Pixel 5 vs iPhone 12: Full Comparison | Which one should you buy? By Hari Talks Tech

Hi guys welcome back to channel I'm harry and in today's video we're going to be taking a look at two of the latest phones from apple and google. So here we have the Google Pixel 5, and here we have the regular iPhone 12. Now. The reason for comparing both of these phones is that they kind of occupy that territory that I like to call a sub flagship level. So these are not a thousand pound phones and indeed, in the UK, the Google Pixel 5 is only 599 pounds. The iPhone 12 starts at 799 in the UK, although I believe in the US, the pixels 699, so they're a bit closer together.

Nonetheless, both of them aim to give most the flagship features you get in a thousand pounds, plus tight flagships and put them in a slightly more affordable package, so we're going to see how they stack up when it comes to design and build performance and specs camera performance, battery life and just general other observations, so stay tuned for that now, if you do enjoy my content, I'd be so grateful for a like and a subscription would be amazing. Thank you. So much right, so I'm going to start with the design, the build quality and the screens on these two phones, and they do take very different approaches. So, let's look at the iPhone 12 first. This is, in my opinion, the nicest looking and feeling iPhone that apple has ever made.

The design harks back to the classic iPhone 4 5s series, with the very flat side rails made of aluminum, in this case a lovely blue aluminum that complements the color of the glass and the front glass is supposedly the ceramic shield, which is meant to be more shatter resistant when dropped. But beware, it doesn't look like it's any more scratch resistant, so I've still slapped a screen protector on mine. The back glass is absolutely glossy and fingerprints on the regular 12. However, it's surprisingly drippy, and I've found this an easy phone to hold and use one-handed. You can see I've got kind of medium-sized hands.

Now the Google Pixel 5 takes a slightly different approach, but I would argue that it feels equally premium. So, yes, you get the front gorilla glass, but on the back, Google have coated it with what they call bio resin, and I think I've said before it's some kind of posh plastic, but it feels lovely to hold and use. You can see the back fingerprint sensor there, which you come back to and again a square camera module housing just two lenses same as the iPhone 12, which we'll look at in a minute now, underneath that bio resin is aluminum, which is a rarity nowadays in smartphone design, main reason being because aluminum doesn't allow QI wireless charging. However, Google have cut a window in the back of the aluminum to allow QI wireless charging. So both these phones support wireless charging.

The phones are very, very similar size, so the pixel 5 has a six-inch screen and the iPhone 12 has a 6.1-inch screen talking about the screens. There are three main differences to these two screens apart from the size. Obviously so the first one is the cutouts, so the iPhone 12 sadly still boasts that horrible big old notch that we've seen since the iPhone 10 back in 2017, and it hasn't diminished in size at all. It still houses a face ID the speaker and the front-facing camera, but unfortunately, it's still hard to ignore. Pixel 5, on the other hand, goes for the common android tactic, which is the hole, punch, cutout, housing, the front camera, and it's not the smallest one compared to something like the note 20 ultra.

But it's tucked away in the corner and to be honest with you, I don't mind it. I prefer it actually to the notch. It tends to disrupt the viewing experience less. The second difference between the two screens, and it's quite a big difference really is the fact that the pixel 5 supports a high refresh rate, 90 hertz, in fact like last year's pixel, 4 phones, whereas the iPhone 12 sticks to 60 hertz. Now the iPhone 12 screen is by no means a slouch.

Both screens have very good touch. Responsiveness, however, put them side by side, and the benefits of the 90 hertz refresh rate are very clear. The third difference, which is less of a major one for me anyway, is that the iPhone 12 gets a teeny bit brighter in direct sunlight compared to the pixel 5. Now they're, both easily visible outdoors, but the peak brightness of the iPhone 12 is just that little better. Now in the UK we haven't had much sunshine recently.

So typically, you can't see out the window, but it's typically gray autumn day. So it's not really been an issue. If you live in southern California, if you're lucky enough to live there, then maybe you'll notice a difference, but it's not a big thing for me. Both phones take a similar approach when it comes to color reproduction, so they tend towards more natural colors rather than over saturated look and they both support. HDR Dolby Vision on the iPhone 12, HDR 10, plus on the pixel 5, but in both cases watching HDR content, be it on YouTube or Netflix is an absolute pleasure.

People do buy both these phones due to their reputation as being excellent, point-and-shoot cameras with great computational skills and the camera hardware is very similar on both phones. So, on the back on both phones, we've got two shooters. We've got the standard wide and the ultra-wide lenses no telephoto on either phone. So if you want to zoom, you have to rely on the digital zoom and the other big difference between the ultrawide is that the iPhone 12 ultra-wide is wider than the pixel fives. Both have very reasonable front-facing selfie cameras as well have a look at these photos of the two phones side by side.

We haven't got the scope to go into an in-depth camera comparison here, that's something I can do if you guys want to see it, but I would say that the pictures from both phones are truly excellent, both in good light and in poor light. Both phones do offer night mode now on both the wide and ultra-wide lenses, on the back and on the front-facing camera, which makes a big difference. Apple has made huge strides in its computational photography on the iPhone 12 series, and I would say that in many cases it equals or surpasses the pixel 5. , the one area where the iPhone 12 does totally dominate. The pixel, though, is video recording iPhones have always been brilliant at video recording, and it's just so good on this year's iPhone 12.

