We’re three months on from the launch of the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, and it’s been far from smooth sailing to say the least. Between an iffy fingerprint scanner, dubious charging metrics, and a completely broken December update, the phone doesn’t look as well polished as it did at its premiere. Some are quickly falling out of love with Google’s latest flagship.
A rocky start will hardly come as a surprise if you’ve followed any of Google’s hardware launches over the past decade. The company has rightly earned a reputation for hit and miss hardware; the Pixel 6 is simply the latest in a long list of troubled devices that are by no means limited to smartphones. While launches do occasionally slip up, we’d certainly expect better from Google, especially when spending up to $1,099 on the 512GB Pixel 6 Pro model.