Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

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Post by devhxinc » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:05 PM UTC

Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone
bloomberg.com

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Post by gthtjtkt » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:27 PM UTC

No unlockable bootloader for Verizon. Dang...

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Post by okket » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:29 PM UTC

For a "threat to Apple's iPhone" article the content is pretty low on camera specs. Not to mention a comparison to the rest of Apple's extremely integrated and streamlined hardware/software.

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Post by throwaway98237 » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:30 PM UTC

gthtjtkt wrote: post #2

No unlockable bootloader for Verizon. Dang...

"smart phone, dumb user"

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Post by wmeredith » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

I'd like someone to save me from Apple's garbage cloud services, but I just can't get away from their hardware. It's just too good.

So... Can anyone convince me that this thing is going to be different from the iPhone killers that are reported on every year in these regurgitated press releases?

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Post by anilgulecha » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

The camera on pixel is the killer. The low-light photos + the image stabilization is amazing.

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Post by ljf » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:34 PM UTC

Why is Google still insisting (with 7.1) that the 3 navigation keys (menu, home and back) need to be on screen - either wasting real-estate or annoyingly hidden - requiring a swipe to expose them?

Old Android phones used to have hardware or software keys that were off the bottom of the screen - and in fact my Xiaomi Mi Note Pro still does - it frees the entire screen for content. If the '3 keys' regularly changed meaning I could see the need to have them 'on screen' but they don't.

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Post by czhiddy » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:34 PM UTC

“The difference with this device is that we started from the beginning,” says Dave Burke, who runs Android engineering.

Started from scratch, yet the end result looks like a iPhone knockoff from a random Chinese shanzhai company?

http://i.imgur.com/LlqaAPO.png

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Post by thrill » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:35 PM UTC

gthtjtkt wrote: post #2

No unlockable bootloader for Verizon. Dang...

Google is three times the market cap of Verizon. I think I know how to solve this.

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Post by Ologn » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 4:37 PM UTC

The bottom of the article says the phone is assembled by HTC. I suppose the difference between this and the Google Nexus phones is that Google is no longer doing hardware design in collaboration with outside manufacturers. However, collaboration in hardware assembly continues.