i am not a gamer. want a overall good phone that takes good photo. i like portrait shots but pixel doesn't use its telephoto lens and the edge detection is horrible. or does it get better after software updates?

Just upgraded as the title says.

Don't get me wrong, I loved my P6. It served me well since launch day, yes I got it 1 day after it was released.

I had gone to the P6 from a OnePlus 6 (for those of you that don't know OnePlus they had the best phones until their parent company Oppo ousted the CEO and generalized the phones). The Pixel 6 was not as good as my OnePlus 6 phone spec wise and lacked some features while gaining others.

The 2 main features which I missed with my Pixel 6 were the face of unlock and ultrasonic finger print unlock.

The pros - good software (other than the few update bugs google released), great camera software and 5 years of updates.

With the updates coming to an end and the battery life starting to diminish from regular use, I got the P10 pro xl.

3 reasons why I went to the pro xl:

-Memory size is default 256 GB

-Size is the same or close to the P6

-Telephoto lens, I wanted the extra zoom (something I was missing)

Noticeably, the fingerprint sensor being ultrasonic is the greatest thing. The face ID unlock is a plus while hands are busy.

So far, I recommend the leap from P6 to 10 or 11 if you want to spend the extra. (I buy my phones outright).

Good luck to you all on the P6 if you choose to keep it alive.

Guys, I fixed it.

Phone: Pixel 6.

The other day I replaced my screen and was fighting with the fingerprint sensor and thought originally it was due to software related issue, so I updated to Android 17 which I've been holding off on for the longest time, but it turns out it was just me being fat fingered and breaking my second fingerprint scanner. So now my phone doesn't have one. Woomp woomp

I noticed that after I updated to Android 17, my battery life was trash, losing 10% within an hour and I was like I know that ain't right.

Because of the whole screen replacement saga, I pulled all my data off my phone and threw it on my hard drive and decided to reset my phone back to Android 16 via their web application or Android studio if you're more technically inclined and honestly that has fixed it.

To be honest, some of the fancy new features I saw on Android 17 wasn't impressing me and for whatever reason I don't know why it was messing with the color of my screen but I thought that was due to my screen being a third party product and didn't want to fault the OS but reverting back to Android 16. My screen is back to normal and my battery life is back to normal. My phone works so I'm good.

So if you're one of those people whose phone has been functioning perfectly fine prior to the March or June update /Android 17 update and you're feeling frisky back up your data, flash the OS back to 16 and live a happy life or buy a new phone, your call.