Source: Ara Wagoner / Android Central (Image credit: Ara Wagoner / Android Central) It tops the list of best Android phones (opens in new tab) and, even though no phone is perfect, the Google Pixel 6 comes pretty darn close. Google Assistant is finally as fast as you are for so many tasks, including instant voice typing, translation, and applying its secret sauce to your photos. The Pixel 6's Achilles Heel turns out to be buggy software, no doubt in part because Tensor is Google's first attempt at a consumer-level processor.īut, despite the bugs, Google has finally delivered on its promise of a proper flagship phone and did so with a very competitive price, one of the best photography systems in the mobile market, and best of all, Tensor's AI optimization. The Pixel 4's battery was horrifically bad, and the Pixel 5 went mid-range, giving us the same basic internals as a $500 phone for $700 (and was discontinued when the $450 Pixel 5a launched with the same guts). The Pixel 1 and 2 had huge bezels, the Pixel 2 XL had screen issues, the Pixel 3 had serious software bugs, and the camera had gotten stale. See, for as long as we've had Pixel phones, there's always been a fatal flaw.

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