These 'Pixel 2 problem!' stories need to stop

[mmcclure0453]

I too ordered as soon as it was possible to do so. Then all the negative articles and videos started to surface. I thought maybe I should cancel my order for an $800 phone that was gonna be a massive headache and just look elsewhere or stick with my iPhone 7 and the first Pixel. Man am I glad I didn't cancel that order! MY Pixel 2 is awesome! Absolutely no issues whatsoever.

Where I was having to click on my iPhone 7 screen 2 to 3 times for something to respond, the Pixel 2 responds with 1 click and is blazing fast.

I'm sure some people are having real issues with their phones. So send it back! Get it replaced or move on to another phone. You have a return period for a reason. Use it...

As for my Pixel 2, buttery smooth and flawless performance. Assistant is great. Learning new things to do with this on a daily basis. I wouldn't trade it for any phone on the market today!

Give the phone a REAL chance and you may like it. Don't pull it from the box and a couple hours later decide it's crap. Give it a chance and then if you don't like it send it back.

I really hope to hear more from people that are having a positive experience with this phone. I know they're out there. Unfortunately complaints usually end up being posted more then positive experiences.

 

[PowrDroid]

It's a legitimate article with legitimate concerns. I mean, if you don't experience those issues, bully for you. But others have those problems and people should know if there are any potential problems with devices, ESPECIALLY if they're going to drop between $850-$950 on it.

Like saying when I take low light photos with my phone there is a lot of noise in the images. Is that a problem or is this pretty much to be expected?

You take a picture of an object under LED lighting that is strobing on/off at 60 cycles per second and if the phone's camera is not set to a shutter speed of 1/60th of a second or lower or a harmonic of 1/60th of a second (i.e. 1/120, 1/360, etc.) you're going to see banding. The problem is the lighting, not the phone.

 

[Aquila]

It's a legitimate article with legitimate concerns. I mean, if you don't experience those issues, bully for you. But others have those problems and people should know if there are any potential problems with devices, ESPECIALLY if they're going to drop between $850-$950 on it.

Wait, what? An issue that impacts cameras, of all sorts of kinds, is an issue that requires an article that singles out only one camera? That's not a legitimate argument or a legitimate concern.

This effect would be present in almost every phone, whether Google made it, Apple, Samsung or anyone else. And the author would know that if they did 40 seconds of research to discover what the issue actually is. But that research wasn't done, the only thing that happened was a hastily written click-bait article to capitalize off of all the hyperbole that you and others are feeding off of. The goal wasn't to help people make informed decisions over competing products, it was to generate clicks.

But I didn't provide any new information here, I just restated what is stated in the OP in slightly different terms. Which means you didn't read the OP, or you would already know all of this as well. So the author of the article didn't research, they instead went for cheap hyperbole. And you didn't read the commentary about the article, you went right for that same cheap hyperbole. Come on, I KNOW that you can do better; you've done better than that for years. But AC did the wrong thing here as a blog and the folks feeding into it, and thus rewarding them for it, is coming off as being quite ridiculous.

 

[SupraLB]

Completely agree with OP. Nearly every website is into sensationalism and fearmongering. Some even trying to mix politics into their articles, for more cheap clickbait.

 

[ImTurningViolet]

hate iCloud, iTunes is sketchy, and downloading photos from my iPhone is a nightmare. So those are my main reasons for wanting to give the Pixel a try. My only other Android phone, a Galaxy Samsung S3, was the worst mobile experience I had ever had (hence I went to an iPhone), so there is a little bit of doubt lingering about whether Android is for me.

Google photos is so much easier to use than Apple's version. With Apple I could never tell where the heck my photos actually were. And stock Android is completely different from Samsung's version of Android. Stock is much more intuitive and pleasing imo. You'll like it!

 

[bhatech]

Yeah it's like that have that new guy who is just digging forums and blogs to write articles about Pixel 2 to get clicks. Any nitpicking, small/big issues, trade in issues (S8, Note 8 had a bunch) and pretty much anything is a big deal now since they are getting clicks mentioning Pixel issues. They will ride this as much as they can.

 

[Aquila]

My only other Android phone, a Galaxy Samsung S3, was the worst mobile experience I had ever had (hence I went to an iPhone), so there is a little bit of doubt lingering about whether Android is for me.

Luckily the S3 has less in common with the Pixels than a zebra has in common with a koala bear.

 

[Aquila]

Yeah it's like that have that new guy who is just digging forums and blogs to write articles about Pixel 2 to get clicks. Any nitpicking, small/big issues, trade in issues (S8, Note 8 had a bunch) and pretty much anything is a big deal now since they are getting clicks mentioning Pixel issues. They will ride this as much as they can.

