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At the end of this Summer, I started looking for a new smartphone. I bought an Essential PH-1 right after the release, and that was quite a weird buying experience. I ended up returning it and described my thoughts in <a href="https://hackernoon.com/not-so-essential-phone-ddcab1bb1f75" target="_blank">this article</a>. I waited for the release of the new generation of Pixel phones from Google and bought a Pixel 2 XL at the beginning of November. I’ve used it for almost a month now, and you will learn my honest user experience if you read the article below.