After the release of smartphones from Google (manufactured by HTC) – Pixel and Pixel XL, when the first reviews and tests began to appear, I paid attention to the camera ratings. Almost all reviewers, and then users, put the Pixel camera in one of the first places in terms of photo quality. Of course, until some point I did not believe that the device from Google (HTC) could shoot at least at the level of the Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge, but then I looked at the pictures live, studied sample photos, made by my friends, and everything went to the fact that you need to go to the 'pixel'. The photo quality in the device, both on the main camera and on the front camera, turned out to be really very high, in some situations it is actually higher than that of the SGS7 Edge. But I want to talk not about the photo at all, but about how quickly (or not quickly) a person gets used to the new, forgetting the old.
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In Google Pixel, before the purchase, I was confused by several points, this is the reduction of the screen (in comparison with the SGS7 Edge), and a different control system (there is no mechanical key, and the 'Back' button is located on the left, not on the right), and the location of the power buttons and volume. That is, some things that I'm used to, really got used to after six months of using SGS7 Edge, are implemented in Google Pixel in a completely different way. And it was interesting for me, first of all, to understand for myself how quickly and painlessly I can get used to different different moments.
Control. In SGS7 Edge, the volume key is on the left, and the power key is on the right, under the screen there is a mechanical button and two touch buttons, with 'Back' on the right. On the Pixel, 'power' and 'volume' are located together on the right edge, and the back button is below the screen on the left. That is, it’s not like that at all. I got used to the new system for about a week. I will not say that it was difficult, but at first, when the screen was turned on / off, the finger reached where the 'pixel' had a volume rocker, and while working with the screen and applications for a day or two, I kept poking at the 'running programs', because that Samsung has the Back key at this point.
Screen diagonal. From the 5.5 'screen I switched to 5'. To be honest, the transition was difficult for me, I still have not got used to the reduction of the diagonal completely. The main difficulty in my case is the size of the menu and fonts, in SGS7 Edge I got used to the font sizes in applications and menus, in Google Pixel I still could not find the same balance, the fonts are either too small or too large. Perhaps the matter is in the implementation of the font in TouchWiz and stock Android, I don't know. But it's been three weeks since the transition to 'pixel', and in some programs you still want to go and tweak the settings by changing the font.
Interface. Everything was the easiest here, I didn't have to get used to it. I don't like Samsung's skin since 1987, so using the stock OS Android without everything is the best option for me. Yes, some things are not implemented very well here (for my taste, the font and scaling of the interface in TouchWiz are better), but still a clean system pleases both with speed and the absence of unnecessary clutter of anything.
Platform. According to the characteristics of the SGS7 Edge and Google Pixel, plus or minus are similar, while, to be honest, one of the reasons for my departure from Samsung to Pixel is the speed. The fact is that Edge began to work for me, to put it mildly, not fast. Constant lags, 'thoughtfulness', interface brakes when launching programs, and when switching between them – all these things have been the last couple of months. Yes, there is good advice in this case – to reset and reinstall everything. But when the device is used for six months as the main one, a lot of useful things are accumulated there, and there is no desire to reset, no time, oddly enough. Pixel is still (and perhaps always, which I hope) is very fast. Highly!
Keyboard. It would seem that there are dozens of high-quality keyboards for smartphones on Android, but this is where I ran into an unsolvable (hopefully temporarily) problem on the Google Pixel. The fact is that I'm used to typing in the 'old-fashioned' method – without using a swipe and with vibration of the keys. I always set the vibration to the minimum on any smartphone, be it Samsung, Meizu or something else. A one or two on a scale that goes up to a hundred gives me a light, barely noticeable vibration when I touch the keys, and I have become very accustomed to this over the years of using smartphones. So, in the Google Pixel, for some reason I do not understand, in any keyboard, including the standard one, it is impossible to properly adjust the vibration strength. I can choose the value 1, the minimum, but the vibration remains extremely strong, the same as on any other device that I have used, appears when setting 10-15 units (approximately). As a result, I had to turn off the vibration on the 'pixel' when typing, and now I am trying to get used to such a typing system, but so far I have not succeeded at all, and it is completely inconvenient for me to type messages on my smartphone. Whether I will get used to it or not, I don't even know.
As a result, almost everyone likes the Google Pixel, except for the inconvenient (for me, this is subjective) scaling system and fonts and the inability to adjust the vibration strength when typing (this is objective). And what a camera in a smartphone!
