Google Pixel 6 Pro hands-on
The Google flagship is back with a bang!
Design, display, and hardware features
The Pixel 6 Pro is one exceptionally built device. It feels sturdy and posh at the same time, and while I may over-sexualize an inanimate object, the phone’s sexy curves implore and beckon you to touch it.
The curved display is certainly a personal preference, and while I love how easy gestures are on such a screen, it feels somewhat dates, as just about everyone gave up on curved displays already.
To my surprise, the phone doesn’t feel top-heavy, and the camera strip isn’t that imposing in person. Well, I guess it is, but after a while, it no longer strikes as something out of the ordinary.
The display of the Pixel 6 Pro is excellent. Sharp and vibrant, it also has that smooth adaptive refresh rate that cranks up to 120Hz.
Performance
Why, hello, Tensor chipset, it’s nice to meet you!
Hopping on the custom chipset bandwagon, Google has adopted its own Tensor chipset inside the Pixel 6 Pro. It’s an octa-core endeavor built on a 5nm manufacturing process, and all that jazz, but the specifics aren’t as important as the final result.
Is the Tensor performing well? The short answer is “yes”, it excells at regular everyday tasks and regular workloads. In intensive graphics-crunching benchmarks, initially it packs a punch at peak performance, but once you start really pushing it, the phone is prone to some throttling that lowers the overall performance. there’s lots of throttling involved. Yet, that’s completely normal.
I’ve ran some benchmarks that should give you a more objective point of view to the whole performance aspect of Google’s new top flagship, but these shouldn’t be taken out of context. So far, in regular usage, the Pixel 6 Pro proves to be quite the snappy performer.
Camera
A Pixel’s main attraction is the camera, and in this particular case, the Pixel 6 Pro comes with the big guns on deck.
A 50 MP Octa Quad Bayer wide-angle camera with 1.2 μm pixels, ƒ/1.85 aperture, and backed up by a large 1/1.31″ camera sensor, the main camera of the Pixel 6 Pro definitely has the technical prowess to continue the tradition for exceptional Pixel photography. Aided by a 12MP ultra-wide and a 48MP 4X snapper, laser autofocus and OIS, the Pixel 6 Pro is a versatile camera phone.
Some initial thoughts on the image quality: exceptional detail and sharpness with the main and telephoto cameras, as well as superb dynamics and quite punchy colors. For good or bad, some photos tend to be a tad underexposed as the phone prefers to err on the side of preserving those precious highlights. Additionally, the 4X telephoto camera feels surprisingly usable, though super-zooming to 20X is almost guaranteed to give you some noise and artifacts, but that’s to be expected.
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