chrisk
Folding Captain
I've had my Pixel 6 pro from Bell now for about a week. I came from a Pixel 5, and just before that, a Pixel 4XL.
Pros/what I love:
- screen quality is great and bright enough for outside. See notes below on the curves, though..
- speakers are amazing. Best I have heard on a phone. I had the 2XL and I say these on the Pro are better.
- haptics
- performance
Meh:
- battery life has not been as good as I had hoped. It's ok. Android 12 makes it hard to get good comparison to my earlier devices, but with my Pixel 5 I usually went to bed with 60-70% battery after a short top up in the day, the Pixel 6 Pro is a good 20-30% below that. Better than my 4XL thankfully.
- curved screen. Not as horrible as I thought it would be, but there is colour shift there that bugs me a little. No accidental taps though.
- cameras. I honestly can't see a difference with my Pixel 5. Nighttime shots are the same. Zoom is only improvement.
Ugh/Cons:
- Android 12. By far my least favourite upgrade yet. So much wasted space throughout the UI and default launcher. I decided to go back to Nova Launcher too after a 3-4 year break from it.
- charging speeds. I bought the 30w Google charger and looks like Google has crippled the charging to 22w anyways. If you have 18w legacy Google chargers just keep using those.
- accessories: the best protector I have found so far is the Best Buy applied one. Whitestone has committed to releasing their loca glass protector in January. I'll se the Best Buy one until then. Don't buy the tempered glass iShieldz that bell sells..its edge only and has some loca on the finger sensor that looks awful.
- cases are hard to get. I got a Tudia one and it stopped the wireless charging. I have the Cyril cream coloured one until my Bellroy blue leather one comes.
- under screen fingerprint scanner is finicky. I have both my thunbs trained twice as well as a finder and I still have issues. I'd say works 80% of the time. Not as good as the 99.99% of teh time on the Pixel 5 one I had.
Those are my main thoughts so far. I'll pop some pics of my cases (or a video link) once I get the Bellroy in hand, as well as the Spigen thin fit that should be here next week.
Overall I'm happy, but still some nagging things that I wish were different.
Pros/what I love:
- screen quality is great and bright enough for outside. See notes below on the curves, though..
- speakers are amazing. Best I have heard on a phone. I had the 2XL and I say these on the Pro are better.
- haptics
- performance
Meh:
- battery life has not been as good as I had hoped. It's ok. Android 12 makes it hard to get good comparison to my earlier devices, but with my Pixel 5 I usually went to bed with 60-70% battery after a short top up in the day, the Pixel 6 Pro is a good 20-30% below that. Better than my 4XL thankfully.
- curved screen. Not as horrible as I thought it would be, but there is colour shift there that bugs me a little. No accidental taps though.
- cameras. I honestly can't see a difference with my Pixel 5. Nighttime shots are the same. Zoom is only improvement.
Ugh/Cons:
- Android 12. By far my least favourite upgrade yet. So much wasted space throughout the UI and default launcher. I decided to go back to Nova Launcher too after a 3-4 year break from it.
- charging speeds. I bought the 30w Google charger and looks like Google has crippled the charging to 22w anyways. If you have 18w legacy Google chargers just keep using those.
- accessories: the best protector I have found so far is the Best Buy applied one. Whitestone has committed to releasing their loca glass protector in January. I'll se the Best Buy one until then. Don't buy the tempered glass iShieldz that bell sells..its edge only and has some loca on the finger sensor that looks awful.
- cases are hard to get. I got a Tudia one and it stopped the wireless charging. I have the Cyril cream coloured one until my Bellroy blue leather one comes.
- under screen fingerprint scanner is finicky. I have both my thunbs trained twice as well as a finder and I still have issues. I'd say works 80% of the time. Not as good as the 99.99% of teh time on the Pixel 5 one I had.
Those are my main thoughts so far. I'll pop some pics of my cases (or a video link) once I get the Bellroy in hand, as well as the Spigen thin fit that should be here next week.
Overall I'm happy, but still some nagging things that I wish were different.