Google Pixel review: Not just the best Android phone ever made, but also the future

It's easy to say that it's a boring time for mobile phones: every company has converged on one very similar design, a sheet of glass, metal and curved edges built around a black rectangle in the middle that shows you an increasingly stagnating operating system. And that's true, but also not, because Samsung's phones are blowing up on planes and literally threatening lives. It's into this strange market of stagnation and explosions that Google has released the first phone it had made itself. The stakes have never been higher – as well as Samsung's worries, Apple is also seeing growth in sales of the iPhone slow – but the opportunity has never been bigger. Google has had phones before, of course.