All you have to do is pair or connect your old phone with your new Pixel, then your selected data – like contacts, photos, messages and more – will copy over. This 5G frontrunner might have been groundbreaking for its time, and its 4,000mah battery might have been more than enough for you when it was new. But while some cutting-edge tech has been culled, it’s not a complete regression: the Pixel 5 has wireless charging, a 90Hz refresh rate display, and 5G, while its 4,000mAh battery is a lot bigger, and subsequently lasts far longer, than the 2,800mAh battery in the Pixel 4. Although the body of the device may have scratches and/or small chips – the micro-scratches on the screen won't be visible once the screen is on. PayPal Credit and PayPal Pay in 3 are trading names of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH.

Simplified’ could apply to the whole phone, really: it’s got an all-in-one body that curves from the back around the sides, and which is metal, so you won’t have to worry about shattering it. Google has also gone back to a physical fingerprint sensor on the rear of the phone, which is far easier to find without looking than an in-screen scanner. Extreme Battery Saver helps to take your all-day battery up to 48 hours on a single charge when you really need it. Reaching for the rear-mounted circular fingerprint sensor didn’t require much effort either, even for my tiny hands.These leafy do-gooders help take more CO₂ out of the atmosphere and fund a whole host of sustainability projects too. Operating system – the Google Pixel 5 ships with the Android 11 operating system, but you can update it to the Android 12, which is the latest version. If you’re fed up with large, heavy, expensive, slippery glass-backed phones, the Pixel 5 will make a refreshing change. Compared to the Samsung Galaxy S21s of the world, the Pixel 5 focuses on what Pixel phones do best: offering users a great, simplified camera experience and a very clean Android interface, as we'll detail in this Google Pixel 5 review. I much prefer the Pixel 5’s low-light “Night Sight” images, which do a mighty fine job at brightening up shots without noticeably altering the colours; in contrast, the iPhone 11’s nighttime indoor pictures looked overly warm.

As for detail capture, yet again the iPhone 11 comes out on top here, but I particularly enjoyed playing with the new Cinematic Pan mode, which slows footage down to half speed for smoother horizontal movements. RAM (Random Access Memory) is different to the permanent storage provided by hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD) or memory cards in your equipment.The voice assistant does so much more without requiring me to unlock the phone or giving it superpowers to do so. This is important because, as previously mentioned, this phone feels small: despite having a 6-inch display, the all-in-one metal body and minimal bezel mean the phone feels more compact – and at 8mm thick, it’s also one of the thinner phones on the market. In addition, by opting for reconditioned products, you avoid wasting raw materials and you prevent the production of toxic waste. What is new, however, is a secondary 107-degree wide-angle camera, 4K video recording at 60fps, a larger 4,080mAh battery and the 90Hz OLED screen has increased in size to 6in from 5.

Android 11 offers an " Extreme Battery Saver" option, which the brand claims enables 48 hours of use per charge. One the rear or the phone there’s a square camera block that’s nearly identical to the one on the Pixel 4, although the flash has moved from the top to the bottom of the array.Side note: If you have stuttering or serious lag while under 60% charge, Disable "Adaptive battery" in settings + restart, no issues since.