Why is everyone dissing the pixel 6/6pro?

[drvier8]

Mine doesn’t ever run hot. I just got over 24 hours battery with over 7 hours screen on time with 6% left. I don’t let it run down that far normally but I was just using my phone and I didn’t notice. But it is on the pixel stand gen 2 and charging rapidly. I really don’t have the issues others are talking of.

Mine gets noticeably hot at times. Both with charging and just using the phone. Listening to podcasts in the car (not plugged in, just bluetooth to the car stereo) makes it hot.

I feel like I am in a breakup with Pixels.... all the little things that annoy are starting to add up and each new one is probably blown out of proportion but the total of the all is that I think negatively about this phone multiple times a day. I was used to never thinking about my phone... just using it.

 

[goji26]

Two of the benefits of Tensor are in photo processing and, especially for me, the incredibly fast local processing of accurate voice dictation. I rarely have to double thumb my keyboard anymore.

I've had my Pixel 6 Pro for 5 weeks and it does not run hot.

I run my brightness at 80% and still average 40% battery life at the end of the day. For me that isn't mediocre.

I upgraded from a Pixel 3XL. My speed has become essentially instantaneous. I couldn't care less what other chips do.

Could some of the problems you are having come from where you live in Australia?

You must be on wifi all day because I only get 3 hours of screen on time before my phone hits 20% at around noon.

 

[Venom0642]

Tried for 1 week return it back , it's just not my style so back to my Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB Snapdragon.

 

[Rodawg71]

Tried for 1 week return it back , it's just not my style so back to my Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB Snapdragon.

Curious too why it's not your "style"? What/why did you return it? (I own both P6P and S21U and enjoy using both)

 

[cribble2k]

I too went from a 4xl to a 6 Pro, and have had no major issues. Even the fingerprint scanner works 99% of the time, in various conditions.

The only thing I don't like is how "slippery" the phone feels without a case. I've had it slide off a table onto hardwood flooring (no damages) and I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable walking around the city while using this phone without a case.

 

[Venom0642]

Curious too why it's not your "style"? What/why did you return it? (I own both P6P and S21U and enjoy using both)

I only returned it cause no spen obviously lol kept trying to pull spen lol , nothing wrong with the phone, but i guess I'm a Sammy boy , other than that the phone is great, but needed my spen and certain software Samsung has that the pixel doesn't have.

 

[slave]

The safety app?

As in the updates are car crash bad. Lol!

 

[mustang7757]

As in the updates are car crash bad. Lol!

Lol

 

[slave]

Man, I am still on world wide 0.36. I never got 0.37.A1. I have no faith I will get the January update either.

 

[anon(40376)]

I doubt there are a lot of Joe/Josephine Public on this forum. Those that are here are a bit more knowledgeable, especially those who side loaded the update. This is also a chance to learn something new. Regardless if this isn't a solution one wants to take then by all means switch brands and move on.

That's one or the big problems! I totally agree. And that is what the big problem is for Google going forward. As many as there on here having problems there probably are thousands who are not on this or any other forum who are having problems.
I'm also going guess that these are not the people who purchased directly from google, but via the service provider. If it does not work, it goes back, possibly, the first time it is for an exchange, maybe a straight out return. But if an exchange and still problems...it is in all likelihood a return.
And then they walk out with a Samsung; Motorola or flip to IOS. And they do not come back to Google.

If they are on this forum they might give side-loading a try, or they might just wait till the end of January for a fix and if the fix does not fix the problems, they sell and move on; NEVER to return to Google.

In the long run, google is shooting themselves in the foot.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

That's one or the big problems! I totally agree. And that is what the big problem is for Google going forward. As many as there on here having problems there probably are thousands who are not on this or any other forum who are having problems.
I'm also going guess that these are not the people who purchased directly from google, but via the service provider. If it does not work, it goes back, possibly, the first time it is for an exchange, maybe a straight out return. But if an exchange and still problems...it is in all likelihood a return.
And then they walk out with a Samsung; Motorola or flip to IOS. And they do not come back to Google.

If they are on this forum they might give side-loading a try, or they might just wait till the end of January for a fix and if the fix does not fix the problems, they sell and move on; NEVER to return to Google.

In the long run, google is shooting themselves in the foot.

Exactly my point, we all (yes, including me) want to see the pixel succeed and become a viable choice. But Google just keep making misstep after misstep... Not just with the 6, but with pixels in general.

 

[Morty2264]

I only returned it cause no spen obviously lol kept trying to pull spen lol , nothing wrong with the phone, but i guess I'm a Sammy boy , other than that the phone is great, but needed my spen and certain software Samsung has that the pixel doesn't have.

Understandable! If a phone works for you, you gotta go back to it!

 

[bkdodger2]

, I'm using my zf3 I got to tell you I miss the assistant dictation I don't know if I could ever go back to another phone type words again LOL.. I just love I can just keep talking and talking and the phone waits for me gets every word spot on

 

[brosko]

Two of the benefits of Tensor are in photo processing and, especially for me, the incredibly fast local processing of accurate voice dictation. I rarely have to double thumb my keyboard anymore.

