Google Pixel 5

jrwagh333 · 15 Mar 2021 at 07:54

For anybody interested, RE: Photos

https://twitter.com/mindofraja/status/1371201331793260548?s=19

HQ uploads from Pixels 2-5 will continue to be free and unlimited after June 1st. But uploads from other devices, including future Pixels, will count towards your Google account storage

kona786 · 17 Mar 2021 at 15:27

Oppo X3 Pro vs the almighty Pixel camera.

Looks like after many years we have a new winner in the camera space. he Pixel has stagnanted for too long but its fair given its sticker price these days.

LiE · 17 Mar 2021 at 16:21

kona786 said:
Oppo X3 Pro vs the almighty Pixel camera.

Looks like after many years we have a new winner in the camera space. he Pixel has stagnanted for too long but its fair given its sticker price these days.

I think the Oppo does a really good job, but in a lot of photos I preferred the pixel.

unwashed potato! · 18 Mar 2021 at 01:46

i could have sworn it was march 2021 and not july 2020

david25 · 18 Mar 2021 at 07:55

kona786 said:
Oppo X3 Pro vs the almighty Pixel camera.

Looks like after many years we have a new winner in the camera space. he Pixel has stagnanted for too long but its fair given its sticker price these days.

Its good, but this is a flagship phone at £1100 competing with the iPhone Pro 12 Max?

A better comparison might be with the Pixel 6 later in the year, if this has a similar price.

LiE · 18 Mar 2021 at 08:21

david25 said:
Its good, but this is a flagship phone at £1100 competing with the iPhone Pro 12 Max?

A better comparison might be with the Pixel 6 later in the year, if this has a similar price.

Not to mention you can get the Pixel camera system on the 4a 5G which is less than half the price of the Oppo.

kona786 · 18 Mar 2021 at 08:51

The Pixel camera is renowned to be the best Android has to offer in terms of PQ regardless of price. The comparison was to compare ultimate picture quality and its the best Google has to offer.

The Pixel as a phone has many flaws and its the camera that keeps it afloat. And barely at that.

LiE · 18 Mar 2021 at 09:05

kona786 said:
The Pixel camera is renowned to be the best Android has to offer in terms of PQ regardless of price. The comparison was to compare ultimate picture quality and its the best Google has to offer.

The Pixel as a phone has many flaws and its the camera that keeps it afloat. And barely at that.

What flaws are you referring to? I know it’s not a perfect phone. I think the Pixel 5 is great, the software experience is excellent which is the main draw for a lot of people.

If we could get the software experience in Samsung hardware the pixel line would be dead.

david25 · 18 Mar 2021 at 11:37

kona786 said:
The Pixel camera is renowned to be the best Android has to offer in terms of PQ regardless of price. The comparison was to compare ultimate picture quality and its the best Google has to offer.

The Pixel as a phone has many flaws and its the camera that keeps it afloat. And barely at that.

The 5 is the best mid-range phone you get, it does everything well, although it might not be the best in any single area but added together, its the most complete.

kona786 · 18 Mar 2021 at 14:54

LiE said:
What flaws are you referring to? I know it’s not a perfect phone. I think the Pixel 5 is great, the software experience is excellent which is the main draw for a lot of people.

If we could get the software experience in Samsung hardware the pixel line would be dead.

The Pixel 5 is a good phone no doubt, not great though for me. They mullered the earpiece speaker making it underglass and muffled for calls. And in turn messed the stereo sound balance , they cheaped out in so many areas... Not very wide WA cam with a tiny sensor (should have used the same main sensor as its hardly premium now) , dropped the quality of haptic feedback to 3A levels, got rid of the neural core and now HDR pics take 2016 levels of time to process. 3 years of software updates yes but paired with that average SoC it's performance will have aged badly.

david25 said:
The 5 is the best mid-range phone you get, it does everything well, although it might not be the best in any single area but added together, its the most complete.

