I love the new phone. EXCEPT. The fingerprint sensor. On the Pixel 2 XL, the fingerprint sensor on the back was very fast and reliable. On the Pixel 6 Pro, the front fingerprint sensor is not reliable. Only lets me in 50% of the time, and I have to type my passcode. This is in spite of me entering my fingerprint five times on the phone. The other issue I have is that the Pixel 2 XL was allowed to squeeze the phone sides to trigger the speech recognition. I used this all the time, and find I am getting used to slower hitting microphone button to activate speech recognizer. Overall, I am glad that I bought it. And I hope that they will upgrade the fingerprint software so that it will work better in the future.
I'm upgrading from the Pixel 3 to this phone, so I'm really pleased with a lot of things. But I think I was hoping for more quality control with the price jump to 900 bucks. While focusing on big improvements, they were negligent on the smaller things. The first issue, the front camera is absolute garbage. I'm not sure how they managed to downgrade, and this is coming from someone with an old Pixel 3. And second thing is, while the telephoto lens is super impressive, there is a really bad lens switching transition. You'll notice it if you zoom all the way while taking a video. It's kind of annoying if you zoom often in your videos. Overall, still a huge improvement for Google. The image stabilization while taking videos is awesome, and I love being able to record in 60 fps while in 4k. But I'm basing my stars off the fact that they didn't get the simple things right.
The camera is one of the best. It compares to Note 20. The phone screen does not feel premium, fingers reading is slow and no face recognition. At the price point I expected better.
This is by far the best Android phone available to buy today. It does have some software induced issues though. I wish Google would fix issues with the software releases. Overall though no other Android phone to date gives you the same feeling material design.
The phone is amazing, after being with Samsung for the past few years, it's a little weird using the swipe navigation the pixel has (aka swipe up from bottom home, swipe from the left or right to go back (I know you can change it)) but the phone feels just as big and easy to hold as the s21 ultra I had before. I absolutely love the screen on the pixel, it can go pretty dark for when I'm laying in bed at night and get really bright for when I'm in the sun, and looking at the pictures I've taken with the pixels camera looks amazing as well. im excited to see what Google brings in future updates with them now having there own chip inside, I would even put it on par with the snapdragon 888 if not better! Google stepped up their game with the pixel 6 and hopefully it will only get better!