Why hardly anyone buys Google's Pixel phones
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Why hardly anyone buys Google's Pixel phones
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Re: Why hardly anyone buys Google's Pixel phones
#2I just bought a Pixel 4a -- so I could put Graphene OS on it. I don't presume the Graphene fan club is responsible for anything beyond a small percentage of the Pixel sales but Graphene does require a Pixel handset (at least for now).
Re: Why hardly anyone buys Google's Pixel phones
#3Can't speak for Pixel, but I had two Google Nexus phones that both got stuck in the Bootloop of Death state (you can't start the phone even with reboot tricks, it gets stuck in a boot state), and I heard of several other people (including coworkers) that had the same issues, so it turned me off buying Google phones in general, and I never even considered buying any Pixel phones because of it. Really liked my Nexus phones up until that point, though.
https://hackaday.com/2017/03/21/fix-a-brick-fighting-the-nex...
Re: Why hardly anyone buys Google's Pixel phones
#4For me it's the lack of a micro SD port. How can you have a more expensive product with the same stuff as lesser expensive products but eliminate that one feature that is exactly why people don't buy apple phones?
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#5I own Pixel 2XL (released in 2017). It has an amazing camera which can compete with any modern phone camera, great battery life, no bloatware, excellent performance. Best phone a ever had - really zero issues. Not only I wouldn't switch to other OEM, I can't even find a good reason to upgrade.
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#6Google knows all this. I figured they're keeping the skeleton of a flagship, branding, marketing, and distribution as a countervailing threat to oems like Samsung that have played around with Tizen or thinking of going too propietary. If an OEM decides to drop play services or the play store then all google has to do is dump some money into their pixel org to make things move a little bigger and faster. Plus it helps to have a flagship when you're developing new Android features. Telephony features and dual sim was supported by pixels first, at least in a non hacky way
Re: Why hardly anyone buys Google's Pixel phones
#7I just bought a Pixel 4a -- so I could put Graphene OS on it. I don't presume the Graphene fan club is responsible for anything beyond a small percentage of the Pixel sales but Graphene does require a Pixel handset (at least for now).
How are you finding it? I'd be interested in getting a device that runs a de-Googled Android nicely. Ironic if it happened on a Google-branded device, but still...
Re: Why hardly anyone buys Google's Pixel phones
#8I just bought a Pixel 4a -- so I could put Graphene OS on it. I don't presume the Graphene fan club is responsible for anything beyond a small percentage of the Pixel sales but Graphene does require a Pixel handset (at least for now).
How are you finding it? I'd be interested in getting a device that runs a de-Googled Android nicely. Ironic if it happened on a Google-branded device, but still...
As I understand it, the same thing that makes the Pixel easy to upgrade to a new version of Android entirely is the same ability that makes it possible to put Graphene on it -- but I'm not 100% sure about that.
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#9When the Pixel 1 first launched in 2016, I saw no shortage of TV advertisements for it. Google made a big deal about the Pixel's camera being the singular focus of its R&D efforts and as a result, it was a cut above that of the competition. The name "Pixel" emphasized its picture quality. But as usual, Google seems to have lost focus instead of pressing its advantage. The Pixel 3 (which I own) was the last iteration that offered definite improvements over its predecessor; recent releases have been treading water at best.
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#10I have a Pixel 3 after using Galaxy's and Notes for over a decade. It's by far the best phone I've had.
It's rugged (dropped it many times, gotten it wet, used it in machine shop environments daily), fast, and the battery life is truely awesome.
I've never filled up the internal storage (I don't take huge amounts of pictures or video, but I do sync and upload all of it to my computer every time I connect to my wifi).
The best thing though, is that after almost 3 years of hard use, it hasn't become sluggish or unreliable, a hallmark of Samsung devices.