Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is the pinnacle of the Google experience. Fast and smart AI, beautiful design, impeccable build quality, a fantastic screen, and the best camera system I’ve ever used - Google has nailed it. BUILD QUALITY This phone has some heft, in the best possible way. Previous Pixels have felt almost plastic-y (some have been actual plastic), but there’s no mistaking that this is a premium phone. The glass front and back makes it feel like the flagship that it is. I’m still not sure what to think about the curved edges, however. It certainly looks beautiful, but there have been a few unwanted touch inputs because of how I’ve held the phone. I’m sure I’ll get used to it with time, but all things considered...I think I prefer the straight edges of previous versions. The fingerprint reader is perfectly located under the front glass as well. It only took a day of use before my thumbs could find it without the on-screen prompt. The fingerprint reader is a touch slow, but it’s not enough to dampen the experience. Something I didn’t realize I would like is the camera bar on the back of the phone. It still looks odd compared to just about every other phone, but the fact that it spans the entire back of the phone means that it’s the perfect place for me to rest my index finger when holding it. The phone is slippery because of its glass back, but this camera bar allows me to hold it securely. SCREEN The screen...oh, this screen. The colors are bright and precise, and the 120hz refresh rate makes everything feel buttery smooth. As alluded to earlier, the only thing that’s a little concerning about the screen is the curved edges. I’m hoping that once the case I ordered arrives the unwanted touch inputs go away, but we’ll see. CAMERAS For as long as I can remember, the one thing that most people know about Pixel phones is that they have incredible cameras. I can report that the camera legacy is intact. All the shots I’ve taken have been crystal clear, and I’ve been legitimately shocked by how good the 4x zoom is. In the past, every phone camera I’ve used has struggled with a lot of visual “noise” when zoomed in fully, but that’s not the case one bit here. My favorite camera feature is actually the selfie camera and its ultra-wide mode. I’m impressed with just how much I can get in a shot with that lens. There are also some great software features with the 6 Pro. I’ve only dabbled with the Magic Eraser, but what I’ve seen has been, for lack of a better word, magical. You can draw a line around anything in the background that you want removed from the picture, and the AI does a great job of clearing it away. Obviously, it works better with simple or repetitive backgrounds, but I’ve been surprised with how close it gets with complex shots. There’s also Face Unblur, which I’ve used on shots of my pets. 9 times out of 10, it reconstructs the shot exactly as I want. PERFORMANCE I was very curious how this new Google Tensor chip would perform. The answer in a nutshell - it’s fantastic. I’m sure that there are some other chips that may benchmark faster, but in the 5 days I’ve had the 6 Pro, I have not seen it slow down, lag, or hiccup one single time. It doesn’t matter if I’m playing a game, scrolling through a website with a ton of content, or watching a YouTube video picture-in-picture with another app in the background, everything’s been as smooth as can be. BATTERY LIFE Unfortunately...all of the “great” of the Pixel 6 Pro comes at a cost, and that cost is the battery life. The big, high-refresh screen and the fast performance does mean that battery life takes a hit. I generally need to plug in around 5pm to top the phone off for the rest of the day. It charges very quickly (usually 5-10 minutes plugged in is enough to get me through until I go to bed), but I do wish the battery lasted all day. OTHER FEATURES There are a few other “miscellaneous” features that make the Pixel 6 Pro a great phone. My favorite is the call screening capability. When I get a call from a number that’s not in my contact list, there’s a “Screen Call” button that when pressed, has the Google Assistant answer the call for me. It shows a live transcript of the call, and I can decide whether or not to pick up. Google Assistant will also wait on hold for me - I had to deal with a banking issue this week and spend some time in a phone tree, and I was so glad that the Assistant gave me a list of all the phone tree options in real time, and I could navigate the menu within the call transcript. The other Google Assistant feature of the Pixel that has been transformative in the way I use my phone is the live voice typing. I’ve shied away from using voice-to-text in the past because it’s always been *almost* good enough, but not quite there. The Assistant on the 6 Pro, though? It’s perfect. I imagine it has to do with the Tensor chip being Google-engineered, because it’s like nothing I’ve ever used before. 5 days into using the phone, and I’m almost exclusively using my voice to compose text messages.

