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Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
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Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#192Thanks Google. Think I’ll be buying this. I want as little to do with Google’s services as possible in my life, but they really deserve credits for making a modern usable smartphone that is reasonably open. There is just one single feature I will be buying this for - the 5 years of software updates. While good image processing is definitely a pro, all of these software you’re presenting features I really don’t give a…
> from the only phone vendor outside of Apple who appears to give a damn about that aspect I hope the hardware is solid too. After having 2 Google phones die just outside of warranty to bootlooping, I'm skeptical they'll be able to make them last.
Which phones did you have trouble with? I am still using my pixel 3. I was going to upgrade just for more storage (the camera updates are nice too).
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#193When I first read about the Pixel Pass, I wished it made sense for people on existing family plans. But digging deeper, I see that's the least of the problems there. Some red flags: * If/when you cancel Pixel Pass in the future, it will also cancel your Google One membership. If you're over the 15GB free tier, your email will stop working (!!!)[0]. * You have to cancel your existing YouTube Premium subscription befor…
Their claim of "Save up to $294 over two years" seems to be based on monthly rather than annual prices too. If you get to checkout, they list "Pixel Pass services (Google One 200GB)" as $17.97/mo. Annual prices for Google One and Play Pass are both $29.99. Add in YouTube Premium which doesn't have an annual plan for $11.99, and you're looking at $17/mo.
So the real savings are entirely from the phone + warranty where you'll save about $200 on the Pixel 6 Pro, but you're still forced to buy all those Google services you may or may not need.
I'm also on a family plan (with the grandfathered YouTube pricing), so it doesn't seem to be worth it.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#194Personally, the lack of a headphone jack is a deal-breaker for me.
I was reading the material and went "I might actually get this phone", bit came to the same conclusion you did.
Both me and my wife are looking for new phones. Both of us (despite looking for very different things in our tech stuff) went "oh. Damn".
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#195Hot take: I haven't seen a compelling new phone feature from any manufacturer in as long as I can remember. I spend 99% of my tapping time sending texts, using a browser and taking pictures with the rear camera. Same as I did on my Droid X which was my first smart phone circa 2011.
Not really a hot take. Just an observation about what is compelling to YOU, a singular person with your unique needs.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#196This will get downvoted immediately but what the heck. I understand we need better representation for people of color in many places - but dang Google, not a single white guy on the Pixel 6 page [0]?? Dozens of photos of people, not one white male. Sort of jarring in the reverse if you ask me. [0] https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6?hl=en-US Edit: Because the common reply to mine seems to be "Well now you know h…
It really has gotten incredibly heavy handed. Their entire marketing campaign for this phone seems to primarily focus on social engineering.
Does it bother anyone else that Google is basically saying "How can we use race/gender as a driver for selling phones."
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#197> A pocket-sized personal security guard. My slim fit jeans say “no”. Seriously, how big do people want their phones to be?
As big as fits my belly pouch. I realize I'm the odd one out though...
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
> exact matches Not exact matches. Hashes. Hashes that were quickly show to have collisions that the company brushed off.
They probably brushed them off because a malicious/accidental hash collision would lead to a human reviewing them and then not going to law enforcement.
Or they will, depending on reviewer, photo clarity, current political climate, potentially location and so on. You have no say in this process, nor anybody else on this forum, or elsewhere.
Its not the law enforcement that's the main issue, but various greedy 3-letter agencies who are already well known to have ambition to have profile on every person in this world (not unlike Facebook but for different purposes).
This is not privacy anymore no matter how you bend it, it has been cancelled and Apple realizes this very well. And it still doesn't care. Literally the only serious selling point for many new buyers not invested in ecosystems, blowing it off with a nice double barreled shotgun shot.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#199I'm interested in pixel devices since they are supported by GrapheneOS. Is there any concern of hardware spying by google even if using an alternative secure OS without google services and applications?
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#200The launch of this phone was utterly botched. There's a hilarious dissonance between the talk of SoC design, AI, computational photography and ambient computing and the inability to handle a website with a relatively simple purchase flow for a phone that, let's be real, probably has about 1/10 th of the interest and web traffic of the iPhone. From the moment the store website went live with these phones there were al…
I tried a few times and the store error-ed out and a few mins later, the phones were sold out.