Technology @lemmy.world Xatolos @reddthat.com 4 days ago

Google’s Pixel 9 lineup is a Pro show

www.theverge.com Google’s Pixel 9 lineup is a Pro show

Pick your Pro.

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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
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Charger is still not bundled.
  
  That is an absolute pro argument though. Who needs yet another charger?
- 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.
  
  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).
- 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.
@Xatolos If I buy Google Pixel it's only because it's the only one that supports GrapheneOs
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.
- Not available in Vietnam or I would be all over it.
- Didn't google buy HTC?
  
  Nope. It's still it's own Taiwanese company.
  
  I feel like I remember Google buying them for the IP. I didn't know the company existed as a separate entity. I'll take it as a good thing. I had a couple of HTC phones back in the day.
- Which one is that?
  
  The U24 pro, although that one isn't that little (6.8")
Just when I think the phone industry can't get any more boring and frustrating, now new phone releases only add more AI bullshit.
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.
Still using tensor chip, which is basically a rebranded samsung Exynos chip.. which Samsung themselves dropped in Europe.
They look kinda sus tho
- It needs an among us case
Better granpheneos I guess?
Shit show maybe..also no. I opt out of usel ss ai implementation
- Would be nice if Graphene managed to implement some of those AI features locally. Without the AI use, i think this thing could fly. Seems the foldable might have really slow wireless charge though :(
  
  ONLY if it's optional, like how sandboxed Google services are now. Although I would rather not have this present.

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