This is My Next Smartphone...

The Google Pixel stuff finally arrived

Google Pixel 5 and 4a 5G in... It's a little bit different this year

because Google, they... Maybe it's a bit of a departure. We have a budget-minded device

with the Snapdragon 700 series and this one, what is it? The 765G and also 5G

sub-6 5G on the Pixel 5 model. but with the 4a they put 5g right in the name it's the pixel 4a 5g we have a couple different

colors here what do they call it just black just black they stick into the just black branding and

then we have sort of sage which is the exciting model that everybody wants to have a take on

because well it's an unusual green it's the year of unusual greens because uh apple put out a green

as well and it was it was a polarizing green i think this one actually got some decent feedback

Of course, it doesn't matter to me because I won't be slapping on a Pixel 5 official case

but what I will be slapping on is this right here. The later case, crazy thin Kevlar

As you know, it's going to make sure that I can enjoy the Pixel 5 the way it was intended

almost as slim as having no case at all. You can order these right now

So I'm going to go for the black Pixel 5 so then I have the seamless look once the later case goes on

You can check this out in the description. Okay, so let's start with that model. And we have two little pull tabs over here

Now it is important to note this is not a millimeter wave model. So no Verizon love for the super fast 5G, at least not here

Oh, that's an interesting texture. A little bit grippy, almost OnePlus sandstone-y

but not quite to the same degree where you feel as though it is sandpaper for your fingers

This, on the other hand, is a satisfying kind of grippiness. You hear that

It's the best way for you to imagine the texture. Again, it doesn't matter for me

I slapped the later case on, but it's worthwhile to mention because it is a bit of a departure

You don't see this all that frequently. Let me remove the plastic

It looks like an easy to remove situation. Ah, yes. So this is a compact phone for this year

everybody's interested in a smaller phone we got i mean they scaled up so big i guess

it's not just google apple they put out the 12 mini yesterday and they claim that's the smallest

5g phone in the world this is close comparatively what i'm interested in is on the back here i

i've been a fan i mean i've told you before i've been a fan of the computational stuff that google

does in the camera department i feel like with previous pixels i couldn't take a bad photo i

I just point at something, boom. Why does that look so wonderful? The other interesting characteristic

the fingerprint scanner, it's on the back. I never minded this on previous phones

And for me, it's actually a little bit faster than the in-display

Little touch here on the side, you have the metallic power switch

which is above the volume rocker, bottom of the device, Type-C connector

I believe it's an 18-watt charger in the box. And I can already tell we have a single hole punch

up in the top corner. You remember previous pixels, they've been all over the map with various notches and things

This is a nice little simple implementation, not too distracting. You get the screen to body ratio

All right, so let me get that started booting up. Google logo jumps out

Also in the box, we have our paperwork, our SIM tool. We have the power brick that I mentioned and 18 watt USB type C

All right, cool. Plastic removal. Ooh. We have our USB type C to C cable and they've even included a C to A adapter for all your migration needs

So that's a nice little touch as well. Now that one is still booting up

So I'm going to jump over to the Sage model so we can catch a glimpse at this color right here

Same procedure. Ooh, you know what

As far as greens go, I'll tell you what. It's not a terrible green

It quite pleasing inspired by nature possibly It a bluish green All right let get to it Boom Kind of creates a nice contrast here on the side of the device where it meets the glass But again I going to be boring and just go for the

black model, of course. Also, the button on this one, it's metallic, but it has a sage kind of tone

to it. And now let's go ahead and check out just how much larger the 4A 5G is. So it's a six inch

display on the regular Pixel 5 and 6.2 inches on the Pixel 4a 5G. So it's not a tremendous

difference in scale. Of course, there is a difference in price. This one, I guess that's

plastic. Sure feels like it. Not as pleasing as the texture over here on the standard Pixel 5

Much bigger body over there. You know what's weird about this device, though? I don't believe

it got a huge battery. The battery spec on the regular Pixel 5 is 4080 mAh, 3885. So that's kind

of a strange departure here from the norm. You would assume you have a bigger phone, you get a

bigger battery. I guess it's not always the case, but you do save some cash. I like the dark mode

option during the setup, so I can go straight into dark mode. See, it allows you to save battery with

the dark theme, or you can switch to the light theme right out of the gate. I'll leave it dark

for now. So here we have our smooth display setting automatically raise the refresh from 60

to 90 Hertz for content increases battery usage. This is something Google introduced a little while

ago. For me, it makes a big difference. The biggest jump or the most noticeable one is

getting to 90 Hertz. And then beyond that is a bonus, but the 60 to 90, you can notice it

