Well-priced; Years of updates; Striking design;

No telephoto; No variable refresh rate;

The Pixel 6 offers the most premium and polished experience we've seen from the Pixel series so far, keeping the best bits of the Pixel 4 and 5 – namely excellent photo-taking and clean software – then packaging it in more premium design.

Tensor chip is impressive, Great camera, Bold display, Purest version of Android

No longer a compact size option, No telephoto camera, Camera bump is large and awkward

With the Google Pixel 5 launch last year, we were a little underwhelmed as the Pixel 5 didn't really offer enough to make it stand out from the busy flagship market. However, with the Google Pixel 6, it's a whole different game!

Brilliant photos, Excellent in low light, Price, Compact size, Easy to use camera, Standout design

No telephoto lens, Limited storage, Built-in zoom can still be improved, No headphone jack

Where the Pixel 6 Pro is about competing on an equal footing with the top smartphones on the market, the Pixel 6 offers all of what makes Google phones great while significantly undercutting the competition on price.

Pros: class-leading camera, great screen, excellent performance, good battery life, recycled aluminium, five years of security updates, Android 12, impressive local AI features, very competitively priced.

Cons: fairly slow charging, no optical zoom, fingerprint scanner can be picky, no face unlock option, only three years of Android version updates despite five years of security support.

Back on top. With the Pixel 6, Google positions its flagship smartphone in the premium segment again; not only does it provide it with a unique design, but also with a completely redesigned camera setup, the first in-house chipset, and an enormously long update promise.

bright 90 Hz OLED, fast SoC, IP68 certification, powerful dual-camera setup, long update cycle

no storage expansion, thin voice quality in speaker mode, USB without image output

Google's latest Pixels — the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro — may be 2021 phones, but Google refreshes its models at the end of the year. So, they are the flagship models for most of 2022.

Great price to value, Good-looking OLED screen with 90 Hz refresh, Great camera, Android 12 runs fast and smooth, Smart features and exclusive Assistant functions

Speakers are thin-ish, Android 12 needs some polish in presentation, Tensor chip is smart but not a super-performer

After spending a few weeks with Google’s latest smartphone—the Pixel 6 (dual-released alongside the Pixel 6 Pro )—I can easily say that it is powerful, beautiful, and quintessentially Google. And priced well under $1,000, it should absolutely be your next Android phone.

Excellent affordable value, Tensor chip performance is impressive, Outstanding camera software, Great battery life

Under-display fingerprint scanner is sometimes frustrating, Weirdly slippery design, Display could be brighter

The Google Pixel 6 is the new "value" king in the world of smartphones.

New camera sensors are impressive, Battery life is still very good, Larger size, Flat display, Incredibly priced

No charger in the box, 5G is weird, but not as bad as with the Pro, Display is only 90Hz

Overall, the Pixel 6 takes excellent images on a level with flagship smartphones costing nearer £1,000. Yes, you miss the telephoto camera on most other premium flagships, but if you can live without this, you’re making an impressive saving, as well as benefiting from some of the most impressive...

While it's a shame that picture and sound quality haven't been upgraded, the iPhone 13 was great in these regards and the iPhone 14 is, too Excellent display Admirable headphone performance Solid build quality No upgrades to picture or sound Familiar design Notch is still present