Google Pixel 5 Unboxing | First Look | First Impressions By Chris Panton

What's going on YouTube Chris back with another video today, I'm quite excited because we have here in front of me the Google Pixel 5. Now this is a completely different separation from what google has done in the past. This is now considered their flagship here of late 2020 and compared to let's say the pixel, 4 and 4xl from the specs in terms of just the processor used. It definitely brought a lot of controversy in terms of what google is doing, but in terms of their entire strategy. It makes sense, so I'm coming from a pixel 4, that's been my daily driver for pretty much almost a year, um pretty much January or so, and this is gonna, be a nice uh refreshing experience, because I do enjoy a smaller sized phone. I'm not a fan of the behemoth screen sizes.

So I'm really excited to be able to experience the pixel 5. We do have the black version, so we're meeting with the device first and foremost right up front we're just going to set that aside. As always we'll get into the accessories that come included, you get a semi ejector tool. Some warranty quick, start guide information. You do at least get a cable which is a c2c, because this does support fast charging, 18 watts over USB power delivery, and you do get a power brick.

This has been the same power brick that google has been used has been using, for, I want to say pretty much ever since the first pixel, and then you do have an USB, OTG cable and that they've included on pretty much every pixel as well. So you can quickly transfer files if you need to from let's say an iPhone now, the main event the pixel 5 here. So this is an interesting device um for a couple of reasons, one and we'll get into a lot of these. These details, potentially my full review, so stay tuned, subscribe to be notified for that this material um is a kind of like a resin kind of covering this is a metal device. But this has this kind of like plastic kind of resin material over the top um.

I would say the finish of it is that of one either a eggshell or kind of like the Pixel Buds. Two case um, it's a little rougher than the Pixel Buds too. This is more of a soft touch. This has more of an um. I don't know it's a interesting.

It's not rough kind of like sandstone, like one plus is done. It is a much smoother finish in terms of the actual material itself. Now this does include a mid-range chipset all right, so this uses the snapdragon 765. This does support 5g, hence the name and on the front of the box it says: 5g there google has gone very simple route. They have one device, one storage variant, which is 128 gigs, eight gigs of ram, so you don't have to make a decision between storage size and there's only one size.

This is the only screen size, there's, not a bigger one, there's not a smaller one. So this is a six-inch display. We're gonna, pull this front plastic off quite satisfying, as always for that nice peel so front. We have a six-inch display.90 hertz OLED screen does support hdr10, so you don't worry about different screen size. Google has made it simple 1080p, so it's not a 2k resolution display, like you'd, find on an OnePlus, Samsung or anything like that, but 1080p will be perfectly fine, 128 gigs, eight gigs of ram.

Like I mentioned already, it does use a slower UFS, 2.1 um speed, so it's not 3.1, unfortunately, but it should be perfectly fine. Now this is kind of where google has kind of been. I would say complacent. I would, in the sense of the cameras google has been industry leading for many years, both in android and on the apple side. Google is still using the same 12 megapixel main sensor on their phones ever since the pixel 2.

, so that is three generations of phones using the same camera and Google has only pretty much just improved the computational photography of things compared to the pixel 4 line. Last year they were using a telephoto lens. Now we have an ultra-wide sensor, which will be interesting. That is a 16 megapixel sensor up front again. We still have that same 8, megapixel front camera.

I think the pixel 3 was the right balance because it had two front cameras: an ultra ride and a standard angled lens they've gone now, since the four to just the single front facing camera. Eight megapixels, the main sensor on the back does support is, which is fantastic. It's what you would expect to see on a flagship device at the bottom. You have your USB charging port, which does support 18 watt fast charging. You have your grills down at the bottom.

One will be a microphone other than is your butter bottom firing speaker on the right hand, side you have the volume up and down buttons, and then you have what's new is the first time google's used a metal power button? So you have this metallic button right here. On the left-hand side you have nothing. Besides your sim tray now, Google has reversed from using facial unlock to going back to the good old fingerprint scanner, which is in the back, which is fantastic. I missed that you're able to swipe down to open up notifications and yeah, it's very useful to have that so up front. Like I said, you have a pinhole for your front facing eight megapixel camera and then your six-inch display this does use a gorilla glass six now there has been controversy on issues regarding the front display and the screen gap.

Let's see if mine has that in place here and yes it does. I can confirm that there is a gap between the, not sure if you can see it on camera. Here there is a gap between the glass and the actual body of the device. As you can see right there, it's very subtle. You can't feel like the actual sharp edge of it um, but it does.

