Google Pixel 6 Pro – Unlocked Android 5G Smartphone with 50-Megapixel Camera and Wide-Angle Lens 256 GB – Stormy Black

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This Pro phone focuses on toher departments. It has a fantastic-looking screen, more processing power and faster charging, but won't compete in terms of photography prowess. For more, see our story comparing the Pixel's camera with the iPhone 13 Pro and Galaxy S21 Ultra. The Best Android Flagship You Can Buy The in-display fingerprint sensor is on par with the one in the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. It's pretty fast and has a 95% accuracy rate. It’s also among the easiest to set up that we’ve used. The Pixel 6 Pro is a relatively affordable phone compared to other top-end handsets, but it’s still one of the more expensive smartphones you can buy. You may want to look elsewhere if your budget is tighter.

The Google Pixel 6a, Pixel 6 and 6 Pro all share a similar design, though there are some variations between the three models, as you would expect.We also tested the phone on Verizon's nationwide 5G network in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and its surrounding suburbs. Speeds averaged 228.6Mbps down and 64.2Mbps up.

The Pixel 6 is slightly more expensive, sitting in the middle of the Pixel 6a and the Pixel 6 Pro in terms of price and features. It too makes some compromises compared to the 6 Pro, but it offers more than the Pixel 6a. The Pixel 6 Pro has a 6.7-inch QHD+ display, which is suitably large and offers crisp picture quality – the resolution of 1440 x 3120 is a remarkable step up compared to 2020’s Pixel 5 and its 1080 x 2340 screen. The thinking behind Tensor is that a processor designed and built by Google itself can be better optimized to work with the company’s phone hardware and software for a better all-round experience - and that good news is that the chip is plenty powerful, if not the most powerful on the market.Don’t let those benchmarking scores put you off; the Google Pixel 6 Pro is still a powerful phone, and the Tensor chipset isn’t a poor choice. The handset is large, so you may want to opt for the standard Google Pixel 6 if you’re looking for a smaller device. It features a glass rear that’s protected by Corning Gorilla Glass Victus technology, which should ensure it’s not easily scratched. In addition to the CPU, there’s a 20-core ARM Mali GPU for gaming and computational photography, as well as a 50MP ISP with zero shutter lag and Google’s HDRnet. A separate Context Hub coprocessor sits on the SoC for things like contextual reminders and the always-on display. Android 12 runs well on the Pixel 6 Pro, as you’d expect. Google has also confirmed that the phone will receive three full software updates, so you should expect this handset to continue being supported through the Android 13, Android 14 and Android 15 upgrades - and that it will get those updates more or less immediately after the software launches.

The Pixel 6 Pro also supports Wi-Fi 6E. In our Wi-Fi tests, it averaged speeds of 501Mbps down and 47Mbps up at a distance of 10 feet from a 802.11AX router on Verizon's 5G home internet.The good news is that the company has created another powerful camera setup here, and we’ve found it to be far more versatile than on previous Pixel phones, with more options to play around with.