I’ve been using the Pixel 4 for a couple of weeks now, and there are a couple of certainties: it has the best camera I’ve ever seen on a smartphone, and it has the worst battery life I’ve seen in years. It’s also more than just those two things.
Those are likely two details you’ve seen noted across the board—from review to review, post to post, everyone is either talking about how great the camera is (and oh man, it is) or how terrible the battery life is. And while those things are true, there’s more to this phone than just the high and low.
The thing is, this could be the best phone Google has ever released. Unfortunately, it has the dark cloud hanging over it right now (battery life), which overshadows all the great things about the phone.
As a whole package, it’s an incredible piece of hardware. It’s forward-thinking and proactive, which is more than I can say for the last generation Pixel, which was a “me too” phone and nothing more.
The Pixel 4 is decidedly fresh. It’s a good phone because of what it is, not what it’s trying to be.
The Radar is Neat, but Not All That Useful (Yet)
The Pixel 4’s flagship feature (outside of the camera, of course) is the new radar chip embedded into the upper bezel—it’s the entire reason the phone has a bezel. So thank you, radar chip, for getting rid of the “bathtub” notch on this generation of Pixel phone.
But you may be asking yourself, “okay, why do I want a radar chip in my phone?” The blunt answer, at least for now, is that you probably don’t. But the tech is promising and very efficient, so it’s off to a good start.
For now, the radar has only a few functions: to wake your phone up when you get near it, change songs, and snooze alarms. Google officially calls these features Motion Sense. In my experience so far, they’re hit-or-miss.
For example, the music track controls are just sort of a novelty. You wave your hand above the device to change the song—it works for both going forward and backward in your tracklist—but I honestly can’t think of many scenarios when that’s useful (I’m sure that are some, though).
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