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if you have had multiple generations of pixels in your life like i have

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currently rocking a pixel 4 then you might have been

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a little confused baffled frankly pissed

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off when you watch the unveil of the pixel 5

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and 4a 5g which i have here and the reason is uh it looks like

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google kind of completely restrategized its vision and roadmap for the pixel 5.

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because it's vastly different from the way they're going

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with the four so we are going to compare what it's like compared to the four

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what it's like compared to the 4a and

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everything in between hey thanks for watching come on over with me

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my little pics of my little pixel

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here it is okay this is the phone as you can see

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it's a small phone and that's what i like about it probably 20

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of the reason i buy a pixel at all is because they're one of the smaller

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phones on the market and i put my phone in my front pocket of

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my pants a lot and i type with one hand a lot i'm a glide typer baby

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very fast this phone is pretty small and they never made an

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xl version this year which is crazy because almost everybody i know who has

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a pixel phone has the xl too bad we are a small phone company now

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sim card removal tool some kind of fun welcome package crap you don't need

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a power adapter for the wall which iphones don't come with anymore

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and a charging cable usb-c to usb-c clips right in there this

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i think is the same charger that they've always had it's 18 watts

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it's a good charger uh then they've got this little uh

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transferring tool thing i've never used one and i just think they shouldn't even

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include this it's just bad for the environment google no it's just junk first thing i'm feeling

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is a difference in hand feel because the pixel 4 which i'm going to switch over

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here is glass and is really slippery

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first of all i'm afraid of breaking the back and second of all it falls out of

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your pocket all the time whether you're sitting in the movie theater or sitting in the car and then

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you go to get out of the car and it just shoots across the parking lot because the inside your pants block is

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slippery and you don't have a dbrand skin on it because some of us like to run naked david

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now it has an aluminum body but you might not know that

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because it has like kind of a sandblastedy kind of

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plastic feel to it you can see a new addition on the back

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or an old edition that's back is the fingerprint reader

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on the last generation they eschewed the fingerprint reader and had only

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face unlock which during a pandemic has been lame because i'm wearing a mask

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half the time and it doesn't work so i have to just use my pattern anyway now

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we're back to the fingerprint reader i'm not mad about that and here's why you can technically unlock your phone

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faster with a fingerprint on reader than face unlock because while your phone is still in

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your pocket you can reach your hand inside and put your finger right there and then

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on the way to your face you've already unlocked it so i think you can get faster unlocks with a

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fingerprint reader however you might be able to get more consistent

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unlock speed with the face unlock because it doesn't matter if your hands

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are wet which has been kind of a problem with these in the past another thing you'll notice is the

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difference in bezels pretty much the same side bezel

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but the new one has smaller and equally

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sized chin and forehead bars so it's kind of just one consistent bezel all the way

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around and that looks really nice and then of course you can see the

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front camera is a punch-out display as opposed to on this phone

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the pixel 4 when it first came out it actually looked kind of um

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dated it had a bigger forehead than a lot of phones that year

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and the reason for that was all this radar technology that they put into it

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so they had a big thing where like as you approached your phone

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it would wake up because they could just see you coming and you could like swipe

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to the next song and swipe your alarm off just by moving your hand over it

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that never worked no one ever used it and as far as the radar thing with you

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coming and approaching the phone i turned it off because it drained the

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battery so i'm not mad that those are gone either the original google devices like the 5x

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and the 6p they were kind of like mid-tier devices that were really good and they were just

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they were pure Android they were simple phones and then when the pixels came out

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they were kind of like flagships they were trying to compete with the likes of

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iphone and i think i think it's just a failed experiment i

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think they didn't get the sales that they needed to justify

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what they were doing and so now they're kind of returning to form and

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what they're focusing on are things that sell phones similar to how when you walk into

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a best buy you're gonna buy a 4k tv because when you're standing really

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close to it it looks really good compared to a 1080p

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tv when you're standing three feet away i think having a bezel-less

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really big screen on the front looks fantastic when it's next to all these

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other phones that have bigger bezels including iphones the

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iphone 10 and on have huge side bezels and they

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still have that damn huge notch so i think this is really

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going to look like an attractive device next to even the newest iphones uh the second thing

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that sells phones is a great camera and pixels have always had a great camera

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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

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also gaming at the same time so please just let me chat the new camera

