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Mister Macys posted:Verizon leaked some Pixel stuff, including their pricing plans. Lol this is turning out to be a lovely year for phones.
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FAUXTON posted:jacking up the subsidized price. In Canada, it actually happened. All vendors carrying the Nexus 5 added $100 over and above the exchange rate, and they only ever carried the 16gb model.
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Oct 4, 2016 08:28
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The pixel xl will be $1500 in Canada at this rate
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Mister Macys posted:Verizon leaked some Pixel stuff, including their pricing plans That's ... that's iPhone dollars. Someone who isn't Samsung thinks their Android phones are worth iPhone dollars.
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So wait...if the Nexus phones stop getting updates in the next year or two, then what phones (if any) will run Fi?
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Oct 4, 2016 10:53
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There's still hope the straight from Google price is lower. What's odd about that article is they are talking about subsidized price. While it is possible to still get a 2 year agreement on Verizon if you are on a legacy plan, all current plan and new subscribers can only do monthly payment or full retail price. They don't even advertise subsidized prices so it's odd to give only that info. So, what I'm saying is, this may very well be a hoax to get people riled up.
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bull3964 posted:There's still hope the straight from Google price is lower. Yep, you could buy a 16GB Nexus 4 from T-Mobile for $500 financed when it was $350 from Google, or a 16GB Nexus 5 from Sprint for $525 financed when it was $350 from Google.
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NihilCredo posted:Dumb question: if you install a third-party launcher, to what degree does the stock launcher keep running in background? On a scale from "the stock launcher's process is totally killed and only exists as some files in storage" to "the stock launcher is running exactly like before, only invisibly"? The former
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Oct 4, 2016 11:40
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Any reason as to why the bottom bezel is so big with no physical buttons on it
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Oct 4, 2016 12:37
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I think what bugs me the most is that the antenna band cuts right into the bends, more so in the XL. That just looks so goddamn terrible to anyone with a modicum of design skills. It's like bad kerning in text.
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Calaveron posted:Any reason as to why the bottom bezel is so big with no physical buttons on it Because its an HTC
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Calaveron posted:Any reason as to why the bottom bezel is so big with no physical buttons on it Because they're reusing the casing from an older phone that had a fingerprint reader there.
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Calaveron posted:Any reason as to why the bottom bezel is so big with no physical buttons on it What everyone else is saying about HTC reusing casings, plus because the phone is ugly.
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Oct 4, 2016 14:23
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Has anyone quantified how much bezel is there at the bottom? The bezel doesn't bother me one bit based on looking at the pictures, but I don't have a physical comparison.
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Really hoping for good news on the Nexus/Pixel 7 front this afternoon. My 2013 N7 is still chugging along but showing its age. Speaking of... this morning it froze while playing a game and got stuck in a Google screen bootloop. Recovery mode wouldn't start, powering down completely didn't help, couldn't access the cache partition to delete it, and most of the forum tech support I could find for it was "your motherboard may need replacement" which made me think, perfect, it quits on the day the new one might be announced. That's planned obsolescence as finely tuned as it comes. Then I thought of this thread. So I closed the case, smacked it on all sides as I have been known to do when the touchscreen gets dodgy, and it booted on the next attempt. THREAD TITLE CONFIRMED.
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Dammit Google, I was hoping this year's phones wouldn't be poo poo. Nexus phones have generally been awesome and I loved my 4 and still really like my 5 even though it's what, three years old at this point? Was hoping these Pixels would be a good upgrade but man, these things are gonna be over $1,000 in Canada.
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Surely for such a premium phone they could've used a design that wasn't literally recycled? Like I know modern phones need to follow a particular design for function but it's just an iPhone with a hideous two tone back
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The blue/white is really cool. At 650, though, wow. Is there a live post thread for this? Super-NintendoUser fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Calaveron posted:Surely for such a premium phone they could've used a design that wasn't literally recycled? Like I know modern phones need to follow a particular design for function but it's just an iPhone with a hideous two tone back That's because they're contracting with HTC who all but stated they were stealing the iPhone 6 design when they launched the A9. 
