Google Pixel 5: A 2021 review! By Ryan-Thomas

I often get asked Ryan. What is the best smartphone and spoiler alert the pixel 5? Isn't the answer that I give, but I also get asked Ryan which smartphone should I buy, and after they tell me, they don't want an iPhone. The pixel 5 is the answer I give so today, thanks to Vodafone for sending out the smartphone for review, check out the links in the video description to see their 5g plans. We are going to be looking at the pixel 5 in 2021, hey guys, I'm Ryan, Thomas and after half a year is the pixel 5 worth buying. Let's find out so google released the pixel 5 in mid-October of 2020 and charged 599 pounds for it at the time, a price that has remained the same on the pixel store ever since you can get one of these one bay for around 450 to 500, depending on usage, and whilst that is quite a nice saving at this discount, I'd recommend just buying it brand new, with a warranty and potentially a bundle deal or a contract as you're getting a good amount of smartphone for your money anyway. The pixel 5 as a whole is pretty well-balanced.

To be honest, it's rocking a high-end, mid-range chipset, a solid display, a great camera, a decent battery and some good hardware and software features. But before I start gushing about how amazing the pixel 5 is, we need to touch on the less than adequate points of the pixel 5. Specifically, I want to talk about build and performance. When I talk about build, I'm not talking about the fact that the pixel has gone from glass and metal to metal, with a plastic coating on the outside of it. That is going to be an issue for some people and yes, it.

It doesn't feel nearly as premium as the pixel 4. But we'll talk about that a bit later. What I am talking about when it comes to build is the fact that there's now like small and big option like there has been well pretty much since the pixel's existence. I'm not talking about having the same as option from big and small, like the Pixel 4a 5g is kind of a bigger pixel 5, but it doesn't have as many of the nicer features, and it costs less. No, that's not really what I'm talking about.

I mean there's a pixel 5 and there's pizza, pixel, 5, plus or XL or whatever you want. Why is that not a thing like so many people who have spoken to me about it won't buy the phone because it's too small, they like a big screen like on the mia11i or on the iPhone 12 Pro max or even just a bigger screen than the pretty small one, that's in the pixel 5, but they want the pixel 5's features like the better build the wireless charging stuff like that. You can't get that in the pixel 4 a5g and I just don't understand why, like people who want bigger phones generally want better features in those bigger phones. So why aren't you offering that even at a price premium, I don't know the build materials and quality from where I'm standing are absolutely fine for the money? That's not an issue. This metal plated back with plastic coating looks and feels fantastic in the hand.

I think the sorter sage color looks the best. This black model is very clean, though call me a fan. If you will, the switch from metal to glass is going to be a turn off for some, like I said before, but I happen to actually quite like it. It's definitely gripper and harder to fall out of your hand. The review unit that I have here that's been passed around.

Several publications and reviewers isn't looking in the best shape right now. It's actually got quite a few scratches on the front. I'm not sure if this is someone who's, maybe put the phone in their pocket with some keys and just like scratched up accidentally or something because the pixel 5 does use gorilla glass 6, which is just as scratch resistant as gorilla, glass 5, which is pretty good. So I think that might not be like something that's going to happen to you if you take care of your phone and obviously a lot of people put screen potatoes on their phones anyway, but it is something to keep in mind the equal bezels right, the way around the outside of the display, they're, fantastic and something that I've been asking for in a smartphone since the iPhone 10. The punch hole doesn't look too bad here in my opinion, but do let me know what you think in the comment section when it comes to punch holes, what about performance? Many were skeptical, because the pixel 4 is actually more powerful than the pixel 5.

Now all I'm going to say is its fine? It's good enough! It's adequate for most people. If you're not really heavily gaming, if you're not sort of streaming and filming and editing on your phone lows, then it's going to be fine, and it can even do some of those tasks quite lightly as well. However, if you're, if you're more like me like, if you just don't care about performance, all that much you can get away with the mid-ranger, you only really go through social media. Facebook, Twitter Instagram. That kind of thing then you're going to be fine with the pixel 5, it's not an issue.

However, there is an issue with longevity: a lot of smartphones with mid-range chipsets, don't last as long as those with like overkill chipsets, because those overkill chipsets slowly become decent, then like good or good, then decent then like meh, and it takes a couple more years to get those to become like poor and underperforming and the 765 that's in the pixel.5 is going to take a few years to get like to a poor quality. So, instead of lasting you, maybe four or five years, it's gonna. Last you closer to two or three years. There is one performance issue that I had, and that is the processing of images. Now this is something I do quite a lot.

