{"id":1825,"date":"2018-10-27T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T00:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2018-10-27T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T00:03:36","slug":"pixel-3-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/pixel-3-xl\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel 3 XL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I traded my 2-year old Pixel XL for a new Pixel 3 XL three days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line:  My Pixel XL battery would only last 4-5 hours on a charge, so in that respect the 3 is a big improvement, lasting pretty much all day.  Otherwise the upgrade probably wasn&#8217;t worth the $700 or so net cost after trade in and store credit.<\/p>\n<p>The camera has some cool features that I will probably never use, though I&#8217;m eager to try the night vision feature that hasn&#8217;t been released yet.  But I think that and most of the other software features might eventually be released for the original Pixel too.<\/p>\n<p>Photography experts compare side-by-side pictures and point out how much better the Pixel 3 pictures are compared to almost everything else, talking about bokeh and other arcane stuff, but honestly I can&#8217;t see much difference.  Yes, if I look closely I can see that they are not the same, but better?  Not sure.  I&#8217;ll take their word for it, though.  Again, the night feature might change my mind on that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice phone, and it does what it&#8217;s supposed to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I traded my 2-year old Pixel XL for a new Pixel 3 XL three days ago. Bottom line: My Pixel XL battery would only last 4-5 hours on a charge, so in that respect the 3 is a big improvement, lasting pretty much all day. Otherwise the upgrade probably wasn&#8217;t worth the $700 or so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}