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I don't really understand why people care if the case was used on another phone. I mean it's fine if you actually hate the look but why would I care how many phones look the same? Most phones look the same from more than like three feet away anyway. The bezels don't seem much different to the 6P which feels fine. I guess it lacks front-facing speakers though so maybe you'd expect it to be smaller but I can't say it bothers me at all. I've booked the 85in TV at work for a beer and pizza streaming party so even if this event is a total car crash at least it'll be a total car crash with free beer and pizza. Tunga fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Oct 4, 2016 15:09
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Think the blue has only been seen in the Verizon leak, so wonder if that is exclusive.
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bull3964 posted:What's odd about that article is they are talking about subsidized price. While it is possible to still get a 2 year agreement on Verizon if you are on a legacy plan, all current plan and new subscribers can only do monthly payment or full retail price. They don't even advertise subsidized prices so it's odd to give only that info. Even if you're on a legacy plan, they set an end-cap on how many upgrades you can get. We used up our last two a couple of years ago. Interestingly, they offer no-interest monthly payments.
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RVProfootballer posted:Or we could wait two hours before melting down I don't know that we need to wait the two hours to know the front is ugly. I quite like the back but I don't spend much time looking at the back of my phone.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Even if you're on a legacy plan, they set an end-cap on how many upgrades you can get. We used up our last two a couple of years ago. Interestingly, they offer no-interest monthly payments. The Android Police article says they're enterprise listings, so the $199.00 et al prices may be a special business thing.
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Oct 4, 2016 15:19
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The thread where we post about the Pixel event.
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That pricing is ridiculous. I 100% need a new phone, but this pricing is killing me. 
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ilkhan posted:What time is the actual event? 9am Pacific, noon Eastern.
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ilkhan posted:
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Don Lapre posted:Buy a nexus 6p then. I have to say that the 6P has been the best phone I've owned despite its massive size. And by "best" I don't mean in the obvious "of course its the best its newer than all your phones"-sense. I mean in the "how close it comes to meeting my expectations"-sense.
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Yeah, the 6P is the first Android phone I've owned that didn't have some glaring annoyance with the hardware. I preferred the size of the slightly larger 6, but that had some severe performance and battery life issues. I'll still probably buy a Pixel XL though because I want a new toy.
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Is there going to be some sort of live stream of today's unveiling, or is it going to be a quiet press event? I'm interested in how Google's going to spin things with these new phones. Awesome, thank you! VVV Mogomra fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Mogomra posted:Is there going to be some sort of live stream of today's unveiling, or is it going to be a quiet press event? I'm interested in how Google's going to spin things with these new phones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4y0KOeXViI
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Thermopyle posted:I have to say that the 6P has been the best phone I've owned despite its massive size. The 6p is the best Android phone I've ever had and real close to the best phone I've had period. Having a phone with a decent camera is really nice.
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Mogomra posted:Is there going to be some sort of live stream of today's unveiling, or is it going to be a quiet press event? I'm interested in how Google's going to spin things with these new phones.
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Don Lapre posted:Buy a nexus 6p then. Total side not: Why is there no submodel name for the smaller pixel? Pixel needs to be the line version, and [something] to distinguish it from the line in general. Like Pixel M and Pixel XL. Pixel without any sub designation is just weird. And confusing if they stick with it next year.
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S6 Active, 6.0.1 -- How do I disable OTA updates? I'm getting them all the time, they interrupt what I'm doing on my phone, disable it for 5-25 minutes at a time at inconvenient times, and are breaking features that I actually use on the phone. I want to completely disable all updates until a root comes available for this phone. How do I go about doing this?
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revmoo posted:S6 Active, 6.0.1 -- How do I disable OTA updates? I'm getting them all the time, they interrupt what I'm doing on my phone, disable it for 5-25 minutes at a time at inconvenient times, and are breaking features that I actually use on the phone. I want to completely disable all updates until a root comes available for this phone. How do I go about doing this? Just update it.
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