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why I love the Google pixel

Three months since using the pixel 6a. I got it because it was the cheapest flagship quality phone I could get. Software wise. Though the camera is good as well.

I find the voice typing real smooth. I also found good use of the recorder app while watching video lectures.

Over all, not a single bug or problem while using it and it runs smooth, without bloatware.

I had a galaxy s9 before this and was daily driving it with the pixel AOSP.

The moment I moved to pixel AOSP on it, I know this is the thing. So I got a one month old Pixel 6a for like 200 USD in the market and didn't think for another second.

This is the closest experience to windows phone I had.

This is just a beginner's post as I get into lemmy.

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  • I have a Pixel 7a which I bought 2 months ago at launch date. It's the first Android phone that I really love, the others (Samsung, Sony and Asus) were just "meh, at least it does its job right".

    This one is different, the build feels obviously premium, the hardware and the software work exceptionally well together, and Android updates are frequent and having Google give you the guarantee that (at the minimum) security updates will continue until 2028 is awesome and helps fight electronic waste. And even after that, Android OSes like LineageOS or GrapheneOS (see https://lemmy.world/post/1172888) are very likely to continue working smoothly if one wants to switch to an OS that is still maintained, given that Google's devs test stock opensource Android on the Pixel phones first. I'm sure I won't buy a new phone for the next few years.

    Only thing making me sad is that I dropped it on concrete a few days ago and didn't have a case (I'm usually very careful and never needed a case, this time it just slipped out of my pocket), nothing bad happened to the phone, which I find awesome, but it got a few very small scratches on the side which aren't really visible but I now always get a bit sad when I touch them 😔. That's how much I love this phone!

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