Got my Sorta Seafoam Pixel 6 in yesterday! For quick first impressions, first - the green is super nice and it is very close to the Seafoam color of the AJ1s.
Coming from the Pixel 4a, this phone is huge and heavy! Very premium though; I forget this is a $600 phone. The battery, I can't comment on since I just got it yesterday and I got Hangouts messages syncing with my Messages app and that's a battery hog.
With the Tensor chip, it's been really smooth and fun to play with. It's almost like the thesis of a paper where Tensor is built to prove what Google can do.
- Live Translate embedded into the app has been excellent! It's fairly accurate although I wish they had more dialects for certain languages like Cantonese and other dialects of Tagalog.
- Google Assistant is FAST. I thought it was already super fast on the Pixel 4/4a/5/5a because of how Assistant is built-in, but jeez, this is even faster for sure.
- The few photo processing capabilities/features are pretty dope, too! I did a quick test with the Long Exposure mode and it's pretty good! Not 100%, but still good for what it is. Same with Magic Eraser although that's a hit or miss. Like most said, if you know about Photoshop's Content Aware Fill, it's basically the same thing, but just done in a few seconds, which is impressively ******* smart.
- Speech enhancement has potential, but I did one test and it didn't work as well just that one time. Will try again soon.
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Long Exposure Effect
The camera is great as always but I've yet to try out the ultrawide. The main thing I was really curious about was how well the 50MP would make a difference when zooming in 1.3x - 1.5x compared to the older sensor and at least from what I'm seeing, I'm liking it a lot because of detail consistency. I took a few pictures of the AJ1 Low Starfish in regular 1x and 1.3x.
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The only few things I noticed that isn't so good are the fingerprint sensor and the display in bright light. For the display, it's very nice but even with Adaptive Brightness, the brightness doesn't go an extra level like my Pixel 4a does, which is odd. The fingerprint sensor is unfortunately subpar since it takes at least 0.5 a second to get it to unlock the phone and it's taken me a few tries 50% of the time I try to unlock the phone.
EDIT - I've reset my thumb fingerprint setup a few times and I think I did it correctly this time. Definitely better now.
Despite that though, $599+tax for basically a premium or flagship-level phone (or high-end at the least) with free Pixel Buds, too?! That's a ******* steal in today's age IMO. The debate is just whether the $755+tax Pixel 6 Pro (I got it discounted from Target since they ran out of Pixel Buds + I stacked 5% off from the RedCard) is worth it for the telephoto lens I really want to have while not having the free Pixel Buds... maybe the 120hz screen, too. My 1st gen AirPods are weakening from the busted charger and I don't wanna buy a new charger case, haha.
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