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Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

DCKing wrote: post #728
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #644

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> Finally here’s a seemingly good Android phone with 5 years of support - from the only phone vendor outside of Apple who appears to give a damn about that aspect. FairPhone 4 not only promises 5 years of android software updates but also has 5 years of warranty , There are more reasons to trust their words than any of the other phone manufacturers. • They are not profit focused but rather towards sustainability, The…

I love Fairphone’s promise, but execution is another thing. Fair warning here is that I’ve seen the experience with a Fairphone 3 up close, and it wasn’t up to my standards in terms of camera and software bugs (caller ID has not worked for months), let alone the barebones hardware they ship. I hope they get there, but the Fairphone 3 certainly wasn’t it for me. What I don’t understand about Fairphone is how they will…

Google had announced that all phones shipping with Android 11 with snapdragon chipset will be eligible for up to 4 Android OS versions (launch release + 3 OS updates) and 4 years of security updates as the result of project treble and getting Qualcomm on line.

Which is more or less is inline with 5 years software support guarantee of FP.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by jasonvorhe »

otar wrote: post #623

I don’t trust Google Pixel anymore. I leave outside US and in my country Google has no official dealer. I bought an unlocked Pixel 3 via my friend in US, who shipped it to me. At first, everything seemed good unless it started to lag in few months. First, battery percentage was stuck at 26% (but the phone was charging), then, received phone calls were having a very bad quality (calls via messengers were good). So, in…

I was in a similar situation with my first Pixelbook that I imported from UK because it wasn't available in Germany. Shipping it to a Google certified repair store was quite expensive, but at least I didn't have to pay for a new Chromebook.

I don't know, importing something and then complaining about a lack of service doesn't feel right to me. I knew it'd be a gamble when I imported the Pixelbook and since it got replaced, I haven't had any issues since 2018.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by throwaway09223 »

lostmsu wrote: post #510
throwaway09223 wrote: post #88

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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. https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet https://github.com/indra4837/yolov4_trt_ros

Yes, that sounds about right.

I was using YOLOv3 on a i7-1065G7 (laptop) which probably explains the 4 FPS vs 0.25 FPS difference on CPU performance.

I put the project down for a while because I got busy. I really should revive it.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by jasonvorhe »

darth_avocado wrote: post #48

Another garbage phone to show off. Google Pixel has been highly unreliable. My OG pixel XL bricked twice within 2 years. My Pixel 3 had defects that forced me to take calls on speaker phone otherwise the mic wouldn't work after the warranty expired. Meanwhile, my wife is still rocking the iPhone 7 with some degradation in battery life, but pretty much everything else working as it should. I don't regret jumping into…

Your experience isn't always representative - and mine isn't either, of course. I've been buying Nexus devices since the Galaxy Nexus and I owned every Pixel device so far and the only genuinely bad experiences where the following:

- Nexus 7 from 2012 became slow as hell due to storage issues after a year. It worked fine after I RMAd it.

- Pixel 2 XL had a terrible display on the first charge. I got it replaced and the new one was way better.

- Pixel 4 XL got replaced once because the phone got quite hot while charging. The replacement has been working well.

I know a lot of people who definitely had more issues with their Samsung and Apple devices.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by criddell »

Nemi wrote: post #438
criddell wrote: post #143

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I'm about to switch in the other direction because there are iOS-only apps that I want to run. Plus, because of higher resale value, iOS devices cost less. I already have an iPad which is probably my favorite device to use. I might end up taking another look at Android when Google finally releases their Shortcuts clone.

I recently did this, as a long android-only user. I purchased an ipad pro when the M1 came out to replace my windows laptop for content consumption and love it. I thought now was maybe time to switch to an iphone from my pixel 4xl. Long story short, I returned my iphone 13 pro. I found that, for me, the way I use the ipad and the way I use my phone are completely different. On the ipad I use it almost exclusively to…

I use voice dictation quite a bit and I haven't really noticed a difference between Siri and Google Assistant with respect to accuracy. I'm not generally in noisy environments though.

