Google Pixel 5 (5G) Unboxing & Review By Marc The Geek

Hey guys, your mark again, this video have an unboxing and hands-on look of the latest google phone, the pixel 5 5g. This phone was just announced, and it's going to be available very soon here in the United States, but they actually sent me this phone, so I can try it out and make a video for you guys. So that's what I'm doing in this video. So thanks, google, hashtag, tang, pixel and, of course, uh. When they announced this phone they actually announced another phone, which is a little bigger, but um spec wise. It's a little weaker than this one.

It's actually the 4a 5g right here. I actually have the 4a which they sent me a while ago, and it's really really really them good. But you know I just don't like the small screen, but it's perfect. It's perfect, and they also sent me this case, which is a carbon looking right. I believe this is like black color fabric case for this phone.

Let's go and see it before I unbox it the phone there you go. Oh, it looks nice. Yes, yes, sir, looks really nice there. Nice looking fabric color, but I got to get myself one with uh, uh kickstand, because I'm a huge fan of cases with kickstand, so I'm going to have to get one of those. So let's go ahead and unbox this and turn that down.

Let's do that here you go the one that they sent me was the sage. This is sort of sage, that's what it's called. It looks really cool kind of weird, looking color, because you barely ever see this kind of color on any phone in the market. So if you see somebody with this phone with this color of phone, obviously they're using the pixel 5 5g, this is freaking. Damn it looks better in person than in pictures.

Honestly CCA in the back has two dual 12 megapixel cameras with a flash there right red cool. It's going to take this out, nice, oh yes, and let's see what's in the inside, we got instruction manual. We got the pin that we're going to use right now, because I'm actually going to put my sim card right now on this phone has a charging cord USB c to USB c and, of course, this adapter. Just in case you want to your know, hook this, you need to connect your phone to your laptop or something like that. You have this connection right here and, of course, this right here is, I believe, an 18 watt charging block right.

I think I believe this is 18 watts. What I'm going to do right now is I'm going to go ahead and put the sim card. Lately, I've been using a lot of the Galaxy Note 20 ultra, but right now I really want to try this phone. I'm going to be using this phone for a little while, because I'm doing this unboxing a couple of days before the um, the embargo for me to upload this video, so that's cool because I'll be able to um finish the video with the second half of the video after using it for more than a couple of days. So I can actually share my opinions about the phone with real time usage.

So let's go ahead and turn it on. Oh, look at this. The button right here is actually chrome. I thought the button was going to be like in another different color, because normally they release buttons uh the buttons like orange or white uh. But, like you see there, the button here is actually chrome.

Has the volume button right there, google, let's go and wait for it to load up while this is loading up, let's go and see the size comparison between this phone, the 4a and this one wow. You know what they're almost the same size when it comes to dimension body wise and the thing is this: one right here is actually six inches and this, I believe, is actually 5.8. I think it is, you can add it next to each other. They almost look the same size. Look at that six inches and this I believe it's 5.8 inches or 5.9, something like that. So, okay, it's going to load this up.

It's going to be looking for my network there, but wow over here has a little microphone. Of course. Like I said here is the power button, the chrome, the volume button here in the bottom? You got the speakers and um no headphone jack, no headphone jack, but it has the USB port and the speakers there as well. So, like I said, I'm unboxing this phone early, so I will start using this phone and put in my applications that I want doing my setup and all that using it for a couple of days and take pictures and all that and share my thoughts about the phone in the second half of the video okay. So here we are back again with the second half of the video keep in mind.

The unboxing was actually done Saturday morning, and today I'm actually recording the video on October 14, which is exactly four days after the unboxing, and I have to say I just enjoy using this phone just like I did enjoy using the 4a and the 4xl. I's a great phone, and the great thing is that, if you've been using all the other pixel phones out there in the market, you're just going to be very familiarized with this phone, because when it comes to the UI, everything is just identical to all the other android um Google Pixel phone. That's the great thing about Google Pixel phones that you all you're going to get the same experience, no matter, no matter which phone you pick up, no matter which size of screen you pick up, you're, always going to get a good awesome experience, and one thing that I was surprised with this phone is that the screen? I actually like it a lot. The screen is actually a six-inch screen um a lot smaller than I'm used to, because lately I'll be using huge phones right, but the screen is actually 6.0-inch screen 1080 by 2340. It's flexible OLED and the cool thing is that this has a 90 hertz display screen.

