BoboBrazil
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Yeah can't believe they don't atleast have capacitive buttons.
Pretty much the reason I'm returning mine. Edge is a pointless gimmick.
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Yeah can't believe they don't atleast have capacitive buttons.
Pretty much the reason I'm returning mine. Edge is a pointless gimmick.
osiris3355
Banned
Tomorrow should be another big day before Tuesday yet...
Looks like Android Police is having another big story tomorrow that isnt Pixel related.
Also, this is happening...
Looks like Android Police is having another big story tomorrow that isnt Pixel related.
Also, this is happening...
Unknown Soldier
Member
Oh.
I guess I'm a year late to this party then, but no one can pretend it's not uncanny where the placement is with the Pixel's phone shape. It's exactly where the Apple logo is on a phone which looks exactly like an iPhone. Maybe it's not intentional, but if so I would be amazed that not one person working on this phone's design noticed this.
Jzero
Member
Lmao this guy, just ignore all the freaking phones with sensors in the same place
Honestly though skip year for sure, don't want an Android iPhone
Unknown Soldier
Member
Please show me a phone with a sensor in exactly that spot which also looks like an iPhone.
The only phones I know of which even try to put things in that spot are the recent LG phones and they look nothing like iPhones.
I honestly didn't know the Nexus 5X and 6P had back fingerprint sensors. It's not something I had ever considered, because having fingerprint sensors on the front of phones just makes sense to me and I had always thought of the LG phones as anomalies.
Furthermore I wasn't trolling, that was the second thing that popped into my head when I saw that picture of the phone. First I thought Wow it's the Google iPhone" and then I saw the circle and I was thought "LOL they even put an empty circle where the Apple logo is supposed to be".
The Faceless Master
Member
Saiyan-Rox
Member
There are a few Daydream things that aren't leaked yet I imagine.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Looking at the other pictures are Google gonna include Allo and Duo as system apps now?
Man to get one or not....i'll be more annoyed if the software on the phone doesn't make it to the others but there's no reason it shouldn't I guess.
Also want to see it in blue.
Man to get one or not....i'll be more annoyed if the software on the phone doesn't make it to the others but there's no reason it shouldn't I guess.
Also want to see it in blue.
Also, this is happening...
Just put stock/near stock Android on the Mi5 and guarantee some updates and I'm happy.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Carphone warehouse exclusive here then, they normally get the colours here.
Doesn't look THAT bad...
it looks like an iphone, and that is bad looking to me with those huge bezels. In fact it is worse since it doesn't have a home button or a speaker in that empty space.
Maybe iphones get a pass because... apple, but i doubt google can sell many of those having such a dull design and premium price.
last year was worse due to qualcomm, but phones were better designed imo, at least 6P was really nice, and 5x decent enough.
Next year may bring some decent improvements if 10nm is a thing though....
Also cameras seem to have already peaked
If priced a €69 i will buy one. I wish it was able to run plex media server, but probably will not.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Nobody's leaked shit DayDream wise. FFS come on. That's the one thing I want to know about.
From the early reviews it can't even stream video properly.
It's like they took the iphone's random empty circle on the bottom front, but placed it on the back!
Is there an review anywhere that gives a good rundown of what 4K content actually gets delivered? I mean, I know it's a 4K box, and it has Netflix. That does not actually mean it gets 4K Netflix...
……forgetit
Member
Ya know, I used to hate the iphone bezels, but now that I use one every day they aren't too bad. The pixel's look a bit smaller so it will atleast give me something to hold on too. I'll pick one up if the price isn't too insane, as in $650 is actually for the XL.
lol. Isn't this supposed to be a 4K device? Maybe it is because of low quality wifi antenna?
Can you provide some links to reviews??
Well, i could live with that maybe one or two years ago, but not now, i mean, they should, at least give that empty space some use : fingerprint scanner, speakers, or my personal preference, capacitive buttons and being able to enjoy full screen for everything.
I predict gimmicks, so many gimmicks to pimp cameras.
