Google - Pixel 5 5G 128GB (Unlocked)

Very reliable compared to previous Samsung phones that I've owned. Adaptive charging has helped prolong my battery a little longer. Photo quality from the camera is excellent!

I had this phone for 3 years now. Very sturdy and reliable. Lots of people asking what my camera is because of the video quality.

Great phone, works well, great in store service as always

For a $599 phone, it is amazing. I stepped up from a Pixel 2 XL and this has much better battery, I have gotten 3 days of my "very light" use, 2 days from my "normal" use, and a full day out of my "heavy" use. The Pixel 5 also has a much smoother screen (90hz refresh rate) that you can tell the difference when scrolling through stuff. The phone overall is smaller that my Pixel 2 XL which took a few days to get use to, especially when typing on the virtual keyboard but since I use swiftkey's keyboard, I was able to enlarge the keyboard slightly from what I typically have it set at, and now all is good. Keep in mind, even though the overall phone size is smaller, the screen size was almost identical to my last phone due to the very small bezel, just a different aspect ratio, no longer 16x9 but now more narrow. I am not the biggest fan of the punchhole front camera, but it has stayed out of the way thanks to the oversized status bar at the top. Which, by the way, is a waste of space, the status bar is twice as tall as it use to be which is to cover the area of the front camera. I wish they could have moved the camera up further allowing the status bar to be normal size. The back cameras are great, and using the wide angle lens for the first time in a narrow room, at first made the picture have a fish eyed look. But to my surprise, the phone adjusted the picture after taken and squared the room back up to look normal without distortion - very impressive (picture attached). Now they need to include all 3 cameras like most other flagship phones have. While I don't play games on my phone, everything else is super fast and you would never know it doesn't have the highest end processer. 5G was not that impressive, but that is due to Verizon not the phone. Maybe one day we'll see faster speeds. Love having wireless charging again (my Samsung Galaxy S6 had it, and boy did I miss it on my Pixel 2 XL), I use wireless charging to save the USB C port from being overly used which will provide a longer life span without charging issues. Be sure to get a 14 or 15 watt wireless charger so you can take advantage to the faster wireless charging speeds. My biggest gripe is the transfer process to a new phone, Google needs to step up their game and when doing a full transfer of the apps, should sign all apps into your accounts. Very few apps auto signed in, and I had to manually sign-in, get 2-step verification codes, reset passwords, and even locked myself out of a few accounts. That process takes too long, and is a pain. Lastly, I love the sage green color, I have a clear case and have had compliments on the color which at times looks turquoise.

I can't believe I finally went with a Google Pixel... First time I heard from then was from a friend in Brazil back in 2016. He is a tech guy and said how much he wanted the Pixel 3 (top at the moment). Last year I was drawn to the Pixel 4 due to its Astronomical camera (I'm an astronomer), however money was short and my iphone X still worked fine. My old phone screen suddenly stopped working when I was watching a video, so I decided to buy the new Pixel 5 as a Christmas treat for myself, I paid cash for an opened box which was $615, but I could tell the phone hasn't been used, someone bought it, put the SIM in it and for some reason they returned the phone, lucky me there was only one LOL. It was love at first sight. The phone transfered all the data from my iphone (didn't know I could cross data like this on different soperatiinal systems). Af first it was kinda slow because it was installing so many apps, but as soon as it finished OMG you have no idea how high this phone can fly. The camera is just unbelievably AWESOME, I use night sight even at day time since in my opinion makes the photos so much better. The screen is so vivid, beautiful and smooth. Honestly, I am never going back to apple. Google Pixel is the way!

