Google Pixel 5 camera review: BETTER than an iPhone, BUT…

[@BrianLambert]

Wait, why didn't you use the Astrophotography mode on the Pixel 5???

[@Pitte_]

Lol yeah 100% triggering

[@Милош-г3к]

Yeah I turned off video right after I saw it, its so misleading to viewers

[@mats1563]

That mode is amazing

[@jaimem1788]

Yeah that's one of the only areas where it beats the iPhone 12 from few reviews I've watched!

[@Pitte_]

@@jaimem1788 Don't forget about the price of an iPhone 12 128gb

[@chcomes]

Outside of the US, most people use android and those "advantages" of iOS in terms of unique communication channels are useless because iphone users will never iChat... because few of the friends have iphones- so all use whatsapp for that. etc etc

[@ogikay7056]

Correct. I live in USA now and still use whatsapp because all my international friends use it even though they have iphones

[@PotatoPirate123]

Most people use Android *inside* the US too. I wouldn't say that people are only using iOS because of 'iChat' either though - some people just prefer the look and feel of the iPhone and iOS, and it's not just about one app or the other. I use both platforms on a daily basis, and there are still some things iOS does better - for example gesture navigation is way more smooth and intuitive on iOS than any Android implementation I've used. There's also incredible integration with the most popular tablet platform in the world, and of course you need an iPhone to use the most popular smartwatch in the world. People have also often invested a lot of money in apps - whether that's on iOS or Android - so this can also put people off moving. Speaking of apps, the iOS version of a WhatsApp actually has a much better dark mode than Android (it's actually black).

[@Mkt6040]

In Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Apple smartphones lead over Android. So I can relate to his statement.

[@PotatoPirate123]

@@Mkt6040 it’s unlikely that they lead in terms of sales, as the vast majority of phones are Android.

[@chcomes]

@@PotatoPirate123 sure, in Europe at least people do not really use iChat at all, it is all the other features. I have an iphone as work phone and it is quite good- in my view their video features in the top iphones is probably what pushes most people to it.

[@Petertronic]

I've never had the slightest inclination to own anything Apple have ever made, so the world is NOT locked in to Apple in my view!

[@grahammcdonald]

My friend said that. Then he switched to iPhone and said "it's just so much easier."

[@JokingJay]

@@grahammcdonald Easy isn't always the same as better... It's also how they get you to buy into the whole "ecosystem," which is in no small part just a way to get you to shell out for Apple's various paid services (like iCloud, since they don't offer unlimited HQ photo storage like Google). There are certainly things that are easier, but you're paying for it somehow, that's all.

[@CristiNeagu]

@@grahammcdonald Until something goes wrong...

[@curtiswrigley]

I was forced to use an iphone at work for a year. Hated every minute of it.

[@solarmax15]

I agree

[@udipta21]

I feel like he's living in a fantasy world. The world uses Android much more than iPhone.

[@patstevo]

I am an android user and I do agree with you but most android users are in poorer developing countries like India etc (india has 95% android)

[@eliezersuliveras2464]

I don't think he understands that he must have meant the US and not even that is correct maybe his friends maybe is what he meant.

[@mackmccord3743]

lol right.

[@JokingJay]

Yeah, presumably he means in the US, where iOS market share is higher than anywhere else in the world. Still, it's definitely telling that his perspective has changed markedly since the Northrups went all-in on Apple a while ago.

[@TomasRamoska]

American people they think they are the world 🤣

[@d.carter3850]

Tony, rephrase your Apple Ecosystem comment like this: "Since the Pixel is not an iPhone, I don't have to purchase an Apple Watch and Apple Airpods and an Apple Macbook. I can use my preferred hardware from any other brand because they are all cross-compatible." See how much better that sounds ;-) Great photo comparison BTW!

[@toosas]

damn right! he just showed that his world rotates around apple and that's fine but he talks like there is nothing else there - he is just not aware

[@senzelian]

While Android tends to work with basically anything you throw at it, it also takes longer for features to mature. Take nearby share for example, which is Google's answer to airdrop. It only works on Android 11 for now and not even their own Chromebooks are supported yet. Let alone Windows 10. It is coming tho, as it's already in Chrome as a feature that can be enabled by a :flag. Btw.: My Pixel 5 arrives tomorrow. ^_^

[@RicTodhunter]

DAmn right

[@Abdulrahman11799]

@@senzelian Nearby sharing works all the way back to Android 6 and you can use My phone app on Windows 10 and it works pretty well, not sure about Chromebooks tho. Enjoy your Pixel btw!

[@senzelian]

@@Abdulrahman11799 Oh I didnt know that. Thanks for clarifying.

