Place your bets! What will be the Pixel 8’s glaring release flaw?
I absolutely love the irony of this being a known issue, when my Pixel 3 had the exciting issue of occasionally getting stuck in a boot loop, and every loop, it’d call 911.
Great fun staying up till 3am in order to hang up on 911 hundreds of times until the battery ran out.
I still don’t like the ridiculously big quick toggle icons and the fact that wifi is hidden behind a second layer of quick toggles.
Also I’m not sure about the warranty process, that’s always been their weak spot
I feel like it’s going to be the 7 year commitment. I don’t think they’ll keep it. They’ll find a way to rephrase and reframe and abandon the 7 year updates like they do so many of their announced plans.
Only security updates after 4 years. I’m betting. We won’t see Android 20 on this.
Which actually might be okay.
The new features that I give a shit about have mostly plateaued now. I don’t care about new releases. As long as “what I bought keeps working and some cunt next to me on a laptop can’t randomly hack my phone” remains in effect I legitimately might not care.
Their tizen chips aren’t good if you want to game. That’ll be about it compared to other high end phones. No SD slot, jack, or swappable battery.
Tizen Tensor
For those who don’t know: tizen is Samsung’s operating system which they used on phones and watches previously and still use on TVs.
Pixel 3 owner here. I’m done with google after this phone dies.
Pixel 7 owner here. I’m very happy with my phone and will gladly get a new pixel when this one dies.
My one and only complaint with the 7 pro is the damn finger print reader. I miss the one on the back from my 5 and if you don’t have your thumb RIGHT over the right spot on the screen it’s easy to get blinded by the light if you are in a dark room. Outside that, love the phone.
6 pro here and I say the same. Best phone I’ve had since my s7 active. Everything between that and this was garbage. Well, I did like my lg g8 thinq but it had an unplanned swimming incident. I’m going to get a pixel as my next assuming graphene OS is still able to be loaded.
Pixel 6 owner here, I’m probably sticking with pixels forever and will flash them with real Linux when that’s more developed, probably like 10 years away
I got burned on a pixel device and I’ll never go back. In my case the phone was fine but Google botched an update and it took a year to really sort out. I stopped using the phone after two months of near unusable phone functions like answering a call. Much later I tried it again and it worked fine.
So they might do updates for a while but are they shit updates?
Because the phone is a giant spyware device and Google isn’t trustworthy.
The upgrades look pretty good for anyone on a 5 or older. Software features were tempting but my 6 Pro gets one more Android update next year so I can probably build off for another couple of years unless my battery craps out sooner.
Hope 7 years of updates becomes the industry standard.
The Pixel 5 was perfect imo. Small size and reasonable battery.
I recently replaced the battery and also flashed LineageOS. Just like new 😁
That’s a really great start with the updates IMO, second only to Fairphone.
I’m personally a little bit skeptical, seeing how Google has a habit of inviting the grim reaper to dine with its products… but hopefully they follow through allowing Pixel owners to enjoy 7 years of OS and security upgrades 👌
If they can do it for the 8 they can do it for the 6 and 7 too.
