Google Pixel 5 Unboxing - Hands On The New Google Flagship By Chris Majestic

What's up guys it's Chris majestic, so you might remember about two months ago I reviewed the Google Pixel 4a. Well today I have with me the Google Pixel 5. So I want to personally thank google for sending this out for me to give you my honest opinion on it. So not only do they send out a pixel 5, but they also included a set of Pixel Buds and even a case for the phone. Now I do have to admit that I haven't actually heard the pixel buzz before, so this will be interesting. So before I give you my opinion, I want to test them off for a few days and report back what I think about them.

So this is going to be google's flagship phone, and it looks like they took a different approach this time around, even though it is technically their flagship phone, they seem to trim a little of things out of it to try to keep the price down. So the Google Pixel 5 is actually priced at 6.99 and when you consider the fact that all the other flagships from companies like Samsung and OnePlus and Apple are pricing, their phones way over a thousand dollars, it's refreshing to see a price tag of 699 for the pixel 5. So it's made out of what google calls 100 recycled aluminum. So even though it kind of looks like plastic, it does have sort of an aluminum feel to it, which gives you somewhat of a toss in between a plastic phone and a metal phone. What I do like about this design is that people have a tendency to complain about glass phones having fingerprints, so I've actually gone out of my way to try to get my fingerprints to show up on this phone, and I can't do it.

So, if you're one of those people who like to complain about fingerprints on the back of a glass phone, then this is definitely an alternative for you. So in the phone box, you're going to get some documentation and, of course, your sim tool and, of course, you're going to have your included USB type-c power. Cord as well as the 18 watt charger and what they call the quick switch adapter, also known as an USB type c to type an adapter, so the phone comes in two colors: it comes in just black or sorta sage, so in the middle of the phone you're going to find one of my favorite features, which is the fingerprint scanner now, as I said in previous videos, this is one of my favorite things, because a lot of phones have gotten rid of this. I don't know why most companies don't go back to this. I think, having a fingerprint scanner right in the middle of the back of the phone is a nice place for you to naturally rest your finger.

So when you're pulling the phone out of your pocket, you already have the phone screen on you. Don't have to worry about face ID. You don't have to try to find what a fingerprint scanner is it built into the screen and all that crazy stuff. This is just a nice and simple thing that works every single time now. What I do find interesting is that both the Pixel 4a and the pixel 4 a5g both have a headphone jack, well you're, not going to find a headphone jack on the pixel 5.

Now, of course, this isn't really a big deal, because a lot of people have come to expect this now with flagship phones, but it is something that should be mentioned, so this phone does have ip68 water resistance, which is perfect, which kind of goes back to my saying that they want to put some of the essential things that most people want in the phone and just leave out some features you may not use, so that means you're not going to find them. Some of those crazy features like you found on the 4, including the squeeze feature for the Google Assistant. Now I did find some of that stuff kind of interesting, but it's not really something that most people care that much about, and if it's going to keep the price of the phone down, then I do think that that's a good idea, alright. So what about the screen? Well, the screen is one of the highlights of this phone, so it has a six-inch full HD OLED display that has a 90 hertz refresh rate and, as you can see, they did opt for the small hole punch for the camera in the upper left-hand corner, which is way better than a huge notch, and what makes the screen on this phone look so good is the fact that it has a nice even bezel, all the way around the edges of the phone now, even though I would have liked to see a 1440 display or 120 hertz, considering the price tag of 6.99 is kind of hard to complain, alright, so now on to the main feature of any pixel phone, which is the camera. So, on the back of this phone you're going to find a 12 megapixel, dual focus camera and a 16 megapixel ultra-wide camera and on the front you're going to get an 8 megapixel front facing camera and the cameras are capable of 4k video at 60 frames per second now.

One thing that always bothered me about the pixel 4 was the fact that it didn't have an ultra-wide camera. So it's good to see that google is listening, because a lot of people, including myself, had a problem with them, not including the ultra-wide camera, so you're going to have nice and sharp natural. Looking images coming out of this thing- and this is also gonna- include night mode, which is a fantastic feature. So, with this phone being priced more like a mid-level phone, what do the specs look like? Well, it's going to come with the snapdragon 765 g. Now I know a lot of people were wanting to see something like a 865 plus or some other more powerful processor, but I do think this was an attempt for them to keep the price down now.

It does come with 8 gigabytes of ram, which is nice to see, as well as 128, gigabytes of onboard storage, you're going to get wireless charging and reverse wireless charging. That means you can actually take the Pixel Buds or another phone and charge it with this phone. Now, of course, the 765g isn't the most powerful processor in the world, but I am curious to know how it affects battery life, considering it might use less energy. So I'm going to be using this phone for a little while, and then I'm going to give you my thoughts later on how I feel about it. So with the release of the pixel 5.

That means google now has three phones, so they have the pixel 5, the Pixel 4a and the Pixel 4a 5g. So, as you can see, with the pixel 5 you're going to get a bigger battery, the 90 hertz display the snapdragon 765 8 gigabytes of ram and ip68 water resistance. So I think the route google took here is interesting, so pricing, the phone at 6.99 and taking out some crazy features might actually be a good idea when you consider the fact that something like my Samsung Galaxy s20 ultra cost me sixteen hundred dollars. This phone costs less than half of that. Even if you got the 13 or 1400 version, it's still going to be half the price and there's a lot of features that this phone has that you're, probably not gonna use, so I'm going to be taking the sim card out of my s20 ultra and putting it into the pixel 5, and then I'll report back in a few weeks and give you my thoughts on it.

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