Piss poor. 7 years of OS support, but I can almost guarantee you the hardware will die within 2 years.
California just passed a law that should affect the Pixel, and would require Google to provide replacement parts for the phone for 7 years also
My pixel 5 is still doing well and that’s 3 years old, only gave it up as it’s out of support
To be completely fair, I am extremely salty towards Google’s hardware division. I had a Pixel 3’s storage get corrupted and stopped booting about 7 months after purchase, and they refused to repair it or replace it (under warranty!) because I couldn’t prove I was the original owner. I was, but I couldn’t find the receipt. They eventually just stopped responding to me.
I tried again with the Pixel 6 recently and ran into so many weird OS glitches that my wife’s Samsung S20 didn’t have, and that resetting / updating didn’t fix that I eventually just sold it and washed my hands of ever buying Google hardware again.
essentially zero. google churn and burn hardware by making it very badly.
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People are right to worry about the phone’s battery. If you want to keep it that long, get a 500mA charger and slow charge it every night and avoid deep discharge.
This combined with adaptive charge would mean you will probably wake up with a dead battery.
Adaptive charging just charges at full speed until it gets to 80%. It then maintains that level until 2-3 hours before the time the alarm is set for, and then it charges to 100%. A 500ma charger likely wouldn’t be able to fully charge the phone while a normal person sleeps (depends on the starting charge level of course), but the worst that adaptive charging wouldn’t do anything that would lead to the battery being dead
Charging above a certain speed, does degrade the battery faster. Thinking that by slow charging your battery will last any noticeable time longer is where this all falls apart.
Right, which is why the Pixel still charges slow af(25W). It’s really because it’s a single cell battery, the phones with really high charge speeds are multi cell arrays. Each cell can be individually charged at similar wattage to the pixel but with a much smaller cell size it appears to charge faster. I think the OnePlus is the one that is advertised to charge ridiculously fast, iirc it is a 4 cell array, which is why it can charge at 100W (25W per cell). Technically the same speed as the pixel but you’re simply charging 4 smaller batteries at once.
There is nothing wrong with just replacing the battery after a few years.
Worrying that much about battery health is a pain.
Even if it did survive, you’ll likely be bored of it by then lol
7 years of support, plus I can always play around with GrapheneOS and CalyxOS if I fancy tinkering with it… Just need Graphene to be released for the 8 now.
I started with Calyx on my Pixel5 it was good, but i think GrapheneOS is better. MicroG is good, but its still maintained by a 3rd party. Having full GPS but in a non previlidged state is nice to have (and it can exclusively on a work profile). I switched to GrapheneOS about 12 months ago, on my Pixel 5.
I just want to see what features I will loose (dont care about tap to pay) and how much I care about them… For me the biggie is the camera features.
