What went wrong?
>>108617239Price
>>108617239Nothing
>>108617239I have a 10a. I like it well enough.
>>108617239Exynos modem, PowerVR GPU and a lot of die space wasted on.a useless NPU
>>108617239The best phones ever made by the greatest company in the world.
First SoC they actually made themselves instead of Samsung. It'll get better in 1 or 2 generations.
>>108621402>It'll get better when they fab on tsmc>It'll get better when they drop exynos>It'll get better when...That's what they've been saying since the tensor g1
Meanwhile Xiaomi's first chip (Xring O1) is fully custom and on par with the Snapdragon 8 Elite it competes with. Get mogged Google
I'm using a pixel 9a right now to make this post. Is there any reason to get the 10a? Seems like a side grade.
>>108617239It can't play Genshin
>>108621438G4 was OK though.
>>108617239Price, camera tumor, and the gutting of useful apps to have AI slopware shoehorned into everything. Google used to have some pretty useful apps then once gemini came about nothing really works anymore and it's quicker to just do shit myself.
>>108621523>PriceYeh.>camera tumorYeh, but you need big sensor and big lens to take good photos, which is half the point of getting a Pixel over something like a Motorola. Then again you're gonna pay a premium for the 10 Pro if you're targeting having a photo powerhouse in your pocket since they neutered the sensors for the non-Pro.>the gutting of useful apps to have AI slopware shoehorned into everythingYeh, but the other half of the point of getting a Pixel is to put GrapheneOS on it and have a clean, non-shit, de-Googlified AOSP experience.
>>108621541>Yeh, but the other half of the point of getting a Pixel is to put GrapheneOS on it and have a clean, non-shit, de-Googlified AOSP experience.Until the motorola phone comes out. I'm also looking at the fairphone 6 for either /e/OS or just vanilla android. It has a removable battery and expandable storage. No headphone jack though. No idea on the camera since I don't care as I have an actual camera that will outclass every phone on the market.
>>108621549>Until the motorola phone comes outIt likely won't have as good of a camera and the two reasons I'm dead set on getting a 10 Pro without the headphone jack and the mSD slot is to have GOS and an awesome camera, and I really really like the telescopic lens on the 10 Pro. Hopefully it'll be cheap as shit so that I'll have something decent to shill to people.>I have an actual camera that will outclass every phone on the marketThat's great, but I'd like to have something in my pocket that'll take gorgeous photos of sunsets and full moons without being either washed out or over-brightened because the camera sensor and software are too weak to handle low light conditions properly. Obv a full-blown DSLR would mog any smartphone, but you're not gonna hog a whole rig with you to capture moments like these.
>>108621402>>108621438>>108621451Google's optimization makes all the difference and why phones like the 9a make sense. It's a smartphone, not a desktop after all.
they should use more efficient Qualcomm chips, if they did that and maybe made the Pixels a bit more compact they would be near perfect
>>108621576>but you're not gonna hog a whole rig with you to capture moments like these.I did for a while. Now I'm too busy for pictures. When I can go camping I always take it with.
>>108617239The next phone I'm buying is a linux phone, fuck android and apple.
>>108617239My 8a work nicely still the most functional android I ever had
>>108621632I'm still on a 5a. Although who knows how much longer I will be able to be. The battery no longer takes a full charge. Just stops at usually 98%. However I only let it charge at max 10w with a fan on it so it can't get warm charging. Trying to slow the spicy pillow creation it is undoubtedly trying to make.
>>108621601Usually when I wanted to take a nice photo was while I was driving and wanted to stop for a bit, so in my case it makes more sense to get a good camera phone rather than invest in a DSLR to haul around in the boot.
>>108621658You have a fair point. I just went straight to an actual camera and never looked back. I miss being able to just go for drives, they were relaxing.
>>108621652Battery of the 5a was better than most of the modern pixels. But that phone is a ticking timebomb. A sudden brick is inevitable.
>>108621674I have heard that. I moved everything critical off it already like 2FA and shit like that. I got mine pretty early after release since my 1st gen XL wouldn't last a day. Hopefully whatever was defective was just a few bad batches mine wasn't part of. Google wasn't very transparent on it and never sent out any emails or anything on it. A very lol, get fucked attitude. My 5a used to go about five days on a charge, now I'm down to two or three.
