Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Pixel 10 Phones

blog.google

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

961–970 of 982 posts

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#961

Post by coldpie »

jama211 wrote: post #926
coldpie wrote: post #825

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha. To close the loop on the comparison, you'll notice that the people I'm calling smart do not get what they want, in the end. Maybe not so smart after all, eh?

Doubling down is bold, but to be honest if you had the self reflection required to see my point, you wouldn’t have said what you said in the first place. It is only your blind ego that is making you incorrectly assume these things about other people.

Sigh. I'm poking fun at the people I'm calling "smart", because they are too clever for their own good. Chill out a little, friend.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#962

Post by abustamam »

dakiol wrote: post #954
dmd wrote: post #881

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're reading more into this than I meant. For example, today: [todo/home] clean air filters [todo/home] take out trash [todo/home] refill [daughter]'s medication [work] 9:30 meeting with [person] [home] 10:30 doctor appt @ 313 river [home] 11:30 [daughter] dropoff at middle school orientation [work] 13:45 meeting with [person] [home] 16:00 [daughter] cello lesson [todo/work] 16:45 check if zpool is done res…

In my case: I don’t have that many TODOs. For instance, I clean home twice per week, on Mondays and Thursdays. Don’t need to write it down anywhere. I have perhaps 2 or 3 doctor appointments per year (and they are usually within a few weeks in advance, so easy to remember). I don’t have kids (this one could be the game changer, I admit). Work-wise: sure, I have everything in the work calendar. But i have separate lap…

My wife is 35 weeks pregnant and I go with her to all her OB appts. If we didn't put it on a shared calendar, someone is gonna miss it (though to be honest it'd probably be me, which isn't the end of the world).

We almost never schedule dinners, but we buy cinema tickets ahead of time (or concert tickets, or whatever event). Those ones are hard to remember because the show may be at 6 but doors open at 5 so lots of stuff needs to be coordinated.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#963

Post by abustamam »

SirMaster wrote: post #901
dmd wrote: post #881

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're reading more into this than I meant. For example, today: [todo/home] clean air filters [todo/home] take out trash [todo/home] refill [daughter]'s medication [work] 9:30 meeting with [person] [home] 10:30 doctor appt @ 313 river [home] 11:30 [daughter] dropoff at middle school orientation [work] 13:45 meeting with [person] [home] 16:00 [daughter] cello lesson [todo/work] 16:45 check if zpool is done res…

It's simple, I don't have things like that that I need to do on any sort of daily basis. I have a work calendar for work meetings, but never saw a need for personal calendar. OK sure I put doctor and dentist on my personal calendar, but dentist is 2x a year and doctor is like once a year for a physical. On my personal calendar I might have a dozen things put on it for the whole year. Some upcoming family event, some…

My dentist and doctor schedule the next appointment during my appointment. So if I had my annual physical appointment tomorrow, my next appointment would be 8/23/2026 which I definitely would not remember, even if they gave me an appointment card. If I'm lucky they'll call me to remind me a few days before, but having it on my calendar ensures that I don't schedule a meeting (or travel!) during that time.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#964

Post by colordrops »

thewebguyd wrote: post #712
colordrops wrote: post #675

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read the thread? Google devices are orders of magnitude more private if you install a custom rom like graphene OS or lineage + microg. Apple is pretty much the same as a vanilla google phone in comparison.

> Google devices are orders of magnitude more private if you install a custom rom like graphene OS or lineage + microg. Sure, but then it ceases being a Google device. The discussion is focused around Pixel, as is, vs. Apple/iOS, in which case Apple wins by far in that aspect.

Semantics. It's still a Pixel device regardless of the software. The OS is still Android. Android is open source.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#965

Post by colordrops »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #693
colordrops wrote: post #675

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read the thread? Google devices are orders of magnitude more private if you install a custom rom like graphene OS or lineage + microg. Apple is pretty much the same as a vanilla google phone in comparison.

why you acting like android apps is free from tracking ???? "Apple is pretty much the same as a vanilla google phone in comparison" Google literally Ads company, do you know how ads company works????

