A product is ripe when it reaches its 10th birthday. The Pixel 10 Pro XL is Google’s 10th year of operating under its own brand. Let’s see how much it’s worth buying. We want to review the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL completely. We’ll examine its various parts to see if it’s worth buying or not. What kind of feeling it’s going to give you.

Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Design Review

Its design is a Ugly, heavy, and large design. The XL name is not a joke, and we have Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on the back. Its camera panel is almost the same as what we’ve seen in the last two or three years of Pixels. A one-piece strip that has some good and some bad. The good thing is that it doesn’t slip when you put it on a table. For example, you can consider this excessive protrusion, which is its weakness, as its strength, by putting your finger under it and handling it a little bit of the phone’s weight. There are 3 lenses with a flash and a sensor here and a big protruding style that is cool. That is the Pixel signature that makes it attractive in my opinion.

The phone is covered in shiny aluminum all around, which leaves fingerprints on the back, and you always have to wonder why it is so dirty. Under the phone is the Type-C port and the speaker. On the right edge is the power button and the volume up and down button, or rather the volume up and down button and the power button! Why? Because when you have the phone in your hand, your finger is on the volume up and down button and the power button is on top, and this is stupid! It takes a lot of brainpower to get used to this power. Of course, you get used to it after two or three days. On the top of the phone is the SIM card tray and microphone. The left edge is deserted, nothing special.
One thing that it has is that this phone in the US version has the same problem that the iPhone has caused to its own phones, it doesn’t have a SIM card slot at all, it’s all SIM, and it’s a bit scary that iPhones are like this. Naturally, this only happens to them in the US.
The front panel is no different from last year. The bezels are the same. We have a large and bright display with the selfie camera visible in the punch hole at the top. It has an IP68 certificate. Its resistance has improved a bit compared to previous generations. The phone has become heavier than the previous generation. I don’t know what they put in it. They have increased its 200 mAh battery, which we will get to later. This phone is heavy and will bother you in the long run. You get used to it, but it is heavy.

Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Screen Review

The next section is the screen section. Where we have a 120 Hz LTPO OLED display with HDR10+ that gives you 3300 nits of max brightness. It’s bright! In terms of color and light quality, color accuracy and black depth and brightness are ideal. It is excellent. That is, the display has nothing lacking. It also has very good speed. It gives you two resolution modes. When you enter the settings, you can click on High Resolution and Max Resolution. One is 1080 x 2404, the other is 1344 x 2992.

When you put it on Max, you see a bit of a lag, but it is not so much that it bothers you. Overall, you have a great quality display that has no flaws. Now, the bezels could be a little smaller in this trend of reducing bezels.

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Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Security Review
The next part is security. Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor under the display. The speed is amazing. The speed is okay and the security is complete.
Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Battery Review
The next part is the battery. Where 5200 mAh is the battery capacity of this phone. 200 mAh is more than the previous generation and gives you good charging. 7.5 to 8 hours of screen time means it will charge you for almost a full day. In the Pro version, the charging is a little lower. It does not reach a full day, it reaches it very hard. But this will keep you at least 10-12% charge at the end of the day in normal use, which you can charge and sleep at night and wake up in the morning with your phone full again.

You can watch videos offline for about 20 hours, 25 hours. You can browse Instagram for about 10-12 hours with VPN on and Wi-Fi. You can play Call of Duty for about an hour on 10-15% charge and the battery performance is really great. It can compete with the iPhone 16 Pro Max and S25 Ultra.
On the one hand, it has a 45W charging power that charges about 70% in half an hour and it takes you about the same hour to fully charge. On the other hand, this phone finally has magnetic wireless charging! 25W wireless charging. That is, Qi2 technology that can give you 25W of wireless charging. Magnetic! All those Apple MagSafes have now been added to this phone under the name Pixel Snap. You can test and use Apple MagSafe power banks, I don’t know, gadgets, these cards, anything that has MagSafe here and love it. Finally, a Pixel Snap has arrived. I hope Samsung adds it again. That means everyone should have this MagSafe. I also have reverse wireless charging. Compared to flagships that offer 50-60 watts of wireless charging from brands like Vivo and Huawei, this is nothing, but this 25 watts is really the answer.