If you want, you can even switch it into recording Dolby Vision, HDR video. To be honest, I wouldn't bother with that at the moment, because there are not many devices that can play that back looks great if you're watching it on the phone screen, but it can look completely terrible. If you try and post that social media, the pixel 5 has stepped up the video quality compared to previous pixel phones, videography has always been the Achilles heel of the pixel camera experience, and this year again the video looks very natural. The focus is good, but you just don't get that same detail and vibrancy that you get on the iPhone 12. I would say that they're both excellent stills shooters, but if video is a big thing for you as well, then definitely the iPhone 12 will offer you more of an experience and more quality battery life than really important feature.

Sometimes the most important feature for many people and the pixel 5, despite being really very compact, boasts a 4080 William hour battery, pretty beefy the iPhone 12 in keeping with all iPhones boasts a relatively small battery. I think it's a 2 800 William hour battery something along those lines, but the size of battery obviously doesn't give you the whole story because, as usual, the apple is very well optimized to make use of its relatively smaller battery. Even so, there's no doubt that the pixel 5 is the out-and-out battery champ, and I easily get seven hours of screen on time, sometimes even more, which for me equates to at least one and a half days of use before I need to charge it sometimes if I've only had light use, I can get through two days, and it has very low standby battery drain, which is something that generally afflicts android. Phones. Now the iPhone 12 is also no battery slouch, so I'm getting between five and six hours screen on time, usually more towards five than six hours, but that's really not too bad.

It's not quite as great as last year's iPhone, 11 pro, which was a battery champ. But overall I can get through a day's use no trouble, and that includes listening to loads of music, watching YouTube, taking a few photos and videos, so I'm not disappointed with either of them, but the pixel 5 is undoubtedly the much better phone when it comes to battery life performance and specs wise. It's very difficult to compare these two phones directly, because specs don't really translate from android to apple phone. So for what it's worth, the pixel 5 isn't a flagship processor. It's a snapdragon 765 g paired with eight gigs of ram, which is nice to see from Google.

They usually skimp on the ram, despite not being a flagship processor. The snapdragon 765 handles everything you can chuck at it, including some heavy-duty gaming, and this phone has never felt anything other than really, really zippy, coupled as we've said with that 90 hertz display. What concerns me is there's, probably not that much headroom I. e. in three years time when google releases android, 14 or whatever it is, I'm just not sure that this phone will be able to cope as well as it does at this moment in time.

The iPhone 12, however, it rocks apple's latest a14 processor, which, if you've seen the benchmarks, absolutely eats anything else up for breakfast it'll chew through absolutely anything you chuck at it now and for the foreseeable future. There's plenty of headroom here now the ae14 is paired with six gigs of ram, but ram is much less important to iOS devices and there are no issues with ram management. Overall. This is probably the slickest performance you'll get for 800 quid on any smartphone, so we're almost done with the comparison, but there are a couple of points I wanted to talk about before you wrap it up so, firstly, biometrics now I vastly prefer the touch ID on the pixel 5 to face ID at the moment, and the reason for that is because in the UK, as I'm sure in many countries around the world, we're all wearing masks, and we're out and about and therefore unlocking the iPhone in public is really tricky. The pixel 5 pixels, imprint, capacitive rear fingerprint reader is just quick and accurate and an absolute joy to use now.

The other thing I had to mention- and this is a big thing actually for some people- is audio quality. Both have supposedly stereo sound, but not quite so. In the apples case, you get sound from the top earpiece speaker and sound from the bottom firing. Speaker and Apple have done a great job at balancing the sound you get decent stereo separation. The pixel 5, however, has a nice clear bottom firing speaker no problems, but it doesn't have an earpiece speaker.

It's got all these weird under display speakers under the glass, and it's not right at the top. It's a little further down, and it doesn't sound as loud or as clear. Furthermore, it doesn't have the base presence of the lower speaker. So if you play some music, or you play a video, everything just sounds a lot more unbalanced, okay time to round off the comparison between these two phones, I hope I've. Given you an idea of some pros and cons of each.

But the thing to bear in mind is that they're, both fantastic phones, offering great hardware pixel 5 in the UK, remember, is 200 pounds cheaper than the base model of the iPhone 12, which only comes with 64 gigs of storage. So if you compare it to equivalent 128 gigs of storage, then you're looking at a saving of 250 pounds, which is considerable, and I think for that money- the pixel 5 is probably the better value buy and when you look at all the other factors, the camera quality, the screen quality. I think you can make a very strong argument that you're not losing out by going for the pixel 5. Indeed, in the case of the screen, you are gaining that high refresh rate, the apple 12 just feels like a slightly more premium device. It does run a flagship processor.

You are compromising a little on battery life, you're, not getting the 90 hertz refresh rate, but the cameras this year are out of this world, and particularly the video recording is fantastic. Whether it justifies spending the extra 250 quid is a decision only you can make. So those are my thoughts guys. Let me know what you think in the comments section below. As always, it's fascinating and great to hear from you once again.

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