I'm not necessarily opposed to the "let's go make that money" attitude.. but, whenever associated with the journalism field or any sort of media that's perceived to be factually informative, it should come with two things. 1. A big *** sign at the top that says, "THIS IS NOT TRUE AND WE ARE JUST MAKING STUFF UP OR OTHERWISE BLOWING TINY THINGS OUT OF PROPORTION AND INTO MAJOR ISSUES IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY". and 2. A big ol sign at the bottom that says, "I, (author's name), agreed to ***** my name out to this rubbish voluntarily and I accept that I cannot ever be mentioned in the same sentence as the word "journalist", unless that sentence is specifically that "(author's name) is definitely not a journalist".

I do not think that those signs would hurt their business at all, because no one is going to read them ... just like they didn't read the article itself. The trend now is to read the headline and then comment.

 

[rich250]

it's real easy to just stop reading such articles, that's what i did

 

[Guyinbox]

If they would just factually report the number of cases they're basing the article on I'd be cool with it. Instead of saying "pixel 2 users are experiencing..." They should say "we've found 2 cases of a pixel 2 ..." Reporting on a defect with a single phones would be silly, so tech sites are using one or a handful of examples and representing them as a widespread problem.

Wherever though. My xl has been killer thus far and i couldn't be happier coming from my v20 and s7 edge.

 

[vzwuser76]

My only other Android phone, a Galaxy Samsung S3, was the worst mobile experience I had ever had (hence I went to an iPhone), so there is a little bit of doubt lingering about whether Android is for me.

While the Galaxy S3 isn't my only other Android experience like it was for you, it was also my worst. So while it sucks you had a similar experience as I did, it's nice to know I wasn't the only one who had a bad experience with the S3.

It was the first and only phone I had actual burn in on (after almost a year on the right side of the display from the status bar in landscape orientation), GPS needed helper apps to even get a lock, bad lag after a few months, and at the one year mark, battery life was half what I started out with and cellular radios (voice and mobile data) no longer worked. It was useful as a media player, but that was about it.

 

[e30ernest]

I first saw this "issue" on my feed from Phone Arena yesterday morning. This is definitely a problem with the lighting and not the phone itself. Phone Arena even stated that no other phone had this issue, that is questionable IMO.

All of my lights at home are LED, I do not get that banding at all in both photos and videos.

IMO the OP should remove the link from his post, so that they won't get traffic funneled down towards them.

 

[pkcable]

This all reminds me of the OP5 "Jelly" screen issues! lol

 

[Morty2264]

I've seen so many media articles on Facebook talking about the Pixel 2 line... I feel like some (not all) articles are merely trying to crush the competition with Google and sway/dissuade potential buyers. There is bias in everything; and so I think articles need to be taken with a grain of salt. Yes, it's important to do research; but in-store testing by the potential buyer and in-person conclusions are so significant.

 

[anon(9681881)]

This morning I was watching TV and some story came on and it showed an iPhone X and the blue tint was very obvious. They they showed a Samsung and the blue tint was very obvious. Why is it only the Pixel that gets mentioned? All the oleds have this problem, which I don't consider a problem at all. I never view my phone at a radical enough angle to see the tint.

 

[Go0gle]

This is so annoying. It's like they find ONE guy who has this "issue", do no due diligence, and just write another pixel issue story.

 

[Mike Dee]

This is so annoying. It's like they find ONE guy who has this "issue", do no due diligence, and just write another pixel issue story.

It happens with lots of phones. Someone notices or has an issue with something and it spreads. Some of it's real, some of it's madness. The internet is s wonderful thing once you get past the negatives.

 

[thunderup]

This morning I was watching TV and some story came on and it showed an iPhone X and the blue tint was very obvious. They they showed a Samsung and the blue tint was very obvious. Why is it only the Pixel that gets mentioned? All the oleds have this problem, which I don't consider a problem at all. I never view my phone at a radical enough angle to see the tint.

I've ordered the iPhone X for several people in my office. Guess what? Same blue tint as my Pixel 2 XL. It's very obvious. One of the guys, who said my Pixel looked "terrible" because of the blue tint, now says his iPhone X is the best phone he's ever used. That's even after I pointed out the same tint on his iPhone. He now says mine is not as bad as he remembered. Funny how that works.

 

[Mike Dee]

I've ordered the iPhone X for several people in my office. Guess what? Same blue tint as my Pixel 2 XL. It's very obvious. One of the guys, who said my Pixel looked "terrible" because of the blue tint, now says his iPhone X is the best phone he's ever used. That's even after I pointed out the same tint on his iPhone. He now says mine is not as bad as he remembered. Funny how that works.

Tell him that his blue will get better when the glue dries.

 

[e30ernest]

It's just like how that movie you really liked suddenly became really terrible after you visited Rotten Tomatoes.