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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..
The bumps in one corner of the phone are the worst.
But realistically, even those don't matter because protective cases are effectively a standard part of any modern phone.
Fuchsia/Zircon is going to be optimised to run on Google Tensor chips most likely this decade.
I'll probably end up linking this comment in a few years.
The raised camera band is bound to be a controversial design choice.
I don't know why Android OEMs keep thinking they can get away with controversial design choices and high prices as if they were Apple. (not sarcastic :P)
It was like every phone was "controversial". I miss those design days.
And what's with all the flat design, we need skeumorphism and warmth back in industrial and UI design.
I prefer the soap bar design which seems to have been forgotten. And no more glass backs please. I don't get the appeal of glass, they shatter so easily, finger print magnets and just add unnecessary weight.
Does anyone knows about the state of the futuristic AI features from Google? I recall a presentation about AI phone assistant that was ordering something on the phone and it was indistinguishable from a human, handling edge cases flawlessly. Are people using AI assistants to make them book places or order things on the phone?
I have yet to get the AI assistant to book anything for me. The only related function I do use is the call screening piece, but that's hardly AI...
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…
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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.