The Top 5 BEST and WORST Things About the New GOOGLE PIXEL 5 By This is Tech Today

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Okay, for the best things number one battery life with all these phones coming out with 5g and high refresh rate screens battery life is an issue. One solution is having a huge chunky phone, like the Samsung Galaxy s20 ultra and the other is just simply cutting out a high refresh rate screen altogether. Like the new iPhones, the pixel 5 has 5g and a 90hz refresh rate screen, and yet it has an incredible battery life. First, in idle mode. The pixel 5 really sips the battery.

It can really last a long time. Typically, I get maybe about six and a half to seven and a half hours of screen on time and if I'm just casually using it, it will. Last me two days I've been able to get 36 hours on one charge, which is insane. I have been saying. If I got stuck in the middle of a desert and I needed one phone, it would be the pixel 5.

The benefit of that is that they've been able to balance a bunch of different things in order to get that battery life they've gone with that aluminum build that doesn't take up as much room as glass and metal, so they can squeeze in more battery. In there they've gone with the snapdragon 765 g chip, which doesn't use as much battery life as the 865 chip they removed. Other sensors like the sole sensor, which for some people would say, that's a bummer. I kind of miss it and they've gone with this whole new technology, where you use the screen as a speaker interesting, unfortunately, not the best sounding thing, but as a trade-off. I'd rather have more battery life than better sound, which is kind of interesting to say.

As an audio engineer, the pixel 5 probably has the best battery of any mainstream phone out right now, and it goes with a 90 hertz, refresh rate screen instead of 120 hertz refresh rate screen, and it's a constant 90 hertz, the difference from 60hz is noticeable, but that difference from to 120 hertz, not as big number two the design. While you have all these other phones that have these hawking camera bumps and this industrial design. That just begs you to pay attention to it. The Google Pixel 5 it's minimal and simple, and it doesn't demand your intention. It just blends into your environment, and I kind of like that it looks clean.

It's not offensive in any way and in the hand it feels perfect, and it's just the right size, I'm really into smaller phones. I'm kind of getting tired of these ultra phones, where it's just kind of a brick in your pocket, but I'm curious: do you prefer a bigger phone or a phone? That's about the size of a pixel, 5 or under. Let me know in the comments, so I would say that the Google Pixel 5 is the best looking Google Pixel phone to date, and I would even say that I, like it better than the new iPhone 12s number three is the camera the Google Pixel 5 brings in that ultra-wide camera that so many people have wanted. While I would love to have a telephoto camera as well as an ultra-wide camera, I do have to admit it is possible to at least zoom in on image, while with an ultrawide, you can't really back up enough, especially for like small rooms or real estate. So it's really nice to have an ultra-wide lens, as well as the processing that google brings to its camera.

Night sight works on that ultra-wide camera, and you can take portrait photos with nightlight. Along with that, you get 4k, 60, recording on video and then finally, there's some really neat video stabilization options that google has brought, and they're really quite fantastic. It feels like you're actually using a gimbals. You have the standard optical image stabilization that you typically see on most phones, but you have this locked in mode that allows you to have a really stable shot when you're zoomed. In really far, then you have active mode, which kind of works a lot like a GoPro, and then you have cinematic pen which allows you to have smooth panning shots with a little of slow motion to give that dramatic effect.

Those things seem really cool, but I'm going to put them to the test with some really fancy gear from moment, so make sure you subscribe and hit the bell icon to be notified. When that video comes out, I think there's a special deal for moment gear, for this is tech. Today's subscribers, so you know you might want to watch it number four. The fingerprint reader is back while I absolutely love face unlock and I do wish it was on the pixel 5. You have to admit right now, probably not the most convenient thing so having the fingerprint reader is really great.

Ideally, I'd like to have both, but right now, if I had to have a default, it would definitely be a fingerprint scanner plus with the fingerprint scanner I can swipe down on the fingerprint scanner and access the notification shade. I really miss this number. Five that display the Google Pixel 5 looks really amazing. It doesn't have the thinnest bezels out there, but those bezels are, even so, it looks like you're just holding a screen in your hand, and it looks really great and the best part the Google Pixel 5 is the only android phone that has symmetrical bezels all around. On top of that, it's brighter than the Google Pixel 4.

