Purchase a Google Pixel 6 or Google Pixel 6 Pro on a monthly payment plan and pay the applicable sales tax on the pre-credit price at time of purchase.Overall, Google got it right this time around. In fact, Google’s smartphone feels really smart, with proactive alerts and useful notifications that let you take direct action right from them. Samsung’s devices are excellent and unique, but like I said earlier, there is a smart simplicity to Google’s devices.
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I’m not saying you need to switch from the iPhone to jump over to Pixel, but it finally feels like Android users have a choice that’s just as good. Still, I think for most people the Pixel 6 is the way to go due to its combination of price and features. The Pixel 6 is $300 less than the Pro and the main difference is that you get a screen that isn’t as high quality (but still great), slightly less RAM (so it’s probably a tiny bit slower) and there is no zoom on the camera. But, I expect similar performance from the much more budget friendly Pixel 6. Keep in mind, I tried the Pixel 6 Pro which starts at $900 and is their top-of-the-line unit. I had zero issues with the performance on this device. It just means that everything is snappy and there aren’t many hiccups when you’re juggling multiple apps or trying to edit a photo or video. Not iPhone powerful and not even Samsung top of the line powerful, but powerful enough to support the things you want to do on this phone. The main thing I noticed about this phone is that it finally felt powerful. “So it’s the first time we’ve built a chip that we put in our mobile devices and that allows everything to work generally a lot better and it allows us to infuse the Google smarts into the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 pro as well,” said Justin Burr, a Google spokesperson. The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro also have a Google designed chip inside for the first time called Tensor. Other cool camera tricks include Motion Blur, which gives a long exposure effect, and Face Unblur, which ensures the faces in your photos aren’t blurry due to movement. It’s useful, too.įYI, if you’re on another Android or iPhone, you can get a similar feature from an app called TouchRetouch.
This makes a great party trick, as I was often showing it off to friends and family checking out the phone.
There are also fun camera features including Magic Eraser, which instantly removes unwanted people or objects from your photos. There’s a certain wow factor to photos that come off the Pixel, and no doubt that’s Google’s AI at work. The Pixel takes great shots 99.9% of the time and often, shots that look even better. Apparently, there are also nearly 100 other small fixes included in the update.Īs expected, the camera is excellent.
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Google has promised a fix for the slow fingerprint sensor in a major software update that is currently rolling out to devices right now, but so far it hasn’t hit mine so I can’t say if it truly makes it faster. I tried a bunch of different cases to make it more grippy in my hand and settled upon the Spigen Ultra Hybrid. In my time with the phone, I identified two key issues: a super slow fingerprint reader and its enormous size. It is one of the few phones I didn’t want to put down. There’s a smart simplicity to these phones that make them easy to use and the camera is spectacular.įor my review, I used a Pixel 6 Pro provided by Google for the past few weeks. Now, that’s all changing thanks to the Pixel 6 series. In recent years, the phones have been good but not the best you could get. Google’s Pixel smartphones made a name for themselves because the camera was so good.