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I really like my Pixel 5, and I hope that Google maintains the course with future Pixels.

It's a proper appliance phone. It holds the same place in my life as my kettle or my washing machine. It does what I want it to do, and asks nothing of me. I don't know any stats about it, only that it's fast enough, has a long enough battery life, and takes good enough pictures.

I couldn't be happier.

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Completely agree. I remember with my past phones, there were lots of flashy features to play with but then they'd become annoying and you'd start to notice glaring usability problems. Pixel has exactly what it's supposed to have and all of them are well designed.

In the same boat but I suspect I'll be sad if I didn't have a finger print reader on the back of my phone. But maybe there's a good reason everybody is putting it on the front now?

If I'm sitting at my desk I have my phone on the desk instead of in my pocket. It gets annoying have to pick it up to hit the fingerprint reader on the back when I fire up the 2-factor auth app.

Having it up closer to the middle of the screen does at least look way more convenient than standard iPhone placement.

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