, it looks really great. The colors are accurate. It's super smooth with the 90hz display and doesn't have any weird issues when it's flipping between 90hz and 60hz. I checked it out to make sure so as a whole. I think google did a great job with the display selection, but there is an issue with it and that takes us to the top five worst things.

The Google Pixel series has been known to have front-facing stereo speakers for quite some time. It was the appeal of the Google Pixel 2 and the 3, and he still had some perfect stereo speakers on the Google Pixel 4. , even if it had a down facing speaker. Unfortunately, with a Google Pixel 5, it's not stereo front facing speakers. In fact, it's one bottom firing speaker and then one under display speaker at the top.

It's a unique technology that google acquired a few years ago that allows the speaker to use the screen vibrations to produce sound, a really neat idea in theory, but in practice it doesn't have the best sound, it's severely lacking in the headpiece, but I will say that using it for calls, it gets the job done, it's just a little hokier than most phones, but not as concerning, as you might think, and even as an audio engineer I would say, even if the speaker is not that great, it's not a reason to skip this phone. It's not a dealbreaker in my book I mean. How often are we using things like this now, or maybe I just have it on my desk, and I'm listening to a podcast, or I have my phone call on speakerphone. So from afar it doesn't really matter, but if you're playing a game or watching a movie, it doesn't sound great, and it's super easy to cover the bottom number two. While I'm really glad that there's an ultra-wide lens on the pixel 5, it's not as wide as the other options that you would have on other phones.

Google does say that this is because of their algorithms and how they're able to calculate it and make the photo look good. So maybe it's a worthy trade-off, but it would have been nice if it was just a little wider and then, on top of that, throughout the different camera modes that are out there, it just seems to punch in a little more so portrait mode it punches in while on other cameras, they don't have to do that anymore. So your field of view gets cropped a lot and that can be a little frustrating, and you just have to end up walking back a little number. Three there's no neural core chip in the pixel 5. If you don't know what the neural core chip is, it was in the Google Pixel 3 and the 4, and the chip did a number of things like processing photos, so you'll notice the difference between the pixel 4 and the pixel 5.

If you take a picture, there's just a little more of a processing time for when it takes night sight, photos, portrait photos or just normal photos. Interestingly enough, though, I did compare the quality of Instagram stories from the pixel 4 and the pixel 5, and I found that the pixel 5 looked better. So I guess it's not the worst out there number four, the lack of projects solely now. Some of you think that that is really worthless, and it was just a gimmick to swipe your hand around and things like that, but in my use I've missed things like face unlock where you just hold up your phone, and it unlocks you just tap on the icon, you're already looking at the phone, you know you're already in so while movie is our life right now, it's not forever, so I'd like to have the face unlock as an option, but that's a trade-off of uh having symmetrical bezels and number five is probably the worst one, the price. So, while Google did everything it could to cut down on the price by going with a lower resolution, screen a lower tier processor, a different kind of build, removing projects solely removing the squeeze to assist option, removing ambient EQ removing the neural core, amongst other things, they somehow still ended up charging too much money for it.

It might be in-depth review which you can check out up here. The additional cost of a hundred dollars is the result of having millimeter wave is a type of 5g that most people won't be able to experience or utilize reasonably. So it's really just catering to Verizon and that hundred dollar difference is something that's passed on to you. On top of that, it puts it in line with phones like the iPhone 12, the Samsung s20 Fe edition and the new OnePlus 8t. So when you look at specs alone, ah it's got some tough competition if it was 100 cheaper.

This would be a very easy suggestion, both in terms of the wallet and in terms of distancing itself from other phones. But there are many other things to consider with that. I'll have some buyers guides coming up, so stay tuned for that, but if you're looking to buy the pixel 5, I would always encourage you to wait until around the holidays when it tends to drop in price and if it doesn't drop in price. The worst that could happen. Are you just waited a little at 600? This is definitely a no-brainer in my book.

I would easily suggest this to anyone, but at seven hundred dollars it leaves room for pause. So those are my top five best and top five worst things about the Google Pixel 5. What do you think about them? And if you have the Google Pixel 5, what are your top five best and worst things go ahead and leave some comments and let us know and make sure to join the discussion in the is Texas, a community discord, chat server. Finally, make sure you check out this video sponsor private internet access, and thank you so much for watching. This is tech today, where we talk about the intersection of technology in our everyday lives, in business and in all things creative until next time uh, you.

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