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Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not seeing that anymore. I'm a Google employee but accessing it from a personal device that I've never logged into corp from. Maybe it got fixed?

Checkout is still giving an error (R013)

Finally got to "Place order" but then "An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later. [OR_PCVH_01] OR_PCVH_01" sigh

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Love the back design of the phone, symmetry is always good. Finally one can put their on the table and tap on it without making a noise to hell and beyond.

But this presentation, with the potato chips 1 hour long ad... and i can see that more effort went for the video than the engineering effort of the phone with that amazing selection of genders, skin color and ethnicity, not to mention the sexual orientations of the actors. And that not taking into consideration the order in which to present them - imagine the wars that were waged in the planning room.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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I was looking around to buy a new phone, and the Pixel 5a seemed very nice. The design is clean, the screen may be big but the battery is bigger, and it works with Graphene OS! I just want a boring phone that will work. But they decided to sell it only in the US and Japan. Apparently one of the reasons for this decision was to not distract away from the Pixel 6. Now the only option I have left is to maybe buy a Pixel 4a from last year, if want a normal looking phone.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

#114

What’s the differentiation against an iPhone? Presumably both phones are fast and take great photos and have an app ecosystem. But the iPhone is likely faster, probably has longer battery, and will last longer as a phone - I know people using Apple phones several generations old and still getting security updates. Apple also offers better privacy and their built in services like Maps are really good now. If I were Go…

You can install an open source OS on it.

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> Fingerprint Unlock with under-display fingerprint sensor, Pattern, PIN, password Wait, no face unlock? Thats a dealbreaker.

Face Unlock has been an available feature on every Pixel for a while and is present in the latest Android 12 Beta, it's just not depth-sensing because it lacks the hardware that the Pixel 4 and iPhone use, just uses front-facing camera instead and warns you about using it.

Ah thanks for the note.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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What’s the differentiation against an iPhone? Presumably both phones are fast and take great photos and have an app ecosystem. But the iPhone is likely faster, probably has longer battery, and will last longer as a phone - I know people using Apple phones several generations old and still getting security updates. Apple also offers better privacy and their built in services like Maps are really good now. If I were Go…

You can install uBlock Origin in Firefox, Project Fi, the most secure carrier, supports network switching, and you can install custom APKs (e.g. NewPipe). Also you avoid the iMessage attack surface (granted, you can disable iMessage but it will confuse the heck out of your social circle: "what, I thought you had an iPhone...").

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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The store was down, but these are the links: Overview: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB Buy: https://store.google.com/config/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB Weirdly I kept seeing an internal MOMA login page asking for an @google.com login. So clearly something is broken (I do not work at Google). Edit: Past all of those problems... error R013 when trying to check out. Edit: Oh well... I missed out. Sold out…

Had black Pixel 6 Pro 512GB unlocked in my cart for the past 50 minutes. Spent that time constantly trying to check out but received Error code R013. Now, I just got a message that my cart is EMPTY and it's sold out. Edit: Product available every 10th refresh or so, but hangs on "trade in" screen. Bypassing trade-in and I now receive Error R008 when trying to check out. Edit: Trade-in appears to be working again, but…

I'm now seemingly at the very end of the order process, clicking the 'confirm purchase' button, the wheel turns, then nothing. Sometimes i have a popup with an obscure error code, sometimes not. It feels like doing a bitcoin transaction :P

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Lmao fuck this shit. I HAD a 256GB model in my cart for like an hour but checkout would lead to R013. THEN they decided they're going to wipe everyone's car and now every one except the 128GB black model is sold out. Cool so I add that one to my cart and even when I get past a new error, R008, the final "confirm purchase" button is spitting out an error. Goddamn scalping scum.
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