This phone is great in terms of speed, size, look, function, camera, almost everything... But the battery is something else. Absolutely horrible. It reminds me of my old S6. Good luck getting more than 3 hours screen on time.

Google has launched its fourth generation of Pixel smartphones, and much has been written about the Pixel 4 XL. I've been using the smaller of the two new Google flagships to see if it can stand up to the competition.

Smooth 90Hz display; Top performance; Compact design; Excellent camera

Atrocious battery life; Motion Sense limited; No more unlimited cloud storage

The Google Pixel 4 adds a second rear camera lens, motion controls, a 90Hz display, and more - but none of it matters when the battery life is this bad

I wanted to love the Pixel 4, but instead I can only bring myself to like it, and if it sounds like I'm being demanding then you may not have been keeping up with smartphones in 2019.

Camera technology is capable of incredible results; 90Hz OLED screens are smooth and beautiful; Android 10 runs fast; Face Unlock is incredibly quick; Recorder app is offline dictation witchcraft

Battery life ranges from underwhelming to just plain bad; No ultra wide camera; Motion Sense feels gimmicky for now; G Suite users miss out on key features; 64GB of storage is miserly

The Google Pixel 4 not only looks and feels great, it has a brilliant camera for taking great photos. This, as with its predecessor, is what really sells the home-grown Google experience.

Great camera performance; Pure Android software; Exclusive smart features; We love the tactile design - especially in Just White and Oh So Orange; Great (albeit small) display

Battery life really isn't its strong suit; Motion Sense gestures add little to nothing; No wide-angle camera; No third-party face unlock support - and no fingerprint scanner as backup

The Pixel 4 is a more or less equal mixture of delight and frustration. It's impressive in all the ways we've come to expect from Google's devices; the aforementioned camera is the unquestionable highlight, and some of the software features are incredibly clever.

Fantastic camera; Smart software features

No fingerprint sensor; Terrible battery life; Low starting storage allocation

The Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are Google's flagship phones for 2019, and we've been testing out the smaller 5.7-inch model over the past week – read on to get our thoughts on all the new features, including that extra telephoto lens, and a super-fast face unlock system.

Another amazing camera; Some cool AI tricks; Face Unlock works really well

Battery life is average; Design is a little ho-hum; Better specs out there; Missing unlimited photo storage

Phew. I certainly wasn't expecting to write this much about the Pixel 4 when I first powered up my laptop this morning. Looking back, my previous pessimistic statements about the Pixel 4 were perhaps a tad exaggerated, and it seems there is indeed plenty to talk about when it comes to Google's...

Best Android software to date; Pixel camera continues to impress; Comprehensive range of new features

Battery life still not improved; No fingerprint sensor or microSD expansion; Potential face unlock vulnerabilities

With the Pixel 4, Google has delivered a great camera boosted with software wizardry. The company's first ever telephoto lens is top of its class (Don't just take our word for it: here are 20 photos taken with the Pixel 4 ).

The Pixel 4's dual rear cameras take brilliant photos and its display's high refresh rate makes navigating silky smooth; The phone will get prompt software updates and its face unlock works really fast

The phone doesn't come with earbuds; it has no expandable storage option and its battery is smaller than the Pixel 3's

Google Pixel 4 is the latest smart phone from Google. The device is also the direct successor of the Pixel 3 launched back in October 2018. It comes with varying improvements over the predecessor, including the use of a little larger display panel, and even a dual rear camera sensors which is the...