Woke up on Monday and my Pixel 6 Pro wasnt quite fitting in the case while i was checking news while having coffee on the morning. Pushed it in and it didnt seem to fit right. Took the case off to find it had turned itself into a spicy pillow and was splitting along the side. Was 1 month inside warranty, messaged support who told me it was wear and tear initially. I made it quite clear i wasnt accepting that and there wasnt even any way that internal adhesive failing would be wear and tear, never mind battery expansion. They agreed to replace it with a refurb as a goodwill gesture, how very nice of them. I upgraded the same day to a S23 Ultra and have sold the refurb to a reseller.
Pixel is a terrible phone and I will die on that hill.
After exclusively using pixels for years, I used to be right there with you until I bought my pixel 6. My experience was so bad I’ll never buy another pixel again. Still sad about it but there are other things I’d rather waste my money on.
Pixels have been great phones for me. The Pixel 6 Pro was an absolute piece of shit and I haven’t been back since.
I think I had the first one. Battery life was absolutely garbage and wouldn’t last a day. Google was constantly trying to hoover up my data, even after I turned off location tracking if found it was still saving where I was moving. I turned off automatic updates until one day I decided to update my phone and it fucked it up to the point where it was functionally bricked. Also the UI makes me think that they are trying really hard to be an iPhone but with enhanced privacy violations.
Getting flash banged by the 6 Pros finger print sensor at night was my favorite surprise.
Not much of a story. The Pixel 6 uses a different method of reading fingerprints that involves shining a bright light at your finger to read it. All of my other phones didn’t use light like that.
So when I tried to unlock it one night with my finger off center, it surprised me with a full brightness white flash.
Using the sensor behind the screen turns on a surprisingly bright circle of the screen behind your finger, even with the rest of the screen dimmed (say, because you’re in bed with the lights out) it’s the same brightness, probably just 100%. Presumably it helps the sensor work better. Move your finger a bit too much and that brightness hits your eyes. Which can be uncomfortable at the surprising level of brightness.
I got a Pixel 6 as a work phone thinking that the vanilla Android experience on the Android developers own device would be great.
Feel like my OnePlus One was a better device.
The Pixel phones haven’t been ‘vanilla Android’ for a while now. The Pixel launcher is just a way for Google for more easily serve ads and paid ‘news’ stories to you. The only thing I really like about my Pixel 6 Pro is the camera, otherwise it is an over-priced piece of hardware.
Man, I had the Nexus One, Nexus 4 and 2 consecutive Nexus 5’s (first one took a swim in the toilet, still worked, just started to lose signal regularly).
Was exceedingly happy with all 3 phones. Especially the 5, which was a 250€ phone with top of the line features (including NFC, 10 years ago!)
The next Nexus was shit and then Google decided to go with the Pixel brand, because people wouldn’t accept Nexus phones to be so goddamn expensive while having far more limited features than the Nexus models used to have.
And I’ve looked at almost all Pixel models since and was not impressed by even a single one of them.
Man, I wish someone would bring out a modern equivalent to the Nexus 5, a phone loaded with every current and on the horizon tech, for 250-300€.
I actually quite liked my Nexus 6P and Google Pixel 2XL. The stereo speakers and fingerprint reader on the 6P were my favorite. I wish I could find another phone with speakers like the 6P had.
The 6P was great, I bricked 6 of them. Still have one one my desk I use a few times a week.
Excellent speakers and build quality.
The Pixel 3A is the best phone I’ve ever had, and I’m sad to be switching to a different company with my next phone. Being said, I’ve heard about the problems with newer Pixels, so I suppose I’m not too bummed out about switching. Still, gonna miss Call Screening.
I still have mine and am looking for what’s next. What’re you considering?
Right now, I’m looking at the Galaxy Xcover6. It’s the only phone on the market besides the Fairphone that has 5g support, removable battery, and expandable storage through a MicroSD slot. The downsides are that it doesn’t support wireless charging (not a deal breaker for me), and it obviously doesn’t have call screening. I’m teeter tottering right now, but I’m still mulling it over. I’m sure if I wait another year there will surely be another phone that checks these boxes, but as I’m sure you know, the 3A is starting to give out on me. Remains to be seen what I’ll do.
