Good decision making by you, and by that I mean going 128 because she wants the pics local.According to many on these threads I will be throwing my money away on a non-Samsung Pixel.
Given my wife's propensity for pictures and her need for the camera to be really good I am going to waste even more money on the 128 version. I have discussed with her cloud but she want to immediately go through and show. Not for me to argue with her. Figure best of both worlds here.
She is coming from an iPhone5 (not S) and after three replaced batteries I am done with it and she is done with the camera and lack of storage. So this is the basis of what she is coming from. Pretty much anything will be an upgrade. LOL!
Things that are of no bother to us: Waterproofing. None of our phones had it and we do not work jobs that require it. Wireless charging isn't a consideration as we keep phones a long time and heat = battery abuse. These batteries need to last a long while. Expandable storage and cloud should alleviate any concern as we don't have a bunch of games or videos on the phone.
Things that are drawing us to it. Notification light (her). Software updates (me). HTC build (me). Looks like an iPhone (her). Bigger AMOLED screen for hopefully better outdoor visibility. More configuration options (both of us). Something that goes into a case better and feels good in her hands (so blocky design is good).
I will be buying late November early December to give Google a month to see how they respond to "issue" that come up. I am closely watching the Blue Tooth and AOD type.
Good decision making by you, and by that I mean going 128 because she wants the pics local.
If you forced her to the cloud,just one time there was a delay in a pic coming up, BOOM, I told you so for years to come.
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