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We're hackers, let's get fucking excited about the new cool gadgets! This phone is awesome.
How about, before nitpicking and criticizing, we take a moment to appreciate and celebrate the new technology developed by our colleagues?
All sounds good on paper (or video) but £599 entry price?! Now that is courage .
Also, US buyers get a free Daydream VR headset (worth £69) if they pre-order, whereas UK buyers don't. Very annoying especially since a 128GB Pixel XL costs £819!
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> what does this have that the year-old Nexus 6P and 5X don't, other than incremental hardware improvements? As someone who owns a 5X: - The Pixel is a premium 5" phone, not a budget one. It has a flagship SoC rather than a mid-tier SoC. - The camera is better and more responsive (the camera on the N5X is slow and annoying). - The body isn't plastic, which means there will be less issues with heat and CPU throttling…
As always the most compelling thing about the phone is Google's support - fast releases and minimal carrier bloat. You have a nice list of positives and I'm not disputing them. But the feature list for what is now Googles top phone is underwhelming. 4 GB of RAM is barely adequate - it should be 6 GB like the other Snapdragon 821 flagship. No water proofing? That's the new black. Bottom-facing speakers? Complete regre…
Why does it need OIS if its EIS produces a stabilized image better than anyone else's image stabilization?
The feature is image stabilization - whether or not it's done optically or electronically is irrelevant, all that matters is how good the end product is. And DXO's review claims that the image stabilization in Pixel is superb.
https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-revi...
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I switched from a Z3 Compact to an iPhone SE and the 4" screen is great.
I was starting to think i was the last person alive that wanted this. Please keep making noise. I really hope the next lineup has a 4".
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> Very minimal and aesthetically beautiful, but still powerful and customizable. None of which is helpful when the battery is dead. The iPhone still wins on battery life. Maybe the new gen Androids will fix that. I hope so. Edit: I added some data for battery tests in a comment below. Looks like my Android experience is out of date.
3G call time (minutes):[1] HTC10: 1859 LG G5: 1579 S7: 1492 iPhone 7: 712 The results would be closer on pretty much any other test, but it's hard to do an apples to apples comparison on anything other than talk time. Most review sites still find that this generation of Android flagships have longer web browsing times than the iPhone 7. 1: https://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/smartphones/iphone-7-fi...
The interesting part will be for how long will the Phone + Software be supported. Now that the price is the same I think it's fair the support should be the same as the iPhone.
From: https://blog.google/products/pixel/introducing-pixel-our-new... > Pixel comes in two sizes, 5” or 5.5”, and three colors: Very Silver, Quite Black and our limited edition for the U.S. only, Really Blue. What's your problem Google? You keep being the only big company still pulling this "U.S. only" stuff.
Is this a US politics thing? Blue = Democrats?
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?…
Are you serious? Did you know that the larger iPhone 6S Plus and 7 Plus are 1920x1080? Or that the iPhone 7 is 1334 x 750? And you're complaining that Google's 5 inch phone is only 1920x1080 and have the nerve to question what they're doing? Ridiculous, indeed.