I can see why this phone got good reviews. On the standard tests it performs well, it is just awful in a whole range of creative ways reviewers hand never thought of. The high resolution camera does exist, but the auto focus feature that we have all come to take for granted is so poor that you just get a high resolution images of a blurr that was meant to be your concert pic. It randomly takes mini videos, rather than a stable pictures. This happens unpredictably and cannot be turned off. This is meant to be a 'best take' feature, but all of the frames are low quality and out of focus. Why have this feature then? Well, the videos are data hungry. This means they take up more storage space on the cloud, which I have to then pay Google for. It's peretty genius from a Google shareholders point of view. The root of the problem is it is designed to capture as much data as possible for Google to feed into its AI first, and be a phone second. For example, it does it's primary function of being a phone poorly. I have testsled a variety of sim cards and phones, my pixel has consistently less network connectivity than iPhone or Samsung. I can loose signal in central London. It's like living in the 1980s without disco culture or cheap European holidays. This would not be such an issue if it weren't such a data hungry piggy of a device. Everything is stored in the cloud so Google can scrape my data, which means I have to download everything over and over again. There isn't even a photo gallery app on the phone, I have to download every single image every time I want to scroll though old photos. I take douzens of photos a week for work, so I have to pray every time I need to pull one that I have enough connectivity to access Google cloud, which I never do. Google has full access to my data, but I don't. The whole phone is set up so that you can access nothing offline. The simple act of downloading a PDF requires the patience of a highly trained yoghi combined with a computer science degree. Once you have coaxed your tiny piece personal data onto your device god help you open it, save it, or store it without reuploding to a cloud based program. You would think all this cloud computing would have left you with lots of free space and a super fast phone. You would be wrong. It often takes my brand new phone up to three seconds to open an app despite the fact the memory is all but empty. This is an activity usually measured in micro seconds, which for reference is 0.001 of a second. A Google pixel is literally thousands of times slower than my last phone which is now six years old. I asked the Google help about this. They said I could send it away and might (might) get my fixed phone back two weeks later. I asked what I was meant to do for two weeks while this happened because -like most people - I need my phone for work. They suggested I take annual leave. This of course doesn't cover the possibility that my brand new phone isn't broken, it's doing exactly what is was designed to do, which is provided the maximum value to Google and the bare minimum to me. Save your money, buy anything else instead.