Google Pixel XL review: Android’s true standard bearer, with a price tag to match

Critic Rating 3.5/5 Top Features * Google Assistant

* Great camera

* Blazing fast performance

From the original Nexus One to last year’s Nexus 5X and 6P, Google’s signature product line-up has had some really great devices. But it’s time to look ahead. With some Android OEMs going modular and others doubling up everything from cameras to displays, it was about time that the Nexus brand got a revamp as well. And it did, as Google recently introduced the world to its new vision of what the ‘perfect’ Android smartphone(s) should be, naming that vision – Pixel.That’s right. The Nexus line-up is gone, and Pixel has taken its place. The two smartphones that the series includes – Pixel and Pixel XL, are Google phones through and through. This means that their entire experience, including hardware design and software, is exactly how Google intended it to be. Not just that, the Pixel duo come loaded with quite a few software-based smarts as well, including the much-talked about Google Assistant. In summation, these two smartphones have been tailor-made to be the standard bearers of Android and carry forward the legacy of Nexus devices. But the million-dollar question is, can they?We put the bigger of the two Pixel siblings, the Pixel XL, through our extensive testing routine for a few days (and nights) to find that out. So, is the Pixel XL indeed the true Android flagship that we’ve been waiting for? And even if it is, at a hefty price of Rs 67,000 (32GB storage variant), does it even matter? The answers await on the other side of our full Google Pixel XL review. Read Full Review