This phone's performance has yet to stutter. No, this is not the 2020 flagship processor you'll find in competing phones, but I haven't found that to matter one bit. It makes the entire interface feel buttery smooth and responsive, but that's also thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor powering it (and the 8 gigabytes of RAM). Like the Pixel 4, the screen supports a 90-Hz refresh rate, something you won't find on the newest iPhones. At least it did on the one non-overcast day we had here in New York. The screen also gets plenty bright enough to read outdoors. Paired with the slim edges around the screen and a single, unobtrusive hole-punch selfie camera on the top left, it's chef's kiss. I'm pro–dark mode, and I'm always in awe of how inky black it looks on OLED panels like the Pixel's. Handy when you want to juice up your wireless earbuds, or even a friend's phone.Īnother treat is the display. It's something we've seen before from the likes of Samsung and Huawei: Pop another device that's capable of wireless charging on the back of the Pixel, and voilà, it will siphon power from the phone. Speaking of charging, one of its other new tricks is Battery Share, informally known as reverse wireless charging. I'd love to see more phone-makers ditch breakable glass for this approach. Well, it cut a little hole in the back of the phone, right over the coil, and. You might be wondering how Google got wireless charging to work here, considering the tech usually doesn't play well with metal. The aluminum has a soft-touch coating that feels nice, and the "Sorta Sage" color looks like speckled, minty toothpaste. That's also one less part you need to worry about shattering (if you're still concerned, I like this eco-friendly case). What's just as nice is that the back of the Pixel never feels grimy or littered with fingerprints, because it's 100 percent recycled aluminum instead of goop-grabbing glass. It's super lightweight, and I can wrap my entire palm around it. This 6-inch device is not as small as the Pixel 4A or the iPhone 12 Mini, but it's nowhere near as ginormous as most other phones today. The next best thing? How it feels to use it. Point is, you won't be hugging a charging port every few hours with this phone.
Driving home the point is a new Extreme Battery Saver mode that shuts down Wi-Fi and pauses apps (you can un-pause certain apps) to give you up to 48 hours of additional juice.
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If I play Genshin Impact for too long, we can shave that down to a full day. The new phone has a 4,080-mAh capacity cell inside, and it easily lasts through a day and a half of average use. The batteries Google stuffed in previous Pixels are criminally small, but this shortcoming has finally been addressed with the 5. But it's painful watching her plug it in to recharge two to three times a day just to keep using it. All of those kinks and quirks are gone on the Pixel 5. Every prior Pixel has had one major compromise that bogged it down, like inadequate battery life on the last two models, display quality issues on the Pixel 2, and zero water resistance on the original. Google even took out its Face ID–rivaling authentication and stuck the tried-and-true fingerprint sensor on the back.Įven though Google has played it safe this year, it's made its best Pixel ever. There's nothing wacky, like last year's Pixel 4 that had a radar chip to detect hand gestures for controlling music playback. The few new features aren't as dazzling compared to previous announcements, like when Google endowed the Pixel 3 with Duplex, a service that has the Google Assistant schedule salon appointments and restaurant reservations on your behalf. And, of course, returning staples like Now Playing, which identifies songs playing around you, or Call Screen, which monitors and automatically declines robocalls.īut there's not much dramatically different with the Pixel 5. Like how the Recorder app now lets you edit snippets out of a recording by highlighting and removing a sentence from the automatically generated transcript. It's small, helpful features like this that make me appreciate Google phones. You'll hear a loud chime when you're finally connected to a human, so there's no need to attentively sit with the phone in hand and listen to Kenny G for hours on end. It has a unique feature that uses the artificially intelligent Google Assistant to monitor when you've been put on hold with a 1-800 number. That's thanks to Google's new smartphone, the Pixel 5. I was on hold for only five minutes, but for the first time, I didn't need to put my ears through terrible hold music.
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