My Pixel 6 Pro Review...
-i hate the on screen fingerprint scanner
-the camera seems no better than the 4a 5g... At least at 4x zoom.

@jAsE-cAsE Those all have huge bezels. That just wouldn't work for 2021. I think the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro are mostly fine - save for maybe the curved display - not that it isn't nice, it's just that it's a bitch if you want to put a glass protector on it.

Very off topic for devrant, my wife is in the market for a new phone. She doesn't want an Apple (TL;DR).

Is the new Pixel 6 a good choice? Samsung a 'safer' choice? Something else?

She's extremely, EXTREMELY non-technical, so features and wiz-bangs specs does not impress her.

Good phone sound quality and for a phone between $500~$1000, she want's pictures as good as her SLR camera.

@PaperTrail samsung has a lot of confusing crap built in

@PaperTrail do you folks travel often outside your country? I've had bad experience with Pixel support when traveling around.

Pixel hardware support is just bad in general imo.

@kamen so what if they have some besels?

@RememberMe > "do you folks travel often outside your country"

No, we very rarely travel outside of our state.

@iiii It's wasted real estate (that could otherwise be screen). The Pixel basically took Nexus 6P's design, which was okay in 2015, but not today. The Pixel 2 XL was a step in the right direction. I used to be a rather big opponent of notches and cutouts until I tried a hole punch display myself - 95% of the time it doesn't bother me at all (still, it's just a hole for the front camera, not a huge notch like on the last few iPhones). If you dislike notches/cutouts that much, there are designs like Sony's latest stuff which IMO is a good compromise, with the only slight drawback being the rounded corners.

@kamen I'd argue that it's not wasted. Edge to edge screens are prone to accidental touches from the palm. A few millimeters of bezel makes pretty much no difference in the size of the screen but is a huge difference in usability.

PS: my current phone of choice is a tiny Xperia XZ1 Compact. In the eyes of most people it's unusable because its screen is less than 5 inches

@iiii I don't know how you hold your phone, but I've never had accidental touches from my palms even with a screen that's 2-3 mm from the bottom edge. I kind of agree with you about the size though; still, with such a small size it's even more important IMO to make use of every millimetre of the phone's face.

@kamen imagine you're in a bus that's jumping around. You probably want to squeeze the phone from the sides.

@kamen i agree that in my phone the screen could be taller (like a centimeter taller) and that would be quite comfortable.

But we started from the iPhone 6 which does not have big bezels at all. There's just a couple millimeters on each side as far as i remember (i do not consider top and bottom important). I remember that particular phone being quite pleasant in hand. It had a pretty ideal width and thickness

PS: those top/bottom bezels actually allow to comfortably hold the phone horizontally while watching something.

@electrineer I'd still grip it from the sides then, but I guess we're different...

@kamen yeah but your skin will touch the sides of the screen if you use the phone with only one hand