Not sure why phones are kinda crap. Every phone kinda has its weird quirks keeping it down. Cheap options have also generally gotten worse IMO. If you want a smaller phone with good specs (fast) you have to go for the iPhone or S7 and pay a small fortune.
we already have gimmicks like dual cameras in several flavours, B/W for better image quality(huawei) wide angle(LG) , different focal lenght(Apple)..... some of them are interesing but not really a must have feature (for me the best updates for cameras have been OIS and low light improvements).
I predict improvement in image quality will come from gimmicks now that sensor size is pretty much as big as it can be. Kinda already there with phones stitching together multiple shots in auto mode and the dual camera stuff.
Well here is a comparison video.
http://youtu.be/bCdOfhQTsWY
Maybe the issues can be solved in software.
The position is due to the fact that a lot of people when picking up their phones place a finger in that very position on the back, hence it works great as a fingerprint reader/unlocker.
……forgetit
Member
In what world is $650 a small fortune? I mean their expensive, but not insanely expensive.
LostMyNarbles
Member
Why did you include all three of Samsung's phones when they include the same camera? On that list you could easily kick the HTC 10 off because it was crappy at launch and I imagine it hasn't gotten significantly better since then.
Yeah, the iPhone 7 camera is much better than the HTC 10. I've not used the V20 in person to compare. But the iPhone 7 camera is great. As is the Samsung one.
osiris3355
Banned
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10468/the-htc-10-review/7
"It's worth mentioning here that the HTC 10 was not necessarily the best camera at launch. While I wasn't able to do in-depth characterization, it's clear to me that anyone that reviewed the camera with launch software would have a very different view of how the camera performed than anyone that would be using the camera now."
I'm pretty sure they do share the same though...
peppermints
Member
Is that the camera expected to be in the Pixels?
I haven't been following the Pixel much at all, so dunno.
Source: Huawei passed on chance to produce Pixel phones, US division badly struggling
Well..fuck..there you go. That's why Google chose HTC (who'd gladly jump at the opportunity)
edit: holy shit at the dirt in this article
Well..fuck..there you go. That's why Google chose HTC (who'd gladly jump at the opportunity)
edit: holy shit at the dirt in this article
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
When is the press event topic going up? Today or Tomorrow?
That's interesting. I don't see how Huawei can try to sell the Huawei GX8 for $350 when their Honor sub brand sells essentially the same phone in the Honor 5x for $200. If the Honor 8 ends up being heavily discounted around the holidays I'd pick one up.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Too many phones
Companies have too many phones in their lineup. Customers get confused. You have to manufacture a ton of different stock. R&D that goes into so many different devices.
I get it. Especially in China and India ever dollar matters. So they try and have more options at closer price intervals. I just don't know if its fiscally possible to maintain.
Companies have too many phones in their lineup. Customers get confused. You have to manufacture a ton of different stock. R&D that goes into so many different devices.
I get it. Especially in China and India ever dollar matters. So they try and have more options at closer price intervals. I just don't know if its fiscally possible to maintain.
LostMyNarbles
Member
They should have released the P9 in the US and gave it decent (Like $400-$450) pricing. It is hard to say they are serious about the US market if they aren't even going to release their flagship device. This year they jumped to the $400 market with the Honor 8, but why would anybody be interested in their devices at $400 if the $200 Honor 5X failed to garner much success? It seems very backwards to me in the sense that they should be putting out some budget devices before tackling the high-end market like that. Maybe take the Motorola approach and have a $100 device, $200 device and then a flagship. Kind of similar to how Motorola had the Moto E, Moto G, and then the Moto X (Now Moto Z).
did the honor 8 event get much coverage?
their press conference was streamed on someone's smartphone on facebook really poorly, and every review was, good phone but lol emui, get a OP3 or axon 7 instead for $400.
they really should have gotten around to getting the 5.0 update out first with the supposedly more 'stock' design.
their press conference was streamed on someone's smartphone on facebook really poorly, and every review was, good phone but lol emui, get a OP3 or axon 7 instead for $400.
they really should have gotten around to getting the 5.0 update out first with the supposedly more 'stock' design.
That's essentially what the Honor 8 is. Instead of metal body it's glass, and the cpu top speed is lowered slightly, but everything else is P9 but at a much lower price. It's essentially Huawei's GX8 ($350) compared to Honor 5X($200).
What I'm surprised about is the SD card slot being back. At least according to what Carphone Warehouse had up about it.