if you have had multiple generations of pixels in your life like i have
currently rocking a pixel 4 then you might have been
a little confused baffled frankly pissed
off when you watch the unveil of the pixel 5
and 4a 5g which i have here and the reason is uh it looks like
google kind of completely restrategized its vision and roadmap for the pixel 5.
because it's vastly different from the way they're going
with the four so we are going to compare what it's like compared to the four
what it's like compared to the 4a and
everything in between hey thanks for watching come on over with me
my little pics of my little pixel
here it is okay this is the phone as you can see
it's a small phone and that's what i like about it probably 20
of the reason i buy a pixel at all is because they're one of the smaller
phones on the market and i put my phone in my front pocket of
my pants a lot and i type with one hand a lot i'm a glide typer baby
very fast this phone is pretty small and they never made an
xl version this year which is crazy because almost everybody i know who has
a pixel phone has the xl too bad we are a small phone company now
sim card removal tool some kind of fun welcome package crap you don't need
a power adapter for the wall which iphones don't come with anymore
and a charging cable usb-c to usb-c clips right in there this
i think is the same charger that they've always had it's 18 watts
it's a good charger uh then they've got this little uh
transferring tool thing i've never used one and i just think they shouldn't even
include this it's just bad for the environment google no it's just junk first thing i'm feeling
is a difference in hand feel because the pixel 4 which i'm going to switch over
here is glass and is really slippery
first of all i'm afraid of breaking the back and second of all it falls out of
your pocket all the time whether you're sitting in the movie theater or sitting in the car and then
you go to get out of the car and it just shoots across the parking lot because the inside your pants block is
slippery and you don't have a dbrand skin on it because some of us like to run naked david
now it has an aluminum body but you might not know that
because it has like kind of a sandblastedy kind of
plastic feel to it you can see a new addition on the back
or an old edition that's back is the fingerprint reader
on the last generation they eschewed the fingerprint reader and had only
face unlock which during a pandemic has been lame because i'm wearing a mask
half the time and it doesn't work so i have to just use my pattern anyway now
we're back to the fingerprint reader i'm not mad about that and here's why you can technically unlock your phone
faster with a fingerprint on reader than face unlock because while your phone is still in
your pocket you can reach your hand inside and put your finger right there and then
on the way to your face you've already unlocked it so i think you can get faster unlocks with a
fingerprint reader however you might be able to get more consistent
unlock speed with the face unlock because it doesn't matter if your hands
are wet which has been kind of a problem with these in the past another thing you'll notice is the
difference in bezels pretty much the same side bezel
but the new one has smaller and equally
sized chin and forehead bars so it's kind of just one consistent bezel all the way
around and that looks really nice and then of course you can see the
front camera is a punch-out display as opposed to on this phone
the pixel 4 when it first came out it actually looked kind of um
dated it had a bigger forehead than a lot of phones that year
and the reason for that was all this radar technology that they put into it
so they had a big thing where like as you approached your phone
it would wake up because they could just see you coming and you could like swipe
to the next song and swipe your alarm off just by moving your hand over it
that never worked no one ever used it and as far as the radar thing with you
coming and approaching the phone i turned it off because it drained the
battery so i'm not mad that those are gone either the original google devices like the 5x
and the 6p they were kind of like mid-tier devices that were really good and they were just
they were pure Android they were simple phones and then when the pixels came out
they were kind of like flagships they were trying to compete with the likes of
iphone and i think i think it's just a failed experiment i
think they didn't get the sales that they needed to justify
what they were doing and so now they're kind of returning to form and
what they're focusing on are things that sell phones similar to how when you walk into
a best buy you're gonna buy a 4k tv because when you're standing really
close to it it looks really good compared to a 1080p
tv when you're standing three feet away i think having a bezel-less
really big screen on the front looks fantastic when it's next to all these
other phones that have bigger bezels including iphones the
iphone 10 and on have huge side bezels and they
still have that damn huge notch so i think this is really
going to look like an attractive device next to even the newest iphones uh the second thing
that sells phones is a great camera and pixels have always had a great camera
let's check out what they got going on this time in that realm right after this message from our
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email thank you because i don't want to be on the phone and talk to people i'm naked and
also gaming at the same time so please just let me chat the new camera
looks pretty similar it has a lot of the same controls on the screen
remember last year they unveiled these like dual
exposure sliders those are back with a black a
black level slider and a bright level slider
i never really found myself using those that much even though the demo looked really cool
but the big change here is the lenses so they both still have the 12
megapixel shooter but now there's a new wide
on this on this new pixel and let's just take a photo of david over there
and see what the difference is now one thing i noticed right away is the
difference in processing time the pixel 4 had a dedicated like neural
network ai picture processing chip that is now
gone it's gone on either
this pixel 5 and these pixel 4a
5g neither of them have it that used to actually be a distinguishing feature
between the 3a and the 4.
