God, what an ugly device.
Don't all phones look extremely similar today?
Maybe I'm old but no two phones today seem as different as e.g. Nokia 8800 was from Motorola Razr
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#62If you own a pixel phone remember to do regular emergency call tests. They have a bug that has stuck around for generations but for some reason they get a pass. https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1ano09x/pixel_... https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1jzo5hu/pixel_...
> regular emergency call tests This sounds like a huge waste of time for the dispatch operators if everyone starts to do such tests regularly. On a similar note, it would be great (especially for these tests) if carriers provided a non-emergency / echo number that gets treated the same way as an emergency call (works w/o SIM card, gets preferential treatment, ...)
When phones are no longer considered reliable to make emergency calls in certain places, what alternative is there?
Sure it sucks for the operator to get a call, "Sorry, just testing to make sure emergency calling works, thanks, bye" and it would also suck, probably even more, for an individual to not be able to make an emergency call. Squeaky wheel gets the grease, hopefully someone improves the system, lol.
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#63You can't install any of the AI models on the Pixel 9 if you have the bootloader unlocked. Wouldn't be surprised that Gemini Nano or Pro Res Zoom didn't work, either.
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#64That camera bump is huge. I guess that's how you get the great zoom? Phone cases are doing heavy lifting to smooth out the back of this phone.
Too bad it can't be smoothed out (with more battery or something) to start with.
That bump is more than 1/4 of the phone's total thickness. This is becoming comical.
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#65> Tensor G5 and the latest version of Gemini Nano work together to run Magic Cue privately and securely on your phone. Running Gemini Nano on device is the most interesting thing here. Magic Cue sounds exactly like the Siri improvements that Apple failed to launch this past year (and have stayed mostly quiet about for this coming year, except saying "eventually"). I hope it works well, because on-device AI for simple…
The Nano model is 3.2B parameters at 4bit quantization. This is quite small compared to what you get from hosted chatbots, and even compared to open-weights models runnable on desktops.
It's cool to have something like this available locally anyway, but don't expect it to have reasoning capabilities. At this size it's going to be naive and prone to hallucinations. It's going to be more like a natural language regex and a word association game.
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#66Why do we need brand new models every year?
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#67Google is being deceptive with their zoom demo. They zoom from 100x to 0.5x and present 0.5x as "what it actually looks like." They're making 100x zoom appear twice as impressive by using ultra-wide (0.5x) as fake 'normal' vision.
I'm pretty sure that was just an accident, if you pinch all the ways out it goes seamlessly to the wide angle lens.
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#68I'm not an Android user, so pardon me if this is a stupid thing to say, but it's weird to me that these phones apparently have some new UI unique to them. I thought Android was just Android. Won't other Android phones get this update?
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#69I really wish they'd upgrade the Pro Fold to have the Pro camera system. :(
I don't know why they assume that someone buying a $2000 phone doesn't want the best available camera.
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#70Why do we need brand new models every year?
People are on different phone cycles. Even if most people update once every 5 years, it only takes 5 distinct groups to warrant a yearly new phone.