Best 5G Phones Under 15000 in India : Google Pixel has been appreciated for the experience it offers, and for its long support. The Google Pixel 10 carries this legacy forward. It has the new Android 16, which looks like almost stock Android, and also has some specific features from Google. The company, however, promised that you will get 7 years of major OS updates and 7 years of security patches.
Software Experience
As far as design and UI go, Android 16 has an old Pixel phone feel. The changes aren’t that great, per se, but there is Material 3 Expressive UI, which makes transitions and animations even smoother. The notification shade has also improved; now it include real-time updates like food delivery status or cab tracking. Also, notifications are grouped automatically for easy screen cleansing.
AI Features
Pixel phones always come with a new AI feature, and the name given now is Magic Cue. It collects data from different sources or apps and gives you real-time suggestions. As an example, you can tell your friend to give you a shot, and it automatically gets flight details if you’re chatting with the airline.
Gemini Live is now even more advanced. It understands and identifies things from the camera feed, giving visual guidance and showing information. Its voice model has also become more natural and expressive than before. The Google Photos app now includes an AI Vibe Edit tool with which you edit photos by just talking, but it is still available only in the US at this time.
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Processor and Performance
Pixel 10 comes packed with a new 3nm TSMC-manufactured Tensor G5 chipset and has an 8-core CPU along with a new graphics processing unit (PowerVR DXT-48-1536). This new chip is engineered particularly for AI and imaging performance. Its TPU is now a 60% speed boost capable of running the Gemini Nano completely on-device for the very first time. The new ISP is also better, which supports features like motion deblur and 10-bit video recording. Meanwhile, the two variants of Pixel 10 have 12GB of RAM along with either 128GB or 256GB of storage capacity. Neither has “secondary” storage, but in terms of UFS, the base model has UFS 3.1 storage, while the 256GB version has faster UFS 4.0 storage.
Benchmarks Scores
The Tensor G5’s performance was mixed in benchmarks.
Pixel 10’s performance in Geek bench 6 was 5857, which wasn’t bad compared to the numbers the Pixel 9 had, but still many times worse than both the iPhone 16 and the Galaxy S25.
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In AnTuTu 10, its score was close to 11 lakh, which is slightly better than the older Tensor G4 but much less than the top flagships.
3DMark test also showed a dismal margin of score when it was compared with Snapdragon and Apple chips.
Heating and Throttling
In sustained performance, the Pixel 10 is not very good. Both the CPU and GPU started throttling immediately in the stress test. Within ten minutes, you could see a drop of 28%. Even light use heats the phone, but it is time-consuming to cool off once shut off.