What's your favorite features on the Pixel2

[mustang7757]

1- squeeze for GA
2- now playing

 

[anon(10092459)]

Having GA native to the device, hands down.

 

[gebco]

Quick switching between the two most recent apps.

 

[kmf1]

I like the finger print sensor on the rear of the phone.

 

[Theot]

Camera and rear fingerprint sensor for sure.

 

[phillyphreak]

camera and ease of switching recent apps

 

[darkehawke]

Camera

Now playing

If Google assistant was more useful I'd love the squeeze function too

Like the rear sensor but LG takes credit for that

 

[mustang7757]

Camera

Now playing

If Google assistant was more useful I'd love the squeeze function too

Like the rear sensor but LG takes credit for that

I'm surprised u don't find GA useful..

 

[anon(10092459)]

If Google assistant was more useful I'd love the squeeze function too

More useful..?? In what way..?

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

I use GA all the time. i even have a couple of home devices. she is better than Alexa in some ways.

 

[falexander115]

Frequent and timely updates to the OS!

 

[darkehawke]

More useful..?? In what way..?

Tbh its more Assistants in general that I dont find useful.

All i really use it for is setting timers occassionally.
Voice can be a bit ropey for internet searches so I just go straight to typing it.

The now playing means I dont need it for music as much.

Other than that I struggle to find a use for it.

 

[Rukbat]

Fingerprint reader (I came from a Note 3), frequent (and easy to flash - I hate having to play up and down with Magisk) updates, and Pie now that I'm getting used to it. Still a few things I;d like to see changed in Pie, but keeping the battery saver state is nice - I had to keep hitting it every time I unplugged the charger. And no more red borders when it's on.

 

[SactoKingsFan]

Squeeze for silencing calls, alarms, etc. and launching GA.

 

[Theot]

Tbh its more Assistants in general that I dont find useful.

All i really use it for is setting timers occassionally.
Voice can be a bit ropey for internet searches so I just go straight to typing it.

The now playing means I dont need it for music as much.

Other than that I struggle to find a use for it.

I have a similar struggle. Part of it for me is I'm rarely in a place where I can talk to it clearly. At work we are in an open collaborative environment so it's generally either noisy or super quiet and when it is quiet I don't want to disrupt people if they are working.

At home, the kids generally talk over my wife and I so trying to talk to assistant then is almost pointless because it gets multiple conversations and has no idea what we are asking lol.

However I am trying to force myself to use it a little more when the situation calls for it. I'm going to be traveling this week and I'm going to attempt to incorporate using voice more instead of typing. I had an entire conversation by text the other day with my wife when I was the only one home from across the room and never touched the phone while I was cooking which was kind of fun.

 

[Morty2264]

Great thread topic! Thank you for posting!

I love double-tap to wake (missed that on my LG G3) and the native Messages SMS app. I have always used Textra on other devices but I really like how the native app works with the phone. I can set different texting tones per contact (my last two phones didn't allow this; hence my download of Textra) and Pie just makes being able to answer messages while working in another app that much easier.

 

[mustang7757]

Fingerprint reader (I came from a Note 3), frequent (and easy to flash - I hate having to play up and down with Magisk) updates, and Pie now that I'm getting used to it. Still a few things I;d like to see changed in Pie, but keeping the battery saver state is nice - I had to keep hitting it every time I unplugged the charger. And no more red borders when it's on.

I agree didn't like the red borders , glad that went away

 

[mustang7757]

Great thread topic! Thank you for posting!

I love double-tap to wake (missed that on my LG G3) and the native Messages SMS app. I have always used Textra on other devices but I really like how the native app works with the phone. I can set different texting tones per contact (my last two phones didn't allow this; hence my download of Textra) and Pie just makes being able to answer messages while working in another app that much easier.

Thank you)
I like the double tap feature also

 

[Theot]

I need to add one that came with Pie. The rotate quick toggle that appears in the navigation bar when you turn the phone so you can show a picture or video or something. I'm using the hell out of that.

 

[mustang7757]

I need to add one that came with Pie. The rotate quick toggle that appears in the navigation bar when you turn the phone so you can show a picture or video or something. I'm using the hell out of that.

Yes ..must not have auto rotate on for it to work . Very nice touch