Honestly I’m done with pixels after the 6. I loved the 4 and the 5, but they got rid of the fingerprint scanner in lieu of the screen reader version which fucking sucks. Among other complaints (including shorter battery life and increased charge times… like wtf?!) Google services in general just continue eroding.
I dropped my Pixel 7 Pro yesterday which was fortunately insured. Went back to my 4XL and WOW, this phone feels way more performant than the 7 Pro. So much more responsive, sleek, and just WORKS.
I feel like Google’s hardware strategy has been really awful the last few years. The 7 Pro is what the 6 Pro should have been. I have 3 or 4 generations of Buds just lingering around that I never touch. Used the Watch for a week before I decided it was pointless.
Yeah, this is even more annoying than dropping the headphone support.
I was rocking a Pixel 2 until I upgraded to a 6 and the only reason I even did that was because the battery puffed up.
I can’t leave my 4a (4G) because their phones suck now and I hate bloatware which makes Samsung phones unattractive. I really wish they would get back to basics.
Weird Asian phones are where its at. Super cheap, more repairable, on par spec wise with flagships.
I really like my 6 pro, but I was considering upgrading until I saw so many issues being talked about
6 pro also, I think I’m going another year at this point .
Still have my 5; still as good as the day I got it.
My screen sensor died on that one.
What is that; the bit that turns the screen off when it’s against your ear?
Basically you couldn’t type words because the center of the keyboard quit recognizing touch.
Using it and loving it. Didn’t like how big newer phones were getting, and was planning to get the 8, but was waiting for more reviews… a lot more hesitant now.
Yeah I was looking at the 8 and am thinking I’d best leave it alone. I genuinely don’t know what to get if this phone kicks the bucket. I don’t really dig iOS and I’ve never had luck with brands like Samsung beyond a couple of years; seems like they slow down dramatically as was the case with my S9.
As soon as they kill Google Fi I’m out. I suspect with Fi they are (re)selling the service at no profit or a loss in order to promote their devices which they continue to fuck up in one way or another every year. Eventually it will go the way of all this other shit.
The 4 didn’t had any Fingerprints scanners.
4a =/= 4
Why can they not fix these bloody phones again? The 4 was perfect and every one since has been glitchy.
Why are people still buying this stuff… I mean seriously these phones are getting worse not better.
Maybe this is what made a dark spot on my screen: https://imgur.com/a/UnJ0Quy
So is this the confession of hardware defect?
One fall what happens to the Oled screen with pressure on it
My first gen LG OLED TV had this… 4 little dimples in the screen from overtightened screws coming in from the back. The OLED screens really are flexible, the TV is like 7 years old now and has no issues.
If this was Apple, they’d be attacking Google a whole lot more and saying things like Screengate.
The bumps spell out, “Buy an iPhone” in brail.
Nah. Android people just move back to Samsung.
Buy an iPhone people. Android is old and busted.
Is the screen not glass? And if it is how are bumps pushing up through glass???
The top layer is glass and is smooth. The bumps are under the glass.
They’re not, you literally can’t see the bumps when the screen is on and off it’s off, you have to angle the phone in a very specific way with his lighting to just about make them out.
They definitely don’t push through the glass front of the screen and they don’t impact the way that one works in any way
The way everyone has been commenting about it makes it seem like there are physical bumps you can feel
Wouldn’t all of the Pixel 8 phones then have the same issue? Mine doesn’t.
Not necessarily. Manufacturing specs involve measurement and error tolerance range. It could be one end of the error tolerance that this occurs.
yeah everyone in here complaining while I read it all on my very non bumpy 8 pro
Sounds like the 8 is a bust!
I’m using a 7, and it’s practically perfect in every way. I’ve used pixels for years now, and only 1 has caused me any trouble.
Glad I got the 7, won’t need another till the 10/11.
Isn’t that….bad?