It is odd that it's not like uniform in the sense of kind of like the glass bleeds into the body of the phone it kind of is as if just the glass rests on top of the body of the phone. It's not like it's one. You can kind of feel like a difference, especially on the top and the bottom they're like the radius changes, so it goes in, and then it comes back up a little. This is mostly noticeable just on the corners more than anything else. Um along the edges.

You can't really see it according google, this does not affect water resistance or anything like that. They said this is part of the design, that's to be argued about, but hopefully there are no issues going into the future of the screen separating or anything like that. We'll have to see it's too early to tell, especially when you come into sending this back for RMA water resistance might be affected 10 months from now after heat and use comes into the into play, so we can't say early on at the bottom. You have this metallic googles logo and just overall, this phone feels really nice. It's extremely light is interesting because I'm coming from a pixel 4, this device is smaller in every dimension, but it has a bigger battery.

It has a bigger display, and I'm really interested to kind of see how performance and using this device is. This does support actually wireless charging, even though this does have a metal back. So what google has done is cut out part of the metal back and put in the inlay for the wireless charging coils and then that's where they've gone ahead and covered the entire rest of the metal device, with this kind of finish on the back. So let's go ahead and turn this on. Let's get it set up and check out some software, so the button press for the power button feels good volume buttons.

Power buttons are still click, no issues there whatsoever and there is that pinhole cutout display is bright so far indoors. A lot to check out in the full review for screen, brightness and usability in the daylight, so stay tuned. For that bezels, look very minimal! That's something! That's been improved on compared to the pixel 4. That would be the actual bezels. There is more screen to body ratio on the pixel 5 at about almost 86 percent, whereas the pixel 4 was at just under 80 percent, so a good whole um, five six percent uh give or take, and you don't have the huge chin.

That's how they're able to size down the device this device is actually lighter than the pixel 4, even though it had a smaller battery this I like the feel the size of this phone, so I'm going to go ahead and get this set up, get logged in, and we'll be right back. So something I wanted to cover here is, I don't think people talk enough about the actual setup of a pixel. So a couple of things if you're coming from an iPhone a pixel is the only android device that you can actually copy over all of your text, messages and messages. You would need to connect the device via USB to the USB and OTG cable, and you're, able to convert and transfer all those messages to the pixel. My wife did it.

She was amazed, and that was the only way I got her to move to. Pixel is for her to be able to keep all those conversations um, and then we were able to use a third-party app and back up all those text, messages and media messages as well, you're able to transfer data from another android device or another pixel, either using the USB, cable or using a Google backup which you can do on your current existing device. So I just wanted to cover that and let you all know that the conversion, the restoring of data works very, very well on pixel devices we're going to be setting up the fingerprint scanner. It's been quite some time since using one on a smartphone. Now, since most smartphones come with a built-in in display fingerprint scanner or side mounted or face unlock, and this already set up two fingerprints just like that in just a matter of like 10 seconds superfast read, it read my fingerprint extremely well and very easy to reach and so going through.

Some of these other setups keep display always on no, thanks control information. Yes, review, additional apps, no need for news; um! Don't need tips and tricks all right, so we're restoring everything back from my pixel 4 setup, so that should make all my apps show up on my home screen, just like my pixel 4 layouts to home screen layouts all the settings Wi-Fi passwords. Everything will come over to this. This has a massive battery. That's one thing that I have saved to this point.

This has a 4080 William hour battery. That is massive when you think of it in the sense of it's using a snapdragon 765 processors. So it's not using a flagship. It's using mid mid-range, spec processor battery life from what I've read what I've seen in reviews battery life has been amazing on this, and I'm really looking forward to that, especially coming from a pixel 4, where battery life was abysmal, can't get through a whole day without having to charge this, I suspect I'll be able to get through definitely a solid day use now. This also does have reverse wireless charging, along with just the standard wireless charging as well.

So that's cool. I can charge my Pixel Buds if I wanted to. I don't know why maybe battery life is so good that I can charge another device and be perfectly fine, so that's cool um, now downside is we're coming into 2021 very soon, and unfortunately we don't have Wi-Fi six built in onto this um more devices, especially flagships that use the snapdragon 865 865, plus they have Wi-Fi six. This doesn't, unfortunately, so we're still behind. In that sense, but uh, it's still going to be at least another year before we get um good, Wi-Fi six uh technology in terms of uh routers.