So if you go here to the now to the settings uh, you can actually see that it's actually right there. If you want to disable it, you could just go ahead and disable if you don't want the 90 hertz. But honestly I have been enjoying it having it on all the time, and I see that it does increase the battery usage, but the battery usage on this phone has been also really, really great. So for me, I have no complaints whatsoever because uh this tiny phone actually has a 4 000 William hour battery, which is amazing, and I have honestly been getting over 13 14 15 hours of battery life using this phone I should have taken a screenshot every freaking day, but I totally forgot, but I actually got around 13 hours. I think it was of usage and I still had like three hours left, so that was pretty damn good and that's the same battery life.

I've been getting every day and usually every day what I've been doing is I'm plugging the phone early in the morning. When I wake up, I use the Flipboard, I use YouTube. I use Twitter, I use all the accounts and podcasting and at night that's when I charge the phone, so it's been less than me all day. So I have no complaints whatsoever so and the other cool thing about this phone that it does have fast wireless charging, and it also has battery share which what it is that you can charge other devices with this phone as well, and this is the first time it actually comes here um, and you can actually activate it from the notifications. All you got to do is press right here.

Battery share right. So it's on and this right here, which is the Pixel Buds. You can actually put it right there, and it'll start charging right away. Look at that. It starts charging right away and that's it that's all you got to do.

You could put a phone on it, but honestly it is well recommended to actually just use it for small devices, which is freaking awesome. That's something really cool about this device. I also like the fingerprint here in the back. It's actually really, really fast, uh responses. You know when I tap and hold boom.

It just opens up the phone really fast, so I really like it that it is fast. It is way faster than other fingerprints that I've used before. So that's something that I've been noticing- and you know really happy with that now. Another thing about this phone is that it is not using the high-end CPU. The CPU on this device is actually the snapdragon 765 g clocked at 2.4 gigahertz and 2.2 gigahertz and 1.8 gigahertz. It actually has an outscore processor, and it works really.

Damn good playing video games on this device has been no problems whatsoever. Also navigating around this phone has been very nice silky and smooth that's no complaints whatsoever when it comes to opening application and close applications and not playing video games. Like you see only here in the video I did play video games from Google Stadia, I played orc must die 3, which is really cool a lot cooler than I thought it was going to be um. I also played on the Xbox application I played. I think it was doom eternal.

It looks incredible, and it plays perfect here on the pixel five, and I also played on I enjoyed mobile games like uh at fault racing, and I also played like the gentling impact, which looks incredible on this phone, which is one of the hottest game, and this game did not budge or have any glitch whatsoever when it comes to playing those games, because it played those games very, very smooth, and I was actually surprised because, like I said, this is not using the high-end processor, it's using the 765 instead of the 855, which is the latest processor, on android devices, but um you know, but the thing is, since this is using um pure android, it's like it doesn't matter what CPU it has its doesn't matter. What CPU it has. It is always nice and smooth because, like I said, I've been using this also as well, which is cheaper than this phone, and I believe this processor right here is also weaker than this one. I think this is like 755. I think it is um, and it still feels a very nice silky smooth navigating around with this phone.

You know so for me, it doesn't really matter the processor, because it's since it has pure android, it's always going to be very, very nice and smooth. This is 5.8, and this is 6.0 and the body it's almost the same. The body size is all almost the same, and the only difference here is that the screen goes a lot more to the edges, making it a 6.0 but body wise they're. Almost the same now I have over here the Pixel 4 XL uh, which I really, really like, because they use the front radars to unlock your phone and look how different size it actually looks. Look at that looks pretty good, pretty big difference there.

I, like both colors. This is solar, green. This is kind of orange. I think it is. I forgot the name of it, but the size different.

You can actually notice it a lot um. This right here is actually a 6.3, and this is six point zero, and you see there on. The only huge difference here is that the Pixel 4 XL has a huge hump in the top and a little more hump in the bottom, and that's it you know, but other than that body wise. You can see that there's a huge difference between these two phones, since this is using android 11. The cool thing is that you're always going to get uh at least support for at least three years.

That's the great thing about android, google, pixel phones and, and that's great because out of the box, you get android 11 and whenever the next update comes out, you're going to get it here, first um from android 11. The cool updates that I like about this phone is that when you press and hold over here the home button you get like this hub right here, which is awesome. You can see your card that you have with Google Pay. You can see it right. There and you could go ahead and pay right away like that um.

You can also have liked you have like a little hub here, where you can actually turn on or off all the lights that are in your house. Like you see there, these I am turning on the lights that are in my house. I got lights in the on the backyard. I got my bedroom speakers. Furthermore, I can actually control my bedroom speakers here.

This is from my google uh nest mini, and I can also go to my android to my Google Chromecast and see what wallpaper is running on it right now, and I can personalize my ambient. I could go ahead and catch to the screen on the TV, and it's pretty damn cool. That's a very awesome update that came out with android 11. So if you have android 11 on a pixel phone, you will have that feature, no matter which one do you have the other cool thing that I like about. It is how you take screenshots now like, for example, let's say I'm here on YouTube right and I want to take a screenshot of this right here right.

