Google Pixel 6 Pro review

3 November 2021


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I have seen and read enough about this new pixel phone.

In forums and in reviews:

* Battery life not good at all.
* Camera's. All i can say older pixels are just better
* CPU is OK. So it is not ok to me. ;)

Bye Pixel 6(pro).
All will be solved in updates? Don't think so and anyways bringing it out with all these flaws ends it right here for me.

Was interested but am releaved i never have to look at this ever again; saves time. Was going to let the rediculous size and the no-headphone-jack-feature slide but no thanks!.

Going S22.

    i0S.- Never.- Again, 04 Nov 2021Lately I only trust Youtubers who buy phones with their own... moreCould you be more specific about "embargo brigade", like what channels exactly? Just curious. Thanks.

      [deleted post]True. It is the amount of feature that really matter and not the number of updates. I've heard an ex-iPhone user say that it is just a little change of a number every year and not much, and after switching to Android he was absolutely surprised to see the sheer amount of features, and the customisation options present, and they still use an Android to this day

        Puppy , 03 Nov 2021Youtuber : Pixel 6 Pro has best screen ever Reality: is... moreLately I only trust Youtubers who buy phones with their own money.
        As these guys are the only people we can expect to be honest about when it comes to product reviews.
        The embargo brigade is slowly exposing their true colors, they are not to be relied upon.

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          • Anonymous
          • 4D1
          • 04 Nov 2021

          Y'all are ridiculous. You take a week longer than everyone else to post a review, and you still don't bother to use your own photo comparison tool for any Pixels, so all your picture samples are utterly useless for comparing to other phones.

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            • Anonymous
            • gBV
            • 04 Nov 2021

            Nick Tegrataker, 04 Nov 2021As for the camera performance.. During the day, it's b... more"but the main problem I have with Pixel 6 Pro's camera is the way it handles the noise - the noise reduction algorithms seem to treat shadows and areas with darker colours (like browns and deep greens) more harshly in general, and leave a lot of weird patchy artifacts as a result"
            That's one of the reasons why it is worse than previous Google phones.
            See support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/133610912/to-google-s-camera-engineers-pixel-6-suffers-from-aggressive-and-patchy-noise-reduction?hl=en

            For example also see the right edge of gsmarena's 12th "1x" sample image. A huge amount of noise reduction is applied to the lawn. The Pixel 5 doesn't have this issue. This has nothing to do with the sharpness of the lens.

            The periscope camera seems to suffer from this issue, too. For example the last 4x image and the fourth 4x image. It's unexplainable as even a travel zoom camera, which doesn't combine frames, doesn't perform that badly.

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              • Anonymous
              • U@5
              • 04 Nov 2021

              Puppy , 03 Nov 2021Youtuber : Pixel 6 Pro has best screen ever Reality: is... moreThe best comment here!! Nice review of the phone

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                • Anonymous
                • U@5
                • 04 Nov 2021

                thunderresistant, 03 Nov 2021What a joke) Half-baked overhyped weirdo. Have had Nexus,... moreGoogle pays YouTubers yo hype its phones.

                That's why the reviews are overwhelmingly positive

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                  • Anonymous
                  • gBV
                  • 04 Nov 2021

                  Jiggar, 04 Nov 2021Bro I literally have a Pixel 3a and it takes magnificent ni... moreThat's simply not true and I tested multiple Pixel 3a. Exposure time per frame can be 1/3s -1s and the total exposure time can be up to 7 seconds and the OIS isn't very good. Even Google wrote in their blog:
                  "Optical image stabilization (OIS), which is present on Pixel 2 and 3, reduces handshake for moderate exposure times (up to about 1/8 second), but doesn’t help with longer exposures or with moving objects"

                  Of course, some people might not notice slightly blurry 12 megapixel photos because even Full HD only has 2 megapixels and noise makes it harder to see blurry images. Anyway, HDR+ enhanced is far more reliable and gives you sharper photos far more often due to an exposure time of 1/5s per frame.

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                    • Dk5
                    • 04 Nov 2021

                    When launch in india?

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                      • Street Puppy
                      • 0p}
                      • 04 Nov 2021

                      Anonymous, 04 Nov 2021I thought dual pixel AF still uses phase detection for focusing?Phase detection uses few pixels to focus.
                      Dual pixel can use many.
                      Also DP sensors have 2 photodiodes per pixel.

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                        • daredevil1
                        • Bb{
                        • 04 Nov 2021

                        I was on the fence about this one but after those terrible battery results its a no-go. Thanks google.

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                          • DMX
                          • CH9
                          • 04 Nov 2021

                          I'm going to wait for January, which is when they begin to solve all the bugs and problems in the next generation and there will be more stock, and of course it will be cheaper 😁😁

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                            • Anonymous
                            • vxx
                            • 04 Nov 2021

                            AnonD-492870, 04 Nov 2021It is a figure of speech not literal...lol'Just thank the manufacturer and stop complaining' is a classic rhetoric that many brand fans use to defend their favorite companies, so I understand why some people may get offended by it.

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                              • vG%
                              • 04 Nov 2021

                              I am very fond of my pixel 3(even though it barely give 4 hours sot at this point), it still takes comparable to better photos than most new phones under 600$ and I really hoped I would get a revolutionary camera with the new pixel 6 but damn, from the samples I can just tell my phone is still better than pixel 6 as far as photos go.

                              I guess I will run this till the free google photos storage runs out and then look for alternatives, my dissapointment is immeasurable though my day is still fine. Really wish it gets better with updates and the availability also improves, I am really dreading leaving the software.

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                                • Rizdog
                                • tAV
                                • 04 Nov 2021

                                Sam, 03 Nov 2021Dave2d was the only one to say the video from pixel 6 us tr... moreHe didn't say it's trash, he just said it's not much better than Pixel 5, which as we expected it to be much better given the new sensor, is disappointing. Have a look at his video, I think he's trying to say the colours are too saturated, he just wished they would be more nuanced like iPhone 13.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • n70
                                  • 04 Nov 2021

                                  Anonymous, 04 Nov 202199% of devices with periscope have PDAF for it, not dual pi... moreI thought dual pixel AF still uses phase detection for focusing?

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                                    • salty1863
                                    • n37
                                    • 04 Nov 2021

                                    Anonymous, 03 Nov 2021Considering youtubers said y Pro has better battery life th... moreYeah, you are right! Pixel's have always been notoriously bad for battery life ( something that has always put me off buying a Pixel) The 6 however I was optimistic. It looks like the outdated 5G modern could point to these week scores, however the phones performs well when over 4g. Not a sacrifice you should be having to make in 2021 however as 5G reception isn't great around this way up to now I'm seeing good battery results. about 7 hours SOT, plenty of spotify streaming, taking photo's and this is spread across a day and a bit.

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                                      • AnonD-492870
                                      • 4Ib
                                      • 04 Nov 2021

                                      Nick Tegrataker, 04 Nov 2021"just be grateful they don't want you to sell you... moreIt is a figure of speech not literal...lol

                                        AnonD-492870, 04 Nov 2021It is like anything in this world. Far from perfect. Even i... more"just be grateful they don't want you to sell your car to get one"
                                        I don't have to be "grateful" to Google for anything, I'll simply get phones from other brands if they can't do their stuff right. I have no intention to support particular companies just because of what they are.

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