[@JonyMimoso]

I really like yours vids but this you really failed.. pixel 5 have the astrophotography mode that is crazy, even in night sight It would got a much better pic than that.. you have a lot of apps that use all screen, any video player will use, and will notice an big difference from pixel 5 camera cut hole vs iPhone.. last the iOS is an really locked, you miss a lot of functions from another companies that do the same or better then apple, is crazy to tell that an android smartphone it will not be as good as an iPhone only because of the OS, android got a lot better than before and you can use it as your will, iOS is really locked, if apple thinks that you shouldn’t do something they will lock. Who lose is the customer.. I have some apple products and some Samsung products and I like both but I cannot say that the android is the worst because is android.. I have an google home and google home mini that do almost the same that the new smartspeaker from apple and cost a lot less, I use an Samsung galaxy watch that is really nice.. I have an windows desktop that’s work really nice with mine android smartphone and mine android tv, I can cast really easily..there is another platforms that isn’t worst than apple.. I have both iPad Pro and iPad mini and I have a lot problems to send the KZbin video to mine Apple TV, sometimes it get stuck on one video with the screen black.. this is not to stack you, I really enjoy your work but this video was not right

[@mr.niceguy2337]

Exactly 🤔

[@ajparker3413]

You are a genius! Thank you for writing the truth lol

[@ajparker3413]

@@Famichiki-CEO periodt!

[@mikehawk287]

@@Famichiki-CEO by "world" I guess he meant "America" it really drives me nuts when Americans say that.

[@EdwinNew]

Android has over 80% market share. Since you said "most of us use iPhone" I can only conclude the sample size in your survey was too small to be indicative of the global picture. Unless, of course, you were trolling, which you are too nice a person to ever do, aren't you?

[@cjspyker]

he is talking about the USA. 50/50 market share

[@JOMFSE]

Yeah USAers always talk about ourselves like no other country exists

[@greek2068]

@@JOMFSE haha yeah!

[@SterlingSanders]

@8:15 "So much of the world has settled on iphone?” 46% market share in the US, 13% globally. I think you mean so much of *your* world, has settled on iPhone. Though, to be fair, the iPhone 11 is clearly better by most measures, IMO.

[@RennieAsh]

So much can mean a lot when you’re talking about millions of people using iPhones, even if it’s not a majority

[@SterlingSanders]

@@RennieAsh I wasn't saying it wasn't a lot, I was simply illustrating that the comment felt more POV than the general global market consumer decision making it implied. There are benefits and conveniences on both sides.

[@fixitrod4969]

7:25 This is a benefit of Android. The bummer is you're locked into Apple.

[@PraiseYeezus]

How is having products that aren't optimized to work together a benefit? I don't share any emotional attachment to Apple, they're just tech items, but Airdrop & iMessage alone are enough to convince me to stay in their ecosystem.

[@SiddharthJaggavarapu]

@@PraiseYeezus Android has its benefits. Chromecast, Nest, thousands of models of Google TVs, Google drive, photos all work better with Android. It simply comes down to the ecosystem you are used to.

[@fixitrod4969]

@@PraiseYeezus I use nearbyshare (Googles "airdrop") or I can choose what programs to transfer files to Windows or Mac. I don't transfer to other people's devices from my phone but easily could. I'm not real familiar with iMessage but with today's new texting protocols like RCS that treat texting as chats and allow large image transfers I'd think this feature is native to most newer devices either Android or Apple.

[@JokingJay]

@@PraiseYeezus It's just a question of what you prioritize. I personally much prefer the flexibility of Windows/Android and not having Apple shoving their various services down my throat, asking for even more money just so I can benefit from "the ecosystem." For instance, Google just gives me unlimited HQ storage for my photos and automatically backs up and syncs across my phone, tablet, and desktop - for free. Conversely, Apple just wants to sell me iCloud storage. Also, what's the apparent benefit of iMessage? The new RCS standard does everything iMessage does, except it's platform agnostic; the only thing holding it back is that there's a dedicated user base helping Apple to prevent competing technology from flourishing. Point is: you end up paying for all the apparent convenience of the ecosystem somehow, and in the case of Apple you pay upfront with higher MSRP and along the way, too.

[@JokingJay]

Yeah, I have no idea how he can justify this as a criticism of the Pixel and/or Android writ large. First, it's not like Apple is offering any other company the opportunity to make their phones compatible with Apple products/services (many would happily jump on board if it were). But even more, the current arrangement plays Apple users' dependence on the ecosystem against them to extract additional $$$ at basically every turn, either through services or additional hardware, all of which are made by - you guessed it - Apple. Likewise, Apple uses its dedicated user base to actively quash competing technology that might offer comparable/better utility by withholding compatibility from iOS (see RCS messaging). It's one thing to note that a phone won't be ideal if you have an Apple-optimized workflow, it's another to suggest that it's an inherent flaw of the device/platform. It's also a double standard since I can't recall Tony harping on new cameras because they don't have an RF mount...

[@JokingJay]

7:25 - I'm going to go ahead and call shenanigans there. Saying that a phone is inherently flawed because it doesn't support Apple's services is like saying a new Sony, Fuji, or Nikon camera body is inherently flawed because it doesn't have an RF mount. Would it be nice if all cameras shared the same lens mount and had access to the "best of the best" glass from a particular brand? Sure, but that's not the way things work in proprietary-land, and so it's a double standard to hold Google to account for - in essence - not being Apple (which comes with benefits as well as downsides).

