Google Pixel XL 128GB cell phone combined with Project Fi Wi-Fi it will change the world!

I'm sure the price that I paid was insane at $921 for the whole package which included a soon to be coming VR set (no longer available). My saving off the current $45 monthly cell phone bill with Google Project Fi cell phone plan will pay for the phone about four years and my small business needed something more reliable than the very old Samsung Galaxy S2 with AT&T, with which proved impossible to conduct radio talk show interviews and dropped calls often.

If Apple and Samsung want to send me phones to review, I will be happy to give them a comparison test but that is NOT going to happen. Since I don't give bias reviews for products, no corporation on earth is going to give up a FREE product for a questionable review. This means, ThatCyberSecurityGuy, LLC pays FULL price out of pocket for any product we review, which is fine, but understand that this limits what we can review but does keep our reviews VERY HONEST.

Coverage

I have only had the Pixel phone less than a month but having traveled over 1800 Thanksgiving miles in my car with the phone I can now say that the voice coverage under Project Fi is beyond astounding. I have had former phones on the T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon networks with dead spots everywhere. Verizon had the best coverage but that is becoming an ever-narrowing margin.

Project Fi's coverage with three LTE partners and Wi-Fi was astounding, to say the least. I hiked up, and drove up and down mountains, I tried voice on the phone in the depths of my Mothers and my basement (no other smartphone has ever worked there before), I hiked trails where no other network/cell phone has ever performed, and the Google Pixel Project Fi Network phone never failed. I pestered my wife to keep making calls in former dead spots to see what would happen and ALL calls went through (she got a little annoyed!). I might as well have had a land line connected to the phone. (See https://fi.google.com/about).

GPS Directions

I tried out the GPS, which my wife has with her Samsung Galaxy S4 and I think the Pixel did better with the new Android OS. The Pixel was flawless, giving us bottom speaker directions that were very detailed and easy to follow. It kind of made me mad that I can't complain about how my wife's GPS sent us into fields and that I could follow a written map to a better conclusion. It was nice having it tell me to get into the left or right lane and to prepare to take an exit or to turn a few miles in advance.

Battery Life

The phone purchased from Google did not come with bloatware draining the battery. Therefore, the quick charge battery life is amazing. I have not loaded up the phone with apps but I have installed a few such as Netflix and Hulu. Watching video on Netflix and Hulu is amazing with Wi-Fi. It is a little mini movie theater. I was also going to try out Amazon Prime but Amazon wanted access to everything on my phone, which I was not willing to grant being a private person. I suggest to Amazon that in the future they offer a privacy limited access options.