I've had my Pixel 6 Pro for 5 weeks and it does not run hot.

I run my brightness at 80% and still average 40% battery life at the end of the day. For me that isn't mediocre.

I upgraded from a Pixel 3XL. My speed has become essentially instantaneous. I couldn't care less what other chips do.

Could some of the problems you are having come from where you live in Australia?

Battery life for me has been great. Does run a little hot though.

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

Two of the benefits of Tensor are in photo processing and, especially for me, the incredibly fast local processing of accurate voice dictation. I rarely have to double thumb my keyboard anymore.

I've had my Pixel 6 Pro for 5 weeks and it does not run hot.

I run my brightness at 80% and still average 40% battery life at the end of the day. For me that isn't mediocre.

I upgraded from a Pixel 3XL. My speed has become essentially instantaneous. I couldn't care less what other chips do.

Could some of the problems you are having come from where you live in Australia?

Funny that about the camera - this is the first Pixel camera I've used that I feel is inconsistent. It'll take great shots most of the time, but about 30% of the time, the shots come out really, really overprocessed or the whitebalance is off or something is wrong where I just have to delete the image and take another shot. What used to be deep and moody contrasty signature look of the Pixels now is overprocessed where shadows are brought up so much.

Portrait shots in particular seem to have regressed quite a bit from the Pixel 4. I know the Pixel 6 just uses the main camera to punch in digitally 2x for portrait shots rather than using the telephoto camera like the Pixel 4 did, and I think this is why the cutouts around hair isn't as good and maybe why the bokeh effect isn't as nice. On prior Pixel phones, photo consistency was rock solid where it'd be one shot and you didn't need to take another. I definitely don't get that with the new camera here.

Voice transcription has been fast for a long while now, ever since Google made it on-device with the Pixel 4, and was also on the Pixel 5, which had a much weaker processor than Tensor. Yeah it's faster on the Pixel 6, but the voice modelling would have gotten better, so I'm not convinced other processors couldn't do the same voice transcription as the Pixel 6 if Google ported the transcription model to a different processor.

As far as heat and battery, my phone definitely heats up which I'm sure leads to battery drain. Especially when I'm using 5G, or on bluetooth or android auto or something. Gets quite hot to the touch and battery life for me has never been great, just mediocre. I get about a day if I'm being cautious, but some days when I'm out and I'm just on 5G constantly, I won't last a full day. What I don't get is that Google was pushing Tensor as being extremely efficient, but I certainly haven't been getting great battery life compared to other phones I've used recently.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

Mine gets noticeably hot at times. Both with charging and just using the phone. Listening to podcasts in the car (not plugged in, just bluetooth to the car stereo) makes it hot.

I feel like I am in a breakup with Pixels.... all the little things that annoy are starting to add up and each new one is probably blown out of proportion but the total of the all is that I think negatively about this phone multiple times a day. I was used to never thinking about my phone... just using it.

This is a shame. Samsung's and the Qualcomm chip phones run very hot. Plenty of complaints about that in the early days of the S21 series. I think it is a processor thing on most high end phones. It is why gaming phones have fans built in.

There is a litany of woes for Samsung's running Android 12 and OneUI 4.0. I just don't see a perfect phone out there.

 

[J Dubbs]

This is a shame. Samsung's and the Qualcomm chip phones run very hot. Plenty of complaints about that in the early days of the S21 series. I think it is a processor thing on most high end phones. It is why gaming phones have fans built in.

There is a litany of woes for Samsung's running Android 12 and OneUI 4.0. I just don't see a perfect phone out there.

Yep, as these high end chips get faster and faster, they're going to run hotter and use more battery. Unless they also increase the cooling and battery size (and overall phone size) as well, we're going to see phones continue to run hotter and get worse battery life.

It becomes a game of diminishing returns... putting in chips faster than the majority of users will ever need or even notice, but causing the phones to run hotter and shortening the battery life, which the majority of users WILL notice.

It really boils down to increasing spec numbers to increase prices and sales, and has very little to do with making better phones for the majority of consumers.

But then that happens with most products... we love flashy and new with Big Specs, even if we don't use a fraction of the features, but we get upset about paying huge prices for those flashy big specs we want but will never use lol.

I think that's called the human conundrum (or condition)

 

[mustang7757]

This is a shame. Samsung's and the Qualcomm chip phones run very hot. Plenty of complaints about that in the early days of the S21 series. I think it is a processor thing on most high end phones. It is why gaming phones have fans built in.

There is a litany of woes for Samsung's running Android 12 and OneUI 4.0. I just don't see a perfect phone out there.

None of my Samsung or Pixel 6 pro experience running hot doing normal task , i dont game .

 

[Deleted member 2609113]

None of my Samsung or Pixel 6 pro experience running hot doing normal task , i dont game .

I don't play games either. The only time my P6P runs a bit warm is when I use the Pixel Stand G2 since my phone is on the November update and the fan doesn't run.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

None of my Samsung or Pixel 6 pro experience running hot doing normal task , i dont game .

Mine never run hot either. I use S10+, pixel 6 pro and iPhone 8 Plus.