Thanks! Shame it's not stock, but I'm going for Nokia 8, seems like a steal at this price.
EDIT: Shit, this Poco is tempting.
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EDIT: Shit, this Poco is tempting.
Poco also has stereo speakers. This thing has like 80% of the stuff I want from note 9.
Put it on amazon with a US warranty please
Put it on amazon with a US warranty please
I'm turning into someone you and buying shit I probably don't need (it's very cheap though and will help me get a credit card bonus that will cancel out this cost anyways).
I ended up grabbing a Fire HD Tablet 10 for $100 (plus some cash back). From what I've gathered from reviews, the software actually runs smooth on that chipset and a lot of the important google apps work from the play store as long as you install it properly on this device. Figured I try this as bed time/travel tablet instead of tossing 5x the amount of money at a Chromebook for primarily doing the same thing (content consumption). Not sure how much it will bother me for reading, but most streaming content like Netflix max out at 1080P on these devices.
I've read on a review that even if you don't have audible, the tablet has the ability to read out text to you on within the Kindle app. Can anyone validate this? If this is true and it works well enough, that will be another great incentive.
My only concern is that the screens on my phones over the years have spoiled me because I couldn't and still can't see pixels on these things. If it bothers me enough, I'll just return it to Best Buy.
I ended up grabbing a Fire HD Tablet 10 for $100 (plus some cash back). From what I've gathered from reviews, the software actually runs smooth on that chipset and a lot of the important google apps work from the play store as long as you install it properly on this device. Figured I try this as bed time/travel tablet instead of tossing 5x the amount of money at a Chromebook for primarily doing the same thing (content consumption). Not sure how much it will bother me for reading, but most streaming content like Netflix max out at 1080P on these devices.
I've read on a review that even if you don't have audible, the tablet has the ability to read out text to you on within the Kindle app. Can anyone validate this? If this is true and it works well enough, that will be another great incentive.
My only concern is that the screens on my phones over the years have spoiled me because I couldn't and still can't see pixels on these things. If it bothers me enough, I'll just return it to Best Buy.
Well it's $300 for a reason. It's nothing more than flagship hw specs on a lower midrange body without all the bells and whistles that jack up the price. Time will tell if there's actually a sizable niche in the market for it.
Those depend on the book.
You can see it in Kindle book listings under TTS options
True. Screen is perfectly flat though, so I bet someone will make a decent glass screen protector for this. Bet it's gonna sell ok
Pleased to see that there isn't a notch.
VeeFourty
VeeFourty
Ooooh.... that's another V phone on my radar. The triple camera is LIT.
Triple Cams are to become a standard, good fucking lord. Is it really so hard for OEMs, especially LG or Samsung, to invest into R&D for a Single Cam module that can do everything? Surely in the long run it would be cheaper than having 3 cam modules in each phone. And FFS its so ugly to look at that. As for the V40, LG is quickly approaching galaxy clone territory. Yikes.
You can have fucking 5 camera lenses and that shit will still won't look as good as the Pixel cameras.
It's like the old AMD when they just added cores on top of cores in their CPUs instead of just optimizing and clocking the ones that they already had there.
It's like the old AMD when they just added cores on top of cores in their CPUs instead of just optimizing and clocking the ones that they already had there.
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Yeah that's a bit of a bummer. I thought Google was working this up as a design language for their devices (more than one material breaking up the lines).
Marketing companies wising up to the fact that nobody likes notches, haha.
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"Just take pics with the Hide-The-Notch mode on!"
Honestly seems like they could have been able to squeeze the cameras into a bezel the size of the bottom one, but maybe it was just too small.
If that was the case the notches would be that size. The height is pretty much set at that size limit everyone except Google uses, I would assume.
This promo pic goes a long way in showing how much of a non-issue the notch is though, since you can hide it and still get the benefit of having the status bar off of the main screen, best of both worlds.
I feel like Google is so behind the curve that they will still be making notched phones when everyone else has ditched them (for flagships).
Well
my Note9 was just delivered
Edit: oh god I just remembered the emoticons
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My 512gb that I preordered on the 10th from Samsung.com is on backorder.
Not thrilled!
Pixel 2 and 2 XL have VoLTE on ATT.
It's an exception though.
https://www.androidcentral.com/pixel-2s-used-att-gain-hd-voice-oreo-81-update
Theres no way that thing is 6.7 inches... Did they actually measure it or are people still going off that benchmark from a while back?
Also, plastic is dope as long as it feels premium/polycarbonate. The alternative is glass which fuck the risk. I heard apple is making like $4-500 off fixing iPhone X backs. Yeah, no thanks.
Metal is not an option. Wireless charging tech isn't ready for metal yet
Year over year growth has been high. That's not going to change because one of two models has a notch this year. Regular consumers don't even know what a notch is even with the iPhone X out.
https://twitter.com/fjeronimo/status/963087921371865089?s=19
I would assume 2018 will have higher pixel growth than 2017 by quite a bit. 2018 is also the last year of the Verizon exclusivity.
Also, plastic is dope as long as it feels premium/polycarbonate. The alternative is glass which fuck the risk. I heard apple is making like $4-500 off fixing iPhone X backs. Yeah, no thanks.
Metal is not an option. Wireless charging tech isn't ready for metal yet
Year over year growth has been high. That's not going to change because one of two models has a notch this year. Regular consumers don't even know what a notch is even with the iPhone X out.
https://twitter.com/fjeronimo/status/963087921371865089?s=19
I would assume 2018 will have higher pixel growth than 2017 by quite a bit. 2018 is also the last year of the Verizon exclusivity.
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You mean like YouTube or do you mean something more like a WordPress blog?
That's the curious aspect. I felt like pixel 2 family has had generally a pretty good word to mouth, and tech reviewers still bring them up in comparison to 2018 stuff. 3 seems to be universally panned so far in terms of looks, which honestly does matter to customers that are gonna be spending $850+ on the big one. Smaller battery + the same 4gb of ram + the same single rear camera. Selfie game will be upped with the dual cameras I think... but I feel like most pundits would just recommend people to get the 2 xl instead.
Unless the pixel 3 xl is bringing some secret sauce in the software not leaked yet, or some good value added perks like a year of Youtube Premium/TV.
Yes, I'm sure the profit margin on repairs is totally 500 bucks, makes perfect sense and doesn't sound like bs or fake outrage to me.
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All Google had to do with this year's phone was put a better screen on the 2 XL and a bigger battery. That's all you had to do!!
Real photoshop is only available on Macs and Windows, the rest of the things I think you could do fine with a nice Chromebook. As they said, the Go is not powerful for that either. Get a Pro, if you want to keep it cheap you could try to find a SP4 refurbished, I find the new models too expensive. Or get an XPS 13 (could even be the last gen) that is small and light, and is great for productivity (I am typing on one right now). One thing I would take in account is the ports available.
It's likely that's still the case. It's just now it comes with a bonus notch. Hooray!
Which Verizon/Walmart deal are you referring to? I haven't seen any great deals happening lately on Pixel 2.