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Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by ThatPlayer »

coldpie wrote: post #265
OtherShrezzing wrote: post #250

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I do t think I’ve ever met anyone who doesn’t use a phone case, all of which fix #1

I've never used a phone case. I don't understand why they make these things so small and then everyone just slaps on an extra couple mm. What's the point? If we're making them bigger anyway, at least use that space for more battery. Anyway, the wobble is real, and sucks.

Similar, but I did use a phone case once because it came with the phone and included a pretty big feature. The LG V60 with dual screen case.

It made the phone entirely way too thick. But it was still thinner than the 2 phones I was carrying around previously.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by rchaud »

madduci wrote: post #58
the__alchemist wrote: post #2

Looks like they're still only available in "Huge" and "comically oversized". I guess I can keep buying Pixel 4s until new ones (req for battery) are no longer available.

Me crying for a newer Nexus 4, the best device in terms of quality/price ever made by Google

That phone had the worst camera I've ever used. I loved having it because it was XDA custom ROM-friendly, but good lord, that camera....

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by benatkin »

hajile wrote: post #502
mg wrote: post #94

The people at Google seem to think much more like me than the people at Apple. There are 3 primary decisions Google made that click with me, while Apple's choices are a mystery to me: 1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable. Because the backside is symmetrical. When I put an iPhone on a table, it wobbles. 2: When I sort my photos on a Pixel, I sort them in folders. The "camera" folder is where the unso…

File System Access API has some serious issues. To quote Mozilla's position on the topic > There's a subset of this API we're quite enthusiastic about (in particular providing a read/write API for files and directories as alternative storage endpoint), but it is wrapped together with aspects for which we do not think meaningful end user consent is possible to obtain (in particular cross-site access to the end user's…

It sounds like this would prevent users from backing up their own data, which is hard with localStorage and sessionStorage, and instead having to rely on the site owner.

However this doesn't go into any detail, so maybe they have some convenient way of being able to access these files in mind, but we'll never know. It reminds me of another shallow dismissal by Mozilla: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36294 https://webreflection.medium.com/mdn-doesnt-trust-you-should...

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by brookst »

abraxas wrote: post #499
mg wrote: post #94

The people at Google seem to think much more like me than the people at Apple. There are 3 primary decisions Google made that click with me, while Apple's choices are a mystery to me: 1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable. Because the backside is symmetrical. When I put an iPhone on a table, it wobbles. 2: When I sort my photos on a Pixel, I sort them in folders. The "camera" folder is where the unso…

Wobble or no wobble, I really want the camera tumours to disappear. Make the phones thicker or make the cameras more slender. Don't make these ugly protrusions. Those phones are 2cm thick anyway you're not fooling anyone with "thinness" when they still have those massive hunchbacks.

Optics say you’re not getting thinner cameras. Otherwise they’d do that, and all those foot-long lenses you see at sports events would just be phones.

Given thickness constraints at the lens,‘I don’t see any reason to make the rest of the phone that thick. Why? Extra battery and nearly double the weight of the phone? Empty space? Cord storage?

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by rchaud »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #83
bityard wrote: post #55

> Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL are all available for preorder today starting at $799, $999 and $1199. Sigh, still not going to pay more for a phone than I paid for my computer. Also, what is up with that camera module? This doesn't look like it can physically slide into jeans pockets. At least round the corners or add little ramps. I guess this is what happens when design folk are allowed to trump engin…

> This doesn't look like it can physically slide into jeans pockets. I'm interested to hear more about this, because it's always interesting to understand how other people interact with things who have different use cases or usage models. How tight are your jeans, and how do you fit anything else in your pocket if something ~1in thick doesn't fit comfortably (without having to force the pocket open in a way that woul…

I don't wear tight jeans and I've come to loathe having to put my phone in my pants pocket. If you're walking around a lot, the feeling is just annoying, you can feel it pressing on your leg the whole time. When I sit down, the bunching feeling is even worse, so I immediately put the phone on the table.

This wasn't an issue when phones had 4.7"-5"-inch screens. Nowadays the phone goes into the cargo pocket if I'm wearing shorts, or back pocket if I'm walking.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by Grazester »

taco_emoji wrote: post #270
hattar wrote: post #125

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I use an iphone and have for many years. I was a phone geek who would always use custom ROMs and have everything dialed in just so. I'm sure this has changed over the years but back in the day it seemed like there was always some weird issue with my Android phone. Admittedly, a lot of that could have been my fault for constantly messing with the device. Eventually I got busy and just needed my phone to do the simple…

Pixel has had face unlock since at least Pixel 7

Only the pixel 4 had face unlock that used IR hardware instead of camera nonsense that isn't as secure or reliable.

Edit. It seems like pixel 7 and up includes something that's more secure

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by Spivak »

gdbsjjdn wrote: post #321
ge96 wrote: post #145

That fake zoom with AI is gross ugh If I'm taking a picture of something I want it to be real light-to-pixel action not some made up wambo-jambo

It's giving "Samsung fake moon". If generative AI is going to make up details why bother zooming in, you could just ask to make up a whole AI slop picture.

This does seem to actually, ya know, do the upscaling though instead of clumsily faking it. Like yeah it's AI with AI failure modes but upscaling models are quite good and have less 'weird artistic' liberties than imagegen models.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by rchaud »

nuancebydefault wrote: post #421
ndriscoll wrote: post #206

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Also Google stuff always lacks SD card slots and have tiny storage. The $250 Motorola can add a $50 1 TB SD Card, which is enough to fit your entire music collection, all of wikipedia, and an offline ad-free routable map of the world from OSM, and still have probably like 700 GB left over for photos/videos. Google meanwhile charges $100 for a 128 GB storage upgrade. Probably because they want to funnel you into their…

How reliable is an SD card that size?

They're no less reliable than 128GB cards. The bottleneck is likely going to be whether the phone's filesystem can actually index 1TB worth of files without crashing. No such problems on a real computer.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by no_wizard »

hollandheese wrote: post #350
no_wizard wrote: post #284

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As a consumer, I lament most of all about Pixel devices (or any other Android device really) that I have to wipe the OS and install a different one to get features that matter to me, particularly around privacy. Thats why I don't use Pixel devices, or any Android devices really. I know its a precarious situation with Apple since they could reverse their stance at any point and sometimes they get it wrong, but they ha…

>I miss WebOS when it was strictly under Palm. It could have really been something. Why they didn't embrace multitouch screens I haven't a clue, it was the one thing that baffled me. Huh? WebOS was Palm embracing multitouch screens.

They didn’t embrace virtual keyboards if I recall correctly

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

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Post by fariszr »

Unfortunately these new phones don't fix the main issue with the Pixel: the hardware.

The performance is just unacceptable, it's already 50%+ slower than a snapdragon 8 elite flagship released in the same year.

This affects everything, pixels just don't last nor have great battery life for this reason.And the big issue is they aren't even much cheaper anymore.

I like GrapheneOS, but my pixel just randomly stopped working after being laggy and having the worst battery life on cellular (less than 2h SOT with a 5000mah battery)

It's hard justifying buying another pixel after such a horrible experience, were it not for GrapheneOS I would never consider buying a pixel in the first place.

Heck even the camera isn't that good anymore, most photos are just gray, and the hardware is also very lacking.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-image-processi...

I found Mrwhosetheboss overview really good, he explains how the pixel just comes short in every way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRegbipwCsc

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