[@JokingJay]

Also, by enabling Apple to stonewall competing technologies like RCS messaging through religious use of iMessage, you actively prevent the rest of the world benefitting from features that are already available just because not everyone owns an iPhone, which is kind of not cool. If you want to blame someone for the walled garden being... walled, talk to the guy who built said wall, not the people standing outside.

[@smaakjeks]

@@JokingJay He didn't blame Android at all. What video did you watch?

[@JokingJay]

@@smaakjeks Blaming Apple for "locking us into an infrastructure" isn't all that convincing when Tony rattles off all his reasons for feeling hemmed in: he bought a Mac, he bought Airpods, he bought a car that only has CarPlay and not Android Auto (which is actually a bit hard to come by these days, as someone shopping for a car presently), he only likes to use iMessage, etc. So he made all these conscious choices that he knew would cement him within Apple-land and then claims the biggest letdown of the Pixel is that it doesn't support those Apple-exclusive things? All he needed to say was "if you're an Apple user, this probably isn't going to be for you - unless you're willing to find alternatives to your current iOS/macOS-contingent workflow." It's one thing to note that competitors have their advantages, it's another to fault one company for literally not *being* their competitors.

[@smaakjeks]

@@JokingJay Do you buy stuff off Amazon?

[@RaoBlackWellizedArman]

Saying right things to the wrong guy.

[@FabOnABike]

From 7:25 i couldn't continue. Sorry, that was just bad... having a preference (you're full into Apple products) but calling other users "nerds" (Android users) was.. just bad. Sorry

[@smaakjeks]

He meant Android nerds as in Android fanboys. Tony is a massive nerd himself.

[@rrrr2150]

nerd isnt a bad word. we're all here bc we're nerds

[@RaoBlackWellizedArman]

@@smaakjeks I think each word has a its own meaning. They are not synonymous. He is obviously doing it on purpose.

[@smaakjeks]

@@RaoBlackWellizedArman You're obviously a reader of minds.

[@RennieAsh]

Welcome to the nerd lab!

[@elliotmarks06]

You should DEFINITELY test out the Astrophotography mode. When you did that handheld test, you forgot to mention that they have a whole camera mode optimized for stars and it works BEAUTIFULLY! ✨✨✨

[@huawafabe]

need a tripod for that though, but yeah it looks amazing with 4 minutes of exposure time

[@elliotmarks06]

@@huawafabei just prop it up on a rock or something! Works great, and I don't need to carry around a mobile tripod.

[@huawafabe]

@@elliotmarks06 that works too yea

[@DRIVECLUBistimelessPS4]

man, i captured the comet Neowise with my Pixel 3A, how cool is that eh! just you phone must be completely still to trigger Astro mode.

[@d3rocks4u]

@@huawafabe still worth mentioning and testing in a camera review of the device

[@MuhammadKilany]

that apple ecosystem reminds me of people who invested their money in pyramid scheme marketing scams .. now they try to convince everyone its the best.

[@ChrisParayno]

Accurate

[@themanmoses1537]

That's why in my circle we call them iCult or 🍎 🐑

[@huawafabe]

So glad i'm not locked in the Apple bubble. I have a Pixel 4, Pixel Buds (which also works with iphone, so i could switch), a Fossil Smartwatch with wearOS (works with iphone too), an Android Auto head unit (which can do CarPlay too) So that huge flaw you mentioned don't apply to me at all and I'm super happy with all of those :)

[@TorstenSimon]

Although the wearOS smartwatches are still not great, but I agree, and everything is much more reasonably priced

[@huawafabe]

@@TorstenSimon The Fossil Gen 5 is working great and doing everything i want :) and there's a big wearOS update on the way

[@BenNeill]

@@huawafabe yeah I picked one up. I love the watch but not the battery. Not sure about the iWatch alternative but the battery life is still hopeless, if not worse than it was several years ago

[@huawafabe]

@@BenNeill battery lasts 2 days for me, and i charge it at night because i can't wear it while i sleep

[@BenNeill]

@@huawafabe I barely get a day out of mine 😒. Actually it's a gen 4, not 5 😅. I was hoping to track bike rides etc but it tends to die within a hour of setting off.

[@Nearest_Neighbor]

It's not Apples fault, you're locked yourself in that system.

[@GrandHuevotes]

every company tries to lock its customers into a system

[@TimLucasdesign]

Digital Tog Not True. Google and Microsoft release their products and services for all platforms.

[@Nearest_Neighbor]

@@GrandHuevotes Oh you're right, that's mostly true. And I'm not saying it's a bad thing per se, it's just not apple's fault.

[@JohnTitor2036]

@M. de k. I've done it, it's really easy to do

[@JohnTitor2036]

@M. de k. Indeed. But it's always possible in last resort to automatically transfers all the email to your new one. And to be honest, it's the same for any email providers. Google or Microsoft doesn't really lock you in anyway (email wise)

[@josephsobers1180]

Most of the world is iPhones?! LOL Android is by far the most used OS in the works.

