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Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Post by frollogaston »

annzabelle wrote: post #84
frollogaston wrote: post #72

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You could get a bad smartphone. For a while the iPhone 6 Batterygate Edition really made sure I'd only use it for essential stuff, cause even typing on the keyboard was a waiting game.

I tried switching to iphone briefly (lifelong nexus/pixel user) because I hate using iphones. I didn't end up holding out very long and I switched back to android after a couple of weeks, and in the switch back, apple screwed up my texting and I wasn't able to receive texts from iphone users for over a month. Maybe I should go back and do that again. The typing experience on iphone is so poor that it made commenting…

Well it may work, cause at some point Apple permanently messed up how the iPhone keyboard works. I cannot spell anything on the iPhone 12 mini I use every day, but if I pick up my old 5 that's been sitting unused for years, it feels fine.

Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Post by preisschild »

oblio wrote: post #77
toasty228 wrote: post #39

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It's feels like 3d TVs and AR headsets, they're trying to find a new customer base to milk but it just isn't here

> Global foldable smartphone shipments have grown from roughly 2.8 million units in 2020 to an anticipated 20–25 million units in 2026. Foldables will slowly become the standard phones, probably over a decade or so.

I doubt that very much. They will always be a lot more expansive than even large (~6.8") single screen devices. I don't see how folds will ever be easier/cheaper to produce than single screen displays.

Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Post by preisschild »

daoboy wrote: post #12
cpeth wrote: post #7

I'm tempted to get one to replace my very cracked Pixel 9 Pro XL. With all the incentives Google offers for Google Fi customers it's not all that expensive. Comes out to about $1100 after trade-in and includes a free Pixel Watch 5. I'm foldable-curious and Samsung just includes too much overlapping bloat "features". Gemini is bad enough, I don't need Bixby and whatever else. Not to mention I would have to pay full pr…

I'm on my last Samsung for this reason. Just way too much bloatware, need to agree to a new privacy policy once a week, and every time it updates I find a few new apps on my phone I didn't want. Gonna hold out for the Motorola/Graphene phone though. One of the models is supposed to be a flagship foldable.

Unless you really have a large ethical problem with paying for any google product, I'd just recommend to get one of the previous-gen pixel devices. They are a lot cheaper than the Motorola smartphone coming out.

Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Post by frollogaston »

TheDong wrote: post #89
frollogaston wrote: post #71

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Texting is the single most important feature on a phone. Also it's not Apple's fault that MMS was terrible for years and now RCS is still terrible. Google also tried to make their own proprietary chat and failed... like 10 times. But more importantly, I don't care, this is not my battle. I'd use WhatsApp if that's what people did here, not that I like it any better.

Yes it is Apple's fault. The iMessage app does both SMS, and the iMessage protocol. Apple could have released an android app to let you have blue bubbles on android and communicate securely without any of the constraints of SMS by simply releasing "iMessage for Android". Somehow Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, WeChat, LINE, KakaoTalk, etc etc all manage to have both iOS and Android apps that can message each oth…

Sure they could've provided a solution, but they didn't create the problem. And they're not a charity. It's like blaming Nvidia for not giving away CUDA for free/cheap.

Btw everyone knows whether they're using iMessage or SMS, that's the whole bubble color thing.

Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Post by microtonal »

TaLiTr wrote: post #46
microtonal wrote: post #32

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Are you sure it's not some carrier install? (Which are apparently a thing in the US.) I have never seen anything like that on a flagship Samsung, nor our daughter's A series.

At work we bought a used tablet off eBay to replace a customer device where they really wanted an identical (obsolete) model. OMG the amount of extra crap that Verizon branded tablet had pre-installed was agonizing. All system apps so you couldn't get rid of it.

It's worth mentioning that on most Android phones and tablets, you can uninstall apps from the user partition even when they are system apps with adb or a UI for it like UAD-ng.

Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Post by lofaszvanitt »

Work on alternative input mechanisms and display options. This gimmicky, look we can fold the phone is a mess and just plain ridiculous. The manufacturers are on this very strange, bullshitty innovation trajectory, where everyone eyes the other and copies everything in an instant.

I hope Samsung (Royole) does a 180 and introduce something groundbreaking soon, of course, after everyone copied their shit.

Re: Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

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Post by bch »

> Apple is expected to enter the market with a foldable iPhone

Is it time to bring Jony Ive back?? Have some backbone, Apple...

> that, rumor has it, includes all of the above and adds iOS too.

Ok, this snippy comment is for The Verge - what crack reporting got you the scoop that Apple would be releasing an iOS phone?

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