Exactly.
Back in the middle of the N7 drama, I was thinking that the Pixels would be the perfect thing to get, once I got my money back from the old N7.
With the advent of the specifics of the new Pixels, there's no competition. Very happy to be sticking with my new N7.
BTW, I also took a very close look at the V20, as I thought I needed some device to move to if the Pixels didnt' come to VZW. I've owned LG and really like them. My G2 was an underrated phone when it came out, and the subsequent "G" series has been quite nice. But again, the N7 just trounces the competition IMO.
Pixel straight up looks like iphone even has the camera is the same place.
I wouldn't compare it to a Note 7 and not sure why people are except maybe people are thinking it's Googles best vs the worlds best.
I've owned nearly every flagship from all the respective mfgs so I can relate.Funny you say that. This Note 7 of mine is the 9th or 10th Android phone for me going back to the Droid from Motorola. For a while there HTC made some really nice phones and I at the time thought they were #2 in design innovation to Apple.....then Samsung and their Note series arrived. That and also the amoled screen technology they developed.
I have been a Galaxy Note user since the Note 3, I am so comfortable with the size, that when I see other non phablets I cannot picture myself using something that small.
SAMSUNG did a pretty good job with the recall situation. I know its been a tough couple of months for he company but judging at the number of people rushing to the Carrier stores the other weekend when the 1st replacements arrived....... USA TODAY's bogus article of only 18% of Note 7 users are going to stay with the Note 7 - the article got blown up (And the media wonder why we don't trust/like them anymore)
I hope HTC can get it going again and make something marketable. The more viable manufacturer's the better the competition to drive innovation.
Just pointing out that the unlocked model will be sold on the play store so being a Verizon exclusive don't matter much unless of course, buying the phone outright at full cost on purchase is a problem. Google will finance also, I just saw that.Highest dxomark camera which is interesting.
Verizon exclusive makes it a fail.
Pretty sure the pixel has better than a 7 hr battery life. The feature that everyone is talking about is that a 15 minute fast charge will add 7 hrs of battery life on the pixel.
What does 7 hrs of battery life means anyway? 7 hrs of standby, 1 hr SOT + 6 hrs standby... or?
That bezel on the bottom is ridiculous......theres nothing there and it's so huge....
Verizon exclusive to be sold in stores -- it is still available for others just not through the carrier. Unless that is what you meant .
Yeah, I thought it was carrier locked but its not. Verizon is the only in-store place selling them but I'm still wondering if somehow they'll branded with Verizon logo??....cause we all know how much Big Red likes putting their name on things, lol!
That bezel on the bottom is ridiculous......theres nothing there and it's so huge....
It's likely that there are things under it.
It has its buttons and FPS marring the front of it... lolI think my N7 has things in it too.
Doesn't mean it has to be designed so poorly.
. I bought the Nexus 5X knowing I'll have three years of timely support (two years of version updates and three years of security patches), no excessive bloat, and freedom.
Great way of looking at it. To me freedom within the software in terms of unlocking the bootloader, running custom Roms, rooting, running Xposed, etc is key. To others like yourself freedom in via hardware capabilities and stock features are key. Running stock 7.0 on the Nexus 5x (great camera) is nice. The older Nexus 5 did have a pretty terrible camera which was traditionally the case of the Nexus line.It's funny how different people see the market. I loved my Nexus 5, but I never had the freedom to take a good photo. I didn't have the freedom to use the S pen, never had the freedom to expand memory, didn't have the freedom to get caught in a rainstorm......
We all see it differently. But I never felt all that "free" with a Nexus device. Freedom to me is when my device is jam packed with features, and i'm free to choose which features I'd like to utilize and which ones I wouldn't. With the Nexus, what you see is what you get and there is nothing more. Then again, I don't root and mess with everything at that level, so it was never really for me.