I take a lot of photos um, but the processing of obviously google's HDR their computational photography is like huge. It's basically the backbone of their entire camera setup and that processing when it comes to normal photos, HDR portrait, anything like that. It, like literally anything you throw at it. Furthermore, it takes a little longer, and it's enough of a little longer to actually you can feel it you can see it could be like right. I can't actually preview that photo for like another couple of seconds, which might seem fine, you know, but it's a 600 pound phone and um at that point, you're kind of like I'm spending quite a lot on a phone here I kind of want more.

Thankfully, the quality is good, we'll touch on cameras a little later, but the weight and the delay it just doesn't feel very seamless and for a pixel device. I expect quality, especially from the flagship pixel device, and this doesn't really have that there so onto the things I actually really like. Now. Firstly, is the software it's the latest and greatest android 11, and it looks and feels great. I personally really like pixel experience as you get the latest software version faster than any other android smartphone, and this aids in compatibility and security, but also gives you the latest features.

This might be a personal preference thing, but I really like the minimal camera bump on the pixel 5. I mean it's almost flush with the rest of the chassis, which is great. I also really like the capacitive fingerprint reader on the back sure. It's not like fancy face ID, and it's not got like a fancy, in-display fingerprint scanner, but it's a lot quicker and more reliable than either of those options. In my personal experience, then, there's the battery life, it's just over a four thousand million power battery and a lot of people expected it to be pretty poor, but I found it to be perfect, and I'm not sure if this is sort of google software or maybe the fact it's using a mid-range chipset instead of a flagship one.

But you know no project solely in that, but you are getting a really, really good battery experience. In my opinion, I'm easily getting a full day like absolutely no issues, I'm caning, the brightness all the way up, and I'm using Wi-Fi and 4g, and it's getting me through a full day. If you're a super heavy user, you might need to top up- and it's not the fastest due to the 18 watt fast charging. But it's all right and personally, it's good enough for a lot of people. The display is also fantastic.

It's a six inch 90hz 1080p OLED, which on paper isn't the best thing in the world, but it's very well calibrated. It's very fast. Furthermore, it's just a really nice display it's not over the top. Furthermore, it's not Samsung level, but it's still really nice anyway, for multimedia usage, like say playing games and watching Netflix and stuff. This is fine, but you're going to be better off with a bigger display.

Naturally, anyway, this isn't really a phone designed for that kind of thing. But if you do want to use it for that, as I said, the display is so good anyway. Quality wise that you're going to get a good experience and now for the camera. Pixel cameras have historically been a bit of an odd one for me, because they've lacked versatility, and that is something I crave in a camera setup but of course, they've smashed out the park when it comes to performance this one best last years for me because it has the ultra-wide which, on the face of things, doesn't sound like a lot. But for me, I really use the ultrawide a lot.

So I really like that. It's a 16 megapixel ultrawide, matched with the 12.2 megapixel main and an 8 megapixel selfie camera. The samples are very typical of google in that there's lots of dynamic range with some added contrast and a slightly less saturated color profile compared to the samples from Samsung and Xiaomi. This processing style is going to come down to personal preference, which one you actually like. I think the pixels are probably one of my favorites alongside Huawei's, but the pixel 5 is up there with the 12 pro max and the galaxy s21 ultra as one of the best smartphone cameras.

I would say it's worse than those two, but not by much. That's a lot of praise for a device that costs around half of those two options. I mean when you consider there's less hardware to play with a slower, chipset, a way shallower camera bump. What's not to love when it comes to the pixel 5's camera, it's really, really good, and it's something you could probably use to run a photography first Instagram account or something like that. It is actually that good when it comes to quality, it's just how you use it so notes away.

I'm not going to bother asking: should you buy it because at this point you know that I think you should, it's not going to be the fastest smartphone on the market? It's not going to have the most camera versatility, and it's definitely not got the biggest screen, but if what you want is high quality, decent performance, brilliant cameras, a good screen and something that's going to last you the next two to three years. The pixel 5 is a fantastic option. Should you wait for the pixel 6 to come out? I don't think so, but we'll talk about that in another video and why it's? Never really the right time to buy a smartphone anyway. With that said and done, I want to thank Vodafone for sending the pixel 5 out really helped. They send out a lot of phones for me to review so check out the links in the video description to where you can buy the pixel 5, but also to like their 5g plans, their 4g plans, and that kind of thing please do like comment and subscribe if you're new around here tonight.

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