Google Pixel

I have always brought cheap phones as I dont need anything special. Well I walked into JB Hi Fi xmas 2022 to wander & was swindled into getting the pixel 4. I didnt want one but needed one eventually as my moto g5plus`s cracked screen was getting to me. I had seen reviews online about googles camera & thought why not I will treat myself, what a mistake. This phone just lives on a charger whether it is a power point or mobile charger. Seriously there has to be a standard that they have to live up to, I thought I was getting a high end phone but ...Read more

I purchased Pixel 3XL from Harvey Norman. Choose this over iPhone and I regret that decision soon after 6 months of use.
After 6 months phone started having issues such as heating up while charging and draining the battery quickly. I didn’t report to goggle as I considered its normal for Pixel and hard to justify as a fault to google support.
after a month of this issue, one-day phone shutting it down itself every 5 min.

Contacted google support asked me to send a faulty unit and once it received by google they normally ship replacement unit...Read more

Whilst the camera is good I would never recommend to buy a Google phone! Their service is horrendous and if your phone has any glitch you have to make a million phone calls and follow ups and then once done they will only provide a refabbed old phone as a replacement once you have sent them your current one.

On my phone, the phone was only a couple months old once the screen kept freezing and the earphone jack kept not playing audio through the headphones. Headphones were changed multiple times with temporary fixes and return of the issue. Al...Read more

Used to be a great phone. I've had it for 12-18 months now and the mic, speaker, vibrator suddenly stopped working and when I receive a call it crashes the phone. I removed the SIM card and used it for taking photos but now, three weeks later it was sitting on my bedside table and it started to boot loop and hasn't stopped. I can hold the power button to turn it off but it will turn back on and off by itself.
I contacted Google and they knew about the issue but they did not want to have anything to do with it because apparently it was purchased...Read more

poor reception, lousy predictive text and voice to text is even worse. i depend on my phone for my business and will be going back to huwaei mate 9 i previously used. So disappointed. This phone might be all right for average use but when your business ( and income) depend on the most basic functions to be fast and reliable its a true let down. I send my website address daily and it won't save. The predictive text is unreliable on the whole, its like it wants you to use voice to text to speed things up but the voice gets it wrong pretty much ev...Read more

I have recently upgraded to Pixel 3 from Pixel and to be quite honest, I still like the Pixel. It is really a great phone.

Camera: Yes, Pixel 3 has a great camera, but Pixel's camera was already top notch and for non-professional and just the simple friends & family & food. Pixel is more than adequate (if one is very picky should consider an actual camera).

Operating speed: (disclaimer: I am not a gamer) for normal function of daily life, which include a number of email accounts, calendar, news apps, YouTube, music, social media apps (I u...Read more

Im 24 hours into the phone. I won't make any comments on how bad it is to find your way around the phone and use the home key buttons as this takes getting use to. I do remember though the first time i got an iphone thinking this is so easy. The home button/finger button at the back is a joke.

As soon as i took it out the box and I couldn't plug it into a computer or charge it because they use their own cable i thought throw it in the bin. They are just another company with their own cables, which has no purpose but to put more money in the...Read more

I moved over to the pixel 3 xl from having a Samsung galaxy s8 plus for two years.
The camera's excellent. Better than anything I'd ever seen. Seriously, you have to see the photos you physically take. I'm not going to say anything else on this.

Battery so far is great. The rapid charging is quicker than on my galaxy. The galaxy used to always shock me with how quick it is. You can imagine how I feel about the pixel!
The screen is good too. Samsung have their own distinctive 'pop' on colours which I immediately missed when I started using ...Read more

I purchased GOOGLE Pixel XL in 2016 directly from GOOGLE store.
On 11/7/2018 the phone screen froze and went dark.
I went to GOOGLE authorized repair center,UBREAKIFIX.
The repair center said they will perform diagnostics and that sometimes when GOOGLE phones are opened up for repair, the screen cracks.
Two hour later the repair center informed me that they cracked the screen, but they are not responsible, and that the phone has mother board issues and that they do not perform such repair.
In the past I purchased many IPhones and Samsung s...Read more

I wanna say, I have been very satisfied with the camera quality of my pixel 2xl. I am absolutely in love with the extra storage for photos also. I've had to turn flash either on or off at night or if it's been dark, but otherwise, I've never had an issue with camera quality.
As far as durability and brightness of display, I think in the past six months I've had this phone, I've only adjusted the brightness once. Which means, I've been pretty satisfied with both the brightness and durability of it.
What I use my phone for-everything!!! I drop...Read more