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1 GOOGLE PIXEL 3

From £739, store.google.com

The Google Pixel 2 wowed us with its camera prowess last year (it’s arguably still the best on the market a year later), so we relished the chance to get our hands on the Pixel 3 ahead of its launch. We wanted to see whether the rest of the phone matched it, and if Google had worked even more magic with the camera.

The Pixel 3 retains the two-tone, matte, softly curved design that was evident on last year’s range. With its aluminium frame, it feels smooth and premium in the hand. The 5.5-inch model that we tried eschews fashion by not including a notch in the screen, but the bigger 6.3-inch Pixel 3 XL does have a chunky section cut out of the display. Both are OLED displays, as you’d expect for a flagship phone like this.

In the hand, the Pixel 3’s screen is crisp and bright, and comes with a larger screen-to-body ratio than the Pixel 2. Despite only being a tad bigger than last year’s model, it feels far