Anandtech article rips Pixel

[recDNA]

It's a very fair review. PIxel honestly does not bring enough to the table considering its price.

+1

 

[Aquila]

Big lol

 

[raremage]

As with any other device I own, my personal experience with it is more meaningful than the various stats generated through tool measurements.

On a daily basis the Pixel is lightning fast, the display is outstanding, takes great photos and video, and lets me do anything I need to do. What more can anyone ask for?

 

[mhw100]

I love this 128 xl but I'm on the fence for returning it only because the screen isn't as bright as some other devices.

 

[Bearcats98]

Pixel is not that water resistant... besides, beer is meant for drinking, not spilling.

Awesome...and VERY true!

 

[popkurn611]

Wish they'd reviewed the smaller Pixel, too. I'm curious how the 1080 display and smaller battery stack up.

Battery life is a hard one to judge because reviews and tests are all over the place. I've seen some iPhone7 reviews that just slam the battery life, yet AT rates it as one of the better ones. I've also seen a few reviews (Tweakers, for example) that found the smaller Pixel has significantly better battery life than the XL.

I had the iPhone 7 and the battery is horrible in my opinion. The phone was active for a day before I popped the Sim back into my galaxy s7 edge.

I too am curious to know how the battery life is on the regular pixel as I'm looking to downsize in screen size. I tried to downsize to the 4.7 iPhone and it was just way too small coming from a 5.5"

I think a 5.0 is the best of both worlds size wise and form factor.

 

[popkurn611]

I love this 128 xl but I'm on the fence for returning it only because the screen isn't as bright as some other devices.

Interesting you say that bc I had the XL and compared it side by side to my s7e and found that the pixel was brighter

 

[wordfool]

As with any other device I own, my personal experience with it is more meaningful than the various stats generated through tool measurements.

On a daily basis the Pixel is lightning fast, the display is outstanding, takes great photos and video, and lets me do anything I need to do. What more can anyone ask for?

A lower price?!

 

[Aquila]

A lower price?!

That'd be very far down on the list of things that I would ask for - because this is priced directly in line with it's closest competition, I have no grounds to ask for the price to be lower other than "I want more dollars in my pocket". Not a very good reason from the seller's perspective.

 

[I800C0LLECT]

Question... Why do bezels bother everybody so much? I like them so my hands aren't so cramped playing a game.

But even if I didn't... The size of bezels doesn't bother me. So why is it such an issue for so many?

Edit: I did hear a rumor that their size was related to the vr headset. Not sure why that makes sense

 

[Aquila]

Question... Why do bezels bother everybody so much? I like them so my hands aren't so cramped playing a game.But even if I didn't... The size of bezels doesn't bother me. So why is it such an issue for so many?Edit: I did hear a rumor that their size was related to the vr headset. Not sure why that makes sense

They look really bad in pictures of the phone and don't matter at all when using it.

 

[andrew_ackley]

Yes, please.

I ended up grabbing two Galaxy S7 from Best Buy because I couldn't refuse the $222 price tag.

If the Pixel drops by just $200, I will lose my will to resist and get another one. I can't imagine the Pixel selling that well.(based on what the Verizon corporate store manager has been telling me, as well as the number of thread views/replies on this forum, as well as Google's own Pixel forum section) Which is all fine with me, I want another Pixel and i want it cheap.

Uh what

 

[Impulses]

I doubt it and should Google ever release any sales numbers I'm certain they would speak for themselves. But to each their own. I had some time with the phone and didn't like it.

You're doubting the fact that I'm telling you what my preferences are? As are others? Hmm... Okay then. I didn't say a majority of us shared those preferences, I simply said "many".

 

[Impulses]

Question... Why do bezels bother everybody so much? I like them so my hands aren't so cramped playing a game.

But even if I didn't... The size of bezels doesn't bother me. So why is it such an issue for so many?

Edit: I did hear a rumor that their size was related to the vr headset. Not sure why that makes sense

I think it's an anti iPhone thing as much as anything, and to be fair I've mocked the iPhone's bezels myself in the past. People also see other phones that seem to make better use of the space and they comment based on that (I say seem because it's all relative and this argument ignores things like internals, lack of camera bump, etc); like having speakers or capacitive buttons on the edges.

