Screen Comparisons btw 6 and 6 Pro

[reintgenrc]

So I was on the fence between the 6 and 6 Pro. Went into a store to compare the two and my deciding factor was if the 0.3" difference in the 6 Pro was warranted. Here were my observations:

With the same YouTube on both devices, the 6 actually had a bigger picture than the 6 Pro. Why? The 6 Pro would not let me zoom on the picture to get rid of the side letter boxes. What gives with that?

Even more damning was pulling up Android Central on both. With the same article the regular 6 showed one more line of information than the 6 Pro.

Am I missing something? Why can't the 6 Pro zoom on YouTube vids?

 

[CHILLYWILL_95831]

I have no issue zooming in on YouTube videos with my 6 pro. I honestly can't understand the dramatic issues people are posting about the Google pixel 6 pro. So, i have set YouTube to zoom and not zoom automatically and both selections work from the YouTube settings menu so I don't understand what the problem is. The only other alternative that I could give is that maybe in your developer options you make sure that you have all of your windows set to be resizable and enable freeform windows.

 

[B. Diddy]

I also have no problem with zooming to fill the screen on my 6 Pro. Perhaps there was some setting on the unit you were using that disabled the zoom.

But it is true that the 6 Pro screen tends to show slightly less text information than the 6 -- JR Raphael demonstrated that as well. It probably has to do with the curved screens at the edges -- although the curve technically expands the screen real estate, I think the software actually limits how much text will be shown, probably so that it doesn't get warped by the curve.

 

[reintgenrc]

I have no issue zooming in on YouTube videos with my 6 pro. I honestly can't understand the dramatic issues people are posting about the Google pixel 6 pro. So, i have set YouTube to zoom and not zoom automatically and both selections work from the YouTube settings menu so I don't understand what the problem is. The only other alternative that I could give is that maybe in your developer options you make sure that you have all of your windows set to be resizable and enable freeform windows.

OK thanks. That gives me hope. Going to demo something at a AT&T store is pretty flipping tough seeing that they AT&T demo bs interrupts you every 15 seconds. At the time I made those observations I could not go into further settings and/or the developer options to further troubleshoot the issues I saw. AT&T prohibits you to further "explore" the phones. That's why I was asking the forum users who actually gave the phone. Chillax. I didn't mean to bash anything. Simply trying to make an educated purchase decision.

OK, I probably shouldn't have used the words "damning". But either way they are both powerful phones and if I went in blind wanting to purchase a 6 Pro, I probably would have picked that and been happy.

 

[B. Diddy]

Here's that article by JR Raphael talking about the screen: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3637971/pixel-6-vs-pixel-6-pro.html

 

[reintgenrc]

Here's that article by JR Raphael talking about the screen: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3637971/pixel-6-vs-pixel-6-pro.html

Thanks

 

[cknobman]

The 6 screen is too dim.
Once you go outside with it on a sunny day you will wish you had chosen the Pro or even a different phone completely.

 

[CHILLYWILL_95831]

The 6 screen is too dim.
Once you go outside with it on a sunny day you will wish you had chosen the Pro or even a different phone completely.

This is a trait of the Pixel 6 pro that is often very underrated. The Pixel 6 pro has great viewing in direct sunlight and it's something that often gets overlooked when people start critiquing the screens of these devices. I mean the phone when you're outside and you're hit with direct sunlight, that screen dramatically brightens up. It's a very underrated trait of this Pixel 6 pro and initially people were talking about the fact that the pixel 6 pro only gets to 600 nits when the iPhone and the Samsung gets to 1200. But truth be told, when it's time to view this phone in direct sunlight, there is no difference between it and any other phone. I am not able to speak on how bright the Pixel 6 gets in direct sunlight because, although I had it for a while, I never really tested it in direct sunlight. In short, the screen on the Pixel 6 pro is awesome and I love the curve display. I think it just adds depth to the things that you're viewing on screen. It's almost like a 3D effect without that 3D parallax issue. It literally looks like when you are scrolling your apps across the screen like they're just floating right above everything else. It's really neat and that's not an effect that you can get from a flat screen. And I don't seem to have any problem with any false touches or anything like that. The phone with relation to the screen is almost flawless.