[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] CZ Eddie:
I posted this in the Moto X Pure forum but figured it might be useful to people surfing this forum also.

I swear, the Moto X Pure is the best phone to not get enough attention. Bright, loud, excellent bezel to screen ratio and even full ROM support for AOSP.

http://xdaforums.com/moto-x-style/general/google-pixel-xl-vs-moto-x-pure-t3488807#post69337283

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Got my Pixel XL yesterday.

Feel free to ask any comparison questions or buy my two month old mint 64GB MXP listed on swappa. :p

Camera opens up and is focused, ready to capture pictures twice as fast as the MXP.

Overnight deep sleep was 98.6% over 8.5 hours.

Root & TWRP aren't available yet but Chainfire did root his Pixel and is working out some bugs before giving it to the community. TWRP are still working on something with encryption before offering their product up.

The MXP feels just as "premium" in the hand.

The Pixel's volume buttons are a bit more "clacky". I noticed it right away when I grabbed the phone and my finger kind of tapped the volume button and it made a metallic sound. The MXP does this also, but the Pixel does it more.

The Pixel XL is lighter on paper and in the hand.

But unless you have one phone in each hand, you're not going to notice much of a difference.

Though the Pixel does seem to make my running shorts sag down a little less than the MXP when in my pocket.

I'm on AT&T and used my SIM in both phones, one after another.

In the same spot, the MXP got 6mbps down and 0.1 up using Speedtest.net app.

The Pixel got the same download speed but was much faster with up speed at 4mbps.

Could be a fluke, who knows.

My house is a black hole for 4G network and I always have issues here.

I'll copy & paste my screen brightness findings below:

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I just compared my Pixel XL vs. my Motorola Moto X Pure out under the 12PM Texas sunlight.

Turned off adaptive brightness for both.

Set both to max brightness on the slider.

Opened up the same webpage (yahoo.com).

Also looked at my phone contact pictures.

The Moto X Pure was slightly brighter and easier to see/read with direct view.

When looking at an angle, the Pixel XL was easier to read.

Once root is available, I'll install the Brightness Widget and install ElementalX kernel to see how the Pixel XL looks with the brightness pumped up.

If it gives me 10% more brightness then I think it'll probably be just as bright as the Moto X Pure with direct viewing.

The Moto X Pure has ~715 nits according to some reviews and is just as bright as my old Note 4 was.

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Just tested the speakers with my SPL meter.

It's impossible to get accurate readings since the MXP has dual front facing speakers while the Pixel XL has a single mono down-facing speaker.

But SPL volumes when playing back both ping and brown mono tones *appear* to be mostly identical SPL.

My next test was to play a sports broadcasting radio show to listen to voices while the phone was in my pocket. Simulating what I do when I walk my dog. Put the phone in my pocket, crank up the volume and listen to a sports podcast.

Both phones appear to have the same SPL's again.

But the MXP definitely has more full toned voices.

MXP wins the speaker battle as I expected.

Really still trying to figure out why I bought a $900 32GB Pixel XL and put my $295 MXP 64GB up for sale.