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Google Pixel 10 series review

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Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by adithyassekhar »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #31

Disclaimer: opinions are my own. I'm using the Pixel Fold at the moment, and it's the best phone I've used to date. It's something I didn't know I want until I have it. Quick review: - The phone construction feels good on hand and in the pocket. The screen is beautiful. - When folded, functionality-wise it's like previous Pixel (beside looking better with the metal edge). I spent about 75% of my phone time in this mo…

Apart from the call screening feature rest are pretty much standard or even better across all android foldables. I

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by linsomniac »

dudus wrote: post #23
wg0 wrote: post #20

Why in the world I would buy a phone (any not just Google) that costs north of $800 is beyond me unless I want to signal my purchasing power. If utility is my metric and not outward signalling and flex, I find this worst deployment of my funds. So called "budget" phones these days have OLED screens some even come with 120Hz displays (beyond me why someone would want that) and plenty of compute and memory. You want ca…

Pixel phones are rarely full price. Right now you can get it on Google Fi for $450. They run promos around the clock. iPhones OTOH are never discounted.

For existing Fi users, it's $450 off, plus another $200 in store credit for the Pro models (not money off since it's parked in Google Store, but if you're buying accessories or other items over the next year it's like money). Selling my old phone brings the price of a 10 Pro down to around $400 (not counting the $200 store credit).

If you sign up for Fi when buying the phone, the deals are pretty enticing: $300 off right away, $500 more in Fi bill credits over 24 months. I think you also get the $200 store credit too.

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by SirMaster »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #31

Disclaimer: opinions are my own. I'm using the Pixel Fold at the moment, and it's the best phone I've used to date. It's something I didn't know I want until I have it. Quick review: - The phone construction feels good on hand and in the pocket. The screen is beautiful. - When folded, functionality-wise it's like previous Pixel (beside looking better with the metal edge). I spent about 75% of my phone time in this mo…

What’s special about spam screening on Pixel? I don’t get any spam calls or texts on my iPhone.

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by thanhhaimai »

SirMaster wrote: post #53
thanhhaimai wrote: post #31

Disclaimer: opinions are my own. I'm using the Pixel Fold at the moment, and it's the best phone I've used to date. It's something I didn't know I want until I have it. Quick review: - The phone construction feels good on hand and in the pocket. The screen is beautiful. - When folded, functionality-wise it's like previous Pixel (beside looking better with the metal edge). I spent about 75% of my phone time in this mo…

What’s special about spam screening on Pixel? I don’t get any spam calls or texts on my iPhone.

Depending on the information Google knows about the incoming phone call:

- If Google is confident the source is spam (e.g. known spam center). The call is blocked outright. It still has a log that a call from this has been blocked.

- If it only suspects spam, Google will answer the call using AI bot, something like "Hi, I'm Google Assistant on behalf of XYZ, what's the call for?". The phone shows that it's screening a phone call, but doesn't ring. Only after the caller gives the reason, and it passes the spam check, then it rings the phone. You can always pick up the call early if you recognize what they talks about (from the transcript)

- If it's known good source (contact list, doctors,...), then it rings directly.

So far, the rate of spam I got is 0, and it screens about 20 calls a month.

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by microflash »

clumsysmurf wrote: post #16

The thing that annoys me the most about this device, if true, is their handling of the Pixel 10 battery. They keep cutting corners. After my 4a and 6a batteries got nerfed, you would think Google might have learned something. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-battery-hea... I like the swipe at "post truth cameras" and would prefer AI be limited to suggestions, etc, not so baked into the processing pipe…

Yeah, this is one of the reasons I no longer use Pixels. Their battery life is subpar and they get dangerously hot too in summers.

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by dingaling »

theamk wrote: post #32
wg0 wrote: post #20

Why in the world I would buy a phone (any not just Google) that costs north of $800 is beyond me unless I want to signal my purchasing power. If utility is my metric and not outward signalling and flex, I find this worst deployment of my funds. So called "budget" phones these days have OLED screens some even come with 120Hz displays (beyond me why someone would want that) and plenty of compute and memory. You want ca…

What if I want: (1) a camera with zoom and night shot capability comparable to my 2010 Sony Cybershot camera. (2) An internet terminal with enough CPU/RAM to browse modern websites. (3) A music player with a space for 150-300 GB of MP3's and nice-ish UI (4) Online and offline map (5) wireless charging (because I keep destroying charging ports in my devices) (6) all of this should fit in my pocket. I've spent >5 years…

Regardless of how 'good' a phone camera sensor might be on a spec list, it's looking through a massively aspherical plastic lens that's about 5mm thick and admits a magnitude less light than your Sony camera for any given scene.

I think the best comment on the subject was here in HN years ago; although they're both called cameras, they're really different media. One is like charcoal sketching and the other is like oil painting.

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by gljiva »

jotux wrote: post #10
dtagames wrote: post #3

My older Pixel got the UI updates and I hate them. The look is inelegant, even childish, and like Apple they've decided to hide things under extra button presses. The insistence on adding AI just makes startup slower. I have not had a single use for AI on my phone ever, though I'm a big fan of it for software dev.

I've used nova launcher on my pixel phones for maybe 6 years now. I specifically switched to it because I didn't like UI updates that moved things around -- I like to customize my UI and have it stay there after an update.

Don't you have problems with the app drawer not being scrollable until the launcher's restart? The app is sadly no longer maintained

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by maxhille »

jsheard wrote: post #9
dtagames wrote: post #3

My older Pixel got the UI updates and I hate them. The look is inelegant, even childish, and like Apple they've decided to hide things under extra button presses. The insistence on adding AI just makes startup slower. I have not had a single use for AI on my phone ever, though I'm a big fan of it for software dev.

The AI tax is crazy, Pixels now reserve 3.5GB of RAM to keep Googles local models permanently loaded regardless of how much you use them, or whether you use them at all. The base Pixel 10 has 12GB of RAM so that's nearly a third set aside for something you may never use! Last year they had the relative sense to only enable that "feature" on the higher end SKUs with 16GB of RAM, while the lower end SKUs with 12GB woul…

Thanks for the reminder. I just disabled AICore and freed 2GB in my Pixel 9 Pro.

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by hecturchi »

The main use of Pixel phones is that you can put GrapheneOS on them and regain full ownership of your hardware in a completely painless way. Plus adding a huge device security bonus on top.

You can have a profile completely de-googled and another one with Google Services for apps that need compatibility but remains off most of the time. You can uninstall Google too.

Owning your devices is a superpower that 99.9% of people don't have, but you can have it. The irony is that it's thanks to Google devices. Let's see how long it lasts.

Re: Google Pixel 10 series review

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

hecturchi wrote: post #59

The main use of Pixel phones is that you can put GrapheneOS on them and regain full ownership of your hardware in a completely painless way. Plus adding a huge device security bonus on top. You can have a profile completely de-googled and another one with Google Services for apps that need compatibility but remains off most of the time. You can uninstall Google too. Owning your devices is a superpower that 99.9% of p…

Oh interesting! I didn't know you could have most of the phone ungoogled but still keep compatibility for the things that absolutely need it.

Gonna have to have a play with it now on my old Pixel.

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