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Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by nogridbag »

saberience wrote: post #887
collin128 wrote: post #820

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree with you re: think for yourselves. Two things: 1. He's held / seen the phone live, I buy online so won't get a chance to before I decide. 2. He's also held hundreds (thousands?) of phones which I haven't. While he does have preferences that differ from mine, his perspective is still interesting. >what qualifies them? 19.3m subscribers on yt

Joe Rogan has a lot more subscribers and listeners than this guy, does it mean I should listen to his opinions? Valuing someone by reach makes no sense at all. Most professors at MIT have no social media reach at all, I still value their opinions extremely highly. In fact, valuing someone's opinion purely based on the size of their megaphone is partly why we're the world is in such a bad state politically (and in oth…

I think this is a fair take. The parent comment shouldn't have added subscriber count as one the qualifications. But for MKBHD's qualification, simply use point number 2.

Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by A_Venom_Roll »

iron-s wrote: post #861
A_Venom_Roll wrote: post #836

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An example I can think of is when you're listening to a podcast or music that has been recorded on low volume. Without a volume mixer you're forced to increase the general volume, resulting in overly 'loud' sound notifications from other apps.

Media volume and notification volume have their own sliders

Unfortunately this doesn't work for notifications such as 'lap times' from the Garmin app. This is also considered media by the phone.

Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by mzmzmzm »

bugbuddy wrote: post #842
msh wrote: post #798

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GenAi is seen by some people as a very negative thing.

Maybe people resent losing their jobs to machines?

Or people resent the major privacy issues, inconsistent UX, and deprioritization of what they see as needed features, all to add a few hugely hyped but minimally useful AI features.

Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by fsflover »

shiroiushi wrote: post #819
Lammy wrote: post #795

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> any other ideas? Call it disappointment I guess. No phone from any manufacturer has felt totally “right” to me in years in the way that phones from a decade ago did. It makes sense from a business perspective since smartphones were effectively complete way back then. The business needs a way to justify selling me a new one so it's been a long slow downhill of shit-I-don't-care-about ever since. I especially miss th…

Yeah, exactly. Phones aren't going in a positive direction at all. What I want is a phone with excellent battery life, a great OLED screen, a great camera, plenty of local storage (and expandable with a microSD card), durable/rugged, and fast enough to feel snappy and not laggy. I don't want AI bullshit, stupid features that tie me to cloud services and help advertisers build profiles of me, can't-delete bloatware, s…

The snappiness (yet) and camera are not great, but Librem 5 might be relevant here. Headphone jack, ability to run anything without tracking (FLOSS GNU/Linux by default), microSD, smart card. If you install SXMo, it will be snappy, too.

Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by standardUser »

Xeamek wrote: post #825
standardUser wrote: post #718

At this point I just want a phone that takes unbelievably amazing photos and videos under all lighting conditions and a phone that can zoom WAY the fuck out when I'm taking selfies. I don't even pretend to know what else I'm paying for at this point. I just scan reviews until it feels like I've found a phone that will reward my $1000 (or so) with a significantly better camera. Too soon to say if these Pixels will lor…

>samsungs bloatware How is it any different then google's bloatware?

I'm more accustomed to Google's software. And I don't recall ever having to follow elaborate tutorials to uninstall/stop notifications for shit I don't want, like I do with every Samsung phone.

Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by mdaniel »

LegitShady wrote: post #564
xnx wrote: post #170

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Google Fi also has a very annoying rule where you can't sign up when you're out of the country. Found that on while on vacation.

I think its a pretty reasonable anti fraud policy.

Fraud? One needs a Google account to use FI so they for sure know who you are to any degree necessary

Also, defrauding ... what, exactly? If it's a US phone number, there are a bazillion ways to get an SMS enabled US phone number that is either anonymous or pseudoanonymous due to people not wanting to get sexting or pig butchering spam when Yet Another Breach leaks every marketing db in the world

Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by mdaniel »

coldpie wrote: post #164
999900000999 wrote: post #44

I have never been less excited for a phone. Maybe it's the One Plus 12 I'm holding, but this is a hard pass by me. All I want is a flagship chip, Esim support and a headphone jack. But since earbuds are almost all profit we won't see jacks coming back.

> and a headphone jack Just use a USB-C adapter. No, it's not as good as if it was built in. Yes, it's good enough. Yes, they make charge+headphone adapters.

I dunno about your carry situation, but when I first lost access to the headphone jack on a Pixel I tried that USB-C stunt and the phone's edge came right to the top of my pocket causing the adapter to fulcrum back and forth, sometimes dislodging the plug and 100% worrying me that it's going to break my USB-C port

Hard. Pass.

Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by mdaniel »

deepsun wrote: post #689

Still no dedicated fingerprint scanner, as it was in Pixel 4a :( And it was awesome! Super-fast, tactile feeling, right under the finger, doesn't blind you at night. Cannot understand why they removed it, cost-cutting?

I also detest that screen based reader with all my heart, but as a point of observation if you have your phone in a car holder it masks access to the physical fingerprint reader, making a situation where your phone locks while on the road some nonsense to unlock it. I'm aware of the plethora of "keep phone unlocked" settings, but my life experience has been that Google's gonna Google about when it wants "extra sekurity!1" even with all the "smart unlock" toggles on

I'm not saying that's a good reason to make the other 99.9% of my life terrible pushing on the glass like I'm trying to suffocate it, but I did notice the one tiny UX improvement with the front reader

Re: Google Pixel 9 Pro

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Post by nightski »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #181
nightski wrote: post #103

It's so weird to me that an advertising company would sell a phone. It feels so dystopian.

You should be happy. If Google didn't produce Android*, we would only have a single phone operating system and thus only a single provider of phones. *And why produce Android without also producing a showcase phone?

I'm really not happy tbh. Android started out as a relatively open thriving open OS/ecosystem. It's since evolved into something much different due to Google and it's objectives.

It's also just plain not realistic. The industry would of evolved differently had it not been for android and other operating systems may have been picked up by the alternative manufacturers such as Samsung.

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