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At some point Google needs to think about why these phones exist. Nobody buys them and there is no way their hardware division is turning a profit. After Stadia, I bet this is next.
I hope so. We need less phones manufacturing. We already have plenty. And they all are the same.
I'm terrified: > One challenge for the future, and those seven years of updates, will be the 8GB of RAM. Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features, so be prepared for that. It's a budget phone, though, so you have to make some trade-offs. 1) 8GB ram is hardware limited, 2) $499 is a budget phone??? I'm very happy with my recently acquired Moto G Stylus 5G…
$250 would have been a budget phone 5 years ago. If you're buying an unlocked phone from a brick and mortar store, $350-$500 is the minimum for a brand-name phone. If your are based in the US/EU, you may only have brand name phones available.
https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-moto-g-family
You can get them brick and mortar at Best Buy at usually the same prices as on Motorola's site.
I'm terrified: > One challenge for the future, and those seven years of updates, will be the 8GB of RAM. Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features, so be prepared for that. It's a budget phone, though, so you have to make some trade-offs. 1) 8GB ram is hardware limited, 2) $499 is a budget phone??? I'm very happy with my recently acquired Moto G Stylus 5G…
Also factor in how many years of SW updates are you getting on those cheap Motorolas and also the quality of the software.
Hardware bang for the buck ain't everything. If the software is full of ads on those cheap phones or is buggy(like it was on my OnePlus), then your $250 phone ain't worth shit in terms of frustration it's gonna cause you long term.
I was really hoping they would go back to having a headphone jack on the 'a' series of pixels. I picked up a 7a pixel and fooled myself into thinking it "can't be that bad". But bluetooth is the worst technology to ever grace our airways, dongles fucking suck, and it's been a constant source of annoyance since I got it. I guess I'll be picking up something other than a pixel when it comes time to upgrade. But there i…
Can you expand on your issues with it? It has been very reliable for me.
I was really hoping they would go back to having a headphone jack on the 'a' series of pixels. I picked up a 7a pixel and fooled myself into thinking it "can't be that bad". But bluetooth is the worst technology to ever grace our airways, dongles fucking suck, and it's been a constant source of annoyance since I got it. I guess I'll be picking up something other than a pixel when it comes time to upgrade. But there i…
> But bluetooth is the worst technology to ever grace our airways, dongles fucking suck, and it's been a constant source of annoyance since I got it. Can you expand on your issues with it? It has been very reliable for me.
I'm terrified: > One challenge for the future, and those seven years of updates, will be the 8GB of RAM. Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features, so be prepared for that. It's a budget phone, though, so you have to make some trade-offs. 1) 8GB ram is hardware limited, 2) $499 is a budget phone??? I'm very happy with my recently acquired Moto G Stylus 5G…
Have you seen how much an iPhone Pro Max or Galaxy Ultra costs? Also factor in how many years of SW updates are you getting on those cheap Motorolas and also the quality of the software. Hardware bang for the buck ain't everything. If the software is full of ads on those cheap phones or is buggy(like it was on my OnePlus), then your $250 phone ain't worth shit in terms of frustration it's gonna cause you long term.
Cost is no guide on a crud-free experience.
I prefer AOSP, rather than all the shitty overlays, so I went with Pixels and just FML. Complete pieces of shit.
What kind of fucking clowns make a smartphone with a shitty, barely functional fingerprint reader, in this decade?
GL to anyone that uses them, and I sincerely hope YMMV.
I was really hoping they would go back to having a headphone jack on the 'a' series of pixels. I picked up a 7a pixel and fooled myself into thinking it "can't be that bad". But bluetooth is the worst technology to ever grace our airways, dongles fucking suck, and it's been a constant source of annoyance since I got it. I guess I'll be picking up something other than a pixel when it comes time to upgrade. But there i…
> But bluetooth is the worst technology to ever grace our airways, dongles fucking suck, and it's been a constant source of annoyance since I got it. Can you expand on your issues with it? It has been very reliable for me.
It's absolutely insane trying to get exactly the one I want connected to my earphones. Basically, I have to make sure two of them have bluetooth off, so the third one reliably connects. Otherwise, sometimes left earphone will connect to one device, and right to other.
This is a deficiency of the protocol that there is no sane way to do this.
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> But bluetooth is the worst technology to ever grace our airways, dongles fucking suck, and it's been a constant source of annoyance since I got it. Can you expand on your issues with it? It has been very reliable for me.
Managing one pair of headphones that connects to more than one device is a nightmare, everything always auto connects/disconnects when you don't want. Many devices don't have a temporarily disable connection attempts toggle.
At some point Google needs to think about why these phones exist. Nobody buys them and there is no way their hardware division is turning a profit. After Stadia, I bet this is next.
> After Stadia, I bet this is next. I hope so. We need less phones manufacturing. We already have plenty. And they all are the same.