Where did the “{our, the} most {adj} yet” marketing thing come from? I remember apple using it for a long time. Did everyone just decide to copy it? It sounds so lame to see it during every tech product announcement.
Google Pixel 9 Pro
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
All camera bulges are a poor design. Just make the battery thicker. Either way people are throwing a case on to make the back straight again.
I think the bulges are because everyone’s using a case anyway, so they may as well bump out. Unless someone’s doing the “I care so little about protecting several hundred dollars that I use an expensive phone without a case” thing.
I've never used a case and never will. It's not that hard to not drop your phone, and unless you get a heavy duty case (like an OtterBox) they aren't adding much protection anyways. It's not worth the added expense, ugly look, and crappy plastic texture.
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#113Very telling that the first two pictures are of the camera lenses. Is that where most of the $999 price tag is going?
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#114It's so weird to me that an advertising company would sell a phone. It feels so dystopian.
Did you also feel this way when Amazon and Facebook/Meta were making (or close to making) phones?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
All camera bulges are a poor design. Just make the battery thicker. Either way people are throwing a case on to make the back straight again.
> Just make the battery thicker These devices are already rather heavy. I wish there were more options for people who don’t care that much about the camera in their smartphone. I remember the non-bump camera in the 7.6 mm thin 2016 iPhone SE was perfectly fine for many situations, I took some impressive vacation photos with it.
> I wish there were more options for people who don’t care that much about the camera in their smartphone.
Just get a cheap phone? If you're paying $500+ for a phone, I'd estimate most of that money is going into the camera. Judging by the marketing, anyway.
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#116Most people, from a person on welfare to all celebrities and almost all CEO’s, including Elon Musk, use iPhones. The Pixel and Android in general is simply not cool like the iPhone. Google has been making their own phones for over 10 years now and they’ve barely made a dent. What’s Google’s goal here?
maybe use it to have a controlled product in the market to test Android?
I had one Google Pixel 8 and couldn't regret more. It broke (my mistake) so I'm already free of it.
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#117Remember when Google used to do live benchmarks showing it beat the iPhone (and even the iPad). Those were the days. Now Tensor is bottom of the pack for high-end phones.
Remember when average people cared about benchmarks? Because I don't.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
All camera bulges are a poor design. Just make the battery thicker. Either way people are throwing a case on to make the back straight again.
> Just make the battery thicker These devices are already rather heavy. I wish there were more options for people who don’t care that much about the camera in their smartphone. I remember the non-bump camera in the 7.6 mm thin 2016 iPhone SE was perfectly fine for many situations, I took some impressive vacation photos with it.
There's a whole market of 250-400$ Android phones that are targeting exactly that. Every brand makes phones in the cheap with average camera segment.
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#119I’m still bitter about my last Pixel with the stuttering display (no real-time thread for the graphics), the settings all over the place (I counted 4 different addresses for my home, and 1 was deeply hidden in their assistant), and the debug strings in UPPER_SNAKE_CASE in the Google apps, which is unacceptable for a device that is sold to everyone.
My Pixel 5 is an amazing device, but it's slowly falling apart, software-wise. Bugs bugs and more bugs! It's also no longer getting software updates, and its successors have a laundry list of issues. The alternative is Samsung, the company that doesn't understand privacy nor consent, or Apple, whose phones lack uBlock support.
AdGuard has worked well enough on Safari on iOS for years now.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have heard this for years. Not much you can do with a rectangle that's basically just a screen in front. It's more about the software than anything. Maybe the camera too
I submit the HTC 10 as an example of a smartphone that did not look like an iPhone but had its own sleek design language: https://dev.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/s9wsHkNaq6sKCSAzKvfZKo.jpg
That's kind of ugly though, IMO. I'd rather have a solid back.