So that's the other difference. That 90 Hz upgrade, it's only going to happen on a small model

This is obviously, once again, a cost thing. It's a real interesting position that the Pixel is in at the price point when they're asking for it

Because you're not getting a top-tier chip, and you can, I mean, instead of the Pixel 5

you could find something with a Snapdragon 865 in it for a very, you know, very close in price

however with the pixel what you're getting is you're getting android the way that google intended

you're getting the freshest updates you're getting a completely vanilla experience you're getting their

computational photography stuff in their camera app which yes you can find a way to get it on other

devices but it's a bit of a headache all right so i'm going to focus my attention on the standard

pixel 5. All right so funny enough you have to dive into the menu here to find battery share and drag

it up into your quick toggle settings at which point you can utilize it. So this is how it works

charge other devices with your pixel flip the phone over to give it a try. Okay no problem here

we have the pixel buds oh did you hear that notification and the orange light lights up so

now we're charging the buds from the phone that's a cool feature for google it has it has of course

been elsewhere but it's convenient to have it on more devices so i'm happy about that turn it off

when it's not in use obviously you don't want any battery drain going that way the standout thing to

me here is just how comfy the single-handed usage is for this device. I'm going to actually

slap the case on it right now because that's how I'll use it. And I mean, it's just so

take a look at that. It's so slender, the whole package and small. This is coming from a guy who's

been using, this is what I've been using. I've been using the Z Fold 2. It's a bit of a tank

which is fine because you open it up and it's a tablet in your pocket but the weight and i mean

you know you have it on you this is the complete opposite the standard pixel 5 and it might be a

fun time for myself to uh take a different have a different experience and go down the small

phone road which seems to be a thing that manufacturers are catering to right now so

Maybe it's time for me to have that experience too, at least for a time period

Maybe I should throw the SIM in here. That would make this the first phone in a very long time

that I throw the SIM in that does not have a flagship level processor in it

It's a sign of the times right there. Okay so we cut there for a moment had about a billion updates to run on the device Also you know what I just thought I going to switch to this phone

I don't know what it is. All right, I'm just going to be honest with you

The Pixel devices each year, they kind of get me going a little bit. It's something about the vanilla software experience and the camera app

And I just, I feel like I need to dive a little deeper. So you can see, I got this one

It's rigged up. I changed the wallpaper, man. Which it means we're beginning our process of becoming intimate together

I also brought it home with me to run some of the updates and play around with it a little bit more

Man, is this a comfy, that's a comfy phone. It's just, I've, well, I've been on really heavy phones recently

I mean, I'm talking brick-like phones. And so this has just been so satisfying to do the one-handed, to have the lightweight, to do the unlock real speedy

Now, I wish it had to face unlock as well, but I can manage because the rear unlock fingerprint is so fast

So I'm living my life and I'm okay with it. Now, one of the updates that took place, we have a new camera UI

So I had to show that off to you. It's a little bit different now. Some of the editing features are a little bit different

the way they come up as well as you can see we have these really big buttons for enhanced black

and white portrait and color pop and then as you move down to the bottom here into these various

sub menus for crop and adjust it's uh it's just a completely different interface giving you a little

bit more control it's the most current one that they're working on but let me tell you there's

something there's just something about the look the way the processing takes place here now i

realize other manufacturers have caught up i have tested so many fantastic smartphone cameras in

here but what's cool this time around is assuming the camera performance on this guy for a 5g is

similar what's cool is to get this level of camera performance in devices at this price point so

i realize the pixel 5 there's a lot of discussion around price for what it is considering it doesn't

have the flagship chip in it and we're talking about 700 bucks but this one on the other hand

if you're really interested in value well now you're talking i'm talking about the 4a 5g or

even the regular pixel 4a for that matter it's just cool to see their level of computational

photography in devices that are that cheap and uh and so of course this is no exception you pair it

with the large battery and some features like wireless charging, reverse wireless charging

fast unlock, extra camera module. I don't know, we just have a package here

that for some reason in my hands is compelling at the moment

So let's go ahead and just snap a few more photos inside of the new UI

I mean, I didn't bring over the Robinhood all-purpose flower for no reason

So I'm gonna go ahead and do a quick 1X over here

Boom, there's a 1X. and a .6, and a 2X as well

And then also, you know what might be cool is to try to get a close focus

All right, so that's your 2X camera, and I don't know about you, Kirk, but I mean, I'm seeing the texture of the bag over here