[@nvalcke]

Europeans don't like the overpriced iPhone....

[@AD-ww4hd]

@@nvalcke what ever cost more does not mean it does better its like a computer for example i bought a pc with gtx 1080 with i9 and 16 ram and all that cost cheap but there are different companies that sell the same pc specs but they all have different prices it just shows that iphone cost way too much just for nothing

[@MzwandileHarmans]

Android is used by many companies. And iOS is just one company

[@aieginrabbi3461]

@Sondre Sandøy he said its an OS, not a phone, read again

[@gabsriel]

Maybe you should not do smartphones reviews afterall...

[@jd_99]

Tony's comment makes it puzzling for me why Apple isn't considered a practical monopoly that should be broken up. Apple has more of a stranglehold on people who are the most visible in society (and people who want to be like them) than Microsoft ever did. Granted, that stranglehold comes because no-one caters to people with an ego better than Apple, but it's still a de facto monopoly.

[@PPYTAO]

They’re. It forcing anyone to do anything, people choose the convenience that Apple offers and then complain because no one else is trying. That’s not apples fault ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Samsung, Sony, Google all make enough hardware to have similar ecosystems if they felt like trying.

[@MsWouto]

iPhones don't have nearly the same huge marketshare outside the US. So the blue bubble status symbol isn't really a problem here (luckely). Besides that, there are alternatives to litterly every device and service that you mentioned from the Apple ecosystem. Nobody buys Airpods or Apple Watches if they have an Android phone. And very few people I know actually use iMessage. Cross-platform services like Messenger, Whatsapp etc. are far more popular. The whole ecosystem argument is quite a weird one IMO.

[@rzimbauer]

Android nerd here. As a professional photographer, isn't it so cool to be able to use USB-OTG to move pictures and videos to and from full-size SD cards and USB flash drives with only a $15 adapter? Or to use Nearby Share or bluetooth to wirelessly AirDrop to other androids, PC's and chromebooks? Thanks to some very smart people who port google's camera, I can get those same great features on my Samsung phone with better OIS and more lenses.

[@ChrisParayno]

Agreed, the whole apple infrastructure is complete bogus.

[@aieginrabbi3461]

sorry but oneUI sucks, the only fault with samsung

[@rzimbauer]

@@aieginrabbi3461 USB-OTG, gcam ports, and nearby share aren't specific to samsung. personal preference aside, the oneUI skin motivates samsung to push features like dark theme, wireless file sharing, and screen recording before they make it to official android, sometimes a year in advance

[@aieginrabbi3461]

@@rzimbauer yes but miui and oxygenOS doors it better

[@rzimbauer]

@@aieginrabbi3461 I'm happy to hear your opinion, but sadly xiaomi and oneplus together have only 1% market share in the us.

[@ElonMuskTheOne]

4:57 the point is simple: it uses the available space to show useful information about notifications from different apps. And it is mostly blank because you are not really using the phone, you just got a clean installation. It is like complaining about the dock in osx as it only has three-four items and it is simply wasting the space.

[@shaunadams1294]

Dear Tony, North America is not the world. Andriod far surpasses iOS in the world.

[@karyvernin6831]

Totally! What the hell was he thinking,right?

[@Dennis-vh8tz]

And in North America Android still has majority market share, just by a narrower margin.

[@AK-yn3wi]

7:12 Damn, the white balance went wild on the iPhone there

[@ACasualCustomer]

Apple watch? Airpods? What group chat? Apple carplay? Airdrop? Literally no one I know uses that, I live in Latin America and Android reigns supreme here, the freedom of the OS is unparallel

[@SunshineVocals]

I have a way of dealing with the issues you speak of... 1. Keep real friends who don't care about color of text message. 2. Buy other products that work with the one I have, like a car that has Android auto. 3. I Infact can nearby share with with Android folks and drive share with iPhone if you concern of quality. 4. Or if iPhone folks using Google photos which many do, I can share albums or photos there so that have access to view anytime.

[@briandhinton]

Can you test the astrophotography mode against a DSLR? To trigger it on the phone, it has to be tripoded for a few seconds while on night site mode

[@Drivethisnotthat]

"So much of the world has iphone" Huh??

[@zionlion02]

Probably more accurate to say most of HIS world has iphone. Which is totally fine and prob what he meant. But you're right to call that out.

[@Ozzyisunavailable]

14% afaik

[@andrewkeir2282]

A very high percentage of photographers and video editors use Apple, so it is not surprising that his personal statements about Apple are true. I am looking at upgrading my Samsung S7 and I dont want to get dragged into the Apple World

[@Emmzak]

I like how Americans think the world stops at their boarders.

[@tuurtaburco]

Upgraded from long time Android to 11 pro max and would you believe my daily driver is a oneplus 7 pro. Android is just different in so many ways!

[@fredspva]

Your comment "that's why so much of the world has settled on iPhone" is inaccurate. Android has an 87% market share worldwide and 51% in the US, and it is growing. So really the ios world is the exception that needs to open up to the standard, which is Android mobile. Otherwise an informative video

[@АндрейМарк-ч1х]

"in the real world" apple barely has 20% of the phone market share. And even that 20% is thanks to US and some nordic countries. The rest of us from the "fictional world" (we also call it "Europe" here), most people use Android.