I recently took my Pixel 3 on a trip to visit family and at the gas...it fell out of my lap, the screen cracked fully in the middle and the corners were busted. I took it to a repair shop and got quoted $290.00 for both screen and USB port replacement. I am good...at that cost it was a no brainier. Look up and realize that there was a Best Buy store across the street. Walked in and walked out with a new Pixel 5 in my hand. The Pixel 5 solved a lot of the issues that was plaguing the Pixel 3 and dealt with the battery issue that Google purposely did with the Pixel 4. There is just something about a Pixel phone that is hard to describe that my parents describe the way they use their iPhone. The thing is the phone works and it works well! I wasn't expecting the phone to keep up with my Pixel 3 in terms of performance but difference between having 8gbs and 3gbs of memory sureade the difference. Now instead of lagging right away when I have at least 5 or 7 apps open. That issue is no more. I've been using up to 10+ apps without knowing only to realize it when I'm closing them. My biggest purchase for the Pixel 5 is for my every day phone and of course the pictures. Everyone including myself knows that the pictures that comes out of the Pixel is usually a sure hit regardless of the model. The Pixel 5 ensured this by me testing several shots while on a camping trip and wow. The pictures are overall very pleasant and lovely. Initially I was a bit worried for action shots because with all of the update that my Pixel 3 was getting, the camera app definitely lagged quite a bit. It was usable but I wanted with certainty that this was a no issue. The Pixel 5 turned out to be more amazing than I had imagine. I really advised people to learn some of the tricks that allows the phone to take such photos. The biggest surprised and benefits of the Pixel is when you have it setup to a tripod...make sure you have 3 second delay and have it in night mode. If you're trying to do a star shot or light painting it's always usually the same. The light painting requires you to have someone in the background with a light stick painting the person you're trying to get a photo off. Keep an eye on the Pixel screen. The results usually shows within 10 seconds. The moment you see the result, press stop. Repeat this process till you get a good trip on how to get better with your subject and the phones ability. This also works with astrophotography and human subject. I usually do it within the first 10-15 seconds or let the phone run its 3+ minute course and have the subject enter the photo the last 20-30 second. This gives the phone plenty of time to clean the image and grab as many star as possible. For the individual...make sure you slowly shine a light left to right to keep the person in the image and have that subject light up and be present in the photo. All else wise, the Pixel is a fantastic everyday phone and the battery life is such a no brainier for anyone. It's no flag ship as far as specs are compared but specs alone does not speak for a phones worth. It's fluid and smooth, my every day use has not been any issue at all! Love my phone and hopefully Pixel 6 will come out with a killer camera spec and more storage! Come on Google!

I upgraded from a pixel 3 to this phone and it feels like a huge upgrade. There's only two noticable downgrade - the front camera and the speakers - but I don't take a ton of selfies so it wasn't a deal breaker for me and I never listen to music on my phone speakers. There's a lot to love about this phone. The battery is impressively good, I regularly get between 7.5 to 8.5 of screen on time. The cameras take nice pictures as you'd expect, the bezel-less display looks much more modern than my pixel 3. I love the textured rubber on the back of the phone, no case needed! Then the nice things like the 5G, 90 Hz display, and reverse wireless charging. I notice that the phone is much better at multitasking too, probably thanks to the extra RAM this phone is running. The addition of a wide angle camera is great too! You can fake digital zoom, but not wide angle. Now for the noticable downgrades from the pixel 3. The front camera is less sharp than the camera on the pixel 3 and there's only one, rather than the wide angle plus normal selfie camera. It's also a fixed focal length rather than autofocusing which makes pictures appear much more soft. But this isn't a big deal, the selfie camera isn't anywhere as important as the main cameras. The lack of stereo speakers are also a disappointment, but not a deal breaker again since I'd rather have an edge to edge display than slightly better phone speakers.

Great phone, as I expected. No thanks to Best Buy, really, LOL thanks Google! BUT, I took off one star because what Best buy FORGOT to tell me in the description of this OPEN BOX ITEM, was that whoever was the previous owner of this phone installed some third-party trash as the OS, because of which I had to spend like an hour figuring out how to flash the phone with the latest update of Android 11, which it should have already been running in the first place, and waiting for it to finish downloading. Had me out here on some developer type jazz just to get my phone back on the goods it was already on before, all because no one bothered to check, or even worse, they knew about the OS and just didn't feel like taking the time to put it back the way it should be on my behalf. Someone may have already opened its original box, but Best Buy should have checked that everything was in order before they closed the box they sent my way. Oh, and that's another thing, is that in the description of open box products, they claimed that it should come the original packaging, and instead, it was secured in the box with nothing but bubble wrap and the charger sitting next to it. Not even the Google usb-c to usb-c charger; Nokia usb a to usb-c.