The Moon seems to be a different case, and ibreakphotos' clever test exposes the ways that Samsung is doing a little extra processing. They put an intentionally blurred image of the Moon in front of the camera, displayed it on a screen, and took a photo of it. The resulting image shows details that it couldn't have possibly pulled from the original photo because they were blurred away -- rather, Samsung's processing doing a little more embellishment: adding lines and, in a follow-up test, putting Moon-like texture in areas clipped to white in the original image. It's not wholesale copy-and-pasting, but it's not simply enhancing what it sees.

Before we jump into a discussion about the Pixel XL, we wanted to set out our review methodology. We've had the Pixel XL in our office since Friday last week, and this is going out at 12.01 am on Thursday morning. We've had barely a couple of days with the phone between other things, and we think that a phone of this importance deserves more than just a few days before publishing a review. So, this time around, we've adopted a different strategy. First up -- and in today's post -- we're going to do a bit of a first look.