Google Pixel Pro 10 XL Camera Review

The next part is the camera section. We have a 50-megapixel main lens sensor, two to 48-megapixel telephoto and ultra-wide. First, let me tell you about the 50-megapixel sensor. First, let me tell you that this phone’s sensors have made almost no difference, except that its stabilizer has improved a little, its vibration reduction motor has improved, no other difference. All the difference comes back to AI. In the chip of this phone, which we will get to later, the part related to image processing has improved, and this phone has put its entire base on AI.
The photos you take with it have a clear and positive feature that their colors are really natural. Compared to the iPhone and Samsung, you can take the most natural colors with the Pixel. The photos you take give you good details, not great. They give you good and great colors and light. They give you great dynamic range. The photos are really good. Even if there are some flaws in the main sensor, those AI tricks will come and compensate for it.
But this phone came at its unveiling ceremony and said that it has a Pro Zoom that can zoom up to 100 times. Its optical zoom is 5 times plus that claw goes into AI, meaning it uses AI up to 100 times. All the photos that are even optically zoomed and have a separate sensor for optical zoom, have no detail, they are soft, and in the zoom process itself, you receive a soft photo. Now, if it wants to take a photo with AI and go to 100 times, it is a photo that captures a state of the environment and starts creating it with AI. That is, sometimes it happens that what you took a photo does not look like what it gives you. Now, when you are finished, you want to see what that structure looks like from a much higher level, for example, it improves it with AI, giving you a clean and clear image without noise and with detail. But if a person is there, it doesn’t understand the face. If there is a text there, the AI ​​will create illusions, it will be fake, it will suddenly come up with a strange text and it can’t recognize the text and the face. But, for example, it will come up with buildings, shapes, flowers, plants, and trees for you with AI. But overall, its zoom will deliver you soft photos even at 5x optical. Its zoom photos are nothing to write home about.

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It has a 48-megapixel ultra-wide sensor, and its 48-megapixel ultra-wide sensor takes clean photos. Sometimes it has noise that is negligible. There is no image distortion or clutter. Night mode photography on this phone is perfect. Because AI is very useful here. In both photography and night videography, AI comes and does the work, removes noise and creates optimal light on the image and you can really take amazing photos with it at night. With good detail, with good exposure, without noise and you can almost say that it is better than the iPhone and Samsung in this department.
It also takes portrait photography, but when you take a picture again, some detail is lost from the face. You can’t expect this on a flagship. Approximately in 10-20% of the cases, you suddenly get a bug in your portrait photos that is strange in separating the subject from the background and this is by the way. But in 80-90% of the cases, portrait photos are clean and clear. It can be a bit annoying depending on the person and the subject, but it’s not so much that it’s too much. I can say that its portrait is a bit weaker than the iPhone and Samsung, but it really does the job for you.
The next part is the video section. 8K has thirty frames per second, which we will leave aside. 4K gives you sixty frames. The videos and their stabilization are a bit weaker than other flagship phones. You can see some vibration in it. It gives you a little less sharpness. Its cinematic modes are a bit dumb. It can’t give you that log mode and these things properly. When you are getting a flagship whose competitor is the iPhone, which is giving you log, giving you ProRes, giving you cinematics, this phone can’t compete with the iPhone in video recording. The videos it takes are good videos, but they are not top-notch.
We have a 42-megapixel selfie sensor. The selfie photos are cleaner and clearer. We are testing one together right now. As you can see, the facial detail is amazing, the colors and lighting are great. The colors and lighting are great, both in the main camera and in the selfie, and you really enjoy looking at the image. The dynamic range is clean and everything is clean.
Well, let’s look at the sensors together. We saw how they work. The camera app itself has some really cool features, one of which is Camera Coach. What does it do? When you frame a photo, it teaches you in four steps how to make it better. It’s not for me and you who are camera and photography nerds. It’s not for me and you who are under 40. It’s for parents so they can take better photos. It’s for that friend with a bad reflex who, whenever you tell him to take a photo, will crookedly and throw it away. But it’s not used much. There are also features that were previously available, such as Best Take and others, where one of you would take a photo and then switch places and put them together. These have their place.
The camera app is a bit complicated. For example, in the settings, you have to spend a couple of hours to see the different sections of the camera app. But it is backed by AI. That means that AI is having a big impact on the process after taking the photo.

Review of the hardware power of the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL

Let’s move on to the next part, the processor part, which also has AI at its heart. Tensor G5! When Google came, he said, “Sir, I want to launch my own Pixel,” 10 years ago in 2016 when it released its first one, Google kept coming up with different processors until finally he said, “Sir, I want to have my own processor, called Tensor.” Why should I have my own processor? Because I own Android. Google is making Android, I have to make my own hardware so that these can sync with each other.
First, he went to make the Tensor G1, which was a waste of time and nonsense, full of bugs, slow, hot, etc., and not optimized at all. Then he went to make a deal with Samsung, saying, “Samsung, let’s build it together.” The same line that Exynos was building, he went around and built Tensor. By this year, he had left Samsung. It went to TSMC and is working with a Taiwanese company. This G5 Tensor is now independent of Google itself.
What happens in it is this. In terms of processing, it does not reach flagship processors. Especially multi-core processing. That is, the multi-core that you benchmark with is almost like a mid-range phone. But when you get a single-core, things are a little better. Now why is this happening? Why does Google say, sir, I will do this? Even at the cost of losing benchmarks. The reason is that the AIs it has, the user interface, the artificial intelligence that exists can be worked more efficiently this way. That is, what Google wants to implement artificial intelligence, it develops on its processor itself so that it can do the job for you cleanly.
This processor has frame drops in heavy games. There is a possibility of performance drops. Its performance is not stable. After 40-50 minutes of playing, you will see that the phone is getting hot and its processing performance is weak. But in the user interface and AI that is happening, everything is clean, everything is clear. So Google said, sir, whoever wants to come after this phone, I will let him play, and I will present the game as well as possible, but let him love the AIs, run in a clear and clean user interface and this G5 tensor will make my work run smoothly. Also, maybe it will do my work cleaner in the G6.

