Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro hands-on: big screens, big ambitions, small price

so at long last after leaks and pre-announcements and announcements and billboards and tv ads i guess we're at the final moment the launch of the pixel 6 and the pixel 6 pro and i got them right here in my hands can you even stink and believe it if you've been following pixel phones for a while then you might know that even the best ones they haven't been among the best smartphone flagships and these phones they're supposed to change all that so let's start with the important numbers here pricing 5.99 for the pixel 6 8.99 for the pixel 6 pro and that's with 128 gigs of storage too so they're a little less expensive than comparable iphones samsung's or even oneplus phones which is a bit of a pixel theme that continues even though these are meant to be high-end phones now this is a hands-on and the rules of the hands-on are that i can tell you about the hardware and i can show you my home screen but that's about it that could be a bad sign but i think that google is going for that whole like live tech event hands-on thing anyway those are the rules that they set for everybody so let's talk about hardware and with that a little asmr of these very clicky buttons [Music] buttons are important now despite the price differences these two phones they actually share a lot so both phones they have google's new custom tensor processor and google says it's competitive with qualcomm snapdragon 888 that's a big deal and it's all centered around google's ai boosting tpu that promises to improve photos and videos text-to-speech search the list goes on we'll really have to see how that goes in in our full review and when we're really testing these phones so stay tuned for our full review coming very soon both pixels also have a 50 megapixel main camera that uses pixel binning to combine four pixels into one to make a 12.5 that's 50 divided by four 12.5 megapixel image and that sensor yo that sensor is huge one over 1.31 inches and that's bigger than the iphone 13 pro's main sensor if you're keeping town but the pixel pitch is slightly smaller at 1.2 microns and then the main lens it has an f 1.85 aperture both have a 12 megapixel ultrawide at f 2.2 both have fixed focus hole punch selfie cameras on the front both have stereo speakers both can capture 4k video at up to 60 frames per second and slo-mo at 240 1080. they also share the same google software it's a version of android 12 that got a few extra google specific things that are powered by that tensor ai processor including faster translations and a magic eraser feature that lets you get rid of unwanted stuff in the background of photos i'm actually like pretty excited to test that one out and a few other things they also have optical fingerprint sensors under the screen wireless charging and reverse wireless charging for accessories like the pixel buds i love that feature so much and google's calling it battery share now both also support wi-fi 6e bluetooth 5.2 and nfc they have five years of promised update supports which is the longest google has ever offered a pixel and longer than basically any other android phone you can buy and google is going to be selling plastic clip-on cases that work around the camera bumps and add some grip but they don't feel nearly as nice as those old fabric cases that pixel phones have though they might age a bit better than those did which aged incredibly poorly but anyway they lastly also share a design sensibility so that's gorilla glass victus on the front and two-tone glass on the back but let's talk about this camera bar it's a very a la galaxy s10 if you ask me but like on steroids all camera bumps are silly and i think we've just gotten used to like seeing them over here so i'm not really too bothered by this the only thing is that it's absolutely massive i think the benefit though is that since it spans the whole back of the phone it means that your phone will sit on a table a lot more evenly i also think i would get like really used to this camera bump because if i own this it would always be in a case which would kind of like fill in the gap between the bump and the back of the phone but i also think the way that this is executed shows that even though this is google's 6 pixel it kind of feels like it's first or second try making a true flagship for example the curves from the sides they don't even blend in with the camera bump which is weird and in general while fit and finish are good there are just a few places where it seems like things aren't truly seamless like you can literally feel the seams especially on the regular pixel six which hold on hold on hold on full stop dieter thinks we should be calling it the pick six and the pick six pro i'm not completely sold on this i can't say that i love it so uh comment down below okay so let's now talk about the differences between these phones what does an extra 300 actually get you well the pro has a slightly bigger screen with a higher refresh rate more ram up to 512 gigabytes of storage and the screen is curved on the edges the bezel's invisible on the sides and smaller on the top curved screens have really fallen out of fashion lately which is a huge bummer to me because i'm a huge curved screen fan which i think is part of the reason i haven't upgraded from the s10 but anyway here i have to say that you can see a shadow on the edges when you're looking at it at an angle and we have to spend more time with these to see if there's any palm resting issues or you know touch sensitivity issues on on the edge of the screen as well so stay tuned for our review for for more on that the pro also has a 4x folded telephoto zoom it's right here it's in the middle of the bar it looks pretty badass and the regular doesn't and the pros selfie camera is a little higher resolution it's a little bit bigger in size and it has a little wider field of view as well now the pro has millimeter wave 5g the regular does not except on verizon where it will cost you 100 more the 6 pro also has a ultra wide band chip and the pro is shinier like shiny edges unlike the matte edges on the regular and lastly the pro comes in more professional color options i think the regular colors are a little bit more fun and honestly this like white and green is so dope now this is a question for the review but you know i'm not entirely convinced that the pro is worth the extra money a lot of that is going to depend on how well the telephoto camera performs and that slightly larger battery and side note this phone does support 30 watt fast charging but it does not come with a brick in a box so hopefully you have your own by now overall these do feel like different pixels than what we've seen in the past they aren't the mid-range pixel 5 that we got last year and they don't really look like the pixel 4 either but at the same time there's just something kind of generic about these designs i don't know they feel very samsung-esque or something we might get from tcl or oppo for that matter they're also both large like the regular pixel is nearly as big as the pro for someone who has small hands and small pockets you all better be pouring one out for me these things are more like the iphone 13 pro max size than anything else and google is not giving us a small and large choice like it did in the past just give me small phones please please all right so that's the pixel 6 and the pixel 6 pro we're going to be putting these to the test over the next few days we're pushing their performance we're testing their battery life and i'm taking so many photos and videos so let us know if you have any questions down below and uh pick six pick six pro pixel six pixel six pro team becker or team dieter on that one also buds dieter got to sit down with google ceo sundar bachai and the hardware chief rick osterlo last week and he talked to them on the verge cast podcast which is up right now so you'll want to listen to that to help understand a little bit more about these phones than just reading off their specs and showing the hardware all right that's all we'll see you soon buds