One of the big issues that I have with Pixel phones is the large file size for the videos. Even a 5 minute video runs into 300MB-400MB file. I disabled HDR, reduced resolution but nothing helps. Has anyone else seen this issue and found a way to reduce the video file size?
Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
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Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#502Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure you're being fair here. There's roughly 2 dozen photos of people on the page, 2 of which appear to be white-ish men. One whole section of six photos is explicitly there to demonstrate that their cameras now work as well for people who aren't white. Itself an issue of underrepresentation. Several others appear to be white-ish women. You say "I'm not sure why it's ok to vastly prefer one group for representati…
There are no fair skinned men on the page. Weird for something marketed mostly towards fair skinned people. Not so weird once you realise it has an agenda behind it. The truth is, they're forcing an extremist view on diversity in spite of the facts. They're allowed to do that. We're allowed to point out the hypocrisy.
What's the agenda?
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#503Switched to iPhone last year and can't believe how bad iOS is generally. Feels years behind. Missing Android!
That's how Android felt for me. Too many knobs, and a lack of good apps. I'll take Apple's integration over what amounts to nothing any day of the week.
How can you live without Android's back button/gesture behavior?
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#504I’ve been using Google Phones since they first launched Nexus. My last Google phone was Pixel 4a but boy is the battery life on these phones bad. Moved to iPhone 13 and I’m really happy that I did. The battery lasts one full day. I’m exploring new features everyday that show Apple has put in a lot of thought into designing the hardware and software. I don’t think I’m going to use a Google phone anytime in future.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#505Thanks Google. Think I’ll be buying this. I want as little to do with Google’s services as possible in my life, but they really deserve credits for making a modern usable smartphone that is reasonably open. There is just one single feature I will be buying this for - the 5 years of software updates. While good image processing is definitely a pro, all of these software you’re presenting features I really don’t give a…
One doesn't have to dream. Flashing a rom on google-branded phones is so simple, a non-tech person can follow a 5min youtube video to do it. The Nexus 6 from 2014 can have the latest android running on it - not just security updates. And unlike an iphone, it has a build that disables some eyecandy that keeps it actually usable and fast. As I understand it if you run the last supported ios on an iphone 5s, with all th…
Just adding my vote for the pixel 2 with custom Roms and OS. A breeze, efficient, and light.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#506Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not sure if it’s people don’t care or don’t have much of an option, especially if they lock into an ecosystem. There’s just a lot more choice on Android devices and the various trade offs.
But they have options. The mini, SE, old smaller phones.
There are options, but they’re much more limited. As a bit of anecdata my wife was coming from a pretty old phone. She views it as getting something more cutting edge so she can keep this one as long as her last one and didn’t think that starting with older hardware would get her there. That view limits the options to only a few.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
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Maybe the point is that's on the server, not on the device.
On the device means it's going to the server in Apple's case. The option is only enabled when you have the iCloud Photos feature enabled, which means the photos it's scanning are photos that are on their way to the cloud. If you turn the iCloud Photos feature off, no more scanning is happening. This seems pretty simple to me.
> If you turn the iCloud Photos feature off, no more scanning is happening.
Yet.
A few years later, [Insert gov agency here] will force Apple to scan all photos and compare hashes to material banned by the government.
This ability to scan photos on the device simply should not exist. If they only want to scan photos being uploaded, just scan them on the server itself. It really isn't that hard.
Apple has turned a steel barrier that's capability focused, into a policy barrier that can be changed by influencing people. That's simply much more insecure and much less privacy focused.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#508Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The long tail of Android features that exist only on Samsung devices would probably surprise you. We have different tastes in phones, which is okay. I wouldn't really normally respond to this, but I think this quote highlights _why_ our tastes differ. "Having more features" is not a selling point to me, it's probably the opposite. I want a simple OS with a strong set of core features, with a small selection of apps…
We might not have different tastes just different ways of achieving them. My phone is setup to be very minimalist and Samsung has a lot of features to make that possible. One small example, I've removed all the Android indicator icons on top of the screen that are always on/same for me (alarm, network, volume state, battery, NFC, Bluetooth, etc). Admittedly I love features but I don't feel like having more features n…
I used to believe Samsung's additions were all bloat. After using one, I know prefer the customizations, the additional side gestures, and edge panels. Dex is nice and I have Linux installed so I can use the phone like a computer when I connect it to my usbc huh. It's extended the functionality massively and blown me away. However Google's software is better IMHO regarding updates.
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#509That camera band - sand bar, whatever the hell it is - is one of the most atrocious smartphone designs I've ever seen. Extraordinarly stupid on the part of the designers. Phone designs should be pursuing a flush camera segment design, not an approach of how obnoxiously can we make that part of the phone stick out from the rest.
You don't use phone cases, I take it?
Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
#510Tensor SOC seems pretty impressive on paper, will be curious about how it benchmarks and performs in real-life. The Pixel 5 with its "mid-tier" SOC (Snapdragon 765G) was actually pretty good thanks to the software optimizations. Bigger news is Qualcomm being left out. Will they go the way of Intel by incentivizing their customers build their own SOCs?
I've been playing around with the edge TPU on a coral.ai board. It's very impressive - I'm able to do real time object detection at tens of frames per second vs one frame every 15 or so seconds on my CPU.
BTW, this sounded surprising to me, so I went to check it out. According to YOLOv4 GitHub, i7-7700 can only do 4 FPS of detection. For comparison, tuned version on Jetson Xavier (NVidia dev board) does 40FPS.