I have used it. In fact, I'm using it right now to reply to you.
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Google announces |OT| Pixel 6 and Pro
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So the battery life doesn't seem too bad to me. I have 12 hour work days and usually take my phone off the charger about an hour before I leave so after roughly 13.5 hours my phone went from 100% to about 45%. This include the occasional mobile game, YouTube, browsing the internet/discord, and listening to music.
I'm not sure what constitutes a good or bad battery on a phone but as long as my phone isn't dead at the end of the day I'm happy lol
I'm not sure what constitutes a good or bad battery on a phone but as long as my phone isn't dead at the end of the day I'm happy lol
Anyone getting the DBrand Grip case for this? I wanted to rock a dual color contrasty look on my P6P, but when I order the case it doesn't seem to give me options for the camera cut outs. I ended up ordering it separately from the Skins section. Speaking of which, would a DBrand-skinned phone still fit in the DBrand case?
I had a DBrand skin on my Samsung S9+ a few years ago and used the DBrand Grip case, it fitted really well, no issue at all.
Seen this in person yesterday, after gifting my partner a Pixel 5 for Christmas last year (her Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact was no longer holding its charge all day like it used to), and I am surprised at how big the standard Pixel 6 is!
It is wider, taller and thicker — thanks to the camera bar — than the Pixel 5. The phone itself feels quite slippery too.
I do like the look of it though; very distinctive in today's world of samey looking phones … 😊
I really do want the Pixel 6 to do well, as Google makes good phones with good cameras as well as guaranteeing three years of Android updates, which is somewhat of a rarity these days (outside of iOS).
It is wider, taller and thicker — thanks to the camera bar — than the Pixel 5. The phone itself feels quite slippery too.
I do like the look of it though; very distinctive in today's world of samey looking phones … 😊
I really do want the Pixel 6 to do well, as Google makes good phones with good cameras as well as guaranteeing three years of Android updates, which is somewhat of a rarity these days (outside of iOS).
Pixel 6 teardown shows lots of heat dissipation, questionable mmWave layout
The Pixel 6 has a lot of thermal tape and only one mmWave antenna?
arstechnica.com
Interesting.
I had to sign up for 100GB of Google One because immediately after I ported over all my shit from the 4 XL to the 6 pro, my Google account got filled up. And even then, Google says they upload all my photos in original quality, but there is no way the image below is original, right? It looks compressed as fuck
I am such a fucking moron, how do I activate it? I feel like the place where I'd go to do it will instead leave a voice note and send that, which is not what I want.
Potentially stupid question, but if I'm watching 24fps content on my P6P, does the screen go down to 24hz?
Yes, it's a terrible experience all around. I never know what I need to do in order to unlock my phone.
Sometimes I get a fingerprint sensor icon. Other times my phone is unlocked via Smart Lock and I get an Unlock icon in place of the fingerprint sensor. Other times I get a Lock icon indicating Smart Lock is expired. Other times I get no icon there at all.
If the fingerprint sensor is there, sometimes it won't even acknowledge that my finger is on the sensor. Other times I'll hold my finger there for an eternity and it won't unlock until I let go.
If the Unlock icon is there, it requires a tap to unlock (no holding!). So that means I have to actually look at the screen and discern which icon is there to know whether I need to tap or hold.
On all my other Pixel phones I just touch the back fingerprint sensor and the phone is on. I don't have to think about a dozen different possible states the phone could be in every time I want to turn it on.
Good question, I think it goes down to 10. But I don't know what increments.
when I push that button it says "No permission to enable: voice typing" :(
You need to go to the app permissions for Gboard & enable Microphone permissions, Might need to do the same for the Google Voice Typing app as well.
I was using it a bit this morning to respond to some people on discord and it is insane how blazing fast it is. Hopefully they get other languages going so I can use it for talking to my family in spanish.
They added this with Android 11 for Pixel devices and it is the most infuriating thing on earth, my phone could be completely stationary & google somehow thinks it's not in a secure area and disables Fingerprint on it.
Has anyone else started using Google Assistant more than before on this phone? I'm also loving the text dictation feature.
One other issue I've also been noticing is that sometimes the lock screen will prompt for a pin instead of the fingerprint. Also, it's kind of annoying that you have to hit enter after entering the pin.
