Really attractive, but i want to know if Google 'sells' your data in the ad-bidding process
Google does sell data......... to itself. Its other products use that data to make money via ads or sales of things to you.
The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
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#12Samsung manufactured SoC again? Yeah, no.
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#13I'm terrified:
> One challenge for the future, and those seven years of updates, will be the 8GB of RAM. Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features, so be prepared for that. It's a budget phone, though, so you have to make some trade-offs.
1) 8GB ram is hardware limited, 2) $499 is a budget phone???
I'm very happy with my recently acquired Moto G Stylus 5G 2023. It's $250 and has 256GB flash (vs 128GB for the 2x as expensive Pixel 8A), has an SD slot so I can put in another 1TB of flash (2TB soon), has a headphone jack (I still prefer wired headphones), actually has decent battery life, and the battery (per ifixit) is not all that hard to replace though I would still much prefer a swappable one.
I don't think of $250 as a budget phone either. More like midrange. The budget version is the G Play 2024 which is $129 or $149 depending on Moto's whims.
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#14Really attractive, but i want to know if Google 'sells' your data in the ad-bidding process
Google doesn't sell your data. Why would they? It's their entire business. They spend so much time and money to collect it, just to hand it over to a competitor?
Google makes money selling access to you/figments of your data.
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#15Marques' review - "Google Pixel 8A Impressions: Just Get The 8!"
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#16I was really hoping they would go back to having a headphone jack on the 'a' series of pixels.
I picked up a 7a pixel and fooled myself into thinking it "can't be that bad". But bluetooth is the worst technology to ever grace our airways, dongles fucking suck, and it's been a constant source of annoyance since I got it.
I guess I'll be picking up something other than a pixel when it comes time to upgrade. But there is an ever shrinking number of options that have both a headphone jack and allow bootloader unlocking/locking...
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#175w wireless charging?!?
That's like 5 years ago. Where is Qi2?
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#18Can it fit in my hand and pockets? Or is it almost the size of iPad mini (8.3 inches)?
Read article: it’s 6.1 inches. Roughly halfway between iPhone SE 1 and iPad mini.
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#19At some point Google needs to think about why these phones exist. Nobody buys them and there is no way their hardware division is turning a profit. After Stadia, I bet this is next.
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#20I'm terrified: > One challenge for the future, and those seven years of updates, will be the 8GB of RAM. Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features, so be prepared for that. It's a budget phone, though, so you have to make some trade-offs. 1) 8GB ram is hardware limited, 2) $499 is a budget phone??? I'm very happy with my recently acquired Moto G Stylus 5G…
$250 would have been a budget phone 5 years ago. If you're buying an unlocked phone from a brick and mortar store, $350-$500 is the minimum for a brand-name phone. If your are based in the US/EU, you may only have brand name phones available.