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Sell your Pixel 6s or live with the knowledge that your phone is loyal to Clam's phone, not you.
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my Pixel 4XL is merely OK there's no point in upgrading it atm in fact, I think the screen is too big for a phone tbqh
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Jun 21, 2022 02:15
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I bought a Pixel 6 a little while ago to replace my 3A. It's definitely too big, but I actually quite like the heft of it. Feels substantial.
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Jun 21, 2022 02:33
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 I literally have all the flagships. Fold 3, Flip 3, S22 Ultra, iPhone 12 Pro Max, OP9P, and Pixel 6 Pro. I rarely last more than a week with one of the other phones before my SIM is back in the Pixel 6 Pro.
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Jun 21, 2022 02:45
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I want more tiny phones. Better yet I want a standalone watch that lets me text and talk and maybe do some fitness tracking without needing to lug a phone around with me.
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Jun 21, 2022 02:49
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cptn_dr posted:I bought a Pixel 6 a little while ago to replace my 3A. It's definitely too big, but I actually quite like the heft of it. Feels substantial. I went from a Motorola 5G Ace which is basically the same size as a Pixel 6 Pro, and that I would say is right on the line of being too big. The Pixel 6 is a little smaller and feels like a good size to me - the screen feels like a good size but it's easier to get in and out of pocket than the bigger phones.
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Jun 21, 2022 02:54
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The HTC One remains my favorite form factor. The speakers were actually usable, the display adequate, and the entire thing could be comfortably used one-handed.
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Jun 21, 2022 04:20
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Yep that was Peak Phone Design. Absolutely beautiful. Give me one with no bezels and a modern camera please
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Jun 21, 2022 04:24
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You might be safe to get a full 90 minutes of runtime on that 2300mAh battery too.
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Jun 21, 2022 04:37
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Just give me a trackball again
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Jun 21, 2022 05:05
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The Pixel 6 caused me to move to iPhone. It was the worst smartphone I've ever owned. I'm still annoyed I didn't just get a 5a.
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Jun 21, 2022 05:25
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Kirios posted:The Pixel 6 caused me to move to iPhone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNyUALnj8V0
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Jun 21, 2022 05:26
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Hey man it was the final straw of playing the Google roulette. I used Nexus/Pixel phones for a decade prior to moving on.
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Jun 21, 2022 05:28
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Kirios posted:The Pixel 6 caused me to move to iPhone. 
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Jun 21, 2022 08:01
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Kirios posted:The Pixel 6 caused me to move to iPhone. I didn’t even own one and it caused me to switch 🤷♀️
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Jun 21, 2022 13:03
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My pixel 6 killed my dog.
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Jun 21, 2022 13:39
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My girlfriend is shopping for a new phone and we went through her options together last night (even though we both know she'll get an iPhone) and I was shocked to find out that, with our carrier (Rogers, in Canada), the Pixel 6 Pro is one of the most expensive to finance on your plan. The base Pixel 6 is the same price as an S22 Ultra. The 6 Pro is more expensive than the Z Flip or the iPhone 13 (and closer in price to the 13 Pro). I loved the older Pixel phones, but I loved them because they took great pictures for mid-range prices, and because they had "pure" android at a time when pretty much all other flavors sucked. At a flagship price (and now that OneUI is actually pretty good) I'm having a hard time recommending it. She'll end up with an iPhone anyway.
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Jun 21, 2022 13:43
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Its utterly tragic that something as ubiquitous as phones has no truly great options like virtually all other consumer electronic mediums. You can go into the HDTV thread and get recommended a consensus TV for your use case easily. Speakers, computers. Phones? You cant get poo poo, especially for a decent price because the dumb public thinks the slave labor produced iphone is a premium status symbol and other manufacturers dare not deviate from their example if they've any hope to capture any sort of worthwhile market share. Now of course there was Huawei who made great phones in our experience so they had to be singled out and removed from the western market as if literally every single internet connected device we use isn't actively and aggressively documenting every digital move we make.
