Customer Reviews for Google - Refurbished Good - Pixel 6 Pro 128GB (Unlocked) - Cloudy White
Customer Rating
3
Overheating
on December 4, 2021
Posted by: Customer
The phone overheats excessively and quickly under normal use with the standard settings. I had to reduce lighting and turn off the key pad vibration to reduce this problem. Second, the new features do not seem so mind blowing to warrant almost a 50% price increase.
I'm so glad that I'm no longer bored by my previous Pixel 4A 5G, which I bought just a year ago, or my Pixel 2 that I bought in 2018. Both versions were a breath of fresh air then, and so were the two Nexus 5's I bought in 2014. But this year, Google broke the mold with a drop-dead design, and a flawless new OS. Now, all of the other new phones look like carbon copies, while my new Pixel 6 Pro stands as a testament to genius. Thank You Google for making my heart sing, and I'll sing it proudly until you stifle me with the next version that takes my breath way. - Sincerely, De
I've only had the phone a few weeks so I am hesitant to give it five stars but it really does deserve it. First of all, the text to speech is amazing. I'm actually using it to write this review out since I don't like typing big long things. It catches every single word plus adds punctuation for you so you don't even have to think about it or proofread a message if you're driving. I am curious to see if the adaptive battery feature becomes any more apparent once I have had the phone for about a month but for right now the battery is fine. Nothing amazing, but gets me through the day ( 12-hour work days) and I have about 30% when I get home. The camera, as always, is insanely good. The last thing I want to mention is the customability is off the charts. Making the pixel launcher look how you want is very easy but it is also easy to download third party launchers.I would confidently say that this is Google's first flagship.
It's a good phone, everything you would expect from a high end smartphone in 2021, if you have niche interests you want to make sure it fulfills I'm sure there's a youtube video about it. speaking as someone switching over from an iPhone X the only things I really miss are it's 3D touch feature (although there are alternative methods for most of its functions), and various small instances where it's apparent that apple put a bit more effort into UX than Google, I often find one tap/swipe tasks on an iPhone requiring two to three steps on my pixel, and a completely trivial thing that comes to mind is that I can't adjust the brightness of the flashlight mode as I could on an iPhone. This is all pretty minor stuff, nice phones have become pretty homogeneous over the years. One actual gripe I have is that the seam between the screen and the phone body is very apt to collecting grime, also I wish there was a way to turn off the automatic enhancements applied to photos you take.
I find the phone is too intuitive. It's got so many features that are trying to be helpful but get in the way of what I'm trying to do. I'm still finding assistants that need to be turned off in the messages and phone apps. Not really digging the phone but I've only had it for a week now. It's been clumsy so far. I think a questionnaire during set up to help the phone decide what features might be right for the user would need nice.