I’ve owned quite a few cell phones, from iPhones and Windows phones, to numerous Android phones. I work in IT and just feel I need to stay on the cutting edge. And I’ve owned some really nice phones. But the Pixel 6 Pro is hands down the best cell phone I’ve ever owned. Let me begin with the hardware. Google’s custom Tensor processor is fast…very fast. And the screen operates at anywhere from 90Hz to 120Hz. Combining these 2 things makes for the best Android experience I’ve ever had. There isn’t even a hint, not even the idea there is anything you could do on the phone that could cause lag. I’m sure the 12GB of RAM it ships with doesn’t hurt either. That’s 4 to 6GB more than anybody else offers! Not only does it make the phone faster, but it also helps to future proof this phone, which Google has promised updates for until 2026! The AMOLED screen is gorgeous. It’s a Quad HD+ display that supports HDR, and with rich blacks and vivid colors it’s amazing for watching videos. And with 2 speakers, the stereo sound is phenomenal and the best I’ve ever heard in a cell phone. As previously mentioned, it’s refresh rate is 90-120Hz. And it makes a difference, especially in games. Motion couldn’t be smoother. The cameras are amazing. Google’s algorithms have always been able to get more out of a single lens camera than everybody else’s multiple lens setups. Only this time Google has put 3 separate lenses in the Pixel Pro 6 —50 MP wide, 48 MP telephoto, and 12 MP ultrawide, which gives you lots of options for getting great pictures. The new camera also lets in more light, in part because of the larger sensor. I’ve been blown away with how good low-light pictures are…just phenomenal. Seriously, amazingly good. Most cell phone cameras can take decent daylight photos, in many cases they oversaturate the colors. The Pixel Pro 6 takes incredibly sharp, accurate photos, but the colors are actually accurate, giving photographers the option to post-process if richer colors are desired. I like taking great pictures, and I can with the Pixel Pro 6, but the best feature of the camera has to be the 4x telephoto lens. Yeah, you can zoom in with any cellphone camera, but digital zoom is used on most phones. You might have noticed there’s a huge quality hit the more you zoom. The 48 MP telephoto lens gives you 4x OPTICAL zoom—that means no loss of quality. None. You can’t always get closer, but with the Pixel Pro 6 telephoto lens you can. 4 times closer. I never thought there was much of a point to having an under the screen fingerprint sensor, but the Pixel Pro 6 has proven me wrong. At least for my thumb it’s perfectly placed and easy to get to (see picture). The sensor is accurate and fast with only the rare misread. How about the battery? It’s over 5000 mAh! I could easily get 2 days usage, but I’ve missed the Glance feature from a previous phone and I have it enabled. As long as the phone is in your pocket, the screen stays off, but as soon as you bring it out, it shows the date and time, as well as notifications (see picture). It uses more battery, but it’s very handy and worth it for me. The Tensor CPU, with its emphasis on AI, opens up lots of software possibilities. I haven’t had a chance to use the Live Translate feature, but I’m planning to go back to Italy again next summer and can hardly wait to use it to supplement my poor Italian. Communication in other languages gets translated on the fly. AI also makes another amazing feature possible. It’s called Magic Eraser. And it IS magic. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken pictures that have power lines in them. Sometimes it’s just unavoidable. Magic Eraser finds the power lines and makes them disappear. I posted a couple of pictures I took on Maui recently while I was driving on the West coast. In one picture you’ll see power lines, and then you don’t see them. Magic Eraser found the lines, then got rid of them. Like magic! And with the swipe of a finger you can get rid of pesky people that don’t belong in your pictures. What don’t I like? This is a hard one, but if I had to come up with something, I would say the phone is very slick. I’ll be getting a case as soon as possible because I know a drop is not if, but when. I can’t tell you how impressed I am with this phone. Google has in the past concentrated on making great phones at a decent price, but I would never have considered any of them cutting edge. With the Pixel Pro 6, this is the first time they’ve made a genuine flagship phone. And they pulled out all the stops. Super-fast custom processor with advanced AI, beautiful screen, amazing 3 lens camera, excellent battery life, great sound, extra security, etc., ect., .… etc., etc. Everything about this phone shouts quality. In my opinion, it far outpaces anything else on the market, yet still manages somehow to be less expensive!

