They just completely alienate their core audience. Don't think I'll ever go back to them
it's still the only rootable flagship in the usa unfortunately. or else I'd use Samsung.
Wait, you cannot root a Samsung? Since when?
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.
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.
The idea is to reduce waste. Everyone I know has a 100w charger with multiple USBC ports. I only use one or two chargers for all my devices. I usually throw away the bundled chargers because they're shit and worthless.
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:
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).
I always used to jump models, going back all the way to the first Nexus. This'll be the first time I don't. Unfortunately I know the Pixel 7 I have now will have its battery life mysteriously go to shit about three months before it's paid off.
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.
I dont know, they had a large chin with the huge home button for the longest time, a waste of space. They now have the dynamic island, which also takes up space no matter how they dress it up. I prefer the punch hole, like the one on Pixel 5 which was out of the way.
It's iVerge, don't expect much.
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
It needs an among us case
Better granpheneos I guess?
Still using tensor chip, which is basically a rebranded samsung Exynos chip.. which Samsung themselves dropped in Europe.
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