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Too expensive for my tastes. Give me 380USD phone which lasts for next 5-8 years, feels premium, is repairable, camera is decent, replaceable battery, OS is just Vanilla Android with atleast 5 years(more years of Software updates would be welcome) of Software Updates and when you can't provide it, make it hackable enough to install Custom ROMs.
Price increase. 875€ in Europe. The Pixel 5 was 630€. Do you really get 40% more phone?
"Change your region and language" No, Google. Fix your shit. You're a global 1.70 trillion dollar company, not a local microbrewery.
If you try to click the direct link again, it will redirect you to "Change your region and language".
That's beyond broken.
"Change your region and language" No, Google. Fix your shit. You're a global 1.70 trillion dollar company, not a local microbrewery.
I'm really glad to see both the partnership with iFixit and the 7 years of support. Because everything else seems mostly meh to me, and while I'm upgrading this year from a Pixel 6 Pro, the continued diminished returns make it seem likely that 2-3 years from now I won't have as much reason to.
As in, this one is debuting the new Samsung GN2 cam sensor and I think the SoC manufacturing process node, ahead of whenever Samsung and the others post their new updated devices. So for a few months this is probably the one to get, until a competitor drops the next set of updates from the HW supply chain, and so on.
Three years of updates and iFixit are great and could be differentiating for now, but hopefully the rest of the ecosystem will catch up to that standard.
"Change your region and language" No, Google. Fix your shit. You're a global 1.70 trillion dollar company, not a local microbrewery.
Even after you change your region and language, it will drop you to the front page. If you try to click the direct link again, it will redirect you to "Change your region and language". That's beyond broken.
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...but my Android runs Firefox with uBlock Origin. I forget that cookie banners exist until I use my iPad. It also runs two background apps pretty reliably: a GPS logger and Syncthing. It respects my default web browser and music player choices.
Quality is subjective. For my specific needs, I prefer Android. If those things were solved I would have an iPhone.