The phone is awesome. I love it. It's nearly everything I wanted. But Google went bananas and made a phone that is too big and too slippery. I never use cases and will be for this phone. Please make a pro model (or at least offer tri-camera set up) for future iterations that are not impossible to manage with one hand, and you'll *finally* have the perfect phone.
I had very high expectations for this phone...I had great experience with the last pixel I owned (pixel3) and was very satisfied with it.This phone has given my very poor cell service (for calls) and extremely slow internet data lag for downloads,streaming,gaming etc. The display is amazing (OLED) but it's pointless if it's always buffering or stalling.My knock off Galaxy a51 had better service than this by far. This is the problem with "pumping up" people's expectations on new devices. It gives you a false hope that ur getting the best. I honestly feel like I have become a real-life beta tester for google. The camera is great, magic eraser is fun, but this isn't just a camera, it's a phone. I've also had Bluetooth and connection problems and random screen flickering. My wife and I got matching phones and when she calls me, 5 times out of 10 it sounds like she has a robotic interference in her voice. Sadly I'll probably be switching today if they can't help me w these issues.
I have been a Pixel user for years, but I absolutely love this phone. It is so intuitive, easy, and just enjoyable to use. The camera and the UI are incredible. Battery life is great, sound quality is clear. I have many google apps and smart home devices and it just syncs and works with everything perfectly. It's so easy to get set up and running. I can't say enough great things about this phone.
The phone's display, camera and OS are amazing and don't need any introduction for it's flexibility, elegance and it's image processing. But the fingerprint sensor sort of pulls down on the overall feel. Very laggy, inaccurate at times and the phone apps like maps are so not very optimized, I could feel it freezing sometimes.
Every time you want to use the phone you have to struggle through the poor fingerprint unlock implementation. My old pixel 3 had instant unlocked with the fingerprint. This thing takes forever when it works, which is not even close to half the time!