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amazon Google Pixel 5 reviews
The Pixel 5’s Make is quite simple; It is white, has a Google logo, and name of the phone. Below this image would be the product photo with corresponding color version.
Inside the box was a user manual, a SIM removal tool, a charging cable “USB Type-A to Type-C”, and an 18W charger which are similar to other Pixel phones that once again don’t provide the device with headphones.
Design
Google Pixel 5 is the smartphone made from recycled aluminum. A manufacturer does not necessarily be a plastic or glass-equip for wireless charging capability; this is what Google must be approved for.
Use of aluminum brings Pixel 5 as the first 5G mobile with a metallic body construction. Google claims that it has used this kind of body-more than plastic or glass options-to make the phone as thin as possible. The gripping has also been designed that solid feeling user experiences possible when holding it.
It’s furnished by the same Gorilla Glass 6 as we have with the Pixel 4a at the display. Underneath the earpiece, the proximity sensor can be seen, high light on the back of the screen. A small dot manages to give the phone a really thin border.
The SIM card tray has only one nano-SIM capacity and is on the left side. Pixel 5 also has an eSIM internally fitted inside, which makes it possible into using dual SIM feature. Right-side volume rocker and power button.
Google also included a fingerprint sensor on this phone in the back and a camera cluster that does not protrude so that this phone does not wobble when placed on a flat surface.
In fact, Pixel 5 also does not possess a 3.5 headphone jack; the USB-C port will do this task and also charge the device. On the left side is the microphone and on the right is the speakerphone. In addition, there is a small camera placed in the rear camera cluster.
Overall, the overall design of the Pixel 5 is not too different from the Pixel 4 but has a larger screen. It also has smooth edges and is made with a very grippy material, all good features in this smartphone.
90Hz display
The new Google Pixel 5 features a flexible OLED panel with Full HD + resolution (1080×2340) and a 19.5: 9 aspect ratio. The screen has a measurement of 6 inches and is capable of HDR content playback. Also, it is the Pixel 2020 model that comes with a display having a 90Hz refresh rate.
It has an excellent color accuracy. Colors appear quite deep with an excellent contrast in the default “Adaptive” mode. Users can switch modes, depending on their taste and perception of color. It is under the “Natural” or “Enhanced” mode.
Before the Pixel 4a was launched, brightness often didn’t reach what the manual slider maximum could set such that even when “Adaptive Brightness” was enabled, it was less than that actually possible under sunlight. With the Pixel 5, it will boost screen brightness even beyond the upper manual slider limit when exposed to sunlight.
Pixel 5 and Charging Speed
When compared to its predecessors, Pixel 5 has something rich in batteries of about 4,080 mAh. Along with these things, a processor chip that consumes less power; hence, battery life of this device has improved. Up until the launch of this device, Pixel couldn’t compete with the best regarding battery life.
The feature on the Pixel 5 wakes the 90Hz screen to carry out usage with fingers tapping the display to reserve more batteries.
With the 60Hz screen setting, the Pixel 5 has around 26 hours of calling time, 12.5 hours of web-surfing, and around 18 hours of full video playback.
To make an accurate battery consumption test, I’ve turned on developer options so as to force display always at 90 Hz. From then on, Pixel 5 delivered more than 12 hours on the web and just below 17 hours in video playback these values are not much different from those for the 60Hz monitor setting.
The Pixel 5 comes along with 18-watt USB-C Power Delivery charger, which charges the device by 41% in the half-hour and finally attains a full charge in 1 hour and 35 minutes.
The Pixel 5 also supports fast charging through the Qi wireless charging standard, with speeds of up to 12 watts and reverse charging at 5 watts for accessories such as Pixel Buds or competitors’ Qi-enabled smartphones.
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Performance and OS
Here, with the Pixel 5, Google put in a mid-range chip rather than the Qualcomm high-end 800 series processor. No more racing in specs, but instead a device that would run better without hiccups using the Snapdragon 765G.
A powerful processor chip in 7 nm gives a great performance, runs very powerless, and enables compatibility with 5G networking. The performance cluster includes two ARM Cortex-A76 cores at 2.4GHz and 2.2GHz processing speed. The power-saving cluster, meanwhile, consists of 6 ARM Cortex-A55 cores up to a maximum of 1.8GHz. Depending on how much CPU load is used, all cores can run at different speeds.
The graphics processing capabilities of the Adreno 620 chip are 20% higher than that of Adreno 618 on the Snapdragon 730G chip of Pixel 4a.
Besides, the Pixel 5 is also equally impressive with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. Only one memory option is provided; unfortunately, the device lacks a memory slot to expand storage capacity.
But through some small tests, I confirmed that the Snapdragon 765G processor chip is not really doing the needful in the Pixel 5, not at its full potential.
Google’s Baby comes pre-installed with Android 11, so you won’t have to stress about OTA updates needing carrier or OEM approval before it is available in the device because it is software directly from the giant. The company promises at least three years of major OS updates and security patches for the Pixel 5.
Camera
Google equipped Pixel 5 with dual camera clusters, including a 12.2MP wide-angle lens with an f/1.7 aperture, and a 16MP, f/2.2 ultra-wide camera. Going by user feedback, it seems that google decided to embed in Pixel 5 this time with an ultra-wide-angle camera instead of a telephoto camera, which it had with the Pixel 4.
The main camera’s image in good brightness is quite fine and has a lot of contrast and the details are quite sharp.
Even if the ultra-wide doesn’t have autofocus adjustment, the pictures are still quite detailed with pretty impressive sharpness.
Super-Res zoom was built to offset the fact that there is no telephoto lens at all. Enlarged images lose detail and sharpness.
Photos taken using the Pixel 5 are not too great in portrait shots but are good to satisfy an image quality user.
Outdoors, the photos taken with Pixel 5 are very much good quality within the low-light conditions. Colors and exposures are natural, although sometimes there is an effect on white balance. The ultra-wide-angle proves to be a little weaker than the main camera, but there is still some tool provided by the device to assist users while taking photos in low light, which is night mode.
Night mode would be up after a certain threshold of light, and sometimes turning it on worsens the quality of photos. Applying this mode in scene shooting would lessen the noise of the image much more.
The device boasts an 8-megapixel, f/2.0 selfie camera that provides images riddled with detail and vibrant colors.
Conclusion
Generally, the Pixel 5 is a device representing the future targets of other devices from Google. It has dealt with battery issues and changes in material and overall looks.
While Pixel 5 thrives on a number of aspects, there are a few others where it falls flat, such as the performance of Snapdragon 765G on board and less storage.