Google Pixel 5

benparker said:
Fixed ;)
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Ha, you say that, but I’ve never had a screen protector, and have never had a broken or badly scratched screen yet :p

Anyway after reading a shed load of opinions and watching a shed load of reviews on youtube tonight, I’m sticking with my 2XL. The 5 looks good, if I needed a new phone, but I don’t, and I don’t feel its good enough as an impulse buy, as I don’t feel it offers enough of an improvement to justify a 600 quid outlay. Maybe next year.
 
FishLicker said:
Ha, you say that, but I’ve never had a screen protector, and have never had a broken or badly scratched screen yet :p

Anyway after reading a shed load of opinions and watching a shed load of reviews on youtube tonight, I’m sticking with my 2XL. The 5 looks good, if I needed a new phone, but I don’t, and I don’t feel its good enough as an impulse buy, as I don’t feel it offers enough of an improvement to justify a 600 quid outlay. Maybe next year.
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That's my decision too after having both inhand. Hopefully they bring out a XL with proper front firing speakers soon.
 
FishLicker said:
Anyway after reading a shed load of opinions and watching a shed load of reviews on youtube tonight, I’m sticking with my 2XL. The 5 looks good, if I needed a new phone, but I don’t, and I don’t feel its good enough as an impulse buy, as I don’t feel it offers enough of an improvement to justify a 600 quid outlay. Maybe next year
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It is difficult. The headphones offer made it easier, but now I have the 5 I'm liking it a lot, and disliking it too much. Currently 7 hours screen on time and 38 percent left! That's nuts how good that is. But the speakers are beyond rubbish. I lean the phone on my chest sometimes when watching stuff, and so am blocking the one decent(ish) speaker this phone has so the audio goes rubbish. Phone calls are also much worse, like the person is speaking behind a window, though with that said 90 percent of my calls are using Bluetooth headset so less of a worry.

I also wish it was an XL size. This is my first non XL phone since nexus 5.

I find the screen also too rounded. Some apps have content slightly cut off as a result.

This sharp charing port really is bugging me too.a case would help this but I've been naked for a few years now. My last cased phone was damaged from the case so avoided them since and love the naked natural feel. It's the way God intended them to be.
 
Apex said:
It is difficult. The headphones offer made it easier, but now I have the 5 I'm liking it a lot, and disliking it too much. Currently 7 hours screen on time and 38 percent left! That's nuts how good that is. But the speakers are beyond rubbish. I lean the phone on my chest sometimes when watching stuff, and so am blocking the one decent(ish) speaker this phone has so the audio goes rubbish. Phone calls are also much worse, like the person is speaking behind a window, though with that said 90 percent of my calls are using Bluetooth headset so less of a worry.

I also wish it was an XL size. This is my first non XL phone since nexus 5.

I find the screen also too rounded. Some apps have content slightly cut off as a result.

This sharp charing port really is bugging me too.a case would help this but I've been naked for a few years now. My last cased phone was damaged from the case so avoided them since and love the naked natural feel. It's the way God intended them to be.
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I've had mine for the last few days and I'm feeling sorta similar. It's a really good phone in every way, and I would recommend it to almost anyone, but I'm coming from an S10+ which is bigger and has a better screen and ear speaker. So I'm not sure whether I'm gonna keep the P5.

Of course, one could say "Oh reflux ur stupid, why did u buy a P5 to upgrade from an S10+, that's like going from Ryzen 3700 to a Ryzen 2600" and you'd be right, but the headphones sweetened the deal and I wanted something shiny, so there we go.
 
reflux said:
:D In fairness, the P5 is a lot smoother than the S10+ which I like. And the software is lovely; Samsung has come a long way but you can't beat how polished Google's Android is.
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I'm not sure I'd call it massively polished. For one thing, the nav bar on the gesture navigation still looks bad in many apps, cutting off the bottom of the rounded screens. It's been like that for over a year now.
 
FishLicker said:
I'm not sure I'd call it massively polished. For one thing, the nav bar on the gesture navigation still looks bad in many apps, cutting off the bottom of the rounded screens. It's been like that for over a year now.
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Ah I must not be seeing that because I always use back / home / recents. That doesn't sound good!
 
reflux said:
Ah I must not be seeing that because I always use back / home / recents. That doesn't sound good!
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I've just tried to screenshot it but it squares off the corners on the shot.

I think tech chap or tech spurt on YT did a comparison between the pixel, s20fe and op8t and it was quite obvious on that video, you could see it looked right on the other 2 phones when in some apps, but not on the pixel.

And while gesture nav is ok it's still too easy to trigger the back gesture instead of horizontal scrolling in some apps. In all honesty I still think the 3 button nav is the best.
 
Haven't read back where this thread started, but just in case people don't know you can enable three button and get rid of gestures accessibility > system navigation (or are you just discussing between the 2, gestures is not as good as it should be ?)
 
thebandit said:
Haven't read back where this thread started, but just in case people don't know you can enable three button and get rid of gestures accessibility > system navigation (or are you just discussing between the 2, gestures is not as good as it should be ?)
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I was more addressing the claim that pixel Android is polished. It's not bad, for sure but there are too many minor anomalies to genuinely claim it's polished. Only really iOS gets near being truly polished (even that's not perfect but it's closer than any version of Android).
 
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