The phone is okay. Not great. Not bad. Just okay.The button layout on the sides is opposite of every other Android phone I've ever owned - the lock button is ABOVE the volume up and down. This is a stupid design decision made solely to be "different". Those of us who have a dozen years of using other android phones will constantly hit lock when we mean to hit volume, and vice versa.The auto brightness adjustment is terrible. It's good outdoors, but gets WAY too dim indoors.The Google launcher is crap - it shoves their stupid search bar down your throat on your home page and is impossible to disable/remove. The day after I got the phone I had a custom launcher installed because of it.The phone hardware is pretty decent. The screen looks good, the phone is fast enough, it launches apps quickly. I haven't had any issues with apps crashing or refusing to launch... yet. (Just a weird issue with Outlook not showing E-Mail.)The camera is great. Probably the best part of the phone.
I have had the pro for a little over a week. Now I understand this isn't a long time, but I absolutely love it. Very fast and responsive. Amazing photos with the camera. I do think the magic eraser is a little overstated, but it is semi functional.
Thumb print almost never works on the first attempt, major problems rendering videos, intermittent wifi in a strong signal area.. the list goes on and on. I pretty much hate it and want to go back to my pixel 3 something.
It is my first pixel phone coming from having many Samsung phones. It's interesting seeing how different the UI even though they are both Android. It's been a very good experience but a few things. Fingerprint scanner is finiky and doesn't always work. They're is a search bar at the bottom that I can't get rid of. Also a time and date thing on the home screen I can't get rid of. Most of theses can be fixed by changing launchers but in wanted to try the pixel launcher. There is a update that improved the fingerprint sensor but still not great.