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Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by vidoc » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

foobarian wrote: post #10

vidoc wrote: post #2

I'm getting a 500 from the get go on store.google.com what a joke!

Don't worry, the autoscaler will kick in any minute now.

I'm now making progress: Error code: R013

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by mdoms » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

Could they have made this presentation any more dull?

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by justicezyx » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

nicoburns wrote: post #13

Wow. The marketing team for this have been taking very detailed notes on Apples presentation style. Products aside, this is almost identical to Apple's launch yesterday.

Good move though.

When I was at Google the cloud unit, there is always a vibe that "we are the best" without much substantiated from the products and etc.

At least they realize that something better is done for the phone department. Although I guess it's so much more obvious than cloud.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by nostrademons » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

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…

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?

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by decebalus1 » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

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

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by ezequiel-garzon » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

Shadonototra wrote: post #5

Beautiful phone, but the bump in the back... sorry i just can't Who started this camera bump movement the past decade? it's very ugly... and not practical at all..

I don't like the trend either. My understanding is that camera lenses are just thicker than the phones. The phones could in turn be thicker and provide more battery life (to some extent Apple did that with the iPhone 13), but I guess "the market" just wants thin devices... and powerful cameras.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by Workaccount2 » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #24

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…

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)

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by Traster » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

Shadonototra wrote: post #5

Beautiful phone, but the bump in the back... sorry i just can't Who started this camera bump movement the past decade? it's very ugly... and not practical at all..

Well aside from the fact it serves to give you space for a better camera (I've heard Apple are working on some periscope style thing that'll negate the need for this) what Google are doing is smarter than Apple because by having it across the whole back you don't end up with the device being wobbly on a flat table.

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by neogodless » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:26 PM UTC

Tensor has a 20-core GPU.

Are cores the main thing to count? So that's better than an M1 Pro with a measly 16-cores?

/s

Re: Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]

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Post by mdoms » Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:26 PM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #19

Shadonototra wrote: post #5

Beautiful phone, but the bump in the back... sorry i just can't Who started this camera bump movement the past decade? it's very ugly... and not practical at all..

On the contrary it's very practical, fits larger cameras and prevents the back of the phone from sliding flat against sharp grains scraping the back and camera glass. It's ugly and annoying though but it's not there just for fun.

It protects the plastic back of the phone from scratching by putting the expensive fragile camera lenses right there.