Customer Reviews for Google - Pixel 6 128GB - Stormy Black (AT&T)
Customer Rating
5
Beautiful Phone
on December 27, 2021
Posted by: Greg
My friends get jealous when I show them the features of this phone. It takes amazing pictures, feels and looks wonderful, and the battery life has worked really well for me.
Android 12 has a bunch of nuanced automatic color displays, but an annoying UI. The added swipe controls interfere pretty substantially with in-app gestures (scrolling through slides in Instagram frequently closes the app, etc) Keyboard is too sensitive and throws extra spacing and words in *every* sentence. Touch screen usually lands your touch in the wrong spot. When tapping into a text box, the keyboard does not respond/ pop up about 10% of the time. Swiping between apps is almost impossible on the first try, have to keep closing out and re-opening between apps you're working in simultaneously. Feels slick, takes me forever to work in.
I do not like this phone. It has very poor reception on my wifi on calls and they constantly cut out. Google photos doesn't talk to Facebook so it is several steps and a cumbersome process to put photos on Facebook and Facebook messenger and messenger. The Camara and some features are nice but they do not make up for the problems.
Coming from the 4a5G, I was looking for a faster/better performing SoC in the Pixel 6. Yes, it's still mainly a Samsung product, but it wasn't the budget/mid-range Snapdragon that was in the 4a5G. And yes, having a slower/mid-range CPU is very noticeable in day-to-day, especially if you have Maps running.Stills were already good - we knew that. My question - would video get better? Unfortunately, no. Google still has a ton of work to catch up to Apple.Thirdly - the cell signal being weaker in the Pixel 6 is very real. I am no longer getting signal in places I was previously with the 4a5G. I'm with the same network (ATT), so it's most definitely a phone-based issue.So is this Google's best? No, not really. But after I learned that the 6a would be removing the headphone jack, it no longer made sense to stay on the a-line.