There are one's out there, but Wi-Fi 6e is around the corner, hopefully soon asterisk, but we'll see. But overall I like the feel this is not a heavy phone. This is very light in the hand so compared to the pixel 4 here, the pixel 5 is pretty much smaller in every dimension, except its width. It's thinner, it's lighter and also, I noticed, I'm not sure if we're going to be able to see on camera, but the camera bump is also smaller, which is good, because that means cases get to be thinner as well, so I'm not sure how they were able to make the camera bump smaller, especially if they're using the same sensor in terms of the standard angled lens it looks like they swapped the LED flash position as you can see there, but I am going to miss that colorful power button that I have enjoyed on every single, pretty much every pixel since the 2xl back in the penguin edition um. But I can tell you that I already definitely like this pixel 5.

We are still restoring, but that is that I'm gonna wait for the restoration to finish, and we'll be right back. We're back on the home screen now finally finished with the setup, and it wasn't without some issues. I think more. On my account side now, the backup one of the backups I was trying to restore from my pixel 4 just wasn't working. I don't know why.

So in terms of the overall software you are going to get a clean, android experience and no bloatware at all. You are going to be the first to get software updates from Google, so this is running android, 11 and android 12. Beta will be coming out sometime in the spring. That would have to wait on, but this device will get that and also at least two. I think three years of software updates now in terms of the display we do have various settings here.

We do have boost colors or adaptive or natural. I go with boosted smooth display, we'll switch between 60hz and 90 hertz it'll try to use 90 hertz on apps that support it. There is a setting in developer options that you can force 90 hertz to work 100 of the time now after I've restored all of my apps and everything else. I have 30 gigs used here, so I do have quite a bit of games, PUBG being one of them, so it does take up some storage. Now you do have some google specific features so one being the car crash detection, which you can check out.

My video right here, that's something that comes with all pixels. Now the huge debate right now. That's uh on social media is googled has announced that the free, high quality google photos backup is going away summer of 2021, so the pixel 5 won't be affected by that. So you can upload all your photos and videos on high quality to google photos without affecting your Google Drive right. Google, one storage but uh devices next year, uh, let's say pixel, 5a or pixel 6 you'll have to basically pay for your storage at that point, but I can say right now.

This is a really buttery smooth uh. To be honest, this is really feeling nice some of those gesture settings here. So you have the swipe down on your fingerprint sensor, so that acts very smoothly and quickly. You can, of course, flip the phone face down to mute the device. Some other features you can pick up.

The device turns on the always on display to check for notifications and the fingerprint scanner unlock is fast as well, so no issues there buttons are very click and tactile. I, like this metal button, far more than the plastic one that they used. It just feels more sturdy, there's less kind of movement in the button itself, and I just like that move there. But, overall, if you told me that this was running a mid mid-range chip, I wouldn't tell you at least right now, just from scrolling swiping opening apps, I wouldn't know the difference. There is the reverse wireless charging.

So there's a quick toggle that you can turn on. It'll show you this little animation click on okay, and then we are good to go, and then at this point we just let's see where this coil is. Oh, there. It is so you saw that light. If we move off of it, it turns off, and then it turns on.

So it's going to be right here in the middle just underneath that fingerprint scanner, that's where that reverse wireless charging comes into play, and it responded relatively quickly too so anyways. Something else. I've noticed is that the screen kind of feels hollow in a sense compared to my pixel 4 feels solid. So let me bring my mic over here and let you hear what I'm talking about and then, as I get closer up to the top this top quarter, you can hear a rattle coming from the camera, probably from the is. I'm not sure if you can hear that kind of hollow noise, I'm not sure if that's because of the actual kind of screen issue gap that people have experiencing.

I do have that kind of issue like I mentioned earlier, but let me have you, listen to my pixel 4, to know kind of hear that difference. It just sounds more solid, um and like put together if that makes sense, the device feeling great liking the size um. The screen looks really nice um. It looks like it's just painted right on the screen here. It is asking a lot for a device when you're not dealing with top tier flagship specs, something that this is going to be focusing on, which is software, we're going to have to see how this holds up in terms of performance on daily usage on gaming, for example, it'll be interesting.

Battery life, I suspect, like I mentioned, should be great, but we'll have to put it through. The tests put it through the paces of daily usage using 5g on T-Mobile, so we'll see. So this was just a quick unboxing of the Google Pixel 5. If you guys have any comments, questions concerns. Let me know down in the comments so that way I can make sure I cover that in the full review in the upcoming weeks and, of course, I'll be able to answer those also in the meantime, but I do appreciate you all for taking your time and watching my unboxing until next time you take care, stay, safe, and I'll, see you on the next one.

Source : Chris Panton