Google added many features to the Pixel 6 Pro to catch up to flagship competition. While nothing stands out as particularly groundbreaking, it does offer a decent set of features for its price tag. [ Cameras ] Finally, this model gets a telephoto camera sensor—a first for the Pixel line. This is *the* reason to consider this phone over the base Pixel 6 model, in my opinion, allowing capture of much more detail in zoomed-in shots, especially in low-light conditions. The ultrawide rear sensor seemed rather lackluster; its field of view doesn’t feel significantly greater than the main sensor, and it had trouble picking up detail in low light conditions compared to the primary and telephoto rear sensors. The front (selfie) camera provides a good field of view, but gets blurry with close shots and loses more detail in low light conditions than the rear main/telephoto sensors. For the most part, the optical and electronic image stabilization performed really well, though I did occasionally have blurring issues in Long Exposure mode (due to unintentional phone movement, not due to moving objects). With the introduction of the Tensor chip, Google added live HDR processing into every frame of recorded video up to 4K 60FPS, which provides tremendous improvements over previous Pixel models. Frames grabbed from videos look crisp and vibrant, comparing very well to photos taken with the standard camera mode. Overall, the new modes and features of the camera app feel very gimmicky and not worth using. Action Pan, which applies blur to the background of moving objects, trips up heavily when there are multiple moving subjects in the scene and can be a bit weird about the parts it decides to blur. Face Unblur is a hard pass for me. Sure, it can add facial detail back into the photo, but for the most part, it looks so unnatural and awkward in the context of the entire scene that I’d much rather just reshoot with less subject movement. Magic Eraser really isn’t that magical; removing small objects against fairly uniform backgrounds can have passable results, but most of my test cases just looked outright terrible. This feature would have been much more useful if we could use multiple images or perhaps video to fill in the missing image data. I could see myself potentially using Long Exposure mode, but unfortunately, there’s no user control over exposure duration, and the duration chosen by the app varies widely based on the scene, so the results may not be what is hoped for. A feature I feel Google should have implemented (but didn’t) is focus bracketing/stacking. With the decreased Depth of Field of the main and telephoto rear sensors, close-range shots with considerable depth can have an extreme amount of blur which could have been largely alleviated by such a feature. [ Battery / Display / Speakers / Fingerprint Sensor ] Early reviews of battery performance really need to be considered carefully and it’s still too early for me to make a final judgment. When I first got my Pixel 4a it would get about two days' worth of standby time (turned on, but not actively used) with Battery Saver mode on. Now, many updates later, it gets around 7 days. Similarly, my first-generation Pixel XL got 8 days of standby time though it started off worse. For the first couple of days of having this Pixel 6 Pro, I was getting about 24 hours of standby time (Battery Saver active, LTE/4G, Smooth Display off for all battery testing). Seven days in I’m getting slightly more than two days of standby time which I’d still rate as pretty bad. I’ve also seen reduction/improvement in how user activity drained the battery over that duration, which as of now is passable but could be better. It’ll take some time yet to see where the battery life lands. The display seems quite vivid and bright, and the adaptive refresh rate up to 120Hz is nice if perhaps a bit overboard (90Hz on a phone is fine for me). Throughout my testing, I’ve had severe problems with tapping the screen to wake the phone (a setting I have enabled), with it often taking many taps to wake up, and even having to resort to using the power button at times. I’ve not had this problem with any of my previous Pixel phones, so this was odd and frustrating. The curved screen seems like a silly gimmick that needlessly distorts the edges of the display, makes it more difficult to gesture-swipe from those edges, and doesn’t add any value to me. Personally, the way I use phones, I preferred the rear fingerprint sensor of the previous Pixel models. While there are certainly some use cases that would favor a front sensor, I found it to be very noticeably slower than the rear sensors, and it was made downright maddening to use with the tap-to-wake display issues I experienced. Being a glass sandwich, this phone is extremely slippery and very dangerous to carry around without a case. Cases were sold out and back-ordered pretty much across the market, so I was unable to acquire one by the time I had to finish my testing. Sure enough, this thing slid out of my pocket and crashed hard onto cement causing permanent damage to the side of the phone. I had never caused visible damage to a phone prior to this incident. Google: giving the TIN reviewers a case would have been a swell idea, and I know you did this with the Pixel 4a. The speakers have good volume, but the audio quality isn’t particularly impressive. The top speaker seems to emphasize low (bass) tones while the bottom speaker emphasizes high (treble) tones; this is fine for many cases, but when listening to music or watching a movie with widely varying channel inputs, this can noticeably throw off the experience. [ Misc. ] Geekbench computation benchmarks were reasonably competitive but not great. 3D Mark Wild Life benchmarking was exceptionally, chart-toppingly high. Gaming was a very smooth experience and the display was very touch-responsive for on-screen control use. The placement of the bulky sensor bar on the rear made it difficult for me to get a comfortable double-hand grip for landscape-orientation gaming and too easily resulted in me adding smudges over the sensors. The addition of the Tensor Security Core, matched with the updated Titan M2 chip, provides an important layer of extra security. Side-channel attacks are a serious threat to privacy, with a fairly recent explosion of research into and discovery of speculative execution and similar vulnerabilities in a wide array of processors, creating new attack vectors to leak critical system and user data. With their new hardware, Google has increased security update support from three years to five years. While this is great for end-users, tying these two things together the way they have is marketing nonsense. Google recently brought many new and interesting features to Android. The addition of the Privacy Dashboard that allows you to see which apps are actively using various permissions. New call assistant features include a display of wait times, automatic creation of menu option buttons based on live audio transcription, and ‘hold for me’. The recently added live translation features sound incredibly useful, and major kudos to Google for the offline translation support they threw in. The model I tested—G8VOU—has both 5G mmWave and Sub-6GHz support which is nice for maximum portability and futureproofing, but I’ve read that an older modem is used which is rather power-hungry while in 5G mode. Though I tested 5G on the T-Mobile network and verified it worked, I felt like I needed to stick to LTE/4G mode because of the already poor standby battery performance. [ Photo Attachments ] Unfortunately, due to TIN’s photo size upload restrictions, I wasn’t able to attach my most colorful and detailed shots. With a maximum of six attachments, I also wasn’t able to show off nearly as many of the features I wanted to. I chose to compare the different fields of view of the rear sensors in images 1 through 3, long exposure mode in 4, frame grab in 5 from a 4K video where I was slowly panning upwards, and 6 highlights how the shallow depth of field can cause extreme blurring which could have largely been alleviated if Google had implemented a focus stacking feature. [1] 0.7x (ultrawide) Lake and fountain [2] 1x (main) [3] 4x (telephoto) [4] 4x Waterfall, long exposure mode [5] 4x Waterfall frame grab from 4K video [6] 1x Flowers and statue, very shallow depth of field with lots of blurring

First, this open-box item was claims as - "Includes all original parts/accessories", but it only came with an OEM/3rd party cable. No box, no pin, no USB adapter, no original cable. Totally misleading description. Second, the battery decreased from 100% full charge to 65% just in 5 mins! the defective battery obviously. So have to return it. really negative experience. See pictures of unboxing. I can provide video if necessary

This is my third Google Pixel, and probably the last one. Pixel 6 Pro is the worst of the Pixel´s line up. Apps freezes, camera freezes, it shows some purple crashes on the screen, really terrible! Google really needs to fix these software issues.

