Google Pixel 5 Review: Should You Consider Buying It Now??? By Adam Reviews Tech

Hello and welcome back to another video, so the Google Pixel 5 was a new approach from Google when it came to their flagship in 2020. , I used the Google Pixel 5 as my daily driver for quite a while recently after using true flagships rather than this upper mid-range phone in this video, I'm going to discuss more of the intricate experiences I've had because I made a video already on the phone discussing many things, and we're gonna talk about if you should buy one now or not. Let's start with design, as I stated in my previous video, this phone uses a big plastic layer on the back, rather than the aluminum that is claimed to be used mostly through the phone. It's got a smaller layer of aluminum to give it some more weight and feel more premium. But overall the feeling on the back is this. Nice soft touch plastic, it's quite durable, and I think they made a good move by using it.

One weird thing is: I oddly found that the power button was less tactical than in other phones and sometimes, if I'm just trying to press the power button without paying much attention I'll miss it a few times because of that, but that really doesn't hinder the experience too much at all. The fingerprint scanner on the back is very convenient. It works very quickly, and it's a great way for biometrics when looking at the front of the device, the uniform bezel looks excellent. It's something that's quite underrated, and I am happy that they went for a hole punch rather than a notch. Even if the hole punch is a little larger than I've used on some other devices worth noting is the hole.

Punch does protrude in 18 by nine content on YouTube. So, if you're like me, and you watch a lot of content, that's something I didn't notice, it's not a huge deal, but to some people you may not like that as much. Another thing I noticed is that the auto rotate is kind of slow and doesn't work very well as someone who uses an iPhone where it works very well. This is something that was quite apparent to me, and it just made different situations a little more tedious. I also wasn't very impressed with the haptic feedback.

It's something I praised pixels for in the past, because they've done a great job in comparison to other android phones, but this one felt weaker and looser. I'm hoping that gets better next time around some people care about it. Some people, don't, I think the haptic feedback experience makes it feel more premium. Finally, in regard to design, I really like the typing experience. I think the phone is a perfect size.

Overall, of course, that's going to be personal opinion, but the flat edges g board everything makes it feel very comfortable to me to use with all that said. Let's move on over to the display. The display is a 6-inch 1080p, 90hz OLED display and although it isn't quad HD plus, it does look quite sharp to me and I think google did an amazing job with the color calibration. I think it's on point, especially if you like natural, looking colors, but you can always change the color profile to boosted natural or adaptive. The 90 hertz display feels much smoother than say even 60 hertz on my iPhone.

Although there are times when you can feel that it ramps down due to software, and if you don't force 90 hertz, then you will notice these little stutters in the change at times. But boy am I glad that they at least went with 90 hertz for this one? I used the Pixel 4 XL a lot last year, which also had 90 hertz, and the display was pretty good overall, but the issue I found most was with black crush, and I'm glad to say that on the pixel 5, there is no such issue that I've noticed as for brightness, it got bright enough outdoors, where it's still readable and everything. However, the weakness in terms of brightness came in auto brightness, like the auto rotate. It's just something that it isn't done very well on here. Overall, I will say that it is still a very nice display.

Another strength has to be in the software of the phone, so stock android is my favorite software version on any phone. I've used there's so many useful and intuitive features with the ability to customize on android notifications and the grouping of notifications are done extremely well, especially if you're like me, coming from iOS. The only thing I want to note is that the pixel promise guarantees three years of software updates and I think google needs to differentiate themselves with five years for their next phones, because a lot of the competition is currently catching up as we shift back to hardware. There are a few things I'd like to note, so the stereo speaker system on the pixel 5 really isn't very good, and it's something I noticed especially coming from iOS. The earpiece speaker in general doesn't do very much, which makes it feel very unbalanced, and I believe they could have done better with the sound profile overall, then I also want to talk about 5g, which in my region it does and doesn't matter because currently most of us are dealing with nationwide or low band 5g, which is quite similar to 4g LTE, and it's hard to get and maintain high band speeds.

So at this point I don't think 5g is a huge issue, but the pixel 5 does have that for future proofing. A major strength in this phone has to be the battery life for a 6-inch phone. This endures, with some of the best of them. It's not as good as my iPhone 11 Pro max, but is certainly better than the iPhone 12 Pro that I have used. I'll show some screenshots of days that I've gotten on here, but everybody's use cases are going to be different.

It also only charges at 15 watts, but the power brick is included in the box and because the battery lasts so long, it doesn't matter to me a staple feature to the pixel line has to be the camera overall, the stills are very good, and the computational photography is top tier. As usual. You can get amazing things with some computational photography like using the macrophotography mode, which, if you have the time and a tripod really can make things look unreal, but in situations where you can't use computational photography as much, and you're relying more on the sensor itself, the pixel 5 does lag behind, and it's the same case when it comes to video recording, isn't as good as some other android phones. I've used, although they really did improve on stabilization and even dynamic ranges a little better, but I would definitely get an iPhone or a Samsung phone over the pixel 5 for video. It's also worth noting that the mic quality is pretty subpar when it comes to video and if you're doing voice recordings in general in a way to reduce costs.

Google put the snapdragon 765g in the pixel 5, and it is a good soc, even if it's not a flagship one. It's strengths really are in efficiency and thermals from my case, because when I had the Pixel 4 XL, its thermals were awful with the snapdragon 855, mainly because Google didn't do much hardware wise to account for that. But anyway, for the most part, this phone feels like a flagship experience due to the software. It really does feel fast, the majority of the time, but there are times when you can notice things taking a little longer, such as photos, processing, apps opening and maybe just doing different tasks. To me, the difference is noticeable, but it's really just slight and the experience is still very good at seven hundred dollars.

I think there are better options out there, but at five hundred dollars, new, which I've seen and that's where I purchased it at it really does feel like it's a decent option, but if you're looking for a game, changing pixel experience, this really doesn't feel like it's it. When you compare it to the pixel 4 a5g, the 4a in general and the 4xl, however, with the leaks of the pixel 6, I think it looks very promising, and you might want to wait for those if you can, because we're already getting close enough to that release. So thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed and peace.

Source : Adam Reviews Tech