One other issue I've also been noticing is that sometimes the lock screen will prompt for a pin instead of the fingerprint. Also, it's kind of annoying that you have to hit enter after entering the pin.
I always used Assistant a fair amount, but now I'm dictating a lot more often than I ever have before. It's just effortless on this thing.
Seemingly it is related to smart lock and it's timing "expiring" periodically, according to this thread?
I didn't use smart lock previously at home on my 3xl because turning it on with the backside fingerprint reader is so easy/natural, but with the new one I'd prefer to have smart lock on at home so i can tap it occasionally ESPECIALLY if the in screen lock is going to be slow. But in that case it disables fingerprint reading all together for pin, which is so frustrating. Maybe the sensitive touch option might help enough, and i'll just turn off smart lock....
It's my biggest complaint aside from the slipperyness lol. The other night i checked the time in the middle of the night, and after that the charge cable weighed it down enough to fall off my nightstand. Wife loved that.
So my case shipped, arriving in 30 days. Are tracking an import? It's weird and hope it's sooner.
I have never used Smart lock on my Pixel 5 or 6 and I still have the occasional PIN Lock. It's just a weird security thing they added if the device hasn't been used in 30 minutes or so, not really sure what the trigger for it is as it is sporadic at best for me.
I just ran into it again after turning off smart lock too. Shit sucks.
I also don't think the sensitive screen setting helps the fingerprint reader time either. Kind of assuming most have tried it just got lucky the first couple times maybe lol.
ugh.
Looks like it's coming from the IR blaster used to focus quickly, you can see it in the dark in front of a window/mirror.
When not close to something it should not be visible.
Nope, it's always visible in darker areas in the viewfinder, always the same place for me. It's like dirty fingerprints, and I've seen some people with that problem already - everyone has a different "bubble" pattern :/
It's also on the pictures as a pink hue, no matter if close or far. Also, it's more visible the darker the objects are.
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Phone? It's better than most dedicated voice command software for PC, even lol. I'm kinda blown away at how good it works in even German, which (at least for me) is notoriously bad at voice-recognizing literally anything, leave alone proper interpunctuation and capitalization and slang. It's great and I should use it way more often.
Looks like it's coming from this tiny IR blaster, if I put my finger on it there's no more pink hue/circle.
I ordered this:
but that was before the 1, 1-star review. So I'll put some impressions in here once it arrives and hopefully a couple pics.
There is no option to buy it seems. I guess it's because the case doesn't match the pictures?
It's weird - you have to click "See all buying options" and add it from the seller store.
Cool, exposed buttons is scary to me. I saw some with covered. The novelty of fabric seems cool.
Has anyone read Anandtech's new article on Google's Tensor SoC?
It seems like there were some bizarre changes in the underlying Samsung IP and the chip performs worse overall, and is less power efficient than the Samsung's base design and the Snapdragon 888. The larger GPU doesn't really come in to play due to the lack of good heat dissipation. The actual tensor NPU on the chip actually does excel at language processing though like Google advertised, especially compared to its competitors. Lastly, the modem is confirmed to be a Samsung modem, but it's actually external instead of internal to the SoC on the base design (likely due to the larger GPU taking up so much die space).
I'll be very interested in how Google will evolve their design with the Tensor 2. They have to ability to use slightly newer IP due to coming later in the year, so hopefully they take greater advantage of that. Have a more efficient design, and hopefully using the new Radeon IP between Samsung and AMD, would go a long way.
Besides fixing the current teething issues in the software, hopefully Google will find ways to massively improve the camera still and video quality via software updates. They also need a Pixel Watch. It's still an absolute crime that they didn't have one ready alongside the Pixel 6. The attach rate would have been sky high.
Edit: Would love to see how people's opinions on the phones evolve over time. I wasn't able to get one at launch.
It seems like there were some bizarre changes in the underlying Samsung IP and the chip performs worse overall, and is less power efficient than the Samsung's base design and the Snapdragon 888. The larger GPU doesn't really come in to play due to the lack of good heat dissipation. The actual tensor NPU on the chip actually does excel at language processing though like Google advertised, especially compared to its competitors. Lastly, the modem is confirmed to be a Samsung modem, but it's actually external instead of internal to the SoC on the base design (likely due to the larger GPU taking up so much die space).