I am the type of person who switches phones a few times a year cause I’m always on the search of the perfect phone for my needs. Coming from the Pixel 4 XL , I can say this phone is far superior in a lot of things and I will mention them below : Pixel 6 pro vs Pixel 4XL Pros: RAM (12gb vs 6gb) Storage starts at (128gb vs 64gb) Better and bigger display (6.71” vs 6.3” ) Higher refresh rate (120hz vs 90hz) Bigger battery (5,003 mah vs 3,700 mah) Now there are a few things that prevent me from giving it 5 stars. Cons: Fingerprint sensor is slow compared to other phones Curved display prevents you from installing a decent tempered glass screen protector No face id (why google ? ) Pixel 4xl had this and cheaper phone have this . (Hopefully they will add it with a software update) Gets hot ( I have noticed this phone gets very hot when charging and sometimes during normal use) Doesn’t come with a charger. (Really google?) No gesture swipe feature (pixel 4xl have this) I honestly feel that if google would have kept some of the features from the pixel 4xl like the face id and the gestures , leaving the fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone instead of underneath the display and having a flat display instead of the curved waterfall display, I would definitely would have considered this phone the best android phone you could buy but the fact they missed out on these feature , I can say that there are some other alternatives that feel more premium for the money you pay for this . I would still recommend this phone to anyone who wants to be in the Android ecosystem but have some of the support like people who own apple devices cause this phone will continue getting updates just like the iphone does. If you are on the apple ecosystem already , it would be hard for me to recommend this phone for you but if you are an android user who wants the pure android experience with a few compromises , then yes this is the phone for you . If you don’t want to spend $900 on this phone , you can always get the pixel 6 for $599.00 or get the pixel 4 xl which goes around for $350 on ebay and amazon.

I bought my last "flagship" phone about two years ago, so it was time for a new one, which is why I jumped as soon as an opportunity to test the Pixel 6 Pro from Google came up. I'd never owned a Pixel phone before, so I wasn't sure what to expect other than unlimited Google Photos cloud backup (which was awesome since I was just about full after having the same Google account for almost 15 years). My Pixel 6 Pro arrived just before Halloween offering me the chance to try out the upgrades to the light filter allowing for night photos. On my old phone which boasted a top-of-the-line camera pre-Covid would take pictures at night or in low lighting that appeared to be dipped in sand, grainy and had colored specks all over them. With the Pixel 6 Pro that is not an issue, much to my surprise and excitement! The pictures come out vibrant and clear, only showing some blurring if you zoom in close. It boasts a 50MP rear camera and the daytime pictures are incredible, not that I'm a great photographer. One of the Pixel 6 line's selling points was its suite of editing tools which would adjust skin tones, deblur automatically, and a Magic Eraser to remove photobombers or unexpected background subjects. Deblur works to varying degrees, I used my kids as test subjects and while some of the pictures are still blurry there were a handful that auto corrected and look great. Magic Eraser....hoo boy, this is a neat idea but for me it just doesn't work. Its listed as being best used outdoors, unfortunately being in the Pacific Northwest now isn't a great time to hit the beach or park. It’s also not available in every photo, but I found a shot of my grandson which had a child sneaking up behind him and my son-in-law in the background. Not a great or textbook example but it had the Eraser icon, so I gave it a shot....and it blurred both figures replacing them with colors or patterns from nearby objects. Other features of the phone are a security mode that detects car crashes and alerts a series of emergency contacts you set up. There's also a mode that lets you tell your emergency list what you’re doing and if you don't check in after a set time it will alert them something is wrong (for example if you were walking home from work at night through the bad part of town...neat but I won't use it I don't think). Material You is what they're calling a feature that, when you turn it on, kind of color matches your Google icons and clock to match the wallpaper. I had my lock screen set to green slime from my favorite 80s movie and it changed the clock to a matching but different shade of green. This also worked with other images to change icons a blue/gray for predominantly blue/gray images, pinks to match reds, etc. It’s neat! Direct My Call transcribed menu options and let me tap to navigate, Hold For Me lets you put the phone down and Pixel will hold the line until it’s your turn then ring so you pick up only when someone is ready to talk with you (none of my toll-free numbers I tried had a hold that let me try this unfortunately). Hardware wise the phone is just beautiful! The iconic camera band across the back didn't take me anytime to get used to at all and the slight raise also allowed me to have reference for holding the slick smooth glass body (beautiful as it may be, case will be encouraged to avoid shattering this slippery phone!). The 120hz refresh makes everything so smooth and the colors pop on the 6.7 OLED screen with just the slightest curve on the edges. There is no headphone jack, so beware anyone still hardwiring for their music. Since it also doesn't have a memory slot you will be stuck with the space you have on the internal storage, so choose wisely. This is probably also a great place to confirm and inform anyone who isn't aware: Pixel 6 Pro is the first Pixel to NOT give you unlimited Google Photo backup, a huge disappointment given how great this camera will make photos look. Really this is the biggest downside to the Pixel 6 line, and I would love to have them reverse this later. Yes, you can upgrade your Google Drive storage for a fee but personally I have enough subscriptions each month I don't want to add another. So bottom line this is a solid phone with an awesome set of hardware and some neat Google features packing an incredible camera and a beautiful unique look! If you just need a phone this is one of the more affordable "top line" phones out there now and worth a look. If you're a longtime Google user or simply a serial downloader then the lack of unlimited photo storage and no expansion slot for more memory is going to be a reason not to buy. Head to Best Buy and play with one of these phones, give it a test drive and see if its right for you. I think I'm going to love it.... I just gotta take the time to clear out a few gigs of Google photos/files first.

The Google Pixel 6 Pro has been a great upgrade for me and overall is a great phone with a lot of great upgrades, however, there are also some very weird and annoying decisions that were made. My previous phone was the Google Pixel 4a and the transfer process coming to the Pixel 6 Pro was simple and easy to complete, the phone has a great process of teaching you all of the new features by showing you simple and easy to understand examples and directions of the new features. The new Google Tensor processor is amazing and has made it possible to add many new features that work amazingly fast on-device, the ability to translate text and pictures, faster more responsive voice controls, and new camera features really show some of the capabilities of Google's new processor and they are great. I also really like the use of Google's Material UI and the ability to customize a color theme for the entire phone by simply choosing a primary color and the phone will take care of the rest of the process of picking accent colors, text colors, and more to give you a customizable and good looking interface for your phone. The adaptive and battery-saving features are great at ensuring that you have many hours of use with your phone by adjusting things such as screen refresh rate and killing off background processes that you aren't using, the phone learns your favorite apps and will keep them loaded while killing off processes that you aren't using frequently. The one decision that has been the most frustrating for me with the Google Pixel 6 Pro is Google's decision to round the screen at the edges, it makes the phone thinner and more difficult to hold around the edges and makes it so that your phone is constantly picking up touch signals from the edge of your phone which prevents you from being able to click apps, type, scan your finger, and a myriad of other issues caused by ghost touch signals when you are holding the phone too close to the curved edge. The combination of the slick back and the curved edges make it very difficult to hold the phone and I have had it slip out of my hand on several occasions. I also am not a fan of the camera bar on the back and do not like the way it looks and would have preferred for them to make the phone slightly thicker to accommodate the camera sensors and to make the phone easier to hold. I also am not a fan of the new under-screen fingerprint reader and I feel that the old design on the back of the phone worked better since it was in the perfect location to quickly and easily unlock with your index finger on the back of the phone and it also worked much faster, it is quite common that the new fingerprint reader is very slow to unlock or doesn't unlock at all due to the curved edges causing issues with touch signals at the edge of the screen while trying to unlock. While I think that Google did a great job with a lot of the new features on the Pixel 6 Pro, I also feel that they made some really bad decisions when it came to the actual physical construction of this phone, while some of these issues can be solved with a phone case to hide their design decisions, the curved edges of the phone have caused the most issues and frustrations for me and are issues caused by Google's bad choice to use something that hasn't worked for other phone manufacturers in the past. The curved screen has been done and failed before and Google didn't exactly do anything to make it better so I don't know why they bothered.

The Google Pixel 6 Pro is not holding back with its latest addition to its line up. Its obvious that the Pixel 6 is aimed to bring you all the amenities you are used to seeing with all the other big providers at a price point that is still very competitive in this market. And while its very similar to just about most phones out on the market, there are a few features that do set it apart. First things first. A couple things to keep in mind with the pro series is the fact that price is going to vary based on storage size for the phone. With 128 gig being the most economical value and 512 gig being your top tier price point. Google did away with the addition of a SD card meaning no external storage can be added. Due to this its best to see just how much storage you are currently using now on your current phone and use that info to base off your buying decision. There is also no 3.5mm audio jack which in this day and age just about everything is bluetooth anyways. Charging is done through the usb-c port or via a docking station. Full charge from 15% health was completed in about 45 mins and run time on a full charge yielded roughly a day a half with light usage. So what sets this phone apart? Well theres not much that sets it apart except for a few quirks like the ability to erase people from photo bombing your photo. At least that how it looks on the outside. Reality is there are alot of little things that really do set it apart and make it feel like a breath of fresh air. For starters, when you first sign on to the Pixel 6 pro, its UI system makes it very easy and user friendly to set up a existing Google account or set up a new account. Rather your an existing Android user or your new to the family the transition through the set up was very easy. Every phone has a new user set up that walks you through the phone showing you all its key features, etc. The main difference was the Pixel did a smoother job at it making it easier for even my grandparents to get it. The biometrics scanner even feels more reliable and accurate. One nice key feature i liked was how the thumb print would light up letting you know your placement was right. The fact that this is a Google phone means that your phone and Google assistant will automatically link up to all your Google products. Let's talk about some of the bigger things that really add some polish to this phone, such as the auto translate. The Pixel allows the translate settings to be turned on in a few different ways. Through the phones camera you can scroll over texts such as menus or business cards that have a foreign language on them and it will auto translate for you. If you are texting someone there is no need for them to translate their message as your Pixel will do it automatically. When a foreign text comes in on your phone the Pixel automatically translates it for you based on the language you chose. Your text messages will appear in your language going out however to the person on the receiving end of the text message it will appear in there language so that both parties need not do anything else. Keep in mind this feature needs to be activated first. There is also a recorder that allows for direct translation should you find yourself having a face to face conversation. The AI system has also greatly improved. The Google assistant can do all the things you are already used to doing such as sending out text messages, setting reminders, etc all while using your voice. However on the Pixel lets say you call a business and have to go through a automated system to get you to where you need to be. You can put the phone down and have your assistant transcribe the automated system in to real time via the face of the screen. This will appear as a text message across the screen allowing you to multi-task on something else so that you dont have to have the phone glued to your ear. Oh hey guess what? Do you hate waiting on the phone till your place is next in line to talk to a operator? Well the Pixel will prompt a hold for me button for you to press that will hold your place in line. The way it works is lets say your number 13 in line to talk to someone. Press the 'Hold for me' button, put your phone in your pocket and go about your day. When your number is up next and a operator is on the line your phone will start to ring or vibrate letting you know someone is on the phone finally. I was actually really blown away by this feature personally as i spend lots of time on phone calls. Now the camera does have some nice features that do set it apart however there are some that just feel like a gimmick. The camera does offer some very nice 4k shots and does allow for alot of customization. There is a cinema mode that allows for smoother, slow motion effects to give you more dramatic effects in your film. There are also improvements in the video stabilization features which allow you to zoom all the way in to a location allowing almost no shaking giving you most stable and cleanest photo or video you can possible get while in full zoom. You can also add motion blur shots which allow you to choose what you focus on and what blurs around it. You also have the ability to do just about what most other phones can do such as 360 shots, 4k recording, red eye removal and much more. The Pixel 6 boast its magic eraser stating that it can remove people or objects from a photo allowing for the perfect scene. And while it can do what it claims, the photo ends up looking like a poorly edited picture. What i mean is that whenever a object or person is removed from a photo the AI system has to fill that empty spot in with something. It takes the background around that object and pretty much blends in the colors together to complete the empty space. The problem is your left with a photo that you can clearly tell has been altered. Im not saying this feature is worthless just that it simply doesn't do a clean job with it. I have uploaded 2 photos so that you can see exactly what im talking about. In one photo there is a picture of a dog with a persons leg in the photo. In the second photo the leg was removed and you can see how the photo has been altered. Here's my personal thoughts. The phone can do alot more and to write about every single feature would take up lots of space. These are the key features that stood out and made it really shine as its own entity. The Google assistant is hands down way better than Samsungs Bixby by a long shot and is about up to par with Siri. There are some cool little quirks with it that are nice like the fact that the phone will pick up on what song is playing in the background at the department store your in and display the artist and title on the bottom of your screen. The AI system combined with Google assistant finally start to make the phone actually feel like a smart phone and with the price point coming in at 3 different prices this allows for a perfect budget to fit most people. If your looking to try something different that wont break the bank or if your looking for a phone that just feels like it has some intelligence to it then this may be the phone for you. There is much this phone can do that you have already seen before. But there still some things this phone has to offer that you may have not yet seen.

