The pixel 6 is the first phone where they've trained the computational photography models using tons of data for darker skin tones. The results I'm seeing are astounding. Between that and the wired article written almost entirely via voice, it's an easy sell.
I worked in mobile for a decade and can say, unequivocally, Android's workflow and layout are superior for work if your on the Google ecosystem of mail and productivity apps as well. I am about 75% as efficient on iOS (have to use it for some work things) and notifications are still significantly less useful.
@zerodeefex is dead-on regarding using Google Ecosystem for productivity. I been slowly using more of Google's Apps over the last few years, and I have to admit the ease of use is great and it really made me more productive. Now I'm close in getting a paid Google One sub.
Also, the real tone feature represents one of the things that I loved when I was at Google: the teams that I worked with were passionate about making the world better and using tech to just delight other humans + improve the world. It's something I've not seen in other large tech companies and one of the reasons I continually root for the Pixel team and Google at large.
Pixel 6 pro coming Friday, but after playing with both, i cant say it's better than Apple, as much as i would like to be. Video is worse than Samsung, battery life is mediocre, software lagging behind the hardware improvements. Hardware end.. Using a two year old modem. I would gladly pay more for a new modem since 5g is new
5000mah battery doesn't change a thing. Build quality is worse... All for just 100 less than an iPhone pro 13, which is better in every regard except for four big things, ios, lightning port, finger print reader, damn notch. So it's a matter of compromise for both... For prices ive never paid on a smartphone.
@Cellist88 I would say the pro offerings are not worth the added cost TBH. We have two tech salaries and I still feel like phones are overpriced with the regular pixel 6 being a solid offering for the price.
Did you play with the Pixel with day 1 software? I can say that, having been in Android for many years, the experience on day 1 is always significantly better than pre-launch.
I'll see on Friday with the actual unit but the demo unit ran fine and smoothly at the store. The regular pixel 6 is amazing for the price. I'm just bummed that Google as a software company hasn't fully optimized to the new hardware. I thought the addition of new camera hardware, tensor would make a bigger diff, but seems everything is an updated port of old software. Has a lot of potential but not realized rigjt now
I don't go crazy with a phone but if I'm gonna spend 1k, I want to use it for 4-5 years like my old Samsung. I root for team pixel but they don't have a good track record, and Apple purposefully holding back features just to sell phones the next year is snakish. My note 9 has every feature I'm happy with and the only company willing to go that route is Sony , but they want to charge an arm and a leg.
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