Why is Google still making Pixel devices? They have made them since 2016 and spent billions of R&D and ads and it has only reached like 1-2% market share in the US.
GrapheneOS users aren't complaining. :)
Google Pixel Fold
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> or $74.96/month with 24-month financing I couldn't imagine financing a phone
All the deals where the device is free/cheap with a wireless subscription of at least 12 or 24 months are effectively all financing arrangements.
While I can imagine purchasing one of those in the sense that I know they exist, I'm pretty much with the GP in that I can't imagine myself actually choosing to do so. I think this is partly because new phones are just crazy expensive these days, so I pretty much always buy a year-old model second hand. But also because I don't like being locked into such a contract (although to be fair, that last part is somewhat of a privilege in that I am able to afford to buy the phone up front)
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#43From 1899 euros in Europe. Certainly, I don't really know who feels comfortable using a 2K euros device while walking down the street every single day. I would be so worried about it being lost, getting scratch or what not. Besides, it looks huge.
I doubt they will offer the same kind of discount Samsung did with the Fold 4. There's no way I would have bought the Fold 4 for its MSRP, but they gave me $1000 discount with a trade-in of my old Galaxy S9+, so I got the Fold4 for essentially about $800.
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#44I just don't understand who wants these foldable phones, especially at the $1799 price point. I guess a use case is wealthy frequent travelers who don't want a separate device with a larger screen to watch movies/videos on the go? Someone help me out here.
I'm posting this from my Galaxy Z Fold 3. I'm not particularly wealthy or a frequent traveler. I bought this phone used for 750 bucks in Canada and my main use case for the screen real-estate is reading manga on it, which it excels at. It also then serves as a phone and a media in bed machine. It is fragile and I take good care of it but it is absolutely the most innovative and exciting phone I've had the pleasure of using so far. I'm excited for the future of foldables and hope the next generation of the pixel fold will bring more serious competition to Samsung's lineup!
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#45From 1899 euros in Europe. Certainly, I don't really know who feels comfortable using a 2K euros device while walking down the street every single day. I would be so worried about it being lost, getting scratch or what not. Besides, it looks huge.
That's how I already feel about $/£/€ 1000 phones.
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#46From 1899 euros in Europe. Certainly, I don't really know who feels comfortable using a 2K euros device while walking down the street every single day. I would be so worried about it being lost, getting scratch or what not. Besides, it looks huge.
Anyone remember the amount of memes the first over $1k iPhone generated? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
After that Samsung, and now Google, have released multiple almost $2k devices to complete silence.
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#47Looks good and for foldable with guaranteed 5y support and clean system the price is ok-ish. But I'll pass, not available on my market.
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#48The Live Translate video shows 'aqui' instead of 'aquí'. I don't know if that's an error the software actually makes, or if the person who composited the text into the video had the wrong spelling.
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#49Given that folding phones have a history of being fragile and Google has a history of dropping support for the devices they sell quickly, do they really expect a $1800 device to sell at a time when flagships that sell for half that much are not moving like they did a couple of years ago?
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#50I love my Z Fold 3 form factor a lot more than I thought I would. The one thing I've missed is the pure Google/Android software experience without the Samsung bloat from my old Pixel phone. This is very tempting, but given it's their first attempt and the steep price, I'll probably wait for the Fold 2 to improve on any growing pains.
> without the Samsung bloat
That's one way of spinning it. Personally I'd rather have all the Pixel users beta test Android, so I can get the bug fixed version from Samsung.