As I said in my original post the camera is fine for its price point. Its the ultimate IQ was was comparing to the Oppo, saying we finally have a camera with a comparable Pixel processing but paired with a better quality sensor and SoC.

unwashed potato! · 18 Mar 2021 at 17:11

kona786 said:
The Pixel as a phone has many flaws

such as?

as a p5 owner, i don't know what they are other than the speaker piece.

there's personal preferences that i'd prefer things another way, but that pretty much is just the size i'd have preferred a bigger. now i'm used to this, i think next phone i'll likely get the smaller one again.

what else?

xb8browney · 18 Mar 2021 at 18:02

Speaker and fingerprint are my only issues and I don't mind them. Love my pixel.

unwashed potato! · 18 Mar 2021 at 19:22

what don't you like about it? it's by far the best place imo. is one of the main reasons i'm stuck with pixel and also why i skipper the last 2 versions.

_Jimlad_ · 18 Mar 2021 at 19:35

Fingerprint is top notch so much better than my work iPhone

FishLicker · 19 Mar 2021 at 10:53

Agree with kona786 I'm afraid. The FPS was garbage for me. The auto brightness was as good as useless. The screen was average at best. The haptic were rubbish. The supposed superior software experience is not actually superior at all these days, in many respects Samsung software is actually better (heck they even offer more years of updates now, another pixel selling point is now moot), certainly more customisable. I was glad to get shot, but you can't criticise pixels on here as I've found out many a time. Legitimate complaints don't exist because apparently everything is just about perfect. It's a shame really but Google should probably just stick to software, as most of their hardware is junk. Pains me to say it as well as I was the biggest wannabe fanboy around at one time.

Matty8787 · 19 Mar 2021 at 17:50

Anybody able to point me towards a good deal on the Pixel 5? Around £30 per month hopefully.

wijcc · 19 Mar 2021 at 18:55

Does Samsung now offer 4 years of software updates for all their new phones or just the flagship/higher range ones??

dale1uk · 20 Mar 2021 at 08:06

FishLicker said:
Agree with kona786 I'm afraid. The FPS was garbage for me. The auto brightness was as good as useless. The screen was average at best. The haptic were rubbish. The supposed superior software experience is not actually superior at all these days, in many respects Samsung software is actually better (heck they even offer more years of updates now, another pixel selling point is now moot), certainly more customisable. I was glad to get shot, but you can't criticise pixels on here as I've found out many a time. Legitimate complaints don't exist because apparently everything is just about perfect. It's a shame really but Google should probably just stick to software, as most of their hardware is junk. Pains me to say it as well as I was the biggest wannabe fanboy around at one time.

But didn't you have to spend almost double the cost of a P5 to find a phone that you liked?

I don't think anyone is stating that a P5 is the absolute best Android phone out there, just that it is a very solid all rounder at its price point. It seems some people expected it to compete with other manufacturers flagship phones, despite costing a lot less.

LiE · 20 Mar 2021 at 08:13

You've also got to remember most people will be buying the P5 at a discount. On launch everyone would have got a pair of Bose to sell for £120 making it a £480 phone. I bought one this week for £470.

Rimsy · 20 Mar 2021 at 08:27

FishLicker said:
Agree with kona786 I'm afraid. The FPS was garbage for me. The auto brightness was as good as useless. The screen was average at best. The haptic were rubbish. The supposed superior software experience is not actually superior at all these days, in many respects Samsung software is actually better (heck they even offer more years of updates now, another pixel selling point is now moot), certainly more customisable. I was glad to get shot, but you can't criticise pixels on here as I've found out many a time. Legitimate complaints don't exist because apparently everything is just about perfect. It's a shame really but Google should probably just stick to software, as most of their hardware is junk. Pains me to say it as well as I was the biggest wannabe fanboy around at one time.

You had a defective phone yet refused to return it and instead whined constantly on this forum about how bad pixels were. Didn't really help yourself much did you