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Like to keep up a phone at least 2 years and still pretty happy with my 7. Would love to see alittle better battery life and brighter screen on the 8's.
 

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Will give more thought to upgrading than I have in the past. My phone use is down, a few call s a month, mostly texts. I still have a regular 7 I got for next to nothing in a deal with Best Buy last year. It sits in the cupboard except when I update it. My daily drive is a 7 Pro, not very thrilled with it.

Will have to see what BB offers this year. For some undiscoverable reason, I am not able to buy from the Google store, haven't for a few years now.

When all is said and done, I'll do what 'Stang tells me to do.
 
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I'm not in the market for a new phone (my Pixel 7 is only six months old), but I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for early October! I love this time of year -- Fall, Thanksgiving (Canadian), and Pixel launch!
 

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Going forward from 2025 on, from what I understand Google won't be using a modified Samsung Exynos chip, they're going to have custom chips produced directly from the Taiwanese chip maker TSMC. That should be a big step up for the Pixels 👍
 

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Going forward from 2025 on, from what I understand Google won't be using a modified Samsung Exynos chip, they're going to have custom chips produced directly from the Taiwanese chip maker TSMC. That should be a big step up for the Pixels
That's assuming google is actually going to be good at mobile chip design. I predict the in-house tensor will actually be a worse SoC than the competing Exynos.

It also assumes that by 2025 TSMC won't be just a glorified production arm of Apple, with 100% of their high end/low nanometre production being devoted to Apple.
 

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That's assuming google is actually going to be good at mobile chip design. I predict the in-house tensor will actually be a worse SoC than the competing Exynos.
You make a good point, I was wondering that myself lol. I would most likely stay away from the first generation of their own custom designed chipset, I can imagine how buggy that could possibly be 😯

But I think down the road it could develop into a good thing 😉

With all the patching, so far I haven't had any real issues with my P6Pro 👍 I was especially surprised at how little it heated up under load, like major updates, compared to my Flip 3 updating, which got so hot I gave it a break just to be sure and avoid any heat related throttling or glitches.

I expected to be able to fry an egg on the 6 Pro's Teflon slick back from what I've read, but alas, no egg breakfast for me lol.
 
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That's assuming google is actually going to be good at mobile chip design. I predict the in-house tensor will actually be a worse SoC than the competing Exynos.

It also assumes that by 2025 TSMC won't be just a glorified production arm of Apple, with 100% of their high end/low nanometre production being devoted to Apple.
A remarkably cynical observation on your part, and I reject that you came up with it before I did. Let's be friends.
 

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