Your opinion/experience on Google Pixel phone

Don't waste your money

As long as you don't fall for the imported, not to be sold in India models, you should be good. They are a bit pricey, but they do have good cameras, and the fact that you would get updates first and consistently is a plus.

Using pixel 6a from last 1 year. Awesome cameras and stock android.  Fast updates.

The only little issue is battery backup which lasts till evening for me—heavy user.

The previous commentators have summed it up nicely. I had recommended Pixel 6a to my friend who got it for his wife. Friend says both of them love the size (they don't like all those Plus, Ultra, Max phones) and camera most of all. Battery was fine since they aren't heavy users (e.g. people glued to Insta/Snapchat/WhatsApp or hours of streaming).

I don't think so that after sales service will be great but honestly tell me how often have you had an issue with your phone that you had an authorized service center take care of. Most of the times the repair costs are so high that either you use a local mobile repair shop or buy a new phone if the phone has been used even a year.

Bought pixel 6a last week, didn't like it much. The only good thing is camera. The display is not good, overall performance is also not very impressive, some apps are lagging, fingerprint sensor is not usable at all

Have used pixel 4a and currently using 6a. Pixel 4a was excellent except battery backup as it was only 3000 mah. Pixel 6a also has low battery backup and additional heating issue when you are on mobile data. Main reason for this is exynos based tensor processor. Planning to upgrade to pixel 8 this year as reports saying tensor G3 is going to be much better compared to earlier G2.

Regarding prices, yes it's costly but only option for someone like me who wants clean software and compact phone. No much experience about after sales service, but once my adapter stopped working, they delivered new adapter on my address within 1 week.

7H4NO5 wrote:

Have used pixel 4a and currently using 6a. Pixel 4a was excellent except battery backup as it was only 3000 mah. Pixel 6a also has low battery backup and additional heating issue when you are on mobile data. Main reason for this is exynos based tensor processor. Planning to upgrade to pixel 8 this year as reports saying tensor G3 is going to be much better compared to earlier G2.

Regarding prices, yes it's costly but only option for someone like me who wants clean software and compact phone. No much experience about after sales service, but once my adapter stopped working, they delivered new adapter on my address within 1 week.

Source? From what I have read G3 is a very minor update relative to it's predecessor and the same will be true in case of G4. Rumours this year claimed that it will change in 2025 as the G5 will be a rebuilt from scratch ditching it's Exynos foundations AND move to TSMC nodes from the utterly underwhelming Samsung ones. But availability of cutting-edge TSMC nodes isn't going to improve much even in next 2-3 years especially for a relatively low volume product. Nowadays custom ROM development for flagship grade products is limited to Pixels only but I won't buy an Exynos device so hopefully these rumours turn out to be true. 

LIMBO wrote:

Source? From what I have read G3 is a very minor update relative to it's predecessor and the same will be true in case of G4. Rumours this year claimed that it will change in 2025 as the G5 will be a rebuilt from scratch ditching it's Exynos foundations AND move to TSMC nodes from the utterly underwhelming Samsung ones. But availability of cutting-edge TSMC nodes isn't going to improve much even in next 2-3 years especially for a relatively low volume product. Nowadays custom ROM development for flagship grade products is limited to Pixels only but I won't buy an Exynos device so hopefully these rumours turn out to be true. 

https://m.gsmarena.com/the_pixel_8s_tensor_g3_w...

Tensor G4 will be minor upgrade over G3.

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-9-te...

7H4NO5 wrote:

https://m.gsmarena.com/the_pixel_8s_tensor_g3_w...

Tensor G4 will be minor upgrade over G3.

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-9-te...

I had read it earlier. In all likelihood this will be also be a modest improvement if at all.