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Hot take: Samsung is the only firm that can produce these displays. They know most smartphone manufacturers just copy what they bring out. They know that folding displays are a pointless fad that offer consumers nothing. But it doesn't matter: if they bring out a foldable smartphone, all the other firms will do the same and throw Samsung a huge display production contract. Samsung wins either way. (To be clear I'm jo…
What's the value of the tensor processor? What applications really make use of it?
"Translating speech [...] uses 20% less power." https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/googles-tensor-g2-chip-is-k...
Amazing!
These foldables are a great demonstration of why the screen diagonal is an unintuitive metric. This device has a 5.8” screen when folded, and a 7.6” screen when open. Looking at those numbers, it doesn’t sound like a very big difference. Yet anyone can see that the 7.6” screen is twice as big as the 5.8” one! The diagonal only made sense for TVs because the aspect ratio was fixed at 4:3 (and later 16:9). It shouldn’t…
Agreed, phone screen size should be specified in square centimeters!
Example usage: “Did you know the first iPhone’s screen was only nine stevethumbs? So tiny!”
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Some people are debt adverse. I would not even be bothered to go through the financing hassle for the few tens of $ of interest that would yield.
If you have the money upfront and invest it in something safe, then it's not "debt" in any way that matters. As far as effort, if it's a high-yield savings account you should be getting one of those anyway, and then the phone-specific effort is a single transfer or doing nothing at all. And the financing itself is probably negligible.
If we were talking a car I would've agreed with you but I'd rather pay upfront for such smaller sums and get on with it.
Why is Google still making Pixel devices? They have made them since 2016 and spent billions of R&D and ads and it has only reached like 1-2% market share in the US.
When Google cancels a product people complain. When Google doesn't cancel a product, people still complain.
No they don't. This is not a common sentiment and it's not even a complaint. It's just mocking their market share. And "no new model" is on a different level from actual product cancellation to begin with.
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No sign of battery issues is huge, I'm still rocking my 3 year old Pixel 3a and recently replaced the battery, it was a night and day difference. General slowness/lack of responsiveness, half day battery life. Been like that with all my other smart phones since 2013. Would love my next phone to go on year 4 with no sign of battery degradation (although in lieu of that I'll take an easy to replace battery).
> night and day difference > slowness / lack of responsiveness Are you saying that replacing the battery improved your phone's responsiveness? I knew there was a throttling thing with iPhones but hadn't heard of anything outside of that.
Ladies and gentlemen, phones with foldable screens are the new "3D TVs". Good news is within 5 years it will be over. To compensate enormous electronic waste we will pay more for air travel.
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> Google has a history of dropping support for the devices they sell quickly They do? Aren't Pixels some of the longest-supported phones, security update wise? Their IoT and software services might be another story.
> Aren't Pixels some of the longest-supported phones, security update wise? Apple's $399 original iPhone SE from 2016 got six years of OS updates and received another security update last month. Google's original Pixel Phone, also from 2016, stopped getting support at the end of 2019.
The claim was that Google is one of the top few.
Everyone knows #1 is Apple. A citation for Apple beating Google isn't needed and doesn't help figure out whether Google is one of the top few.
I just don't understand who wants these foldable phones, especially at the $1799 price point. I guess a use case is wealthy frequent travelers who don't want a separate device with a larger screen to watch movies/videos on the go? Someone help me out here.
Turns out... Plenty. Just like foldables. Samsung has been doubling shipments every year.
That's an ambitious price point. Who are they targeting with this?
The most expensive iPhone is $1699, which is a 14 pro max with a whopping 1 TB of storage. With 128gb it’s only $1099. I agree, seems pretty aggressive.