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Jun 21, 2022 14:50
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hooah posted:Sourdough's post was sarcasm, though? God drat I've been off my game lately. I blame having a teenager in my house stealing all my brainpower.
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Jun 21, 2022 15:02
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codo27 posted:Its utterly tragic that something as ubiquitous as phones has no truly great options like virtually all other consumer electronic mediums. You can go into the HDTV thread and get recommended a consensus TV for your use case easily. Speakers, computers. Phones? You cant get poo poo, especially for a decent price because the dumb public thinks the slave labor produced iphone is a premium status symbol and other manufacturers dare not deviate from their example if they've any hope to capture any sort of worthwhile market share. I long for the day where phones, smart phones, are basically disposable devices. Not status symbols. Not even relevant in one's accessory list, just something that one has for communication while on the go. Then again, I also wish I wouldn't have to have a smart phone, but that ship has sailed 15 years ago and in today's world is pretty much a mandatory piece of equipment.
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Jun 21, 2022 15:12
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At what income level do people stop considering iPhones status symbols? I'm not trying to be classist against lower-income people here, to me it's the same concept as BMWs/Benz' only being status symbols to middle-class people and below, and McMansions only being status symbols to upper-middle class people and below. I just can't imagine anyone with a mortgage thinking, "Wow, that person owns an iPhone, they must really have their life together."
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Jun 21, 2022 16:28
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Really, it’s just the iMessage conversation color. That poo poo is peer pressure crack for younger social groups and like they say, hook them young. That’s also the reason why iPhone doesn’t have the same marketshare outside of the US since they all moved on to other messaging platforms from SMS before iMessage became a thing. Seriously, I have a 15 year old nephew and the way he tells it, he would be ostracized from his social group if he had a green bubble.
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Jun 21, 2022 16:44
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Outside of high school, I can't imagine anyone caring about phones as a status symbol. Maybe techies would care about a foldable, but I'm thoroughly middle-class and everyone around me has an iPhone or equally-priced flagship and nobody cares. Ironically, I think (and I may very well be wrong) that the iPhone lost its status symbol as it became better. I remember the first gen having a lovely camera, no 3G and no app store so you really were showing off that you could afford to blow 500$ on something that did the same thing as a Razr and a cheaper iPod. Now iPhones are great phones, but they're so great that everyone has to have one, and everyone does.
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CordlessPen posted:Outside of high school, I can't imagine anyone caring about phones as a status symbol. Maybe techies would care about a foldable, but I'm thoroughly middle-class and everyone around me has an iPhone or equally-priced flagship and nobody cares. Well, not everyone does. And mainly because, as far as I know, in order to fully be able to use an iPhone one would kinda need a Mac as they really integrate well within that ecosystem. And, one absolutely needs a Mac to write a program for said phone as well. And I am not buying a Mac since I had to use one for work and that UI was created by UX designers on crack. Dunno who likes that ugly monstrosity, but I refuse to use that junk. The OS is fine, the UI is what kills it. And since, as far as I know, there's no way to connect an iPhone to a linux computer to transfer files (pictures for example), that makes it a non-starter. I am lucky that my son (who is a teenager now) lost his apple appetite around age 10 when an iPod that he had just refused to function one day and seems to be happy with the android phones he had so far so he didn't ask for Apple stuff. edit: I would, however, buy him an Apple phone if he wanted to and he knows this as I told him. I wouldn't want him to feel marginalized in his peer group if everyone is using them, however dumb that may be. Volguus fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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Volguus posted:Well, not everyone does. And mainly because, as far as I know, in order to fully be able to use an iPhone one would kinda need a Mac as they really integrate well within that ecosystem. And, one absolutely needs a Mac to write a program for said phone as well. And I am not buying a Mac since I had to use one for work and that UI was created by UX designers on crack. Dunno who likes that ugly monstrosity, but I refuse to use that junk. The OS is fine, the UI is what kills it. You don't need a Mac to use an iPhone and you don't need to plug your phone into a computer for anything
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Volguus posted:I long for the day where phones, smart phones, are basically disposable devices. Not status symbols. Not even relevant in one's accessory list, just something that one has for communication while on the go. Then again, I also wish I wouldn't have to have a smart phone, but that ship has sailed 15 years ago and in today's world is pretty much a mandatory piece of equipment. Anyone who considers a phone to be a status symbol is a loving tool. Buy and use what suits your needs.
