(Poll) If you could change ONLY 1 thing about the Pixel, what is it?

[lafountain]

Price

 

[Toughmn]

The price, but maybe not directly. They need to have it on the other carriers. Competition will bring incentives or price drops.

 

[Practical Performance]

OIS. The biggest missing feature is OIS. The EIS implementation looks impressive, but it only works for 1080p videos. At the end of the day, the best video performance is attained with both hardware and software stabilization, and the lack of stabilization for 4K videos is a big miss in my book.

 

[Practical Performance]

Because it's not needed. The method they are using to stabilize video, if done right, will outperform OIS... The phones sensors can determine its position in space 200 times a second.. a phone is smarter than a spring.

And with stills, the way HDR+ works, camera shake will be greatly mitigated... The lack of OIS on the 6P did little to impact is still performance.

EIS doesn't work on 4K videos. As impressive as today's camera hardware is, it cannot handle EIS for 4K videos, nor can most phones record 4K at 60 fps. Hands On With the New Google Pixel Phones

 

[arthurhkt]

If you can change ONLY 1 thing about the Pixel or Pixel XL, what would it be?

Wish they would release 4.7/4.8 inch version of it, just like the Nexus 4.

 

[thunderroid]

$299 instead of $649

 

[RafiAnsari]

If you can change ONLY 1 thing about the Pixel or Pixel XL, what would it be?

I would like to add the Pixel Light Bar and An IP Rating and 64GB Base model. That would have been perfect! The Light Bar would have been iconic and would have differentiated the Pixel from all other phones and IP rating would have kept it at par with all other flagships around but I appreciate this phone and It is a Good one for a Company trying hardware for masses for the first time.

 

[Sub0dhJain]

Add a Hardware button in the front like iPhone and OnePlus 3 for quicker fingerprint recognition.

 

[tgp]

Other, wireless charging. Easy choice for me!

 

[LeoRex]

EIS doesn't work on 4K videos. As impressive as today's camera hardware is, it cannot handle EIS for 4K videos, nor can most phones record 4K at 60 fps. Hands On With the New Google Pixel Phones

True... but I don't know... I just don't see the practicality of 4K at the moment. Google mitigates the storage aspect by giving Pixel owners free unlimited cloud storage, but in terms dealing with 4K videos... there aren't many devices that can even display 4K, even the phone from which we are taking these things can't show the full resolution.

Just seems that, to me, once 4K video becomes relevant and pervasive, even the Pixel will be a dinosaur.

 

[jra716]

Price. The Nexus 5X (the phone I'm currently using) was a let down and it seems to perform worse then my backup Moto G4. Maybe they could make a cheaper version of each size with less performance, cheaper plastic build..

 

[anon(464338)]

Last year many complained about the cheap build. Can't make everyone happy.

 

[jmartin]

Qi wireless charging

 

[JusticeCalibur]

price is my number pick because it does not justify the cost for a 32Gb. Yes, we do have unlimited storage in the cloud at full resolution but it wont be often we will be in a wifi area we have the password to especially when traveling often.

 

[Feldon]

It works on all modern carriers that support 3G/4G/LTE, plus the biggest CDMA carrier in the US. Not sure what carriers people feel are missing?

 

[Practical Performance]

True... but I don't know... I just don't see the practicality of 4K at the moment. Google mitigates the storage aspect by giving Pixel owners free unlimited cloud storage, but in terms dealing with 4K videos... there aren't many devices that can even display 4K, even the phone from which we are taking these things can't show the full resolution.

Just seems that, to me, once 4K video becomes relevant and pervasive, even the Pixel will be a dinosaur.

I agree with you, but 99% of my videos are of my young kids. When I'm older and want to view the videos, it would be beneficial then that I shot the videos in the highest possible quality (4K) now.

 

[Wiley_11]

Starts fires............

 

[VitaminA]

I would have loved to see a light bar (either front or back). I had the Pixel C for a little while, and although I had to return it for lack of compatibility with a game I play, I loved that feature. Looked cool, functional, unique...really was hoping it made its way to the phones.

 

[LookArpTheStars]

Definitely the speakers - cmon, stereo speakers would make the phone almost perfect

 

[Nekusta]

I'm a really SD card dependent. Would've liked to see that