The market is stopping at nothing. Even the semiconductor crisis has not succeeded in preventing launches from continuing in a terribly robotic way with terminals that replace their (already) predecessors year after year. A rhythm that very few consumers can followlet’s be clear, and that’s why the average renewal time for a mobile phone is always three years, no matter how much the manufacturers want us to do it every 12 months.
This is my particular case, and I suspect that of many others, although in my case my renewal cycle has never been so relaxed as it is now. I came to change my phone every year, sometimes even more frequently. But that’s already the past. With the Pixel 7 already hitting the streets and plenty of factors that make it appealing on its side, I’ll be sticking with my Pixel 5 for at least another year. As I often say: maybe I’m getting old.
Pixel 5 a year older
I have already devoted a long article to explain that at present, without being able to talk about the future, there is only one manufacturer who can snatch me from the hands of Google Pixels. This manufacturer was none other than OPPO and the experience that led me to this conclusion is the one that gave me, and continues to give me, the Google Pixel 5. A phone that It’s far from perfect, but for me it’s more than enough.
So much so that it will not be one but two generations of Pixel models that I will skip. As attractive as the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro look to me, the Pixel 5 will continue to slip into my pocket for at least another year. Unless we have an accident along the way
It’s already been two generations of Pixels that have passed me that are newer than the Pixel 5, and yet I still consider its photography to be some of the best around. Even in today’s market. Yes, mobiles are advancing season after season, model after model, but we are at such a mature point that renewing every year seems absurd to me. Beyond wanting to cover a certain quota of whims that has disappeared for me over ti me.
Photography. Cleaning.
Photography was the main factor that led me to the Pixel 5, Google’s choice as the developer of a camera that, to this day, keeps up the standard perfectly. Night and day shots, with or without blur. Top-notch photography thanks to artificial intelligence that makes me not want to face a revival because I think I would not gain as much from the change as the expense it would entail.
Another differentiating factor was having pure Android. Not quite pure, we understand. Google does its little things to differentiate itself, but we can say that Pixels are “what Android should be” for all brands. Then everyone plays their cards and that sounds good to me, but I’ve gone through almost all of them and wouldn’t trade the Pixel Launcher experience for the world. Or for next to nothing.
In fact, I have Android 13 on the Pixel 5, which will also be coming to the Pixel 7 in a few days. I will lose another feature that due to power and design will not give up these models to reach others. It’s the small price I pay bought the latest Pixel without a Tensor processor. Mine has the Snapdragon 765, one of the underrated at the time.
It’s not perfect, but it’s enough
When you want to renew your mobile, think, how much is it going to cost you what you want to earn with the jump?
There are things to improve, of course. Like autonomy, certainly limited despite the fact that I spend more time on WiFi than on data, indoors rather than in the sun. A little more size wouldn’t hurt either, although I’ve gotten used to the Pixel 5’s 5.99 inches so much that the rest of the mobiles seem gigantic to me. But I think I can wait a little longer to change. Precisely because this change would not be out of necessity, but on a whim.
So if nothing changes if nothing melts inside my “little” i will continue with the pixel 5 for one more season. A mobile that if you find in a store with stock is always a fabulous purchase. Even now that there would already be two renewals ahead of him. The mobile change bug is constantly happening. Maybe because I’m already older than a forest. Or maybe because the Pixel 5 still, to this day, delivers a gorgeous experience that’s hard to ignore.