My 3A has been amazing. Still works ok. Only considering an update because I want the security updates and don’t want to fuck around with Lineage again.
Might I recommend pixel experience roms?
Edit: I use it for my 4a and thought the 3a would be much the same but it looks like it’s deprecated, my apologies for getting your hopes up.
While I do agree with you to some extent. I’ve been pretty happy with mine so far.
I still don’t like the way you have to “backup” everything locally though. They’re forcing you to use their cloud service for that with no other first-party option (yes I know ADB is one, but that’s depreciated and could go away at any point in time.)
Wife and I have one. Hers 6, mine 7.
They are great. No problems at all.
They charge great, last, and support all the new stuff and get all the latest updates.
They don’t come with a pile of bloat ware, camera’s work great.
Not sure what people are bitching about.
I have a 6 Pro.
The brightness adjustment sucks, basically 50% of the slider does nothing. Also randomly dims at top brightness and won’t let me go back to max brightness manually.
Fingerprint sensor is complete and total shit. I maybe get 10% success rate unlocking phone, while app fingerprint unlock is at 80% success.
Google disabled the HDMI out for no reason other than they want you to use Chromecast.
Battery is good and wireless charging is good with a branded Google wireless charger, pathetic with any aftermarket wireless charger.
Not major issues but the brightness and fingerprint issues are an annoyance several times a day and it just builds up, you know?
I get all the updates and the Google specific features are great. Camera is fine. Works well with Mint Mobile. I get good 5G in my area where I didn’t get good reception on my last phone with same service.
I would probably go back to OnePlus or try NothingPhone, wouldn’t do a Pixel again.
I’m going back to a one plus phone probably after 3 pixel shit shows.
My favorite thing about the P6P? The phone can’t even be used in direct sunlight. Oh and then there’s the cellular signal and switching issues, also garbage battery life and auto brightness adjust.
The fingerprint reader, the shitty front facing camera … fuck this phone. It will be gone by the end of the year.
I had a bad experience with my first one and never went back, plus it’s Google. I’m just exercising recreational outrage and stirring the pot cause i saw the sub lol
My Current 6Pro, and the 5a and 4a before them would disagree, zero issues.
Yup, and because of that I get the privacy and security I want thanks to GrapheneOS, get the benefit of Google, my paid apps, and Googles apps not having god like spy power over my phone, which is the biggest spit in the face to Google there is. Money well spent.
That sux
That’s one spicy pillow!
My brother brought 3 of these for his family & they have had nothing but issues with them. If they aren’t overheating, they are rebooting for no apparent reason.
Bought the budget version, pixel 6a. I have nothing but good experience with it. It is the best phone I’ve had, never again spending money on flag ship phones. This shit cost me about $250, and it feels, looks good and faster than my previous bloatware s10 - which cost me $1100 brand new, the battery and the camera was shit, had it for 3 years, couldn’t stand having it another year.
In a couple of years I’ll by a new low budget phone. You don’t need a flag ship phone trust me, if it’s not for the camera, but then I’d buy an iPhone.
The a series phones honestly have the best reputation. Pretty sure the Pixel 4 had issues which the 4a series didn’t and the Pixel 5 was actually just a 4a 5G with top specs and flagship features
It’s very flawed. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating for Google. Fuck em. But yeah considering I had OnePlus previously. It rebooted in sunlight. My pixel doesn’t.
Pixel 6 Pro was not a fantastic phone, though battery issues like that are usually caused by overheating. Prolonged use of a phone in hot conditions will cause frequent overheating and rapid degrading of the batteries. Examples of this are putting them in car dashboards in the hot sun, or charging them in the sun.
I use it as my navigation on my motorcycle. It’s shut itself off multiple times on me when I’m in stop-and-go traffic and the air stops cooling it enough. I’ve also had it go into overheat mode trying to film my wife playing in a sports competition. At least the bluetooth more or less works finally.
