- AI bs
- Imitating the iPhones Design
- Small performance improvement
- Very expensive
They just completely alienate their core audience. Don’t think I’ll ever go back to them
They missed out on many things too. While the Pixel Pro has an LTPO display, the base model doesn’t. They only ship with UFS 3.1 storage despite UFS 4.0 being available. Charger is still not bundled.
Heck, give anything except for AI.(144Hz screen anyone? Motorola has them). I never used Assistant and after trying Gemini out for some time, disabled it as well.
All else aside, what the heck do you need to waste battery power for on a 144hz phone screen? There’s no reason. Heck, I have a 120hz screen and turned it down to 60.
I just meant, that having a higher powered refresh rate screen that can easily be toggled on/off is more refreshing than more on device AI, IMO.
Charger is still not bundled.
That is an absolute pro argument though. Who needs yet another charger?
The companies stopped giving chargers so they can sell them later to customers as an extra accessory and make more money. This wouldn’t be a problem if there was a uniform standard. But USB PD isn’t used by majority of manufacturers. My 33W charger can’t charge my Samsung device fast which only draws maximum of 25W because previous is based on VOOC thing.
it’s still the only rootable flagship in the usa unfortunately. or else I’d use Samsung.
not the usa models. see here…
They’ve also always had poor quality hardware, just like Apples iPhone offerings.
These companies use advertising to make their phones seem great, then they have severe issues (E.g. speaker issues on pixel, overheating on iPhone’s).
It’s all garbage, and it’s bad for ya.
The pixel 7 pro is the first phone that im happy with after dozens of Samsung, Redmi, Xiaomi, HTC, Sony garbage phones. Especially Samsung is trash.
The last good phone before that was my Motorola Droid.
I’m almost done with smartphones and most of the internet anyway. It’s all corporate owned bullshit.
I just upgraded to a Pixel 7 Pro recently. Previously I had a Galaxy S8 that worked fine for about 7 years. It was really just showing its age. It still holds a charge halfway decently.
Might try installing GrapheneOS on it at some point.
It feels fairly high quality though and I’m hoping I’ll be able to get 7 years out of it like the Galaxy.
Tbh I went through a lot of Pixels that broke on some way:
- 3a: fell on the floor, screen dead
- 4XL Battery bloated and blew out the back glass
- 5 fell on the floor, screen dead
- 5 (replacement) usb port stopped working
The Pixel 6 is the first one that held up long term, but my next phone will probably be a fairphone
Pixel A series is still a reasonably priced good phone with a great camera, no?
The camera hardware is just ok. The benefits come from the built-in automatic image manipulation / improvement in the Pixel camera app. Download a generic camera app (like Open Camera or SimpleCamera before the takeover) and see the difference in pictures compared to the Pixel Camera (which, by the way, you can download from Aurora).
HTC just released a nice Lil $600 phone with a headphone jack and a microSD card slot. Think I’d rather have that.
Shit I didn’t know HTC were making phones still! Some fond memories for many phones during the early years.
It’s their first one in ages. They’re trying to re-enter the market. The hardware is pretty good. Not the most cutting edge, but you get the headphone jack and a microsd card slot back, and at $600 it’s way better than the $1,200 bullshit samsung and apple have been trying to shill.
Thanks.
If they embraced the mod community it could be a semi-official pixel replacement. They were always pretty good among oems about low bloat, if they just threw out stock and made only unlocked phones, could even have custom toms pre installed as an option if they really wanted to shake up the market. On of the costs for oems was supporting software updates that fit their bloat into the new android versions–they were always behind Google which was one of the original value propositions for Nexus line before Pixel. With Google going full Evil, there is a spot for someone else to take up the hardware crown.
What I wouldnt give for a smaller android phone. https://smallandroidphone.com/ it’s happening!
Gotcha.
Upon looking into it further it seems they just bought the design department. That’s crazy.
I used to love HTC phones, and was a loyal customer. Glad they’re trying to make a comeback.
The Pixel 9’s updated design language is giving iPhone from the front
Cringe
The iPhone is great from a design and hardware perspective. I just hate iOS, their stock apps, app pricing and the cultish community. So I wouldn’t mind an iPhone clone running Android.
Just when I think the phone industry can’t get any more boring and frustrating, now new phone releases only add more AI bullshit.
They look kinda sus tho
