Google vs Apple

Google Pixel Xl Vs Apple Iphone 7 Plus.

Sega vs Nintendo, ketchup vs brown sauce, Apple vs Google – all great rivalries of our times. But while one war is over and one depends entirely on what you’re eating, Apple and Google continue to fight it out for smartphone supremacy.

1 DESIGN

Google usually lets someone else design its phones, but the Pixel is all its own work. Saying that, there are some pretty obvious, er, inspirations. Those rounded corners and antenna stripes sure look familiar. The two-tone metal/glass won’t be to all tastes and the placement of the fingerprint scanner on the back divides opinion, but there’s no arguing about the big bezels on the front. What’s the point when Android uses on-screen buttons? Headphone socket removal aside, Apple might not have drastically changed the iPhone’s design since 2014, but we’ll take subtle refinements over a flawed tribute.

WINNER iPHONE 7 PLUS

2 DISPLAY

Both phones arrive at this fight with 5.5in displays… but as any insecure man will tell you, it’s not the size that matters, it’s what you do with it that counts. The Pixel’s 2560x1440 AMOLED panel does make the iPhone’s look a little lacking in dots, even if Apple has made the iPhone 25% brighter than before, with more colours squashed in too. But it can’t quite compete with the Pixel’s pitch-dark blacks and rich contrast, which put it up there with this generation’s very best. In the real world the difference might not be that noticeable, but you’ll know on the inside. And that’s what really matters, right?