For my own part, I don't really care about front firing speakers (not gonna use them for anything over a couple minutes anyway) and I actually prefer a rear fingerprint sensor... So the only better use of the bezels would be capacitive buttons, I wouldn't mind those but I don't mind on screen buttons either. My Nexus 5 had similarly large bezels (just the top one was smaller) so it's not much of an adjustment.

Other people are fanatical about their front speakers or prefer a front reader so I can understand where they're coming from. If Google hadn't done the big top bezel we'd just have a camera bump instead, that one could be minimized with some tradeoffs but I'm not sure the bottom one could've (unless we were talking about a radically different design).

A decent bottom bezel makes it less of a curve got my thumb to hit home but again, we're all different and have varying finger lengths, ways of holding a phone, etc. I wouldn't mind a camera bump are the cost of a smaller top bezel IF they also took it as a chance to relocate the headphone jack, but that's another super subjective choice. It's all connected tho, literally, and people forget that.

I don't think the bezels have anything to do with VR... Anandtech review explains them away pretty well, it's mostly the cameras and other choices.

 

[Aquila]

I personally absolutely hate capacitive and physical buttons. I could deal with them in a pinch, but guarantee I'd be looking for a replacement the whole time.

 

[rslifkin]

I personally absolutely hate capacitive and physical buttons. I could deal with them in a pinch, but guarantee I'd be looking for a replacement the whole time.

Out of curiosity, what's worse about capacitive buttons compared to having them on the screen?

 

[thatguy97]

Out of curiosity, what's worse about capacitive buttons compared to having them on the screen?

Mechanical breakdown overtime, integrating them on screen just means less parts.

 

[Aquila]

Out of curiosity, what's worse about capacitive buttons compared to having them on the screen?

Being always there is the practical problem for me; on screen can be moved, changed, hidden and can be dynamically assigned to fit the context of what you're doing. If you're holding the phone upside down they can reorientate to match what you're doing rather than having to rotate the device around to use it. But more to the point, it's been over 5 years since hardware keys became obsolete and Samsung made the first phone that took the new direction and then immediately reverted and today they still have 2010 style icons, in the wrong order, on the physical face of the devices. It just looks old and busted to me. All of that's just my opinion though, I know several people who prefer having off screen buttons and prefer the reverse order of keys.

 

[thatguy97]

Being always there is the practical problem for me; on screen can be moved, changed, hidden and can be dynamically assigned to fit the context of what you're doing. If you're holding the phone upside down they can reorientate to match what you're doing rather than having to rotate the device around to use it. But more to the point, it's been over 5 years since hardware keys became obsolete and Samsung made the first phone that took the new direction and then immediately reverted and today they still have 2010 style icons, in the wrong order, on the physical face of the devices. It just looks old and busted to me. All of that's just my opinion though, I know several people who prefer having off screen buttons and prefer the reverse order of keys.

They also get pretty faded and also dirty over time.


Anyone have a nexus one?

 

[Impulses]

It's kind of a moot point even if it's tangentially part of the discussion (and I know I'm the one that brought them up)... Google isn't doing capacitive buttons anymore than they're building in a card slot, it's just not part of their design ethos or the direction they wanna encourage.

I don't mind it too much one way or the other, I like on screen when it helps make the phone smaller (and they likely would here even with the bezels), I dislike mechanical home buttons and capacitive buttons that turn off constantly (e.g. Samsung)... Nevermind those that reassign stock functionality.

I can see why some are bothered by on screen buttons when they suddenly hide away... I've seen first hand thru my mother how it's not inherently obvious to bring them back (probably why stock Android has a message telling you how by default).

I can also see how others would be bothered by the opposite, the buttons not hiding away in apps you'd wish would go full screen. That's a problem with an obvious solution tho, complain to it's dev. Capacitive buttons that turn off constantly (specially with white bezels) cause just as many issues with those that aren't very techy IMO, some people end up largely ignoring them.