Review of the user interface and artificial intelligence of the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL phone
But let’s get to the user interface. Raw Android 16 with a lot of animation and space-building and icons and animations and really attractive elements. Beautiful design language, a clear and fast environment that gives you a lot of personalization capabilities! You can create different wallpapers. You can take your own photo in 3D, for example, make it your wallpaper, it will blur the background and give it a motion. You can do these tricks. You can use different icon packs. You can increase or decrease the size of all the elements in your control center. It’s all dynamic and attractive to use.
But AI capabilities. Google has made it easy for you. There’s an app called My Pixel here, where all the AIs that exist are explained to you step by step in a video. I’ll tell you a few of its big goals. First, Magic Queue. I’ll start with the latest. Magic Queue has access to all your apps. Your calendar, your email, your messages, it sees everything! When someone comes to you in a message and says, “What are you doing today at 4 o’clock, bro?” It suggests itself to you, based on the access it has to your calendar, based on the email you received that day, based on a message you received from someone the other day and it went and saved in the calendar, a default message will come to you to send to him: I’m going to the gym today at 4 o’clock. You send it to him, you don’t type anything anymore. It will come to Magic Q and do all this for you.

Is it useful in Iran? No. Why? Because we don’t use email like that. We don’t set up a calendar. That is, it’s useful for everyday work, unless you’re very productive and want to calendar everything, send emails, schedule, so that this kid can come and say, “Dada, when is this restaurant booked?” Who books restaurants in Iran? We, who are we to leave the restaurant with this economic situation, with a four-piece falafel, to indulge ourselves, we’ll have five-piece falafel, two breads, with mustard sauce!
We have nothing to do. This is Magic Q. Another feature that is very optimized and really interesting to test on this phone is Pixel Studio. You go and type a text and it will give you a photo. In different genres, different styles, different colors, different models, different shapes, you can type the text in any way you want, and it will give you different modes, you choose and, for example, you tell it a purple frog that is using a Coca-Cola. If you want to create four things right, it will really create it for you. For example, I want to create an AI text in an image: a red spider that is reading the book of Jean Valjean. Dad, stop bothering us!

Let’s move on to the next section. The features in photo editing are now much more optimized. You can separate the subjects of photos as they are, blur the background. You can boost videos. There’s a Video Boost that improves the quality of the video, gives it sharpness, color, light, beauty, and shine. It optimizes the sound. That video boost is really attractive. In the editing itself, in the versions that aren’t in Iran, you can give text to Gemnai to edit your photo. For example, you give her this photo, write at the top that you want to make the sky bluer for me or that you want to remove the cucumber subject from the image, and she’ll do it for you. Now, everything here has to be done manually. It’s a bit difficult. That means your VPN needs to be connected, different IP modes, and you need to consider these things so that you can include these features, such as photo editing.
Another feature that it has is screenshots. A screenshot app has been added to this phone that when you enter it, it sorts the screenshots there, you can categorize them, you can make notes on them, you can add a series of elements to it so that you can use the screenshots you take against the other party one day, you can make it beautiful in a way that you won’t forget.
There are also a series of AI features that are specific to Google itself. You can talk to Gemini live with the Gemini you have, you can ask questions. If you have a problem in games, ask Gemini and he will tell you the solution. Those Gemini features are in place. Circle to Search and these are also there. It also has a number of AI features related to calls and such that don’t work in Iran. For example, if someone calls from an unknown number, the AI ​​will answer to ask who it is, then when you ask, the text will come and you will understand that it is this. If you want, you will answer, if you don’t want, you will not answer. Or, for example, if you call the mobile support, “Sir, my internet is down,” and you have to wait in line for 15 minutes, for example, you call the AI ​​to wait in line for you, and when it’s your turn, it will give you an alarm to go and answer. For example, it has Live Transcription, you can talk to someone in another language, and they will talk to you in another language, and they will call you live. 90% of the time, it doesn’t recognize correctly at all. That is, there are a number of features that are not used for us. I don’t think they will be used for the world either. That is, it is not that useful. But for now, companies’ strategy is to throw AI and software options into their phones by the bucketload. Because there’s nothing else you can do in terms of hardware.

This phone will get 7 years of updates, which makes it attractive. Now, if it works for 7 years, it probably will. Because the materials, build quality, temperature, and configuration are excellent. Unless its processor is lagging somewhere.
Google Pixel 10 Pro XL Speaker Review
And the last part, the speaker performance and music playback section is always. If I had to rate its speaker; iPhone, Pixel, and Samsung S25 Ultra. Its speaker is amazing. That means both the quality and loudness are excellent.

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