I'm very much a software-first person. I bought the iPad to run GoodNotes. It's the only good note taking device I've ever owned. Since then I found Procreate and use it all the time as well. It's an amazing program.

My phone is used mostly for voice calls, text messages, maps, and listening to podcasts. I want to run Things and Overcast on my phone and that's my primary motivation for moving to iOS.

As far as notification go, I generally disable them. I want to know when I get a text message and that's about it.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by krzyk »

hocuspocus wrote: post #682
krzyk wrote: post #653

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And do you need $200 Bose headphones? Do you think it will be easy to sell them? Better get $200 off of the phone price then get freebies.

It's super easy to resell them, it took me a couple days last year even though they were the QC35 II (which were heavily discounted right and left around Black Friday). It'll be only easier this year with the 700. Sure, it'd be much easier for everyone to get a $200 discount but that just hasn't happened at all after preorders.

> Sure, it'd be much easier for everyone to get a $200 discount but that just hasn't happened at all after preorders.

Yes it did: https://www.engadget.com/2018-11-15-google-pixel-3-black-fri...

That's the reason I prefer to wait.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by GeekyBear »

8note wrote: post #500
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Apple does not scan on device photos at all. It's something they announced they might do to images you upload to iCloud Photos some day in the future. Google, on the other hand, has been scanning the entire contents of your account for the past decade. >a man [was] arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect’s Gmail account. https://tech…

I dont think you can verify that. Apple claims to not scan your pictures, but that's unrelated to whether they scan your pictures

In the same way that you cannot verify that Google does not sell your data to third party data brokers.

You either believe their corporate communications on the subject or you do not.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by krzyk »

ir123 wrote: post #303
krzyk wrote: post #248

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Why do you think white people are over represented in tech (you forgot about Asians, which are there also)? Because they are interested in it. Just like some like math, others like sports. Why e.g. women are the majority of teachers (at least in my country)? They like to teach, are good with children. That's natural and you won't change that with ads that reverse the ethnic proportions in given country.

Are you insinuating that certain races are "naturally" more inclined to be interested in math and tech?

Not races. Race is artificial construct to group certain visual characteristics.

But if your parents are good at math, chances are high that you will also. Genetics play huge role here, for some learning e.g. math is harder than for others.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by optymizer »

kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #547
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I've only ever had Nexus and Pixel phones, and I've purchased most of the releases, starting with the original T-Mobile G1, which, along with the 6P, will have a special place in my heart. I finally switched to Samsung S20 last year, and my wife to OnePlus 8T. They were more expensive, but we got better hardware and noticeably better battery life. On the software side, the Samsung S20 is not only bloated, but buggy.…

> I was pleasantly surprised with the OnePlus. Little bloat, compared to Samsung, hardware is very solid, didn't notice any glaring software issues, no weird stuff. I'm not sure how open it is to flashing another ROM, but to me it feels like a higher end Nexus phone. OnePlus is one of the two (the other being Google) manufacturers with absolutely stellar custom ROM support IMHO (if there are others I'm missing, I'd l…

For what it's worth, in all the Google phones I've had, the hardware worked after 2 years, but the software became unusably slow and laggy - particularly Google Maps.

Re: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

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Post by easton »

ehsankia wrote: post #481
easton wrote: post #470

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I don't know if it's worth changing phones over, but Overcast is a really nice podcast player (smart speed works very, very well). Apollo is nice for reddit.

I think some of that might be what you're used to. There are plenty of quality podcast apps on Android, such as PocketCasts. Same for reddit app, there are dozens. Maybe not as flashy but I've been using rif for almost 10 years now and it has been very solid.

RIF is really good, I miss it. I've used Pocket Casts on iOS and it's not as good as Overcast, but people on Android seem to like it. Maybe it's a bad port?
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