Google Pixel 5 steadies the ship after a turbulent time last year. There’s certainly a lack of innovation but, at an attractive lower price, the Pixel 5 offers plenty of strong features to delight Android fans.

Carphone Warehouse and Currys PC World have announced the new Google Pixel 5 is now available to purchase online and in-stores from today, 15 th October 2020.

Google Pixel 5 Software, Features And User Experience We’ve always been big fans of Google’s clutter free, polished, and speedy approach to Android. The Pixel 5 continues this trend, and comes with an almost stock build of Android 11 out of the box, enhanced by a bunch of delightful Google-y...

Amazing camera, Beautiful display, Solid battery life, Wireless charging, Great user experience

Expensive, mmWave tax, No XL version, Middling speakers

Consistent camera quality; Uncluttered take on Android; Gets the essentials right;

Performance only average; Hardware doesn’t excite like previous Pixels; No 3.5mm jack, expandable storage;

The Pixel 5 is an excellent Google phone that gets back to the basics of being a good smartphone while adding useful features and nice touches. The battery life is solid, the 90Hz screen is good and smooth, the fingerprint scanner on the back is simple and fast, and the camera is another masterclass...

Pros: great camera, good screen, great software and update support, good battery life, relatively small, fairly inexpensive, recycled aluminium.

Cons: no headphone socket, no flagship processor, no expandable storage.

The Pixel 5 has a lot to prove. Google’s 2020 flagship not only needs to convince shoppers to open their wallets in an unusually challenging year, but demonstrate that the sins of last year’s Pixel 4 are not to be repeated.

Aggressively priced, Android 11 runs smoothly & gets latest Google features, Excellent camera performance, Battery life holds up to all-day use

No optical telephoto, No headphone jack, Other phones support faster charging

The Google Pixel 5 is bucking current smart phone trends and it's truly refreshing. Check out what else we think in our review.

Unique design with bio resin finish; extremely good battery life; great camera quality; handy new video stabilisation modes; rear fingerprint sensor; reverse wireless charging; Pixel software

No microSD card slot, headphone jack, or zoom camera; no XL model; speaker quality is just OK

The Pixel 5 hits all the right notes, but some stiff competition spoils this price for Google.

Compact size, 90Hz OLED display, Impressive battery life, Reverse Wireless Charging, Wireless charging despite metal backing, Same incredible Pixel Camera as always

Not available in a larger size, Only in available in one model (two colors), Snapdragon 765G instead of Snapdragon 865 chipset

In the rumor and hype period leading up to the Google Pixel 5 launch, I argued that Google may as well get weird with their next phone because their previous approach was clearly not working. The Pixel 4 was a disaster of a phone that Google killed off only a few months after introducing it, but...

The Google Pixel 5 solves my two biggest complaints about the Pixel 4, which to be fair, weren't complaints last year. One is that there's a fingerprint sensor; as I said earlier, any company that made a phone without a fingerprint sensor in 2020 would have to be completely tone-deaf.

Edge-to-edge display, Fingerprint sensor, Camera, 5G support

No XL model, Bland design, mmWave tax