“The angled corners of the Pixel 7, along with the extended bezel around the entire screen, now seemed dated compared to Google’s 2023 stylings.”
Fucking designers. This year we have round corners, SO ELEGANT! Wait, now we have SQUARE corners! Round is so drab now! Wait, round is elegant again!!
…Give me back my Nexus 5…
I mean, in fairness, this is a reviewer. I think the obsession with everything being different than it used to be is mostly a consumer, marketing and reviewer thing. Designers certainly have a role to play in the problem too, though.
Nah, we designers only do stuff that help boost sales. If people want changes, we will do them, even if the make not much sense because they’ll sell more stuff. Kind of sad but this is it.
designers design based on the context and if the reviewers and people create a context of X style then the designer is going to use X style. blame the designer if you want but throw out everything a designer was required for, too. aka every single thing in your eyeline. its was all designed by a designer.
“but i made this object” congrats ur a designer.
Oh dear, someone wrote my beloved old phone name after all these years! You are not forgotten mai gud boi Nexus 5 😭
The gating of a lot of the software features and UWB are really disappointing in the non-pro 8. I’d love a smaller phone, but they really do push you to the big one if you plan on keeping it for any length of time.
Even the pre-order bonuses are only for the larger phone.
Need more places calling them out on this.
Skipping UWB makes me wonder about Google’s commitment to their Find network.
They didn’t even mention the find network. I have my doubts they are even going to release it.
It’s apparently still under development, but …
“small”
While it’s far from the small flagship plenty of us want (a dream that’s as good as dead), compared to behemoths from companies like Samsung, I’ll happily settle for a phone series that gets a little easier to hold every year.
Or maybe they could just stop using heavy, brittle material for back covers because they look shiny.
I really don’t get why the Pixel lineup always gets this weird… hostility directed at it every release cycle. It’s like the Pixel line is always given an extra level of scrutiny, that makers like Samsung, OnePlus, or even Apple don’t get. There are reasons to give it scrutiny, especially on the software side, but some of the things thrown at the Pixel line (especially since the 6) just sometimes seems… petty. I’m not saying it’s without fault, I’m a Pixel 6 Pro owner after all and can definitely offer some criticisms. But a lot of the criticisms about the design of the models always seems like nitpicking, yet it becomes a big to do.
I just don’t get it, is it just the Google name that brings about higher expectations?