Google’s Pixel 2 phone offers best of Android – if you can grab one

Main magic of Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL is integration of Google services, but they are quite hard to get, in US at least, as they are available only from one carrier

The Google Pixel 2 smartphone (left) alongside a Pixel 2 XL phone, which come with easy access to useful Google services. Photo: AP

Google’s Pixel 2 is the company’s second attempt at a branded smartphone that it hopes can take on Apple’s iPhone, as well as a variety of smartphones running Google’s own Android operating system.

Yet there is also one big problem with the Pixel 2, which has nothing to do with the phone itself: it is relatively hard to get, certainly in the United States, where it is available only through one carrier, Verizon.

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