[@shokhrukhmukhitdinov8970]

Dude if you are an professional photographer, you should know that on pixel phones there are astrophotography mode, which shoots stars far more better than any phone.

[@lisajohansson4329]

The number one thing I want to see is the long exposure night sight on the Pixel, I think it combines up to about 16 long exposures over 4 minutes or more stacked together to get incredible shots of stars and the Milky Way.

[@dieulensvictor]

As an Android user, I think if someone already invests a lot in the Apple ecosystem there's not a reason to use an Android phone, and this why I always avoid Apple products in the first place

[@ChrisParayno]

8:00 review was great until this point. Complete BS.

[@rahulkm9747]

iPhones are good devices, but the biggest issue is that they aren't Android.

[@JokingJay]

So @3:45 - Did you use the dedicated astrophotography mode on the Pixel? It's admittedly not as convenient since you need to have the phone very stable, but the results are generally worth the effort, especially compared to the noise that iPhone shot churned out.

[@eahughey]

-Video playback can use the full screen. -You should try again in your Astrophotography. -Air drop like features are available in Win10 and Android. -Video/Photo images forwarded via SMS are done by Carrier servers... except for Apple iPhone. Apple insists that it handle SMS and Voicemail through it's own servers. Apple reduces the resolution if it is sent to a device that us not managed by its servers 😡. - Hey if you are in the Apple ecosystem I get why it's hard to get out but that doesn't mean it's better... just better in locking you in.

[@gavtakesphotos]

Would love to see a proper astrophotography mode review, only ever see half hearted versions on KZbin

[@egidefiska]

You can watch video by julia trotti, her pixel review is great and very unbiased. Love her😍

[@NOLATechy]

"Apple has...locked us in..." This is EXACTLY why I stay away from Apple. I'm not the type of person who will be told "you must do this" or "you can only do that" or "this only works with our stuff." Until Apple opens up its ecosystem to other manufacturers the way Google has, they will NEVER get my business. And this is why I just purchased the Pixel 5. I could care less about specs, so Apple Fan boys don't come screaming about faster processors, etc. Glass backs break, I'd rather have the plastic covered metal back. I'm happy to have Gorilla Glass 6 for the screen and I'm happy to get deeply embedded in Google's Ecosystem that is open to thousands more devices and Apple's.

[@PaganiTypeR]

Realistically it's very useful to have a hole punch over notch. Not for web pages, but for pictures, movies, youtube (but, I guess you're not watching youtube on a phone). Not only that, but device looks million years more modern.

[@PaganiTypeR]

Also it's apple infrastructure, it's not monopolistic. It was your choices. There's plenty of great wireless headphones with noise cancelling and etc that works with android just by tapping phone on the headphones. You chose apple watch instead of any other brand. You choose not to use messenger or any other messaging app instead of that dumb apple messages. I guess it's that much easier when not entire country is using apple and is not a norm (at least in my country).

[@paulthroughfilm]

I mean calling people who use android "nerds" isn't the best shout. You should probably do your research and see android is by far the most used OS today. Your apple bias really kills the review sadly. No one is locked into Apples ecosystem, its a choice. I own a Pixel 3a (soon to be 5 from tomorrow) and an Ipad Pro for my university work and have no feeling of being 'tied in' - all my photos and documents are in Google Drive so I can freely swap between IOS and Android easily enough.

[@MikeGentry]

@ 3:40 the night photos, the Apple photo says 1.1 second and the Pixel 1/3 second..... is that really an even comparison? I get that the ISO is different but, not that much.

[@JustXavier]

At 3:40 why wouldn't you use the astrophotography mode on the Pixel? That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. If you're comparing what the cameras can do, why not compare what the cameras can _do?_

[@Holtenstein]

I love the rear fingerprint sensor! Such a better location. I've actually always preferred using Google phones with my iMac. It can work as a standard hard drive too.

[@shotbymarlozan]

Especially in times of pandemic! I was tired of lowering my mask to unlock my phone. And I had a Pixel 4XL.

[@kosys5338]

I have never bought a phone for the camera. My son thinks it is weird that when I'm carrying a camera I will constantly shoot but he says he has never seen me pull out my phone to take a picture. It's just how I roll, I just don't like taking pictures with my phone.

[@The_Mister]

I agree. The form factor is awful. Phones are fine for a snapshot if you don’t have a real camera on you, but for literally everything but maybe selfies, a phone is maddening to use for photography, terrible to hold and terrible to use.

[@TTM77]

Camera is a tool, phone is a tool. Make it work for you is what tool users do. You choose to carry a camera and phone. I have left my huge camera home alone cause slowly i could make my phone do almost everything my camera could do. Including macro and manual focus. And shutter speed too. Only lacking is the zoom and maybe the stabilizer.

[@TTM77]

@@The_Mister only thing i miss are the buttons. I hate the super sensitive touch screen. My phone is not big, i can hold it like a small camera... just have to careful not touching the screen.

