Are the Pixel speakers likely to be louder than the speakers on the Nexus 6P or HTC M8/M9?

[craZDude]

If there is only one down firing speaker then why are there two speaker grills on the bottom? Am I missing something?

Oftentimes this is done for aesthetics, with one cutout housing a speaker, and the other just being an opening for a microphone. It's looks really nice having those symmetric cutouts at the bottom!

 

[Aquila]

What is a Note 7?

lol nothing now; it was a super awesome phone that a ton of people were excited about. then something went wrong and they have to go buy HTC 10's or LG V20's or Pixels or whatever.

 

[Wiley_11]

lol nothing now; it was a super awesome phone that a ton of people were excited about. then something went wrong and they have to go buy HTC 10's or LG V20's or Pixels or whatever.

And hope your new toy isn't powered by Samsung............

 

[Aquila]

And hope your new toy isn't powered by Samsung............

Depending on which device, good chance a ton of the components are. Samsung makes batteries, displays, silicon, the Qualcomm SoC's, etc, etc. LG would be the most immune with their own display and battery production lines, but they'd still be dependent on that SoC and possibly other components.

 

[Wiley_11]

Depending on which device, good chance a ton of the components are. Samsung makes batteries, displays, silicon, the Qualcomm SoC's, etc, etc. LG would be the most immune with their own display and battery production lines, but they'd still be dependent on that SoC and possibly other components.

I just hope they get a handle on the battery issue soon! I don't know who/what they make batteries for(Apple I've heard) but this could be a disaster.

 

[cbreze]

Depending on which device, good chance a ton of the components are. Samsung makes batteries, displays, silicon, the Qualcomm SoC's, etc, etc. LG would be the most immune with their own display and battery production lines, but they'd still be dependent on that SoC and possibly other components.

Samsung makes batteries? I thought a 3rd party contractor did that. Hence the note 7 fiasco. They mentioned 3rd party supplier as this was starting to hit the fan.

 

[Wiley_11]

Samsung makes batteries? I thought a 3rd party contractor did that. Hence the note 7 fiasco. They mentioned 3rd party supplier as this was starting to hit the fan.

These batteries were in the Note 7 Hot Pockets edition.


Samsung SDI Small-Sized Li-ion Battery - Index | Samsung SDI

 

[Aquila]

Samsung makes batteries? I thought a 3rd party contractor did that. Hence the note 7 fiasco. They mentioned 3rd party supplier as this was starting to hit the fan.

Samsung used 3 suppliers for the Note 7. I forgot the details, but I can look it up if you need it. China required batteries built in China and required them to meet regulatory factors. The bulk of the batteries going to everywhere that's not China were manufactured by SDI, which is Samsung's battery making arm (legally I think it's a subsidiary) and has manufacturing and research all over the world.

 

[N4Newbie]

If there is only one down firing speaker then why are there two speaker grills on the bottom? Am I missing something?

And, as mentioned earlier, the Nexus 5 was the same - dual cutouts but only one speaker.

 

[badelhas]

I hoped the speakers could match the HTC 10 ones but I doubt it. Why can't we find a proper review yet?

Cheers

 

[anon(470989)]

And the Pixel is also a full package and a better package than the HTC 10. If the Pixel is overpriced, the HTC 10 certainly is. The HTC 10 is inferior in virtually every way.

This guy lol...

 

[Kadeemhunt]

From what I've heard from people who have the phone is that it sound good for bottom firing speaker, but I don't know if that means much.

 

[Harsh_Malkani]

HTC 10 speakers are just amazing
Besides for a phone priced as high as the pixel
Expected it to have dual speakers
Anyway in a few days we'll get to know as to how good the speakers are in the pixel
Fingers crossed till then

 

[badelhas]

HTC 10 speakers are just amazing
Besides for a phone priced as high as the pixel
Expected it to have dual speakers
Anyway in a few days we'll get to know as to how good the speakers are in the pixel
Fingers crossed till then

Htc costs 550 right now. Much cheaper.

 

[cactuspete23]

If speakers are so-so, How is audio through earphones?

 

[EnemiesInTheEnd]

HTC 10 speakers are just amazing
Besides for a phone priced as high as the pixel
Expected it to have dual speakers
Anyway in a few days we'll get to know as to how good the speakers are in the pixel
Fingers crossed till then

The only Android flagship phone that has dual speakers is the HTC 10 so I'm not sure why you would expect ezpensive phones to have dual speakers.

 

[shaq penn]

Regardless of all else, the Pixel and Pixel XL both have "Crisp sound quality with single bottom-firing speaker" - scroll down to and expand the Specs section at https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...om/us/category/phones?hl=en-US&token=fO_QVuvR

*Drops mic*

 

[Lucaan]

Louder or not. I think one thing that is not accounted for is that the phone is also there for launching Google's future platforms. Single down-firing speaker? Daydream...

 

[Ptaswath]

May be..good!

 

[badelhas]

The reviews are taking a lot of time to appear on the Internet...