[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] sn0warmy:
Funny, I've been a LONG time Android user and I've enjoyed the Pixel 2 XL for the past few months. However, I decided I wanted to try something new so I picked up an iPhone X a couple of weeks ago. It took me a bit to get used to IOS, but now that I have, I must admit that I love the phone and it's become my daily driver.

I'll start by saying IOS still drives me nuts in that I can't resize my icons and can't tuck my apps all away into an app drawer. Come on Apple!

Anyway, the iPhone X + IOS 11 experience is very smooth and the UI flows very well in every day use. I wouldn't say it feels 'faster' than my Pixel 2 XL, but IOS definitely feels more fluid than Android 8.1 does on my 2 XL. And the UI feels and looks much more polished than bare bones Android does on my 2 XL. I also find that using the phone to type error free emails and texts seems to be much easier on the iPhone. With my 2 XL (and previous Android phones), using the Google keyboard, I always find myself having to go back and manually fix errors. However, auto-correct on the built in IOS keyboard does a much better job of accurately correcting errors as I type and I rarely have to go back and fix mistakes manually. Because of this, I can type notably faster with more accuracy on the iPhone than on Android. I thought I'd miss gesture/swipe typing that the Google keyboard provides, since it's not available in the built in IOS keyboard. But surprisingly, I haven't missed it at all.

Additionally, the screen on the iPhone X puts the screen on my 2 XL to absolute shame. Side by side the difference is truly night and day (even with 'boosted' or 'saturated' selected in the 2 XL's display settings). Not only does the screen on the iPhone look more crisp and vibrant, but text on the iPhone's screen is significantly more clear and easy to read than the text on my 2 XL screen. I can honestly say that I feel less eye strain when reading long emails/articles on the iPhone than I do on my 2 XL. I didn't think there was anything wrong with my 2 XL screen until I started using the iPhone X. Now it's very clear just how poor the LG screen quality is on the 2 XL. I should mention that the screen on my wife's Galaxy S9 looks even better than the iPhone X, though.

I also find the overall "feel" of the iphone X to be better in hand than my 2 XL. When paired side by side the screen is pretty much the exact same size but the phone feels much smaller in the hand. And it's crazy how much better the taptic engine in the iPhone feels than the vibration motor does in my 2 XL or any other Android phone I've ever used. When a notification or call comes in on the iPhone, the vibration feels much more solid and higher quality than it does on my 2 XL. It's weird how much that small iPhone feature can make the 2 XL feel so cheap, in comparison.

Oh, and wireless charging is amazing. In my nearly 3 weeks of ownership I haven't had to plug my iPhone in once. It's truly liberating. Speaking of charging, I'm not a heavy phone user by any means, so all I can say about battery life is both the 2 Xl and my iPhone can easily last me 2 days on a normal charge.

But, it's not all great. The camera on the iPhone X is noticeably worse than the Pixel 2 XL (or regular Pixel 2). I've taken plenty of side by side shots and the Pixel comes out on top by a rather large margin, every time. In fact, I even made a thread about this over on MacRumors in an effort to see if there was a way to improve the iPhone image quality to match that of the Pixel 2 XL. But the answer is, "there isn't". The Pixel 2/2 XL camera is better than the iPhone X camera. Period.

Here is a link to that thread, in case you're curious: MacRumors Link

With all that said, I do still love my 2 XL (and Android, in general). Once the 2nd dev preview of Android P is released, supposedly with that new gesture based nav bar, I will definitely use that as an opportunity to tinker with my 2 XL again. But for the time being, my 2 XL will continue collecting dust in my office while the iPhone X remains my daily driver.