I could just click right. There click like that. I click edit right here, and I could just go ahead and go ahead, and you know crop the image right there. I could go ahead and right on it, and then I could go ahead and save and save it to my folders and that's it. That's really, damn cool, that's something! That's added new to the pixel android 11 features.

That's really that cool uh. The other cool thing here that I like is a recording screen, recording just tap right there and right here you can actually choose to record videos with the microphone or record videos using just the audio of the application um here you can see that if you want to see the touches on the screen, you could choose that. If you don't want to see the touches on the screen, you could just turn it off. But you know the cool thing about this. Is that you just hit start like you, see, there's a time that clock right there, and you could just start using the phone here and there move around and all that if you're doing like a like recording a video game, you could do that if you're, I'm doing like an overview on an application, you can also use it for that as well, and you're not going to have any problems recording, and it records a very damn, smooth, no problem whatsoever uh when you're, when you're done recording you could just tap right.

There boom, and they'll just start, recording and save the video to your video file, and that's it that's how easy it is to actually record here on this phone. This phone also has 8 gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of internal storage. So far like you see right there, I've been using uh, 43.50 gigabytes and I still have a bunch of gigabytes still left. So that is awesome. You know because um, since it have no external micro SD slot, so it's good that it actually starts at 128 gigabytes and there's no other option.

That's 128 and that's it there's no other option for lower or higher. Now when it comes to the cameras, that's something that I couldn't test again because, like I said, I'm working from Monday to Friday, and I've been busy during the week, so I haven't been able to take a lot of pictures outside, but I did take pictures inside in my home, and you can see here there's a lot of pictures that I took with it and actually looks beautiful this. This camera on this phone just takes great beautiful pictures on the back. It has two uh cameras. One is a 12.2 megapixel, dual pixel, the other one is a 16 megapixel ultra-wide optical, and it records at 1080p, 60 frames, 30 frames, 120, 240 frames per second and 4k at 60 and 30 frames per second. So it's great that it has 60 frames per second 4k with this phone.

That's awesome the front camera. It has an 8.8.0 megapixel camera, and it's really damn good as well. Has a very nice focus, especially when you're doing portrait pictures very nice and, of course it records a video at 1080p, 30 frames per second, and I can see here on the images I did take a lot of pictures here and there, and I have no complaints whatsoever and a lot of these pictures that you see here on this video were taken in low light. You know all these pictures on the red in the restaurant and at home checking on the figures was actually in low light, and it still took great picture and the colors are nice and popping just like I like it just like a lot of high-end phones. This phone is ip68 water and dust resistant, and it comes in two colors.

So if you don't like this one right here, it comes in black, it's called just black, but I like when, when google releases color like this, which are weird because I like the way it actually looks, it looks unique- and you know same thing with this one right here. I actually liked it, because it's just unique, you see somebody with this color phone. It's no other than the Pixel 4 XL. You see somebody with this color phone, it's no other than somebody with the pixel 5, and that is awesome. I really like it so for me.

I have no complaints whatsoever. Furthermore, I really enjoy that the fact that uh, no matter what phone or pixel phone you get with what specs low specs high specs, it always runs really damn smooth and that's one thing that I really like about: pixel phones, that it doesn't matter what specs inside since it's running pure android. It's always going to be running nice and smooth, and that's has been the same experience that I've had using all the other pixel phones. So a lot of times when somebody from iOS on an iPhone tells me hey. I want to get an android phone, which phone should I get or even android users.

Some people would have old, android phones. They asked me which android phone should I get. I always recommend a pixel phone, because when you go to a pixel phone it just feels so smooth and everything. You know the UI it's like made perfectly. You know for it to work perfectly smooth on the pixel phones, so everything all the features.

Everything works, nice and smooth, no matter the size, no matter the specs of the phone and for me, it's really hard not to recommend a pixel phone, because it's for me in my opinion, if you go to android for the first time the best experience is going to be on a pixel phone, even though yes, I, like Samsung phones, but for me, you know pixel phones. When it comes to updates. When it comes to experience, you can't beat so yeah. That's my opinions about this phone uh, I'm my opinion for 6.99, not a bad price. But of course you know, I don't know if pixel, if Google is actually going to be releasing another phone later on the future, which is its a little bigger if you don't like the size of it, but you know so far.

I've been liking it and if you're looking for a nice android 6.0 screen phone, which an awesome, nice small experience, I don't think you're gonna um. You know, I don't think you're gonna regret getting this phone. So thanks for watching this video and if you have any questions, please leave it in the comments till next time. Guys bye.

Source : Marc The Geek