Recent content by bobred0965

I vastly prefer fingerprint reader over face unlock. I had a pixel 4 and hated it because of the lack of a fingerprint reader. I found that unlocking in the dark, or when the lighting conditions were wrong was a pain in the keester. Fingerprint works in any lighting condition and works...

I've had my Pixel 5 for a few months now, and it's at least as durable as my last 3 Pixel phones. I am still disappointed that they didn't offer it in an XL version and I really, really wish that it had more memory (or expandable storage!), but overall, I'm very happy with it.

The face unlock was significantly slower than the fingerprint sensor on my ancient Pixel XL. I could have gotten past this, but there were a few scenarios where it performed particularly poorly, or not at all: In a dark room Wearing my motorcycle helmet In a windy area (presumedly my moving...

I got mine pushed to me yesterday afternoon on my Pixel XL. So far, no issues. It defaulted to the legacy 3-button mode, so I manually switched to gestures to try it out. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet.