Pixel 4 XL review: The Pixel with face-unlock radar — and a famously small battery.
A great camera let down by a famously poor battery.
The Pixel 4 XL took superb photos and added radar face unlock, but its small battery defined the reviews. A 2019 legacy device today.
01Display
82/10082/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.
02Camera
84/100At 84/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among flagship phones of 2019 — 7 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
70/10070/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2019 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
62/10062/100 is one of the weaker battery results among flagship phones of 2019 — 13 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
82/10082/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.
06Value
64/10064/100 trails the 68-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2019.
- Excellent computational photography for 2019.
- Smooth 90 Hz OLED.
- Soli radar face unlock and Motion Sense gestures.
- Clean Pixel software.
- Small 3,700 mAh battery — poor endurance.
- No 5G; ultrawide camera missing.
- Software ended at Android 13.
- 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 167-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .