- If you have had multiple generations of Pixels
in your life like I have, currently rocking a Pixel 4,
then you might've 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, it looks like Google kind of
completely restrategized its vision and roadmap
for the Pixel 5,
because that's vastly different from the way they're going
with the 4.
So, we are gonna compare, what it's like compared to the 4,
what it's like compared to the 4A,
and everything in between.
And thanks for watching. Come on over with me.
♪ My little Pixel 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.
(gibberish) 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.
Some card remover 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.
Then they've got this little 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, this is 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 in 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
'Cause the inside of your pants pocket is slippery
and you don't have a D brand 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 issued 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 unlocking
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 the 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, 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 has a Punchout display,
as opposed to on this phone,
the pixel 4 when it first came out,
it actually looked kind of dated.
It had a bigger forehead than a lot of phones that year.
And the reason for that,
it 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 it 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're 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 going to 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 list 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.
The second thing that sells phones is a great camera
and pixels have always had great camera.
Let's check out what they got going on this time,
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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,
black level slider and a fright level slider.
I never really found myself using those that much,
even if the demo looks really cool,
but the big change here is the lenses.
So they both still have the 12 megapixels shooter,
but now there's a new wide 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 this pixel 4A 5G
neither of them have it.
That used to actually be a distinguishing feature
between the 3A and the four.
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
'Cause 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 on 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 why my wife uses a pixel phone
is because of the call screening feature,
where if some random number you don't recognize calls you
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 did 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 fives.
It will trickle down in the coming months
to other pixel devices.
That is a reason to buy a pixel five
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 white list like WhatsApp and Instagram
or whatever you actually use all day.
And then just don't get bogged down with like
fitness tracking, and Chinese made ups.
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 2800 mega hertz power 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 gonna say it right now,
it's not differentiated enough from this phone.
These two phones have the same processor,
which is a Snapdragon 765G,
not if lecture processor by the way.
These phones have the exact same camera hardware.
And as I said, neither of them have
this like specialized camera processing chip.
What is the difference between these phones?
One is that the five has a 90 Hertz refresh rate screen,
which is nice for scrolling around.
It has the metal aluminum chassis,
whereas this one's just plastic.
They don't, they both kind of feel classy,
but the 4A definitely feels a little cheaper.
The five 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 five has two gigabytes more Ram
for a total of eight 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 four, 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 five
will still really feel like a pixel to you.
I think it's only for 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 don't.
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