they had similar camera tech but the cheaper one didn't have that processing
thing so it was a little bit worse at photos but now they're all the same
they've added some cool new features into the portrait mode i like using
portrait mode and now i like it even more because you can use night sight with it and
they give you this new thing called portrait light so let's say you're standing in front of a sunset
which is beautiful but all the lights behind you so in the foreground
my face is dark now they have this thing called portrait light where you can
actually just place a simulated light wherever you want and brighten up
the foreground subject it's pretty nice thin bezels great photos another thing
that sells google pixel phones great pixel features the reason my wife
uses a pixel phone is because of the call screening feature where
if some random number you don't recognize calls to or one of your friends you just hit screen call
and then google assistant answers the phone and when it's talking to the person
it transcribes everything on the screen i can see what they're talking about
before i decide oh i actually should answer this it's just my dentist not a telemarketer
that's awesome and that's why my wife has the phone what do they have this
year let me tell you something i've wanted for years the google assistant will wait
on hold for you that is awesome it will notify you when
it's your time to actually talk that is so great and it's only here on
pixel 5's it will trickle down in the coming months to other pixel devices that is a reason
to buy a pixel 5 or a pixel phone at all another pixel only feature that they
have which i think is trying to win back the hearts and minds
of existing pixel four owners is called extreme battery saver you get to white
list certain apps that can go ahead and use battery
while everything else gets turned off and does not run in the background
and i think i might just run my phone in that mode all the time
just whitelist like whatsapp and instagram or whatever you
actually use all day and then just don't get
bogged down with like fitness tracking and i don't know
chinese-made apps and the reason i think this is really important even though
there's like three other ways to put your phone to battery saver mode is that the pixel 4a owners right now
have been a little bit burned speak to Colton he's pissed because this
thing had bad battery life it only had a 2 800
milliamp hour battery and that was actually lower than the
previous pixel but they said it was going to be fine because of ai and crap but it
wasn't this thing barely makes it a day now let's talk about the pixel 4a 5g
i'm going to say it right now is not differentiated enough from this phone
these two phones have the same processor which is a snapdragon 765g
not a flagship processor by the way uh these phones have the exact same camera
hardware and as i said uh neither of them have this like
specialized camera processing chip what is the difference between these phones one is that the 5
has a 90 hertz refresh rate screen which is nice for scrolling around
it has a metal aluminum chassis whereas this one's just plastic they don't they
both kind of feel plastic but the 4a definitely feels a little cheaper
the 5 has wireless charging both ways baby you can
charge it wirelessly but you can also charge your pixel buds you just put the
headphone case right there and you can drain battery from the phone
to the headphones that's pretty nice and the pixel 5 has 2 gigabytes more RAM
for a total of 8 gigabytes of RAM now do you think those admittedly
kind of not that important features are worth
a 200 price delta
not to mention on the cheaper one you get a bigger screen and a headphone jack
i could see a lot of people springing for this i don't think these are that
different and 200 is a pretty big difference so
i don't know maybe in next generation they'll sort their stuff out but
unfortunately i find myself saying that almost every pixel generation so should you upgrade
to one of these things i think if you're coming from a pixel 4
probably not but if you have a two or three then it'll be a big enough jump
and you know what i think the pixel 5 will still really feel like a pixel to
you i think it's only if you're coming from the four that it's like drastically
different but coming from a two or three it'll be like great a brand new pixel
for 2020 and it looks modern and it has everything you need with nothing you
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