All right, the video UI, also new. A lot of the fancy stuff happens

under this little shake button right over here. You have standard video stabilization for light movement

That's the default setting. You have locked for far away still shots to exhume

active for heavy movement. So that's the most extreme stabilization. And then cinematic pan

which is the thing that they showed off at the event, which gives you these smooth panning shots

half speed muted. Interesting. So I suppose we should do maybe the standard version first

So this is standard stabilization. and i am going to walk around and mo's gonna say hi there you go and i'm still walking

and the camera is moving relatively rapidly and you can test out just how smooth that is

and i'm now i will go ahead and switch to active mode i don't know what's going to happen here is

it going to crop in more Look we even have a little demo Oh interesting So unstabilized versus standard Well obviously that quite the difference A demonstration of locked for zoom My goodness

Ah, I don't think we're going to simulate the active scenario at the moment. Cinematic pan

Yeah, I can do that. Let's give that a try. In fact, I'll bring up our model for that purpose

and we shall pan. Let's try this out. Whoa. So it slows it down. It looks, I guess it's filming at 60 and then down to 30

But yeah, very cinematic feel to it. So again, just like all the other camera features

it's software heavy stuff. And it's amazing what they're capable of via software

Obviously, it's a real preference thing. You don't have to agree. You could say, I prefer the look of a Samsung photo

You could say, I prefer the look of an iPhone photo. They all make great photos. It's cool to have your preference

What I tend to think about the Pixel camera program is it seems to have a focus on sharpness, maybe tweaking sharpness a little bit, and contrast instead of going overboard on saturation and smoothing

At least in my experience, and that happens to be to my personal preference

Okay, something else worth mentioning here. The speaker setup is a bit weird

It is more than one speaker. I don't really want to call it stereo because most of the sound comes out of the bottom

And then the top side, it looks like one of these in-screen kind of speaker units

For the earpiece, that's okay. But for audio, when you're, I don't know, watching some YouTube, as you would be

it's not the optimal experience. So let's go ahead and play a clip from Lou later here

So if I plug up the bottom speaker, it ain't much coming out of the earpiece section so don't think it's a stereo speaker

experience lockdown stuff first started there was talk of starbucks even shutting down some stores

but of course starbucks huge look at how symmetrical this viewing experience is with

the bezels in each direction now obviously you have the whole punch for the front facing camera

one day in the future that's going to be hidden beneath the display not today but in the meantime

I mean, this is just a nice little package right here. And it's so strange that we are on the cusp of a resurgence of the small phone

I can't say that I saw it coming. I knew there was some chatter, some talk

People wondered if it would ever happen. But now we have some big players in the space taking the small phone seriously

Players like Apple and players like Google. And that may have an impact on the marketplace as a whole in encouraging other manufacturers to also rethink their strategy

In fact, actually, the OnePlus 8T was kind of similar in a sense that it was a bit smaller than the OnePlus 8 Pro

So we'll see if this continues. In the meantime, my SIM card will now enter this device

I want to play around with the video. I want to play around with the photo. and I want to play around with the idea of having a tiny phone in my pocket

and a more traditional form factor because I have been using the Z Fold 2 for a long period of time

And I have actually a few more things to say about this guy as well

I think this is kind of underrated. You might think that sounds crazy because millions of people are obviously interested in this

This is a lot more like having an entire computer in your pocket. It's like a pocket tablet as much as it's a phone

And there are the drawbacks, of course, with carrying a brick around comparatively

to something like this, but when you pop this thing open, you need to get some work done

you need to do some serious typing. There's not much else like it

that you can fit in your pocket. So I don't know, maybe I'll have more coming up on my experience with this, but for now

the SIM card is about to enter the brand new Pixel 5, bigger battery features

that I wanted, like the reverse wireless charge, wireless charge. The display looks nice, and it's just

well, it's the latest Pixel, so I'm gonna give it a shot. Thank you