[@kosys5338]

@@The_Mister I agree the phone is a tool. It is the tool I use to make and receive phone calls. I also agree that my cameras are tools, they are the tools I use for photography. Cheers.

[@travissmarion]

The fact that you feel the need to point out that the Google Pixel 5 doesn't have iOS as a negative thing for the android device, just goes to show how indoctrinated Apple users are. I will not allow a company to get their hooks into me so I'm a lemming for anything they produce.

[@sonderstudios6675]

I'm picking this up today. I'm a tattoo artist and take pictures in low light daily. I've been using the 2xl for years, so the 5 I'm sure will be awesome.

[@shotbymarlozan]

Of course! This Thing is amazing!

[@barryobrien1890]

Great honest review. Thanks. I am not sure if the world is iPhone. Certainly north America, and parts of europe but for most of the world, who do not own cars, smart homes and fancy tablets/laptops, Android seems to be preferred, so it's nice to know good cameras are available for anyone no matter which ecosystem you choose. In the end, I think we put way too much emphasis on our gadgets, which is a huge time waste. 20 years ago nobody had a smart phone and enjoyed talking, visiting, going to the movies, playing board games, dancing, sharing meals and working 40 hours a week. Gadgets are designed to capture our attention and encourage us to get envious and spend money. Hardly traits you would want to encourage

[@vikasreddyarpula485]

I have been using iPhone for almost 6 years , and recently upgraded to S21Ultra and now Zflip 3 , it's a solid experience in Sansung ecosystem, at this moment Z flip 3 is not flagship cameras. I wish to buy Pixel 6 pro as my personal flagship.

[@romyaz1713]

what about that crazy color shifting during stabilized video shoot? please tell me if they fixed it since

[@RareMade]

Was night mode used on the Pixel 5 for the night sky comparisons or just standard camera setting

[@TonyAndChelsea]

Night mode. It turns on automatically now.

[@klaymoon1]

Very interesting to see 12Pro Max vs Pixel 5! You can drop Galaxy.. you know..

[@evenkhuman]

Yeah I don't like galaxy

[@intheblues]

Shooting in 4k again!? Cool! :)

[@Joshua_S]

so you say you dont like it because you are dependent on one company which makes you unflexibel to use other (often better) products? Imagine Pentax would give you apple direct connectivity or something, would you just sell all your better canon and sony gear because of "apple"? hilarious.

[@TheMrBennito]

The real world is your real world. My real world is dominated by Android phones. That's OK, isn't it?

[@alternatereality7713]

Just switched from iPhone (iPhone 7+) to Android (Pixel 3) and so far I’ve been able to duplicate most of the functionality. No Airdrop? I used Bluetooth to get my custom ringtones onto the phone from my Mac. I am finding out new things about Android 10 (I am holding out on 11 until 12 comes out as Apples insistence to update the devices got me into trouble that even a month with Apple tech support couldn’t solve) and they are good, like my Synology Moments is backing up to my NAS in the BACKGROUND while in iOS it was a constant battle. So yeah, now I am in a green bubble crowd but I have understanding friends.

[@BradFennell1966]

I have the pixel 4xl and the night sight shots are way better than that. Might have been more ambient light

[@R-Waze]

What’s the mic of your video? The sound is so pure and clear

[@otraguardia]

Where is the Z 6II and Z 7II review? You should have released that instead today.

[@RPMlegacy513]

Did the pixel 5 video in pan mode seem to skip as you panned? not sure if that was the phone, or your post editing. thanks!

[@Sold_a_dummy]

Xperia 5ii please. I was going to buy one but found it would be interior on T-Mobile because it lacks band 71. Pixel camera is much better with the standard camera but I feel the Pro mode would teach me to actually compose opposed to shooting.

[@caseyodonnell6621]

Talk about being locked into an ecosystem. I just want to be able to load the Google camera app on my Samsung Galaxy A71 5g because its stock camera is so profoundly disappointing even compared to the old Google Nexus 6 that it replaced. But nope, I'll probably buy the Pixel 5 even though it's very similar to the Samsung from a specs perspective. Thanks for the great content! Looking forward to the comprehensive review.

[@TetraTimboman]

Try "open camera" app. It's free and has focus stacking, exposure bracketing, manual controls, and jpg+raw output. Your experience with it may differ on a per-model basis, but it's worth checking out if you haven't already. For example, on my S20 Ultra the default camera's Pro mode for manual settings only accesses the main camera and can't be swapped to shoot manual + raw for the wide or tele cameras on the back. When using "open camera" it's able to do manual for the main camera, wide camera, but currently error when trying to access the tele camera but being able to shoot manual with the wide with exposure bracketing is still a good improvement for $0. I bought the S20 Ultra on launch day because there was a bogo deal basically and I get ~200mbits on 5g at my house now, but if I was picking a phone at the moment I'd go with the Sony because it shoots manual on all 3 rear cameras and can even program focus pulls and use Venice CS luts on video. That or the Asus Zenfone with the powered rear camera that flips up into selfie mode so the display is notchless and it can do motorized pans.