Look into it rather than speaking out of ignorance.

There are several ways to block ads on Android. First and most-important, with a de-googled OS like Lineage or /e, the built-in tracking functionality just isn't there.

To blame the OS for an app spying on you is like saying Firefox is spying on you for Google because a webpage has a google tracker in it. Nonsense. An app is not the same as the OS. You can just not install the app like you would not visit the page.

But even then, open source android has many ways to block ads if you do want to install shitty apps that track you.

- The AdAway app that uses host file updates

- App Warden, which actually disables tracking libraries in apps

- LineageOS has the ability to turn off network access for apps that don't need them

- AFWall+ for app-level firewall rules.

The OS is absolutely not spying on you and actually gives you tools to stop spying. You can't say this AT ALL about Apple or vanilla Google Android.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#966

Post by burnte »

fariszr wrote: post #540

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 wor…

What apps do you run where you see performance problems?

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#967

Post by mallipeddi »

somat wrote: post #921
nkrebs13 wrote: post #438

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's preference. I think the cameras on the non-pro iphones are so ugly -- especially the diagonal design. The pro cameras look ok to me. Can't not see my old college stove when I look at it, but I don't think it's too bad. I, too, am biased but prefer Pixel's camera layout. Visually, I like the symmetry of the camera bump on the back of the device. Functionally, the symmetrical bump means the device will not rock on…

The whole idea of needing a "camera bump" is sort of a ridiculous design choice just use the extra two millimeters for more battery. It is almost as goofy as the "notch"

Batteries are heavy. I don’t need a fat ass battery making the phone heavier just to hide the camera bump.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#968

Post by brookst »

therein wrote: post #546
brookst wrote: post #534

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Sell a version of the phone that's 3 generations behind on camera tech, make it a little cheaper or make it the same price. I promise you I would buy it over your flagship if it means no camera tumor. I am okay capturing daily moments I use my phone camera for at a lower fidelity than the bleeding edge optics and sensors offer. I have mirrorless cameras and DSLRs for photos I care to take at a good quality anyway. No…

But why sell something people won’t buy? I’m not a hardcore capitalist but there are enough phone manufacturers that someone would be doing this if it was profitable.

It’s unfortunate to have taste enough standard deviations out that nobody caters to it, but there’s no point in arguing that “someone” should. They just won’t.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#969

Post by omikun »

mvieira38 wrote: post #113
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…

> Is this a "left brain vs right brain" type of thing? Do most HNers prefer Androids? I don't think so. The stuff you mentioned is objectively better as there's no reason for Apple not to let you do it. It's more of a "I've been in the Apple walled garden for so long and so are all my friends" or the so-called network effects. Examples: you can't "Facetime" and "Airdrop" on Android, your text confirmation marks are g…

I worked at Samsung and even there a third of the team had iPhones.

Re: Pixel 10 Phones

#970

Post by nunez »

Mistletoe wrote: post #948
nunez wrote: post #700

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love my 13 mini but its battery is just too anemic. Slapping a MagSafe battery on it defeats the purpose of having a small phone. My 16 Pro lasts me all day, but I absolutely hate using it, as I don't do very much with my phone in the first place. I feel stuck.

Why does it run out so fast? I thought the 13 Mini had pretty good battery life? They say it is much better than my 12 Mini which I do fine with in one day. What's your battery health at?

Two reasons.

First is age. These devices are 5-7 years old. Many are using their original batteries, which have several dead cells. So they literally have less capacity than they did back then.

Second is JavaScript, in my opinion. I can often see my battery drain in real time when I use the browser, even when Low Power Mode is on. Demanding client side JavaScript is a big reason for that.

You also have extensions doing stuff on pre/post-load that also contribute to power usage.

Finally, so many web developers test against modern devices, and there isn't enough demand to warrant accommodating less powerful CPUs/SOCs. You can try to use the web without JS, but you'll find that many websites will think that you're a bot and block you.

Post reply on HN