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Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by davesque »

haunter wrote: post #63

>We aren’t in your country yet. New year, same shit again. I wonder who are the target of these phones really are? Never seen anyone using a Pixel out in the wild Feels like a pet project of Google to me. Like "we make Android so we better make some phones too otherwise people don't take us seriously" idk

> Never seen anyone using a Pixel out in the wild

Maybe you just haven't met anyone with one or even noticed people who do own them. I've owned almost every pixel phone. In my opinion, they're some of the best Android phones available with great cameras and less crapware pre-installed.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by progbits »

decebalus1 wrote: post #25

Who writes the copy for these things? Are they outsourcing these, adapting to the audience or am I part of the dumbed down flight? 'The best', 'our most powerful', 'The most advanced', 'Most hardware security', 'most light ever', 'most fluent', 'most layers of hardware'. Seriously? EDIT: This felt familiar, apparently I noticed something similar in the previous launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641965

This is just how product announcements look these days. I want to say this was popularized by Apple but I don't have a source on that.

If you doubt that, here are some quotes from Apple's new product pages from yesterday: 'most powerful', 'scary fast', 'scary faster', 'best display ever', 'super fluid'

Not to mention the product names: 'pro' vs 'max', 'liquid retina', ...

Yet I don't see people complain about those.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by davesque »

lsjvjn wrote: post #6

The raised camera band is bound to be a controversial design choice.

The thing I think sucks about this design decision is that I always like to have a phone case with a card sleeve on the back. Seems like the camera band makes such cases inconvenient or maybe even impossible to design.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by progbits »

behnamoh wrote: post #17

As much as I love Android, the way Google introduces pixels is just sad, esp. when you think about the time and effort that Apple put into their event.

I agree, but think of it this way: Apple needs their devices to sell in order to not go broke. Google doesn't - Pixels sales are a blip on the accounting sheet.

They do indirectly increase value of the Android ecosystem by providing new features and benchmark for other manufacturers to copy, but it is not essential.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by zamadatix »

zamadatix wrote: post #7
buro9 wrote: post #3

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…

Certainly a contrast to using the Apple Store yesterday during the M1 Pro/Max device launches. Was amazed that was able to stay up and responsive, 100% expect error screens during launches like this - though not normally from companies who have done so many launches. Edit 1: Store back up now but still getting order errors... Edit 2: An hour after launch, back to having store page errors...

Edit 3: Lmao now it says the phone is out of stock. Glad someone was able to order it I guess.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by bitdivision »

buro9 wrote: post #3

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…

I just managed to get through all the errors and successfully ordered

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by distances »

nsriv wrote: post #109
Bhilai wrote: post #98

> 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.

All the weak biometrics are disabled in banking apps etc, so you'll still need the fingerprint (or just the PIN code).

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by vidoc »

For what it's worth, I had this thing in my basket since 10-ish pacific, during all this time, i was stuck at the order checkout 'comfirm purchase' step.

In google fashion, it'd fail in very diverse ways: 1) mostly 'OR_PCVH_01' "unexpected error occured". 2) sometimes a troika of codes with the label "your purchase has expired". This would be ~5% of the time. 3) sometimes no error at all, just a blank page.

I was rather afraid to attempt going back to 'store.google.com' to checkout my cart again and find the items sold out, but I courageously overcame my fears and decided to stand up for myself. Consumer me went ahead, created a new tab, clicked the basket and pressed 'checkout'. And after the one or two 'OR_PCVH_01' and some blank page, boom, it went through.

Long story short, i suspect that error message 2 is misleading in what it means. It doesn't mean 'try to click this comfirm purchase' button later, it means try to "checkout your cart again".

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by kaba0 »

behnamoh wrote: post #83
lm28469 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coming from google PR machine it's obviously being strongly ideological. They're so full of their twisted vision of diversity that it turns into some kind of anti logic, as you noticed it's becoming the literal opposite of diversity

That's what I thought too. They're clearly over compensating for their history of algorithmic bias against blacks. And this attitude about diversity is unfortunately ruining universities and companies. I don't give a flying rat about people's color, as long as they don't use it as a tool to make others believe they're being treated differetnly.

Have you seen the video, where they were talking about like 20 minutes on how it specifically improves on taking pictures of darker skin tones?
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