Pixel 5 vs LG Velvet Midrange Battle! Where should you spend YOUR $700? By Technically Speaking

What's up everybody. This is Scott. Welcome back to another video well in the pixel extravaganza or tech, timber or October weeks that it has been. I am coming back again with yet another comparison, video this time, much closer in price points perspective, and it's the pixel 5 versus the lg velvet. Now what I want to do is this is strictly just a camera comparison, so I want to talk about the 4k. I want to talk about the stabilization.

I want to talk about how the audio sounds from a microphone's perspective. Furthermore, I'm recording everything, no external mic. This is just straight through the device native camera app on both, which means I'm using the lg with the velvet I'm using just the regular pixel camera. With this one, everything you hear no post-processing is done. I might boost the gain- maybe I probably doubt it so everything you see from a color perspective and from an audio perspective is recorded on one of these two devices and everything you see right here is actually shot specifically in the velvet.

This is actually 4k because it does 4k 30 frames a second with the front facing camera. Now on the pixel 5, it's strictly just a 1080p 30 frames, a second shooter. So what I'm going to do is actually stop the recording and then bring them both back in at 1080p.30 frames a second so okay, so this is strictly 1080p.30 frames, a second out of the velvet and 1080p 30 frames, a second out of the pixel 5. Naturally, you can tell that the velvet having the ability to record in the front-facing camera 4k does give it a bit of a leg up, but look it's no slouch at all. I really like the contrast looks out of the pixel 5.

It's a much warmer lg type flare. I like a colder, more contrast type, video or photo. So for me. I have no trouble the fact that I'm recording in 1080p at 30 frames a second in the pixel 5. Definitely love the ability to record at the 4k 30 frames, a second in the lg velvet.

So again, from this perspective um, I think it's more of a personal preference toss-up, but from just a specs' perspective uh, you have to go with the lg now from an audio perspective, no idea what this actually sounds like I'll, probably jump in and post and tell you um. Oh, my this one sounds better, or this one doesn't sound quite as good. So let me know in the comments before I cut, in which one you think, looks and sounds better from a front-facing camera perspective. Now that I've jumped outside this is the pixel 5, which is what you see right here versus the lg velvet, which is right there. So I can already tell you that the front facing camera- I am shooting both 1080p 30 frames.

A second and the whole purpose of that was to make sure that I'm getting you know stabilization the same way in both of these. I can already tell you. It looks like at first glance, dynamic range on the front-facing camera. For me, it looks as though in camera it's going to be the pixel 5. , not to say the lg.

Velvet is a slouch by any stretch, the imagination and just that's the way. It looks to me holding this right here. So one thing that the velvet does have in terms of an advantage is this: can record 4k on the front-facing camera. So let's go ahead and flip that and then come right back. Okay, now, I'm back, so this is now the front-facing camera on the velvet in 4k versus the 1080p 30 frames, a second for the pixel 5.

Uh you can see. The stabilization is what it is. I'm now getting out of the most harsh sunlight you ever possibly can, but I'm going to specifically walk through on this path, to kind of show you what you could expect from a stabilization on the front facing man I'll, tell you what the lg just looks super blown out compared to the pixel 5, at least from the front facing camera perspective. Uh looks a little better now, but this is what the stabilization looks like. This is now 4k 60 frames, a second in the pixel which you can see right here, and it actually only has uh 30 frames a second on the velvet, which I think is really, really interesting.

You can do 4k on the front, but you can't do 60 frames a second um actually on the back, which I think is weird. So what I'm going to do is actually flip. The pixel 5 to 30 frames a second 4k, but this is actually what you can expect from a stabilization perspective. Walking directly at this chair stabilization is bananas on the pixel 5. , basically apples to apples.

This is 4k 30 frames, a second out of the lg velvet and 4k 30 frames a second out of the pixel 5. So you can see right here, I'm actually going to walk in the grass look at how smooth first, both of them are incredibly smooth, but the picture quality at least inside the camera that I can see right now for me really goes to the pixel 5. Again. Google doesn't always have the most massive amounts of hardware, a boy whatever they do with their whole. Software magician or magic is absolutely in terms of this exceptional.

So one thing that I do like on the pixel 5 is: you now have the ability to zoom out, so you have a wider shot. So let's go ahead and take a look at some of those. Let's take a look at exactly. There is a wide angle on the pixel 5, which goes from here to here so significantly wider. So if I were to go back and kind of look straight down, you can see my one foot.

You now see both my feet, so you can get significantly wider shots than you could before, which is really exceptional, and so this is actually what the stabilization looks like on that wider shot for the pixel 5 versus the non-wide shot for the lg uh using either one of these again, I am in like the craziest harshest light. I'm gonna just use the camera native app in both and see what I come up with. So, at the end of the day, which one am I picking um well see for me um, I really like the pixel experience. I still think the portrait mode is the best that you can get. I think the microphones are significantly better when you're recording the video and the battery life for me is actually better in terms of the pixel 5 than the velvet.

That doesn't mean the velvet is a bad phone. Quite the contrary. The velvet is a baller phone. I absolutely love it. I just happen to be a pixel person, so you can see right here.

It's super close. It is let me get inside this tree. Furthermore, it is exceptionally close. Furthermore, it's just a little Nancy. Things like the dynamic range in this particular shot for me goes to the pixel and has a little attention to detailing things like that that just put the pixel 5 slightly above the velvet for me, but boy, the velvet is so good.

You can't go wrong with either if you are a pixel person, you're going to absolutely love the pixel 5 you'll love the pixel 4. If you are a lg person, you cannot go wrong at all with the velvet, especially with the dual screen. That's one advantage that it has over the pixel 5. That dual screen case for the velvet absolutely makes it phenomenal. I was perusing twitter the other day, while I was watching the US open on the other screen.

That, for me, is exceptional, so the idea is. It is a wonderful time to be alive because both of these phones are fantastic. If you are a person who does a lot of content either on their mobile, takes a ton of photos or videos. For me, I'm going pixel 5, but if you can get past again a few little nuance-y things in terms of the video uh in terms of the photos, you cannot go wrong with this lg velvet. It is a powerhouse at a really great price.

So that's it! That's all that I have thanks for watching and, as always as, share subscribe, thumbs up, leave a comment below, and we'll see you next time.

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