> Fingerprint Unlock with under-display fingerprint sensor, Pattern, PIN, password Wait, no face unlock? Thats a dealbreaker.
I find face unlock amazing. The only situation that sucks is with the mask.
Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
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#122They bumped support to 5 years, interesting. Short support duration is a common complaint from Android users.
In the fine print (footnote #28) it says 3 years of feature updates.
https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB
[EDIT] On https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705 it says, "Guaranteed Android version updates until at least: October 2024" and "Guaranteed security updates until at least: October 2026" for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
#123What’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…
Is Android scanning for suspicious photos on my phone to upload them for scrutiny by some underpaid contractor? That's a big differentiator, for me.
Google photos backups i on by default and scans server side (Admittedly better than doing it client side)
Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
#124On the off chance anyone else is wondering, there are plans for grapheneOS support, but they will likely wait for the first quarterly major update to Android 12: https://mobile.twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/144408179476937...
Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Good luck, I am at the same spot and I doubt I am going to be able to get it to go through. The page on my phone is actually freezing up totally and the store won't load at all on my PC.
Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
#126> Fingerprint Unlock with under-display fingerprint sensor, Pattern, PIN, password Wait, no face unlock? Thats a dealbreaker.
I'm curious why, what does face unlock do for you that fingerprint doesn't? If I'm unlocking my phone, I have my hands on my phone, so using my fingerprint isn't a hassle. Plus with COVID and needing to wear masks, I can still unlock my phone easily without needing to pull down my mask.
I got sweaty hands and that doesn't work with TouchID. FaceID has been great, well at least until COVID. I'd really prefer both.
Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
#127Love 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 th…
Yeah... plus, I don't know why, but the guy in the video immediately made my skin crawl, which continued throughout the whole video to the point where it was hard to pay attention to anything but how viscerally my body wanted to reject anything this guy said.
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#128does anyone know why 12 out of 13 photos on this website show only black people? Is Google tailoring to a specific segment of the market?
They're emphasizing how inclusive the camera is, was one of the segments on the video. Historically some smartphone cameras have done poorly with brightness / saturation of darker skin tones I believe.
Not just smartphone cameras. This issue goes back to the days of film. Color film was historically designed to capture white skin tones while darker skin tones were compressed in to "brown/black."
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#129Not a fan of the design of the Pixel or iPhone. They both have these cold, sterile design that doesn't look like it was designed to be used and held by a human hand. It was designed to be looked at or for curated display in an Apple Store. And what's with all the flat design, we need skeumorphism and warmth back in industrial and UI design. I prefer the soap bar design which seems to have been forgotten. And no more…
> shatter so easily, finger print magnets and just add unnecessary weight. Only weight is valid statement. Matte glass on iPhone is unbreakable.
As someone famous on YouTube says -
"Glass is glass. And glass breaks"
Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
#130> 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.
Where are you getting this from? I have a Pixel 5. It doesn't have face unlock. Only the 4 did!