I'll be very interested in how Google will evolve their design with the Tensor 2. They have to ability to use slightly newer IP due to coming later in the year, so hopefully they take greater advantage of that. Have a more efficient design, and hopefully using the new Radeon IP between Samsung and AMD, would go a long way.
Besides fixing the current teething issues in the software, hopefully Google will find ways to massively improve the camera still and video quality via software updates. They also need a Pixel Watch. It's still an absolute crime that they didn't have one ready alongside the Pixel 6. The attach rate would have been sky high.
Edit: Would love to see how people's opinions on the phones evolve over time. I wasn't able to get one at launch.
Seeing a slight bit of that too, mainly in dark areas in high-contrast situations. Could be very wrong, but my first theory is/was that googles HDR-Magic acts too aggressive and tries to pull color out of where there's no color to be seen in the moment. Maybe pulling down the shadows a bit before taking the shot could help in these situations. Or hopefully a software update. Or they fucked up bigly.
Oh well, we'll see.
This is a weird take of the problem, it is pretty obvious that as all the processors not named snapdragon the problem is that the games are not optimized for them. With day 1ish drivers the GPU eats emulators for lunch and that is the best benchmark we have for that piece of hardware.
I did expect more power than an 888 but is not like their solution wasn't a nice trade since they are google and not a chinese company they android games will probably start optimizing specifically for what Tensor is packing.
It's absolutely not a weird take of the problem. Have you read the article? I just summarized the findings there.
I'm not trying to start a Tensor vs Snapdragon debate, but it's good to understand how the Tensor was actually designed and if those design decisions actually make sense. Google sacrificed die area, removing the A78 cores and internal modem from the original Exynos design, and went with less efficient A76 cores, likely to have a larger GPU. Instead of choosing the larger GPU at lower clocks to increase efficiency, they actually decided to run the GPU at higher clocks, but don't actually have the necessary cooling to keep those frequencies sustainable. Their overall design gives the impression that they sacrificed some efficiency for overall performance, but don't actually achieve the performance potential due to cooling design. The article goes into the fact that improving the cooling of the phone by using the screen itself as added heat dissipation would hurt the screen's overall repairability, which Google decided to go with screen repairability (IPhone does this as well).
The chip is still good overall. It seems from the article that their main gain from doing their custom design over going with the base Samsung semicustom design was replacing Samsung's NPU with their own Tensor NPU (and using their own custom imaging blocks).
Edit: My biggest question with the Pixel 6's design is why they didn't go with the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that Samsung uses?
Was not post against you but the concept of the article, like I said we can see right now that the sheer power of the GPU is enough to do what it is supposed to do when not dependent of the game developers and they act like in Android Snapdragon is not king because the developers say so, hell there are phones with an 888 and 12 gb of ram that are not whitelisted to use the best settings.
Like do the test when the optimizations start to roll but yeah they can say that maybe the cooling will come bite them in the ass and we'll see.
I'm assuming something to do with patents? Either Qualcomm's, or Samsung's.
I thought Samsung was using Qualcomm's underscreen sensor? Is google's optical sensor their own design?
Not sure what you mean. Anandtech wasn't focused on individual game performance or settings profiles. They were focused on sustained output of the GPU underload (mostly using benchmarks). The GPU thermal throttles and performs on average slower than even the base Exynos 2100 design it's based on, which uses a smaller and lower clocked GPU.
The article overall is about power efficiency. The Google Tensor is pretty much faster than what most people really need. The big thing is if it's achieving its results in the most efficient manner. Of course there's a lot of software optimization that can be done to improve things like battery life and UI smoothness, but it's good to see how things can be improved on the hardware side.
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Got the 6 Pro. Rear camera photos basically look the same as on my 4a 5G. Disappointed in the front facing camera quality....Screen is beautiful and a huge improvement. Phone seems super fast in day to day tasks.
Did anyone else get an email from google for free pixel buds?
I remember it was sold out when i pre-ordered my Pixel 6 so im glad there's another chance for me to get it
I remember it was sold out when i pre-ordered my Pixel 6 so im glad there's another chance for me to get it