Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone • Hacker News Board

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by ChrisClark » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

bobajeff wrote: post #137

davidw wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Nexus 4 from several years back keeps getting timely updates. And still works pretty well.

My Nexus 6 from only a couple of years back however doesn't have Nougat and doesn't look like it's going to. It still work great though.

No, the Nexus 4 and 5 don't get Nougat either. What he meant would be the 4 is still getting the monthly security updates. And typically you'll still always get the new Google stuff like Assistant and all, since they've decoupled most of what they can from the OS.

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by Fricken » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

anilgulecha wrote: post #6

The camera on pixel is the killer. The low-light photos + the image stabilization is amazing.

They worked pretty hard to whoop Apple in the camera department. The HDR looks great, 4k video, unlimited online full-res storage through Google photos, it's the quickest camera ever, and yeah, I can't wait to play around with image stabilized video- I've been waiting to see that in a camera for a long time, it addresses a huge problem.

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by IshKebab » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

Touche wrote: post #138

Preorder is available: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_phone

Minimum £600 is quite insane. I think they will drop the price rather quickly.

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by pmcollins » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:38 PM UTC

Anything to put more competitive pressure on Apple to release a VR implementation is good IMO.

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by Eridrus » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:38 PM UTC

randomsofr wrote: post #134

HugoDaniel wrote: post #105

Now that the nexus is gone what alternatives exist for developer friendly phones ?

Oneplus

How are they with the monthly security updates?

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by tarancato » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #153

Touche wrote: post #138

Preorder is available: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_phone

Minimum £600 is quite insane. I think they will drop the price rather quickly.

No, they won't.

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by ghshephard » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

Fej wrote: post #95

What is the draw here? I have been running my Nexus 5 into the ground (soldered on a new power button when the original broke) in anticipation of the next Nexus phone. Pixel is no Nexus. Seriously, what does this have that the year-old Nexus 6P and 5X don't, other than incremental hardware improvements? And a massive price hike? Why should I buy this? (Seriously, Google? You want $650 for a phone with a 1080p screen?…

Nice (best in class) camera is one of the highlight features.

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by MBCook » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

guelo wrote: post #89

gstn wrote: post #82

Whether it's a nice phone or not, I'm not tempted. I left Android due to an inability to get o/s updates. Android depends on the cell carrier (Bell Canada, in my case) for o/s updates, a model that doesn't work well, in my opinion. With Apple the o/s is always up to date.

Not true for this phone.

Do you have a source for that? It doesn't have a track record (for obvious reasons).

Has Google promised the carriers don't get to interfere this time?

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by sly010 » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

mikestew wrote: post #13

And yet not a single hard detail in the article as to why the headline might be true. For going on ten years we've seen the "iPhone killers" come and go, and this article does nothing to tell me why this time it will be different. Perhaps because it won't be. Of what very few details the article outlines, they just go on about nifty hardware. Have we not learned by now that cool hardware still sucks when hamstrung by…

You probably haven't used a Google branded Android phone in the last 3-4 years.

Project Fi + Nexus 5X + Stock Android is as good as it gets in integration and UX. The other day I lost my phone so I typed "where is my phone" into google. It showed me immediately. How many passwords do you have to type and licences to accept to do that on your Apple cloud?

I agree the article doesn't explain it very well, but the bottom line is google is now controlling hardware, software, network and full online life (search, gmail, google play, calendar, map, etc) and they have the capacity to integrate it all. I recognize people are happy with their iPhones and they won't switch because of switching cost or fashion, but Google is creating some word class product here nonetheless.

Re: Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

mikestew wrote: post #13

And yet not a single hard detail in the article as to why the headline might be true. For going on ten years we've seen the "iPhone killers" come and go, and this article does nothing to tell me why this time it will be different. Perhaps because it won't be. Of what very few details the article outlines, they just go on about nifty hardware. Have we not learned by now that cool hardware still sucks when hamstrung by…

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