Now I gotta be honest these two phones are the most interesting phones that Google has put out in a really long time for me. Like I love the Pixel 1 and the Pixel 2 and I kind of started to fall out of love with the Pixel brand at least with their flagship stuff. Their A series was pretty on point but their flagship stuff has become increasingly less appealing to me and I think for a lot of you guys as well. For I guess price was a big thing but if I had like a wish list right if I had a wish list of things I wanted Pixels to have. It would be like number one better pricing, number two bigger batteries and number three well this is a personal interest wide angled cameras and they nailed it.
PRICING
The hardware this year looks so nice the Pixel 5 is going to come in at $700 and the Pixel 4A 5G comes in at $500 and this pricing feels right. Right if you look at the hardware. It just doesn't feel like you have to justify anything like the pricing seems to line up really nicely with what you're getting. It feels like that's just the way the price should be on these devices.
SPECS AND PERFORMANCE
I do want to draw your attention to a couple things number one: the chip. So it's running a Snapdragon 765 G on both of these devices and it's a chip we've seen on the OnePlus Nord but it's the chip that allows for better pricing on these new Pixel devices. But the thing is it's really competitive on performance. Like I've tested it pretty thoroughly. It doesn't matter if you're playing games or just doing anything that's processor intensive. It keeps up, it's only in the really demanding 3D games that you'll be able to tell the difference between a Snapdragon 800 series chip in the 765 G.
BATTERY
The other thing I want to mention is the battery size. So the Pixel 5 has a huge battery compared to the Pixel 4. Like I got to be honest, I don't know how they fit it. The Pixel 4 had a tiny battery in comparison to the new Pixel 5. And when you look at the size of these phones the Pixel 5 is smaller and lighter than the Pixel 4 but the battery is like 40% bigger than what was in the Pixel 4. I don't know how they did. The project obviously took up a decent chunk of the real estate inside this phone but 40% bigger battery in a smaller package. How sick is that another thing?
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FINGERPRINT AND WIRELESS CHARGING
I want to draw attention to; is the back of the phone. So it's got a fingerprint sensor just like the Pixel 4A but it is an aluminum back yet somehow it has wireless charging. How I don't know. How are they doing it clearly? It's some kind of magic going on because I have not seen another phone that could be charged wirelessly through an aluminum back panel. It's pretty crazy.
CAMERA
The other thing is that new ultra wide lens: I've always liked Ultra-wide lenses on my phones like ever since that first LG phone did it. I just love it like you just being able to capture more stuff that's just the type of photos that I take. Maybe it's just like a lazy way of doing things. You know shoot wide and then crop later but it's awesome and to see them do it on a Pixel hell Yes ! Finally, I really want to see what Google's capable of when you take a good ultra-wide sensor and you pair it with software that's built specifically for it. In Google's camera system it's going to be good.
RAM, STORAGE & SCREEN
So we have 8 GB of RAM on the Pixel 5 and 6 GB on the Pixel 4A 5G. Both of them with 128 GB of storage. The screens on both of them have that hole punch but on the Pixel 5 you'll notice that the bezels around the whole thing are symmetrical. Like the top bottom left right; they're all evenly bezeled which I think is a nice look and it's also a nice change compared to the previous Pixels. Some of those had huge notches. The Pixel 4A 5G has the bigger screen at 6.2 inches but it doesn't have a fast refresh rate. It's still at 60 hertz. We did lose face unlock because they got rid of project solly on the Pixel 5.
So the only way you can get in there is through a fingerprint sensor. There's no more facial recognition but I think it's a fair trade considering everything you're getting for $700.
COMPETITION
Here's the thing at this price point at that $700 price point the competition is different. It's not like what the old Pixels were competing with. Right now I feel like at the $700 price point the closest thing out there is not that it's not good but it's like the Samsung S20 FE. I feel like this is a strong competitor to the Pixel 5 but they're clearly different. Normally Google like Pixel phones have had to make like they've had a tough time carving out a niche for themselves.They were so because they depended so much on their camera. To be like this is the feature that's going to carry the product but now the price and the battery and everything like so much more it's so much more competitive this year.
What do you guys think of these Pixel phones? Let me know in the comment section below. And stay tuned for more updates.
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