The great thing about playing down birthdays is that there are approximately 364 un-birthdays in a year and on one such day an unassuming brown cardboard package was placed in front of me at lunchtime here by my resident daughter, whilst across the table my resident son was videoing me on his cell-phone and telling me to open it. Which I duly did and, wow! A Pixel 5, a gift from my children here and far-and-wide and their respective partners. Wow! And thank you all!
What more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of the wonders this piece of kit can perform: well actually I have hardly had a chance to find out yet. Doing the connect-your-new-Pixel-to-your-old-phone-and-transfer thing was simple and successful except, as expected, it left out the GPS mapping and tracking app Oruxmaps that I use when hiking and running. Because "it has been removed from Google Play because it violates the payments policy" so it has to be installed directly from the Oruxmaps website. And then there was the deal about it maybe not tracking in the background, but I managed to navigate through all that. So yesterday I took my new toy on a run to confirm that tracking is, indeed, working correctly and checked out some of the new camera features.
There are two main cameras in addition to the front facing selfie camera. The "x2" option, I am informed, is a software enhanced digital zoom. I'm a bit wary of digital zooms so I'm hopeful that the software enhancement does its bit. You can click on these images to view full size, but doubtless "full size" will not be the full native resolution because Google pics downgrades one's photos on the free account I have.
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| Wide angle camera |
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| Standard camera x1 |
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| Standard camera x2 |
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| Panning to left to include Mullaghleevaun |
