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Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by stu2b50 »

allset_ wrote: post #282
devoutsalsa wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the iPhone, you can always buy two generations back to save a few bucks. I bought an iPhone 11 a couple months ago for $499 plus tax and it’s a perfectly good phone.

When you do that you're also buying into a phone that will stop receiving security updates sooner since iPhones receive updates for ~5 years after they're released.

I wouldn’t really worry about that. Apple has been very good at giving security patches to old devices. Just a few days ago they pushed a security patch for iPhones as old as the 5S

https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/23/apple-releases-ios-12-5-5-for...

Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by amelius »

nickpinkston wrote: post #21

I got a Pixel 6 Pro a few months ago, and it's without question the worst phone I've ever had the displeasure to own. - It crashes constantly. - Bluetooth is even buggier than usual. - Fingerprint unlock is very finicky. - The touchscreen isn't designed/calibrated well and leads to constant fat finger presses. - The hotspot is buggy to connect and randomly drops once it does connect. - The phone is so slick (ie low f…

These are issues you'd not even expect from a Pine or Librem Phone ...

Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by makeitdouble »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #30
nickpinkston wrote: post #21

I got a Pixel 6 Pro a few months ago, and it's without question the worst phone I've ever had the displeasure to own. - It crashes constantly. - Bluetooth is even buggier than usual. - Fingerprint unlock is very finicky. - The touchscreen isn't designed/calibrated well and leads to constant fat finger presses. - The hotspot is buggy to connect and randomly drops once it does connect. - The phone is so slick (ie low f…

I was checking out the Android competition ahead of the iPhone 14 announcement and I was shocked that all of the flagships seem to have major usability complaints. I always thought that the UX might be a little worse, but Android would be ahead on hardware (battery, camera, etc). I thought the whole carriers doing updates and all that would have been fixed by now, but it seems like only Pixel has. What is keeping peo…

If you calibrate that with the iPhone also having major usability complaints, it seems par for the course.

Overall the current landscape is pretty grim to me. Is it the covid effect we're seeing through poor quality and a lot of stagnation for the last 2 years ?

Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by wildrhythms »

mikesabat wrote: post #275
nickpinkston wrote: post #21

I got a Pixel 6 Pro a few months ago, and it's without question the worst phone I've ever had the displeasure to own. - It crashes constantly. - Bluetooth is even buggier than usual. - Fingerprint unlock is very finicky. - The touchscreen isn't designed/calibrated well and leads to constant fat finger presses. - The hotspot is buggy to connect and randomly drops once it does connect. - The phone is so slick (ie low f…

I got a Pixel 6a a few days back and just pocket dialed someone for the first time in 5 years. My last phone was the 4a and the 6a seems worse in many ways. I haven't traded the 4a in yet because I might just move back. Are there any good alternative phones on Project Fi?

I'm on the 5A and no issues. Great phone. Still has a headphone jack.

Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by macintux »

allset_ wrote: post #282
devoutsalsa wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the iPhone, you can always buy two generations back to save a few bucks. I bought an iPhone 11 a couple months ago for $499 plus tax and it’s a perfectly good phone.

When you do that you're also buying into a phone that will stop receiving security updates sooner since iPhones receive updates for ~5 years after they're released.

I'd wager that a 4-year-old iPhone will receive security updates longer than a significant number of brand new Android devices.

Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by wingworks »

qwertox wrote: post #208

There's another thing to keep in mind: Bluetooth. I was biking and noticed a fire so I called the emergency number. I didn't notice that I had my Bluetooth headset connected to the phone, since I was listening to a podcast maybe half an hour earlier during the ride but never use it for talking on the phone. So I didn't even hear the ringing an nothing, I was wondering if something was broken, until I realized that it…

It's pretty frustrating, Google Maps doesn't even show the GPS code for allot of locations, like your GPS blue bubble or places, you have to select an empty space on the map, then it'll tell you the GPS cords of that spot (as well as plus code).

It's pretty frustrating, I've called 911 once, and was way more frustrating then I'd have liked it to be just to get my GPS location. Like you say, no one knows what this plus code is, (personally I do like the plus code, but it's useless if the receiver doesn't know what to do with it)

Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by GOATS- »

DrudgeCorporate wrote: post #97
nickpinkston wrote: post #21

I got a Pixel 6 Pro a few months ago, and it's without question the worst phone I've ever had the displeasure to own. - It crashes constantly. - Bluetooth is even buggier than usual. - Fingerprint unlock is very finicky. - The touchscreen isn't designed/calibrated well and leads to constant fat finger presses. - The hotspot is buggy to connect and randomly drops once it does connect. - The phone is so slick (ie low f…

I apparently have been living in my own bubble. Has the pixel 6 been a bad phone in general? I haven't had a single issue with mine and I bought it day one.

6 Pro here as well. I've generally had a solid experience with some minor quirks - I have had issues with inaccurate GPS/compass needing constant calibration and Chrome freezing up every now and then.

Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by [deleted] »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #287
BrianOnHN wrote: post #98

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Why else are Googlers paid so much? (rhetorical) They need to do their damn job. As a pixel 6 owner, I'm disgusted.

I know it was rhetorical but Googlers aren't pad so much because the quality of the SW coming out of Google matches the pay, but because they work for the number one data scraping and advertising company in the world. Yo can have the best leetcoders in the world, but if QA is not part of the company culture, then ...

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Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by contravariant »

er888kh wrote: post #78
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #27

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So where do we go from here? I have a Samsung Galaxy S9 at the moment, but Samsung's typo-filled changelogs don't exactly inspire confidence. It has also been bugging me to accept the new Samsung Account terms, which I don't want to do. Chinese brands (Huawei, Xiaomi, Motorola, etc.) don't inspire confidence for me either. Apple had the CSAM scanning controversy. I have an iPad, but a bunch of features I didn't want…

Just look for a phone on which you can easily install a stable custom ROM. I previously had a Samsung device and installed Lineage OS and was happy-ish. It was clean and free of bloatware, fast, and had a good battery life. The downside was that it wasn't stable (probably never got an uptime above 48h) and the major updates were too buggy and too late. I recently bought a Xiaomi device. The moment you turn it on you…

Huh I've not experienced much instability with Lineage OS, other than a nasty bug that was fixed in the next update. Certainly not to the point that I couldn't get an uptime >48h. Actually I don't think the phone has crashed at all, maybe an app might have crashed at some point.

Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

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Post by Bud »

buffet_overflow wrote: post #111
corndoge wrote: post #85

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All phones have these problems. Every phone has glaring problems you have to live with or work around.

Across several android and iOS phones (including some of the first android phones in the US market), I have not personally experienced issues anything close to what I’ve read about from the Pixel line. We need to push manufacturers to be better, especially about providing timely and stable OS updates.

People are pushing them. That's why the iPhone passed all Android devices combined in US market share last week. That's the pushing. A lot of longtime Android users have obviously finally gotten tired enough of the quality issues and have fled to iPhone.
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