[@caseyodonnell6621]

@@TetraTimboman I think I tried it years ago but didn't particularly care for it. I'll try it again. It's bound to be an improvement over the stock Samsung camera software.

[@MikeBeltMikeBelt]

Samsung needs the specs to recover from all their bloat...

[@caseyodonnell6621]

@@MikeBeltMikeBelt fair. I went from a Nexus 6 to this. I was waiting for the Pixel 5 but the Nexus didn't have another 3 months left in her. I actually really like the phone, and I figured this many years beyond the Nexus 6 (that's a 6 year old phone) I figured the camera had to be better, right? Nope. Ah well. I'm curious to see what Adobe has coming down the pike since they snagged Google's chief photography engineer.

[@teriyakipuppy]

"I cant use my android phone with my apple lifestyle." Sacrifices must be made.

[@boydmarcotte9310]

Don't understand when people say Apple is better as though that's some universal truth. Uh no. I can't stand how Apple decides things for me. Some may say that's easier, but it's often a p.i.t.a. For instance, I get to my car after work and want to listen to a podcast through the stereo from my Android phone. But I can't connect, because my iPad which is in my bag in the backseat, has randomly decided to reconnect automatically to bluetooth even though I turned it off. Apple figures I couldn't possibly figure out how to turn on bluetooth manually so it just turns it on without me asking so now I have to hunt down my ipad and turn off bluetooth which I already did. That's the kind of "easier" I could live without.

[@davidgriffin79]

A lot of Microsoft apps are like that; Excel comes to mind, you populate a cell and Excel decides to re-format the content based on the fact that Microsoft programmers are blatantly smarter than their users..🙄. Classic grandiose narcissism.

[@mindgames470]

I'm still using my old Pixel2 since it just won't break. This month I had my first issues ever with it when I took it out onto a winter hike. No battery likes cold weather and my pixel's just quit after a while in -6°C. I remember my gopro telling me to go back inside 2 years ago because it got cold (didn't keep that one, for obvious reasons). Did you get a chance to test your pixel5 in cold conditions?

[@IndefiniteMark]

Hmm I was a bit confused at the night photography, seems odd as many other videos show better footage for the pixel - then you say about not noticing the bezel difference because you’ve not figured out how to full screen a browser!?! Other points were clear and helpful but that threw me

[@abbottsmilereviews6112]

The forbidden fruit apple has failed yet again to try to convert a lifelong android user as myself. No option to include a charger . That's bs. For the environment my ass. I'm going with the pixel 5. Good job apple.

[@MultiMattRogers]

" the problem with the A7s3 is that it isn't a canon, so it won't work with any of my canon accessories and everyone has settled on canon so there's no point in buying anything else" Solid consumer advice Tony well done. Side note, you may have fallen into that trap where you assume your immediate circle represents the world. You know the numbers, you know that not even half of the people who have smartphones have an iPhone, but because the world you see with your eyes tells a different story you ignore that. It's fine we all do it. I often assume that reviewers are talking nonsense when they say that people care about iMessage since I don't know a single person who doesn't use WhatsApp for pretty much all of their messaging, but again that's to do with the bubble that I exist in. Blanket statements always get you in trouble, because they're often only true from the exact spot that you're standing.

[@JokingJay]

I'm glad it wasn't just me who immediately thought of that particular analogy. That kind of logic is exactly what Apple hopes and dreams reviewers will start espousing for them - i.e. that all other products are dead on arrival precisely because Apple didn't make/doesn't support them. King of ridiculous.

[@petouser]

If we're talking about smartphone photography, the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra is the benchmark right now. It's probably hard to get it in Canada though. But you might get a Huawei P40 (Pro) in Canada. Also, the Asus Zenfone 7 Pro could be interesting since it's presumable the best selfie and vlog phone thanks to its flip camera.

[@buleulek5153]

I have ZenFone 6 and it is really really good

[@MaxRideout]

It's so funny to hear Tony say "we all use iOS" when all but maybe two of my friends (one of whom got their iPhone as a hand-me-down) have Samsung phones, mostly because we hate all the arbitrary restrictions and terrible design choices Apple builds into their products.

[@CristiNeagu]

7:21 That's not really an argument, because you get the same issues switching to Apple. Not only that, but the idea that "so many people have settled on Apple" is very narrow. There are very few people that use Apple completely. And while there are more people that have bought just into the Apple phone system, they are mostly found in the US. In Europe, most people use Android. So, nothing in favour or against. Both platforms suffer because they're not the other one.

[@corsinivideos]

This guy looks like the white Jamie Foxx

[@Inkahustler]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Quoutub]

4:22 It's not the lens. It's the different color filter array of Quad Bayer sensors, which leads to a much lower effective resolution than 108 megapixel. That's also the reason for the artifacts you can see.

