Editors' Note:This story was updated with the results of testing the issue out on Pixel and Pixel XL handsets. The Google Pixel may be our favorite Android phone, but several customer reports claim the flagship handset suffers from a problem that's making it hard to listen to. In a post to the Android sub-reddit yesterday (Dec. 18), user badmark (who goes by Mark Buckman on YouTube) shared the news that all four of his Pixel XLs (Google replaced the handset each time) and his wife's standard Pixel all emit crackling sound.