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looks pretty similar it has a lot of the same controls on the screen

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remember last year they unveiled these like dual

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exposure sliders those are back with a black a

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black level slider and a bright level slider

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i never really found myself using those that much even though the demo looked really cool

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but the big change here is the lenses so they both still have the 12

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megapixel shooter but now there's a new wide

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on this on this new pixel and let's just take a photo of david over there

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and see what the difference is now one thing i noticed right away is the

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difference in processing time the pixel 4 had a dedicated like neural

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network ai picture processing chip that is now

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gone it's gone on either

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this pixel 5 and these pixel 4a

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5g neither of them have it that used to actually be a distinguishing feature

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between the 3a and the 4.

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they had similar camera tech but the cheaper one didn't have that processing

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thing so it was a little bit worse at photos but now they're all the same

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they've added some cool new features into the portrait mode i like using

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portrait mode and now i like it even more because you can use night sight with it and

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they give you this new thing called portrait light so let's say you're standing in front of a sunset

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which is beautiful but all the lights behind you so in the foreground

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my face is dark now they have this thing called portrait light where you can

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actually just place a simulated light wherever you want and brighten up

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the foreground subject it's pretty nice thin bezels great photos another thing

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that sells google pixel phones great pixel features the reason my wife

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uses a pixel phone is because of the call screening feature where

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if some random number you don't recognize calls to or one of your friends you just hit screen call

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and then google assistant answers the phone and when it's talking to the person

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it transcribes everything on the screen i can see what they're talking about

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before i decide oh i actually should answer this it's just my dentist not a telemarketer

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that's awesome and that's why my wife has the phone what do they have this

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year let me tell you something i've wanted for years the google assistant will wait

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on hold for you that is awesome it will notify you when

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it's your time to actually talk that is so great and it's only here on

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pixel 5's it will trickle down in the coming months to other pixel devices that is a reason

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to buy a pixel 5 or a pixel phone at all another pixel only feature that they

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have which i think is trying to win back the hearts and minds

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of existing pixel four owners is called extreme battery saver you get to white

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list certain apps that can go ahead and use battery

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while everything else gets turned off and does not run in the background

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and i think i might just run my phone in that mode all the time

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just whitelist like whatsapp and instagram or whatever you

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actually use all day and then just don't get

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bogged down with like fitness tracking and i don't know

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chinese-made apps and the reason i think this is really important even though

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there's like three other ways to put your phone to battery saver mode is that the pixel 4a owners right now

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have been a little bit burned speak to Colton he's pissed because this

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thing had bad battery life it only had a 2 800

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milliamp hour battery and that was actually lower than the

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previous pixel but they said it was going to be fine because of ai and crap but it

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wasn't this thing barely makes it a day now let's talk about the pixel 4a 5g

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i'm going to say it right now is not differentiated enough from this phone

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these two phones have the same processor which is a snapdragon 765g

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not a flagship processor by the way uh these phones have the exact same camera

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hardware and as i said uh neither of them have this like

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specialized camera processing chip what is the difference between these phones one is that the 5

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has a 90 hertz refresh rate screen which is nice for scrolling around

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it has a metal aluminum chassis whereas this one's just plastic they don't they

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both kind of feel plastic but the 4a definitely feels a little cheaper

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the 5 has wireless charging both ways baby you can

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charge it wirelessly but you can also charge your pixel buds you just put the

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headphone case right there and you can drain battery from the phone

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to the headphones that's pretty nice and the pixel 5 has 2 gigabytes more RAM

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for a total of 8 gigabytes of RAM now do you think those admittedly

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kind of not that important features are worth

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a 200 price delta

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not to mention on the cheaper one you get a bigger screen and a headphone jack

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i could see a lot of people springing for this i don't think these are that

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different and 200 is a pretty big difference so

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i don't know maybe in next generation they'll sort their stuff out but

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unfortunately i find myself saying that almost every pixel generation so should you upgrade

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to one of these things i think if you're coming from a pixel 4

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probably not but if you have a two or three then it'll be a big enough jump

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and you know what i think the pixel 5 will still really feel like a pixel to

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you i think it's only if you're coming from the four that it's like drastically

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different but coming from a two or three it'll be like great a brand new pixel

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for 2020 and it looks modern and it has everything you need with nothing you

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