I still can't justify spending more than about $500 on a phone when the perfectly good Pixel 8a is available.
I'm still using my Pixel 6a and will probably continue until it fails or the battery life gets really bad.
Google Pixel 9 Pro
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#682I'm surprised that no media outlet is seriously talking about its on-device inference capability, which is the biggest next thing for LLM. Apple did a better job on its PR here, but they didn't also get all the attention that it deserves. On-device inference improves not just its latency, this also removes a huge chunk of LLM's economical constraints from software companies. The biggest advantage of software is its m…
People are getting pretty tired of AI. Just about every tech company is shilling "AI", without actually selling anything which is useful for most consumers. On the other hand, just about everyone is being drowned in AI-generated garbage. To a lot of people, "on-device inference capability" is identical to "FlarzBuz engine to power Garbage Generation". Also, I'd disagree with it going to change the economics behind it…
Easy, they just disable it if you don’t pay. Pretty sure automotive companies are going to make breaks a paid upgrade next.
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#683Google really needs to improve the core offering of what a phone is supposed to provide instead of using half baked AI as a selling point. I have been using Pixel 7 for almost the past 2 years. But the amount of basic core issues are crazy. Recently,since the July update, every place where the phone cannot catch network signal, it shutdowns. And with the update, somehow i feel it cannot catch network signal as strong…
My 2 year old Pixel 7 is working great, I've experienced none of these problems. That's frustrating.
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#684Google really needs to improve the core offering of what a phone is supposed to provide instead of using half baked AI as a selling point. I have been using Pixel 7 for almost the past 2 years. But the amount of basic core issues are crazy. Recently,since the July update, every place where the phone cannot catch network signal, it shutdowns. And with the update, somehow i feel it cannot catch network signal as strong…
Meanwhile, I'm getting pushed away from iOS when I can't customise basic things and the Phone app (you know, the main use of a phone) takes 30s to open, even after restores.
As much as I want to agree with you, saying the main purpose of a smartphone is to make calls is like saying the main purpose of amazon is to sell books. Only in the beginning was it so
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#685I'm kind of sad that the world seems to have given up on the smaller phones. The marketing of the masculine hand holding the larger phone is amusing to me, and I can understand wanting to have a larger screen. I do not like the amount of space these things take in my pocket, though.
At this point it's probably irreversible. Even if someone will release small phone, apps developers will ignore it and their apps will not be very usable on those phones.
I guess only Apple can pull that, but they're not interested either. Their latest "Mini" model is still huge.
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#686I'm kind of sad that the world seems to have given up on the smaller phones. The marketing of the masculine hand holding the larger phone is amusing to me, and I can understand wanting to have a larger screen. I do not like the amount of space these things take in my pocket, though.
I'm still rocking my pixel 4a for this reason
I know that eventually I'll need to replace the 4a (security) but every time I look at phones I just can't find anything that I would actually want to use instead, and I also resent price increases that remove features I use (headphone jack).
Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro
#687I'm surprised that no media outlet is seriously talking about its on-device inference capability, which is the biggest next thing for LLM. Apple did a better job on its PR here, but they didn't also get all the attention that it deserves. On-device inference improves not just its latency, this also removes a huge chunk of LLM's economical constraints from software companies. The biggest advantage of software is its m…
People are getting pretty tired of AI. Just about every tech company is shilling "AI", without actually selling anything which is useful for most consumers. On the other hand, just about everyone is being drowned in AI-generated garbage. To a lot of people, "on-device inference capability" is identical to "FlarzBuz engine to power Garbage Generation". Also, I'd disagree with it going to change the economics behind it…
Also promising AI isn’t a new thing for Google.
They’ve over promised and under delivered on AI for years, and that is now their reputation.
Going back and watching the Google Duplex demo versus what shipped and what it is today - that was 2018 and it still doesn’t perform as demonstrated.
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#688I'm an iPhone guy, but - there _are_ other designs for phones, right? The squircle corners, the shiny metal band surrounding the matte back, the aqua-pill-shaped buttons, the colors - Google is a $2T company, there's gotta be an industrial designer somewhere in the building or some process for phone design that doesn't take place in Cupertino, right?
Its super frustrating how the entire industry follows Apple; incapable of original thought. The Pixel 8 had somewhat rounded edges, which is fantastic for a comfortable grip. Apple killed rounded corners and converted to the squared-off design with the iPhone 12; and everyone has followed suit since. Galaxy phones used to have curved edge displays; now they're squared off, because Apple. Samsung's watches are general…
Their original idea is the folding phone.
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#689Still no dedicated fingerprint scanner, as it was in Pixel 4a :(
And it was awesome! Super-fast, tactile feeling, right under the finger, doesn't blind you at night. Cannot understand why they removed it, cost-cutting?
Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro
#690Pixel 9 also says satellite emergency support ("Satellite SOS"). Search for info gets you to https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/15254448?hl=en&... It looks like it's coming "later this year". Lots of chatter about it, see a few details at https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-9-satellite-sos-34676... * apparently coming with android 15, but they are shipping android 14 * turning on satellite sos later, but…
What's going to be more interesting is what hardware is added for this, and what it can be made to do other than this service that's obviously part of Google Play Services. Can it be made useful in some way on AOSP?