Alot of Pixel anger here. I have a 3 and love it. That is all.
Pixel 3 call quality issues
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#62Pixel 3 is an expensive piece of crap. Call quality sucks, battery life is terrible. And the USB-C will for stretches fail to recognize the provided earphones as an audio device (it reports that it's charging them). There are somehow 2 or 3 different news modes - and I cannot figure out how to get to the one I want. The Google assistant frequently enables accidentally and records me talking. The phone regularly haras…
interesting. I have a pixel 3 and have experienced literally none of your issues and am really enjoying its lack of 3rd party software unlike my old samsung galaxy. In fact, this device has spurred me to fully embrace the google ecosystem
Same here I love my pixel 3, my favorite feature is screencalling. I get a lot of telespam and it's really nice being able to screencalls before picking up my phone. I too had a samsung touchwiz phone, going pure stock android is so much nicer
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#63Calling people is no longer the primary function of a °phone".
If I was forced to choose whether my device only had phone features or everything but phone features, I'd choose the phone features. Voice contact (without requiring that everybody I want to call has and pays attention to a particular voice chat app) is the most important thing to me by leaps and bounds. I realize that not everybody feels the same way, but I worry that it has become such a stark segregation that phon…
Wanting reliable and fully baked features is natural.
I interpret the parent comment not as diminishing the problem, but just reacting to that notion that calling is the main feature.
I genuinely think that ship has sailed since the iPhone, as every single aspect of pure voice calling got worse.
The first iPhone was so bad it was wise to keep it as a secundary device only. It got better with time, but there is still IMO no phone centric feature that is better than a decent dedicated feature phones.
I say that as someone who hates calling, and I’m still annoyed at how it’s half assed.
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#64I've had issues regarding Bluetooth and my car since Android Oreo was released... I switched to the P beta and about the last two weeks before the P release, no issues... P released, issues returned.
Issue was present on Nexus 6P, Pixel 1 XL, Pixel 2 XL ... my next phone may just be an iThingy at this rate, after using Android since the original G1 was released. I can't help but feel that Google's software QC and testing is just much more limited than it should be.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Do you really think every businessperson from every business on the planet is adding each other to each others' Skype lists or Facebook friends? No I think they email each other.
> No I think they email each other. You never thought that some information needs to be received or conveyed in real time for efficiency? I only check my email once an hour, maybe every couple of hours. If people need to get a hold of me instantly, they call… like normal people. Even if I did check my mails more frequently, there's no guarantee that (A) I'm going to bother reading/responding to _every_ mail I receive…
> If people need to get a hold of me instantly, they call… like normal people.
Just as any communication mean phone calls are abused to no end. 95% of the calls I receive are spam, the rest are from VIP registered numbers (family, school etc.).
It’s anecdotal but I see more and more people just filtering all non VIP calls and checking every now and then voice mail or messages.
I’m not sure people heavily relying on phone are still “normal” people.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No I think they email each other. You never thought that some information needs to be received or conveyed in real time for efficiency? I only check my email once an hour, maybe every couple of hours. If people need to get a hold of me instantly, they call… like normal people. Even if I did check my mails more frequently, there's no guarantee that (A) I'm going to bother reading/responding to _every_ mail I receive…
> If people need to get a hold of me instantly, they call… like normal people. Just as any communication mean phone calls are abused to no end. 95% of the calls I receive are spam, the rest are from VIP registered numbers (family, school etc.). It’s anecdotal but I see more and more people just filtering all non VIP calls and checking every now and then voice mail or messages. I’m not sure people heavily relying on p…
> Phone calls are abused to no end
So are emails, but we don't say people have stopped using emails for certain types of communication.
> [...] I see more and more people just filtering all non VIP calls and checking every now and then voice mail or messages. I'm not sure people heavily relying on phone are still "normal" people.
Then I really think you need to look outside your usual circles, especially if there's a lot of technologically-inclined involved, because I'm not sure "normal" people even know what VIP numbers are, let alone know to filter them, nor that filtering is even possible.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
android manufacturers seem to skimp on component quality and testing in general. never have had an android phone last more than 3 years with my heavy usage, meanwhile comparatively heavy usage of an iphone only means you need to replace the battery after 2 years and then it's good as new
Yes my 22 month old 6s is showing 86% battery and when you take the bumper off it looks like the day I bought it. I run my life off it and it gets used for hours a day. I suffered android for a number of years and you're right. Trash. Even the flagships. The worst bit is when they go wrong or have quality problems. My experience of service from Samsung and Motorola is sending it off, losing it for 4 weeks and it comi…
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they haven't, the usb dongle supplied in the box craps out for no discernible reason
they do ship you tons of them though
They ship you one?
My dongle failed within a month. None of my local stores sell the adapters that include a DAC which the Pixel requires, so I've now been stuck with getting it replaced through Google Support on three different occasions. You can imagine how that went?
I've given up on it now. They just do not last. Forked out $60 AUD for a Bluetooth dongle for my Shure SE215s which has served me well. Unfortunately the battery life leaves alot to be desired.
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#70This remembers me of my Blackberry Passport, loved the format, loved the keys, loved the 1:1 screen but I couldn't make calls or be called. One brand new is lying around here somewhere.
Minor correction: In English, we have two different words around remembering: - "remember": This is when you think of a memory all by yourself, like "I remember when I was a child" or "I remember that I have to buy some milk" - "remind": This is when something else makes you think of a memory, like "this lullaby reminds me of when I was a child" or "my phone reminded me that I have to buy milk" In this case you want…
Thanks you're right. And I rather think this is a major mistake, not a minor one.
After reading the comment before posting I would probably have used 'reminds' but when I just write down my thoughts they often come out the wrong way and then I forget to read the comment again before posting (which I always should do!) :-)
So thanks!