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I had a Pixel 6 Pro for 2 weeks and then returned it and kept using my Pixel 5 that's my pixel 6 story hope y'all enjoyed reading
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People are spending $1700 for the first 100 Nothing phones on Stockx.
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sourdough posted:You don't need a Mac to use an iPhone and you don't need to plug your phone into a computer for anything How do you transfer files to a computer from the phone? Just out of curiosity. And how do you write a program for it without a Mac? Do they have linux SDK?
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Volguus posted:How do you transfer files to a computer from the phone? Just out of curiosity. And how do you write a program for it without a Mac? Do they have linux SDK? what do you think is the percentage of people buying phones based on their ability to write programs for
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Volguus posted:How do you transfer files to a computer from the phone? Just out of curiosity. And how do you write a program for it without a Mac? Do they have linux SDK? I imagine one of the many cloud services/backups would work to transfer files. Not iCloud though, obviously that's Apple only. You cannot compile for iOS without XCode which only runs on a Mac. That's blatant anti-consumer monopoly power abuse of course, but nothing will ever come of it. There are online services such as codemagic.io that will build your ios code on their macs. That's what I use to build for ios for my Flutter based cross platform game which I develop entirely on Linux.
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Soul Glo posted:what do you think is the percentage of people buying phones based on their ability to write programs for Miniscule, but not zero. Even if I'm the only one.
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Jun 21, 2022 18:31
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Soul Glo posted:what do you think is the percentage of people buying phones based on their ability to write programs for I'm not quite sure how is that relevant. I'm just stating my reasons. For me that's extremely important. 5TonsOfFlax posted:I imagine one of the many cloud services/backups would work to transfer files. Not iCloud though, obviously that's Apple only. Ah, so people without Macs basically do not connect their phones to the computer then at all? And transfer files ... some other way (if at all)?
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Arbitrary file transfer like that really isn’t a common use case anymore. I don’t really do it on android either.
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Jun 21, 2022 18:38
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Volguus posted:I'm not quite sure how is that relevant. I'm just stating my reasons. For me that's extremely important. I, a developer, only connect my phone to my computers to deploy software I'm creating. I do not transfer files from phone to computer or vice versa, because the only non-dev time I use files is for media (plex) and google documents, which are already in the cloud. My wife, who has both an iPhone and a Mac does not connect her phone to her computer or transfer files at all. I think her experience is probably typical. For most people, their phone is an internet content consumption appliance. The fact that it's implemented via a general purpose computer is irrelevant to them. Sadly.
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I connect my phone to a computer if I'm moving large files, like music, otherwise I just use wireless file transfer back and forth.
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I haven't done file transfer between a phone and a computer in....many years. Just use Google Drive?
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My mom has a Galaxy a51 and it just fell on the floor. It says it has been factory reset when I try to turn it on and begins setup. before I do anything, is there a way to recover what was on her phone? If I go through setup will it wipe anything that was there?
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Captain Invictus posted:My mom has a Galaxy a51 and it just fell on the floor. It says it has been factory reset when I try to turn it on and begins setup. before I do anything, is there a way to recover what was on her phone? If I go through setup will it wipe anything that was there? Is there an SD card in it that could be taken out and put into a PC? You could also try just plugging in the phone to a PC to see if it'll show up as removable storage. Generally a factory reset will wipe the device and put it back to, well, factory settings. That seems like a much worse fate than just a screen breaking from a fall though.
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Volguus posted:I'm not quite sure how is that relevant. I'm just stating my reasons. For me that's extremely important. Hold up, are you the one from the iPhone thread a few months ago that had this exact same conversation? And caused many of us to not understand why you didn’t understand cloud services?
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