Google Pixel 5 unboxing: behold, the $699 anti-flagship! By Mobile Tech Podcast

Hey folks, you know what time it is welcome to another day, another unboxing. This is the Google Pixel 5 5g, and we're going to unbox it. So here we go. Google, google, 5g, and then we've got team pixel on this side, nice. So let's get this open. Shall we- and here we are a little indent here in the case- and here's the phone? Oh nice, all right, so this material, oh interesting kind of feels like paper.

Actually it's very interesting. Let's get to that in a minute. Let's see, what's else is in the box, so we've got a divider here. We've got some manuals. Of course, sim removal tool see how the sim goes in here.

Let's have a look here: we've got the uh google setup manual right here and then multiple languages. Then we have the safety and warranty, and then we have that sim removal tool. Now, in the rest of the box, we have a charger, I'm pretty sure it's 18 watt, because I'm pretty sure the phone is 18 watt. Then we have USB type c to type c, cable right here, pretty standard stuff, and then we have a type, a to type c, adapter, so type a female to type c male. So you can connect an old USB, a cable to transfer data over I'm not going to take this out.

It's kind of a painting I'll just take out, but here you go all right, that's it for the content of the box. Let's have a look at the phone. Shall we man, it's small, I'm going to give you a point of reference right here right now? This is a Pixel 4 XL from last year and so yeah you're going to get a small phone. If you want the flagship, there's nothing, you can do about it if you're coming from an Excel phone from previous years, this is going to hurt, and you might want to look at the Pixel 4a 5g at that point because well you won't get water resistance or wireless charging or 90 hertz display or 8 gigs of ram, but you will get a bit of a phone so consider that all right. So, let's remove this plastic on front here we go and let's turn it on taxa.

So this is a six inch.1080P AMOLED display it's a beautiful screen. It is a 90 hertz display it has a 19.5 by 9 aspect ratio. As you can see, the bezels are pretty small, there's a tiny little more of a chin, maybe, but it's almost impossible to tell and of course, there's a hole punch for the front-facing camera. This is an eight megapixel f of a 2.0 1.12 micron front-facing camera, it's exactly the same as in the pixel 4 a5g and the Pixel 4a. So while it's booting here, I'm not going to be able to show you anything but the main screen today, but don't fret.

I will talk about this on the podcast at length, so you should check that out for sure. So there you go screen is beautiful. Colors are really nice. Viewing angles are good inside under the hood is a snapdragon 765 g with eight gigs of ram and 128 gigs of storage, and that's one of the big differences of this phone versus the 4a and the 485g that it has eight gigs of ram. The other phones have six gigs of ram.

So basically you know this is a. This is an improvement and I think it's its a good amount of ram for a Google's flagship because with the snapdragon 765, this is not a flagship but 765g honestly, unless you're playing games you're not going to notice much of a difference day to day even the snapdragon 730 in the base. Pixel 4a is super, super snappy. So I wouldn't worry too much, so you got a fingerprint sensor in the back. We've gone back to kind of like what it used to be like two years ago.

We've got the Google logo here, so this is an aluminum unibody, but it's been carved in the middle here for the wireless charging coil, and I presume the NFC coil as well and then painted over with some sort of epoxy type finish. So it feels less like aluminum and more like paper, the pixel 2 XL, if you remember, had that kind of weird paint on top of metal thing going as well, but it's not quite the same experience. Let's talk about these cameras in the back. There are two cameras: there's a flicker sensor and a flash. The two cameras are 12, megapixel, f of 1.7 1.4 micron main sensor with is. This is the same camera, that's on the 4a5g and on the 4a, and then there's an ultra-wide 16 megapixel f over 2.2 1 microns, and this one is the same as the 4a5 g. Now this is the first for Google to give us an ultra-wide camera versus a telephoto like they did on the 4xl last year.

So this is going to be interesting to see what it looks like I'm much more in favor of an ultra-wide than the tell, because the incredible computational photography that google brings to the table allows some crazy zooming up to about 5x with a regular sensor, like I experienced that with the Pixel 4a most recently, and you're not going to miss it. I don't think the tell, but ultra-wide you can't replace an ultra-wide all right in terms of batteries as a 4080 William hour battery. Of course, there is wireless charging, as I mentioned, 18 watt fast charging in quotes really most of the phones. These days support something like 30 watts, so you know also reverse wireless charging, which is new to pixels and, of course, water resistant, IP rating, it's ip68, and this is a 5g phone. It has 5g radios built into the snapdragon 765g and, more importantly, this is supporting all the US carriers.

So it has ATT low band, T-Mobile, mid and low band, and it has millimeter wave for Verizon, I'm not sure if it supports a millimeter wave for T-Mobile and a t, but it's interesting because the 700 price tag includes you know the millimeter wave tax. Basically, the fact that you have extra hardware that you might never use on your own carrier, so you know I would have loved for the phone to be 650 and have a special version for Verizon. Instead, that would have been a sweet spot. But honestly, this is a very thin phone, it's very small phone, and you know it feels really great in hand so far, and I'm really not sure if this is going to be a big deal that you're still getting all the googly goodness for 700 with wireless charging, water resistance, eight gigs of ram 90 hertz screen, it's an improvement over the four and four a5 g, no matter what so let me walk you through the edges. You've got a power lock key, it's kind of like an emerald chromed button.

Here. You've got a volume rocker. This is the right-hand side on the bottom. You have speakers and microphones and of course, an USB type c port. This actually has stereo speakers, so you know you get one at the bottom here and then, on the left-hand side here you have the sim tray, it's a single sim, there's no micro SD, but there's an ENIM in this phone technically you're, getting a dual sim phone and, of course, on top here's a secondary microphone and that's pretty much the tour of the phone there's really not much else going on so folks.

That's it that is the pixel 5 for 2020, the quote-unquote flagship for Google, which is not a flagship, but I kind of hate this distinction, because I've reviewed enough phones now with snapdragon 765g, to know better to know that you get some incredible performance out of that chip, and you really don't need a snapdragon 865. Unless you're like a super hardcore, gamer interesting to see that rear mounted fingerprint sensor, it would have been nice to have an in-display sensor as well. I think some people would have liked that, but hey, so I want to show you something else before we go. I do have a case here from Google from the pixel 5 case. So let's have a look at that.

Shall we, let's peel, that open and whoa that's funky wow that actually looks really nice? That looks like a really great fit for this phone. Let's put it on and see what it looks like all right here we go there. It is looks pretty nice, so yeah folks. This is the pixel 5. So please stay tuned for more videos like subscribe.

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