Google Pixel 9 Pro

Post by zecg » Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 11:23 AM UTC

j_timberlake wrote: post #827

peapod91 wrote: post #786

The dominance of the negativity in these comments is noteworthy. Personally, I thought it was a exciting update with major hardware improvements, some compelling AI demos and use cases at a similar price point as the past. Top tech reviewers e.g. MKBHD has similar impressions. Mostly just curious as to why there are ~0 positive comments here. I suspect could be: 1) anti-google HN bias - perhaps deserved? 2) it's simp…

I'm very bullish on genAI, and I bought the new phone, but I really don't think the features shown are that exciting yet. It feels like they're laying the groundwork for more powerful AI to be ready to do things in your phone apps, and the current features are just paving the way. The killer-app (that isn't porn) is going to be asking your phone to order food and it guesses correctly what you want while cross-checkin…

Post by filcuk » Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 12:30 PM UTC

mFixman wrote: post #895

gerash wrote: post #807

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I'm with you that AI is overhyped but your suggested feature is "per app volume mixers" like in Windows? What's the use case on a mobile phone to warrant the extra complexity?

Samsung phones have this, and I use this to play music at a pleasant low volume while watching YouTube videos at a higher volume. I'm surprised Pixels don't; small things like this area each QoL wins.

Post by antifa » Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 2:41 PM UTC

mzmzmzm wrote: post #933

bugbuddy wrote: post #842

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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.

Post by disgruntledphd2 » Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 2:53 PM UTC

rangestransform wrote: post #526

echelon wrote: post #455

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I wish we had more than two phone giants. This is aggravating. Unfortunately due to their market dominance and muddling of (hardware, OS, software distribution, and platform ecosystem), it's almost impossible to disentangle. It'd be amazing if the DOJ made these companies only offer one slice of those four things. There would be so much competition and a wild variety of new things being tried.

I would rather have a better phone than more options, apple's 800-pound gorilla-ness gets me a phone with: - an SoC made on TSMC's latest process node, with a humongous die, and all the associated power/performance benefits - because of how many phones apple can sell, they can divide the cost of R&D over more units, and can design things like their own CPU cores - "Ask app not to track" that works, because of the app…

Post by volfonibros » Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 5:24 PM UTC

maximus-decimus wrote: post #884

taeric wrote: post #183

I'm kind of sad that the world seems to have given up on the smaller phones. The marketing of the masculine hand holding the larger phone is amusing to me, and I can understand wanting to have a larger screen. I do not like the amount of space these things take in my pocket, though.

I discovered about the Unihertz Jelly Star the other day which is allegedly the smallest android phone with a 3 inch display. People over /r/dumbphone seem to like it as a mean to make doom scrolling less appealing to them while the phone can still be used to do all you need like use Uber (although android auto on this must be horrible). At 309 CAD on Amazon, I'm tempted to give it a try.