Pixel 3 XL review: The big-notch Pixel that proved one camera could beat three.
The Pixel that won on software, not hardware.
The Pixel 3 XL proved Google’s computational photography could beat multi-camera rivals with a single lens. The big notch and ended support make it a 2018 legacy device.
01Display
78/10078/100 trails the 80-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2018.
02Camera
84/10084/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
03Performance
64/10064/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2018 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
66/10066/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
05Build
80/10080/100 puts it above the 77-point average for flagship phones of 2018.
06Value
62/10062/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
- Class-leading single-camera photography with Night Sight.
- Front-firing stereo speakers.
- Dual selfie cameras (wide + ultrawide).
- Clean, fast software.
- Notoriously large display notch.
- 60 Hz screen; no 5G.
- Software ended at Android 12.
- Discontinued.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 9-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .