Google Pixel 5 Review: Ultra-Wide Lens, Battery Share, Huge Battery & More! By Eric Rossi

So by the total video you might be asking Eric. Why are you talking about the Google Pixel 5? You? It's not a camera! Necessarily it's a phone. You really don't talk about phones, anymore, that was you know years and years ago. You might see it on Instagram, but I am part of team pixel and I really don't concentrate on the phone. Necessarily, of course, you know phone's a phone, it's going to be great, but I also like to concentrate on the camera and the photography features of it, and you know new lenses or whatever comes out, and the Google Pixel 5 has some nice stuff that it added and updated that I kind of just want to cover in regard to like the camera and like one or two awesome features that really steps it up this year for the pixel line and my growing interest in like android, even though I mainly use iPhone so like being part of team pixel kind of like a brand ambassador, really just kind of opened my eyes, instead of just seeing a lot from like the iOS side of things really just seeing what iOS misses, because the pixel android etc. has a lot as always to be up front.

Google did not pay or compensate me in any way for this. They basically sent over the pixel 5 uh and the uh, the Google buds, just to really kind of share my thoughts and review and to test a couple of the new features that the pixel 5 has. Especially the battery share feature which I'll cover in like reverse wireless charging, so they did not pay me to compensate me in any way they sent the gear for free uh to review and to share with you guys and girls out there and just to really kind of. Maybe you know help if decided. If you want the phone or not.

So all in all here is the pixel 5. I have it right here, uh underneath the case. It's the sorta sage, color, it's like a nice, it's like a nice little like blue, and they also sell it in uh black as well for the pixel 5. , it is 700, and you can pre-order now. I think it's available on October.27Th is like when it ships somewhere around there in the next couple of weeks, but let's talk about a couple of the new camera features and, and things and just show you uh a little about it. Well, first, I just want to start off by size and the one thing I always liked about the pixel phones is that they are very, very lightweight for the know, amount of hardware that they have in this, and it's, and it's just perfect.

So, like here's, the pixel five, you know right here and then here is the 4a. So if I have the Pixel 4a kind of just under this, it's not that far off so to have an even bigger phone. This has a six-inch OLED screen that has a very, very good refresh rate. It is superfast you know scrolling to and from and everything it's uh, it's very good, and it's very sharp able to watch. You know videos, it just looks very smooth, and it just works very, very well, so the size is always a good feature.

It's always something that is just like man. I can't believe that has all this power, and it's this light- you know compared to iPhones, which tend to be a little heavier and which I don't mind that as well. It just always impresses me that it's like that, and the one thing before I jump into the cameras is right. Underneath of it, I always like the fingerprint scanner. Uh apple messed up by getting rid of it in my opinion, but being able to unlock your iPhone just by pressing the button and it's unlocking.

Oh, it's just a nice feeling, it's a great natural place for it to be, as your hand, is always around that position, just a quick little, and you're there um it's just something, that's great and something that has missed on the apple side of things. But google keeps it going. So, as you notice, there are still two lenses on the pixel in regard to camera, and it still has it still has amazing software in it in regard to the algorithm and kind of like bracketing and learning from it and everything how it goes. So you have your like normal lens on it, but now they have this new ultra-wide lens and just to really show you that you know how much detail you retain and the quality that you get. I went to you know a local spot around my around a town that I live near and there's like an old coca-cola ad.

That's painted onto an all-brick wall, uh you'll, see that I take it with the normal with the normal camera. You know, looks fine, but then ultra-wide. Obviously you get a little distortion, but it's very, very sharp and then just, just behind it. There was this big bulldozer there for some reason- and I was just like you know what if I take a step back, you know normal shot to include the coca-cola and the tractor, trailer the bulldozer and then ultra-wide, and you see I basically have almost an entire machine in there with the billboard. So it just goes to show that the new lens on there is very, very good regards to like macrophotography nighttime photography is their night sight mode, basically being able to.

You know just take a photo and pitch black and it being able to run through a series of algorithms and different exposures to pretty much pick up light where you think it should, and I'll have a couple examples, and these aren't even the most sharp necessarily but just to show you. It was like pitch black outside um. You know I'll run a little video showing that, but then to still be able to retain some highlights from the left side and the streetlight, and it picking it up on the know, on the grass and everything and even around the trees, just goes to show what power a phone like this and the software that it has uses and just how technology has progressed over the years. So I think it's always pretty cool and the one big update is um. You know it has portrait mode, which I think looks very good, very smooth.

I have my MHD matte black edition Rubik's cube, use portrait mode on it, because why not, but the both, even though it's not necessarily real, looks very, very good and very similar to you know a wide, open, fast lens and then obviously showing you the normal just to show the difference as well. So you have all of that, and even in the portrait mode, you can do night sight as well. If you need a portrait without a lot of light around it, if you want to take a selfie at night, etc. So a lot of cool options that come with the new pixel 5 and just a know, couple slight upgrades to the cameras and what still is cool is that in regard to like photos and JPEGs and raw files, you can get raw files of the photos that you could take. It can save both JPEG and raw dogs digital negatives, which are basically universally read raw files with the Google Pixel, and you don't even get that in regard to you know: apple stuff and apple just released their apple raw whatever, but it still is processed.

Where you're getting an actual raw file in the Google Pixel 5, which is very cool, still wish, there was a little more manual exposure options and I think that's what a lot of camera companies are missing out there they're trying to encourage the photography and the pro side of things. So I think that could still be improved and having more manual photo control and setting your ISO, your shutter, etc. Being able to do that would elevate the pixel or really any phone in general, but I just wanted to mention you can actually get raw ROG photos from the pixel 5. So once again here's the size of the phone. You know it doesn't seem that big, it's once again, six inches, OLED screen, etc.

This has a 4080 William hour battery in it, which basically means this thing can last easily over a full day, even kind of intensive work on it. But even if you just casually use it, you can pretty much have this last two days and that's what I've noticed as well so far and also the battery being that big and one of my favorite features in this phone, I think, is really cool. Is the new battery share feature? So basically you could treat your pixel 5 like it's an it's a wireless charger and basically what it can do is it can charge? You know your cell phone if it has wireless charging capabilities, or you know if you have like google buds, and you activate the battery share feature, you basically put it in the middle of the back. You even feel kind of like a magnetic pull, meaning that you can get it, and you sit it on there. As long as you have the battery share turned on, it will charge whatever you have.

That is wireless. That could do it. I think that is an amazing feature and just something that a lot of people you know have a lot of people now have AirPods and google buds and Samsung whatever. You can charge that stuff on the go, and it's cool that it universally works with other products and not just google products, um. Definitely a smart move, and it's just like you.

I don't know you can also help someone out. Of course, it drains your battery, but it's a very, very cool feature that I expect more phones to have in the future. If you guys or girls, have any questions about the pixel 5, anything that I may have missed and once again I'm not really going too in-depth about it. Just because I mainly care about the camera. Once again, it does do 4k video, so you have that option out there, but I mainly just care about the photos, the image quality and just a couple cool features and, like I said, the battery share thing to me: reverse wireless charging is pretty cool once again, it's 700 for the 128 gigabyte model, the pixel 5 sorta sage, black.

Let me know your thoughts down below if you're a current pixel user. Is it something you figure you'd upgrade to, because it doesn't necessarily break the bank, it's under a thousand dollars. Others take notice what you can do with the phone. You can pack a lot into it and not gouge people's pockets.

Source : Eric Rossi