That's what they said about 400MHz back when I was starting out in the commercial two-way field. One day, everything will be mm (or higher frequency) signalling, but a) I probably won't live to see it (I'm 77) and b) no one will want an "old" Pixel 5 by then.
I forgot that one. A removable battery is better than a larger one (unless they double the capacity) because I can always carry a fully charged spare without taking up much space at all.
That makes using your thumb easy, Morty - but it makes using other fingers a bit clumsy. Grabbing the phone and sticking an index finger on the scanner is natural - if the scanner is on the back. You really should have 2 well-separated fingers on each hand registered. (A cast covering your fingertips makes all the fingerprints on that hand useless. A broken finger or two means that the other end of your hand has to be used [or your other hand].)
You barely have to touch the scanner. But try it with an unregistered finger, and a hammer is easier (if more destructive).
The only reason I bought my Pixel 2 was to have a fingerprint scanner (the old Note 3 was doing fine, but I needed the security for a couple of apps). No fingerprint or real iris scanner, and I'd have no actual use for the phone. (Even TOF facial recognition is too easy to fake. Not that faking a fingerprint scanner is that difficult - none of them take ridge details into account, just ridges. But until we get real iris scanners in phones [they exist, just not in phones], fingerprint scanners are the best we've got.)
There's a big difference between the state of the art of technology that tends to progress over time, and the hard limits of the physical world that do not change. If "they" claimed in the '50s or '60s that LMR radio at 400 MHz was an unworkable thing, "they" were simply misinformed, unaware that the US and UK had been using UHF for radar as early as 1940. The frequencies around 400 MHz were assigned for federal government use in 1945, and Citizens Band Class A was assigned in 1948 at frequencies between 460 and 470 MHz. By the time I got involved in such things in the '70s, that band was in use by metro police, with the 470 MHz "T band" used by suburban police. Civilian LMR in the 450 MHz band is also popular, my dad's company had a license there in the 1970s, and one of the TV production companies that I provide engineering services to uses the same band nearly a half-century later.
There wasn't much to upgrade to the 3XL from the 2XL either. I think there are more benefits every 2-3 years of upgrading over upgrading every single year.
Yeah, I'd have to completely agree. I mean for a thousand bucks, doesn't seem like it worthwhile upgrade.
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