Tested the Google Pixel Pro 6, Stormy Black, 128GB series. The phone is sleek from first looks, in the box there’s a SIM pin, charging cable, and a USB to C adapter for transitioning from your old phone. No charger, as part of the whole “green” effort, will have to invest in the higher wattage charger to test the 30-minute quick charge to 50% capacity. After about a week of use, still intrigued to continue use. From start to setup, at most it took about 5-minutes without moving any current data or restorations from previous backups. Performing a restore and start setup again, restoring my actual profile data and apps did take a little longer, but it was noticeable the advantage of using both the 5G & WiFi together to boost the restore. The camera bar is good as it allows you to set the phone down and still be able to view the phone comfortably. The curved edges are going away in current model phones. The fingerprint reader is laggy at times and doesn’t react as quick as other available phones. Have registered additional prints and re-accomplished the prints. Seems it may just be a sensitivity things that could be adjusted a bit. The new Tensor Chip is very response is impressive as it seems to continually know what’s going on around you, keeping you up to date on what’s going on. Transcript, “Speech-to-Text” is excellent in recording all of your word and lectures into text, placing proper punctuation where necessary, and learns from its mistakes if you have corrected it once, it remembers. Battery-life compared to other flagships is roughly 3.5-4.5 hours under normal use and by the end of the day having to charge at least one-time throughout the day to be able to continue use while around and outside of the office before touching the nightly charge for the next day. The various cameras integrated into the phone are amazing, it does a great job in isolating the various subjected in the images. The “Action Pan” works very well, but there are times where the app would freeze, not often. It does hurt when trying to capture something you cannot reproduce. The colors a vivid and very natural looking. The “ultra-wide” is amazing as it allows you to capture more of a tight area at times giving you more than expected at times. The magic eraser is great at removing any object you did not intend to have in your photo. Works best with fairly simple backgrounds to intermediate. The Google Design Team has placed a good amount of thought into how the phone operates and reacts to touch. The OS is very snappy and responds to everything with no lag or stutter. From performing searches for contacts, apps, and settings built-in the phone to help ease finding what you’re looking for it immediately highlights it to easily find and select what you’re looking for. “Quick Phrases”, is up and coming, it removes the “Hey Google” and you can simply speak direct to what you’re trying to do. When you want to answer a call, just say “Answer” of “Decline” a call and just saying “Snooze” to snooze that alarm. Looking forward to be able to use this more as the options increase. Recorder, while many may not use it, it has come a long way. Highly recommend it becomes a part of your life where possible, especially if you’re a student and not always in the mood to take notes or just need to be able to review meeting topics later. The transcription is amazing and picks through all the words with a breeze. Amazingly, it’s very accurate. Privacy Dashboard. Privacy is big, especially today with how everything seems to report. This dashboard tries to place it all in one place by allowing you to see what apps and sensors are doing. Places you in control of everything, think of it as a one-stop-shop for determining your privacy levels. Personal Safety is another feature found within, allowing you to set your emergency contacts and even have Pixel check-in on you after a set time, even start sharing your location and emergency share in the event there is not response. Overall, the phone is amazing and really enjoy using it, even with the slight cartoonish feels at first and some theming to make it feel like “me”. Initially until a case was put on this phone, I felt as though it was going to be dropped with how sleek the phone is, but most new phones have this look and seem to be harder to hold without a case. The camera bar does help, but once a case was on this thing, felt more comfortable running around with it.

The Pixel 6 Pro feels like a step in the right direction, while also taking some compromises as well. Google changing to using their own in house Tensor chipset means they can save costs and undercut the competitors, so that is nice. The boost in battery size has made a noticeable difference throughout my first few days with the phone. The increased charging speed is also a godsend. I was at the point where I charged my previous Pixel 4 XL twice a day for 30 mins each, and now I only charge my Pixel 6 Pro once a day and it takes less time. Note to all that I don't let my phone typically fall under 40-50% and also don't charge it beyond 80-85% most of the time. That's the sweet spot for battery longevity. The main thing I miss on this new Pixel is the face unlock feature. I wish that was still an option. The Pixel 4 XL only offered face unlock (no fingerprint sensor at all), and I loved it at first. However, just a few months after it released the pandemic hit and made it hard to use when wearing a mask. It's nice to have the fingerprint sensor back, but it sucks that it can take multiple attempts to unlock fairly often. Seems like you have to place your finger in just the right place and hold it for about a second. Off by just a bit and press any shorter than a second and it often won't work. Camera is outstanding, as always with a Pixel. Is there a night and day difference between the 4XL and 6 Pro? I would honestly have to take pics of the same subjects with each to really notice much a difference. It still takes fantastic photo's, and I think the bokeh effect is improved on this device. The nightsight mode seems a bit quicker, but good luck getting good nightsight pics from the front facing camera. It seems lousy compared to the main rear camera. The biggest improvement on the new camera is the 4x zoom. I never really felt like photo's taken with 2x zoom on my Pixel 4 XL turned out to be of good quality. I can honestly say I am impressed with pictures taken on the 6 Pro at 4x. It is very impressive, at least when plenty of natural light is around. The audio compared to the Pixel 4 XL seems like a decent improvement. I played the latest entry of the Angry birds game and at 60-80% volume it was full of fantastic sounding effects and music. I streamed some music and watched some YouTube videos and everything is clear and concise. The speakerphone seems pretty good too. I was able to have a conversation hands free on speakerphone with ease. This is the first phone that I have decided to use a case with full time. I hate cases with a passion, but the 6 Pro just doesn't feel right in the hands without a case. At least compared to the 4 XL, which was probably my favorite phone to hold with without a case. The waterfall edges and camera bump make it a bit tricky, but once you have a case on it blends together nicely and feels good in the hand(s). Overall I am happy with the new phone. My 64GB Pixel 4 XL was feeling the weight of its small built-in storage allotment. I've never been one who has felt the need for larger capacity phones, as all photo's and pics are backed up automatically, and it's very easy to also back them up on a PC and then to the cloud storage of your choice. That said, the apps and games today are getting much larger, and it's nice to have some extra storage available. To summarize, here's what the phone does well: Good battery life Great looking large screen Audio is impressive Improved charging speed is awesome Camera is still fantastic The bad: Fingerprint sensor needs some software tweaking Lack of face unlock is unfortunate

Great phone with good performance as well as a sleek body with good look. Camera is amazing, and backside looks so much better than Pixel 7.

