to do it, I guess I have to Go into the app app drawer Find an app that I've downloaded for example Drag it up and put it into the uninstall bin there Now, um One other app that I used to use was to view my gallery So all my photos and videos I'm using an app called quick pic so on the On the Samsung I have quick pic here It's just easy to browse. It's very straightforward and it's super fast now I can get quick pic on the Google Pixel And I found out that There's a limitation for some reason with the pixel phone Uh, specifically with this app Which no one seems to know online at the moment. I've been on various forums Um, all of the text is in purple or pink Um, and there's no way in the settings to change it to white, which it is in every other Uh, version of the app that I've ever had Um, I've only ever seen this on the pixel. So I'm not sure why it's doing that but It's a little bit annoying and um, I've resorted to using a separate gallery app for that instead The other thing, uh, when you get, uh Messages from people you get a number Next to the icon the app icon to say how many messages you haven't read yet Pretty common. Uh, most people have used it all the time So for example, if you guys can have a look here, um under the whatsapp icon I've got, uh, a two so that shows me that I've got two, uh, unread messages I'll just zoom in a little bit there for you There you go. So By default, uh, the google pixel actually doesn't, um Have notification badges, whether that's a number or otherwise Um, and I was quite surprised to find that out because when I was looking, um, online for Solutions on why the badges aren't working. I found out the pixel just doesn't have that option So even though this is the pixel now, uh, I'm using nova launcher And there's an option in the prime version of that to add notification badges So I had to go all the way around just to get that And finally, um, the music player, um, I had to download a third party music player For the pixel When I closed the music player app the music stops playing On the samsung s8 it didn't do that. Um, but equally when the music is playing, uh, I don't get music controls on the lock screen either And I'm sure there's there's ways around to get Uh, a separate lock screen or some widgets or an app to do that But by default it cannot do that which the samsung obviously can Uh, and it's a bit of a shame It's done that but Unfortunately, those are uh, the ways the way things are at the moment. So, um, I do miss those things Um, and I have to give it to samsung for allowing me to realize, um, just how much I would actually miss it By upgrading to the pixel to excel Um, however, there are some things that are better on the pixel which I did upgrade for including the camera Which includes the portrait mode, um, which I really like It has the squeeze feature, um, to open up google assistant Um, you have the pixel buds, um, which allows you to translate other languages by having the headphones in your ears Um, one other thing I really like is the now playing feature on the lock screen And that's quite useful appears there at the bottom um, and lastly the, uh, option to supply power from the pixel to another device So when you connect your phone to usb You can either choose to charge the phone, uh, whether you're getting it from an outlet or or a laptop or a computer Uh, but likewise you have the option to send power back from the pixel to the other device So you're you're charging the other device as well and that's a really cool feature as well. So Okay, so that was a quick run through of, um, all of the features that I miss from my s8 plus Uh, what do you guys think leave a comment below to see if I've missed anything out? Um, or if you still think Uh, the google pixel 2 is far better than an s8 plus Overall, I think, um, it's actually not worth upgrading. Um, there's just so many things The s8 plus can do, uh, which you get used to and it becomes sort of a lifestyle Uh, that the pixel 2 doesn't so for the past few days Um, it's been a bit of a struggle to to live without some of those features. I've just shown you Um, but overall I am quite happy with the phone. Um, it is fast I do have stopped android on there as well Um, and the camera quality I think is far better Um, if you want to see a comparison Uh, of the, uh videos images and audio Check out my previous video. Um, otherwise if you have any questions, uh, about any of the Features that I've mentioned or anything else with the phones then do give a leave a comment below And do subscribe. I've got some more videos coming up. I'm going to be reviewing some of the more latest phones And hopefully see you next time. Take care