[@TimLucasdesign]

What kind of a car has Apple Carplay but no Android Auto? I've had iPhone and Android phones and I don't participate in any of Apple's proprietary tech. I use Google Photos, Gmail, Google Maps, etc. I couldn't care less if I'm a green bubble in someone's conversation. Google drive or Adobe cloud for me, are far better solutions than airdrop.

[@Holtenstein]

I was wondering that. Android auto should be in every car that has Carplay too.

[@PPYTAO]

Lots of cars have only one or the other, I guess they have to pay to license it and just gamble on which is more popular.

[@PPYTAO]

I say lots, I don’t know if it’s lots, but I’ve seen plenty advertised with only one or the other.

[@TimLucasdesign]

@@PPYTAO I have not come across a car that only has one or the other.

[@RichardRosiles]

Lmao I have never owned an iPhone and use both Google Drive and Adobe Cloud daily!! BUT airdrop is infinitely easier and more efficient to use, they are not even comparable

[@djlefevre]

Sir, im loving the quality of your content. What camera/setup are you using? If its a Canon setup, no doubt a L lens or something similar? Also, those "ph" sounds from 2:08 onwards can be easily fixed by a pop filter. Cheers my man! You've no doubt already fixed this since the video's over 6 months old!

[@sebastianervin7585]

How do you feel about the s20 fe?

[@rogerallcock8297]

Would love a comparison against iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 pro.

[@TomZ23]

8:20 and they (apple) never will open it up. They have people caught in the BS. The nice thing about the items available on Android is most of them also have an apple version. I'm so grateful I never got started in the apple universe.

[@venisonsteak8437]

5:00 if the app you are using supports fullscreen mode, it runs fullscreen on most androids. It should be implemented per app for compatibility.

[@Dustin-Wood]

Ha! Not being an iPhone and with their infrastructure is a plus. Google just works. I use a Macbook Pro for work but have never used any of Apple's backend services. They're just not good. I own an iPad, but have never once wanted an iPhone. They're just too limiting.

[@fnulnu13]

Is the finger scanner blocked if you put a protective cover on the phone? I would never actually use my phone without a protective case. I couldn't tell from the video where exactly the finger scanner is located on the back but it looks like it is in the middle of the back of the phone which would be blocked by a case.

[@rph_redacted]

You're a grown adult and socialize with people who judge you based on the color of your message bubble?

[@pavoutsinas]

What camera and lens are you filming on? Super crisp!

[@OMGThisIsAwesome]

Thanks for the info. I found an annoying issue in pixel 5, that is I can't open the camera app with the front camera. When I close the camera app with the front camera, next time I launch the camera app, it always starts with the back camera by default. Do you have the same problem?

[@kashinathpratapm]

Your car don't have android auto? Which car do you have??

[@RennieAsh]

I didn’t know people could get so upset over a couple of words but here we go.

[@FFOPRadio]

What up with that color temp change on the second pan?

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Not sure how Apple iOS has a monopoly ... they have a 13.5% market share as of 14 October 2020.

[@SilenMonser]

is it just me, or is the cinematic pan on the Pixel 5 stuttering every few frames? Is that normal?

[@Letkoenkoff]

How does it shoots moving objects like kids and dogs? How is it good in low light indoors, outdoors? Would be nice to compare it with iPhone 12, S20, OnePlus 8 series.

[@GoodnightMrDoback]

regarding airpods there's nothing wrong with the connectivity with android, I've had my original airpods for 3 years and as soon as the bluetooth is switched on it connects with the airpods almost instantly, i don't know what else you would want them to do?

[@kodaloid]

Android is installed on roughly 75% of all phone's in the world. Apple's ecosystem might be hard to escape, but it's also far more niche than you realise. Not faulting you on it though, Google has their own ecosystem too that's easy to get mesmerized by, we are only human after all.

[@johnjeevinth]

I was looking forward to the review but when u talked about how you are locked into the apple eco system I figured out that this review is by a fustrated Apple ecosystem user who can't stand to see a better camera on a Google device probably why some of the extra cool features of the Google pixel were missed in this review.

[@Buehler1997]

the pan mode looks almost like there was some frame rate discrepancy between the recorded video and you editing software with these regular short freeze frames. does it look the same when played back on the phone directly?

[@davidolson7575]

Who cares about the iOS Infrastructure. Shame on your car not have any android audio. Get Apple to open up their system. OnePlus 5g would be a nice companion.

[@HassanShatti]

As photographer, what do you think of the screen color accuracy for editing the photographs on the phone?

[@jadallamico]

Really missed a lot of the stuff a pixel 5 has

[@TorstenSimon]

To bad that the expensive phones have bad camera hardware, not even a tele lens. I grabbed a xiaomi note 10 and installed gcam for stacked raw, by far the best smartphone images I had so far, and less than halfe the price of the pixel. And no in display fingerprint? What is wrong with Google?!

[@radiozelaza]

Yes, I am an Android person, aka Replicant.

[@jace1037]

It would be fun to see a comparison against a compact camera

[@4ksandknives]

Do you guys have an old note 9? Would love a comparison with that if possible!

[@ChrisKadaver]

Whats up with those stutters when panning with the pixel? That I would consider as unusable.