The Pixel 6 Pro is Google's first phone that truly lives up to the hype surrounding it. As someone who's followed Google's Pixel line since the Nexus days, this is the first phone that truly feels like it competes with the big guys. Upon getting my phone I ran into a few issues with the battery and the phone feeling extremely warm, but after doing a factory reset (ran into some problems with initial setup in store with my old phone) it runs great. Like all Pixel phones Google's version of Android adapts to how you use your phone as you use it, so while the battery, display, and performance may seem lackluster the first days or week, after that my battery, adaptive brightness, and other little issues completely went away. Pros: Display, speakers, software (Android 12, call screening, hold for me, dictation mode, translate for me), amazing haptics, processing power, and top of the line camera. The only cons I would say is the fingerprint reader is subpar and even though I have no issues unlocking after a few reprogramming attempts, it is slower than my S20+ I traded in, and is capacitive which means it lights up in dark environments. Also the phone can sometimes run very warm when running apps that use video like TikTok, Duo, etc but after I did a factory reset it was a lot cooler. Overall great phone and super happy and excited with my purchase.

I love this phone, if you want a (imo) beautiful looking android phone with great software and an amazing camera then this is the phone for you. I have tried IPhones and IOS just isn't for me. I have tried Samsung Galaxy devices but did not have a good experience with those unfortunately. One thing I would like to clarify is that this phone did ship with quite a lot of software bugs, this is the first time Google has designed their own processor and there were some growing pains for sure but those have in my experience all been sorted out and none ever really effected my overall experience with this phone. Pixels are also like fine wine, they get better with age as they have quarterly feature drops. If you are hesitant about getting a Pixel 6 series phone, I would say give it a shot as all the bad press it got upon release is no longer an issue and they have worked to get these phones to a great place. I will be upgrading to the 7 Pro when that releases later this year because I am one who likes to have the latest and greatest when it comes to phones. My experience was so amazing with this one that they have turned me into a Pixel fan for life!

I got this phone for a surprise NYC trip I planned for my wife. I wanted a phone that took better pics which this has exceeded expectations. The phone functions well other than the battery getting overheated easily when I use when riding my bike on longer trips. Definitely one of my favorite phones I've owned and a fraction of the price.

Fantastic flagship high end, of a mid-tier smartphone class But totally worthy of top tier competition! Why spend over $1000 for a top tier phone when you have a contender with everything they have and more? A brutally powerful next gen processor, good ram, a fantastic camera, and most importantly unmatched camera processing software with patented editing tools at your disposal that are unmatched in the smartphone environment of today! You don't need to go spend thousands of dollars on a high-end camera for your photography, side hustle or hobby, The camera has supportive software with the Google Pixel 6 pro or just as good if not better than commercial cameras exclusively made for the photography industry, and even commercial grade software such as Photoshop! I guarantee you the camera, hardware and processing and editing software included in this phone is just as good as the majority of commercial industry, leading cameras and software out there, with very basic skill and simple practice. You could have magazine award-winning quality photos done with ease. Not even some of the high class foldable phones even have this power, But for such a low price you will and you won't have to worry about your screen cracking simply by bending it open after 6 months of use or worrying about it cracking when it's in colder temperatures! I would know I purchased a z-fold 3 last year and within 6 months the screen had cracked completely without fault or abuse. Sure enough upon sending it for a warranty repair I was denied and told it was my fault when it clearly wasn't. Needing a professional grade phone that can work and a commercial environment or detail and power is key. I had to look no further than this beautiful piece of work. For under $700 I had something just as powerful and if not better. And as I've mentioned before the camera is amazing! This is definitely not a purchase You're going to regret!

My favorite android phone to date. Perfect size with alot of screen real estate and phenomenal pics. It's fast, sleek and there are no other phones I want including my wife's S22 ultra. Battery lasts all day and is rugged enough for no screen protector. This is my 2nd pixel 6 pro and 3rd pixel. Definitely a fan.

Wonderful phone. Google is always far ahead of the competition!

This is a very good phone the price and has many great Google features such as magic eraser. The photo quality is also very good for a budget phone and video is also as good as it can got for Android phone. I did end up having some heating issues which I was able to solve by turning off 5G.

Great phone but not perfect. Pros: - The performance and user interaction are amazing. No lag and great response on all the apps I have installed. - Purest Android experience. The reason why I like Android it's because of how friendly it is with the user. The Tensor processor seems to give the full experience on what Android is supposed to be. - Gorgeus design and excellent display - Great features on rear camera Cons - The charging speed is low. Despite using original adapter (sold separately) you don't get advertised speed, something that for me is a big issue. - Front camera is not good. My previous phone was a Oneplus 7 pro and I can say that is easily better than the Pixel's. The quality of the image doesn't look good, I expect is something that can be fixed on a firmware update. - Heating issues. When multi-tasking heating goes above average, not really crazy but is something that you definitely notice. I do recommend it but I put a 4/5 considering is a flagship and I believe it's a little step below from competitors but I hope that most of the issues can be fixed on updates.