>>108621458It's the same phone but with faster charging
>>108621674Read up on it a little, seems it's getting stuck in some low level firmware upgrade mode. People are talking about having to wait for the battery to completely die to get it to start working again and it doesn't go for very long after that. Maybe I'll just pick up a 10a, I have a trip planned and that would be highly inconvenient to have it die.
>>108617239Insane price for mediocre hardware, and considering the fact everyone is buying them to just install GrapheneOS, they should be giving them away for free, maybe then I will get one, I would not pay actual money for it
>>108621576>mSD slotthat shit is way too slow bro, not suitable for 2026
>>108617239The tensor g5 literally just caught up to the performance of the snapdragon 8 gen 2 used in the s23 ultra from 2023. But it also uses way more power and causes app phones with it to have thebattery life of a 2012 flagship
>>108621438yeah they've been fine since G3 aka P8, only hindifags that care about benchmark numbers think otherwisei don't really see any purpose in complaining about the phones being glorified midrangers, they are that and it's reflected in the price that drops by half after several months
>>108617239I got the pixel 10 pro and I'm perfectly happy with it. Only thing they could have improved was the GPU games performance, but I don't really play phone games anyway
>>108617239Nothing, it's great. Slap Graphene on it and you have the only non-retarded, non-faggot smartphone available. t. P10Pro enjoyer
>>108617239it’s not an iphone
>>108623115Graphene is schizo... note how they have their main discussion in D*scord of all places. Totally secure phone, just install Google Play Services to install an additional spyware chat app to get support! (Yes, they have Matrix, but claim they can't moderate... funny, they banned me for mentioning AI).They are always claiming gangstalking and harassment, while they are the ones actually harassing other projects like /e/OS.Run Android Canary like a boss. t. P10Pro enjoyer as well
>>108623401Sorry for your mental illness and low IQ, anon.
>>108623414REEEE YOU'RE GANGSTALKING ME AND HARASSING ME, YOU ARE FROM CALYX OS! NO! YOU ARE FROM LOUIS ROSSMANN! NO! YOU ARE FROM /e/OS!!!!you fuckers think you can stop me with your harassment, I will harass you while crying about harassment
>>108619306Same. Slapped graphene is on this puppy and it works great.
>>108623503Can you run banking apps and that sort of globohomo software on it?
>>108623507NTA, but I can run multiple EU-based banking apps just fine.
>>108623507Yeah, its all sandboxes. I've had no issues except for strange apps. And f-droid has alternatives like pedometer for example, nobody needs to know where the fuck I'm walking but the one from google won't work without phoning home. The fdriod one works perfectly and no one knows how many or often I step.
Isnt anyone worries about Google putting any kind of hardware backdoors or spyware into their phone?Serious question. I'm not saying they did but based on their track record it is a question worth asking.
>>108623602They most likely do but so does pretty much every phone/electronic maker.
>>108623656Yeah except China cant weaponize your data against you (yet). Google on the other hand..
>>108617239It's finethe price was crazy reducedthey've probably sold more of these than any other pixel with the prices they were giving them away for
>>108617239the hole
>>108621582optimized to overheat and explode
>>108617239>tensorBuy a real phone.
I personally have a pixel 8 that is still running strong
>>108621774Picked up the 10a to replace my 5a. Not sure if I'll install graphene or just root and debloat the stock image. I don't need my phone for much and used to get about 5 or so days out of my 5a. Hopefully this one with an actual charge limit setting and battery saver will help the battery last longer than five years.
Google products like the search engine and Youtube are pure dogshit.
They should put in some features people care about, like connectivity and extendability.
Got my 10xl pro for 800. For that price it's great.
>>108621576Show tits nao
>>108623789Fair point.
>>108623433As long as Daniel doesn't fuck with the code he can spaz out as much as he wants.>>108624342Sorry, I'm not a pedophile so I think I'll pass.
>>108621458>I'm using a pixel 9a right now to make this postMust be a really shitty device if the posts made with it are that superfluous
>>108621541>big sensor>Pixelchoose one
>>108617239No jack 3.5
>>10861723910a battery literally mogs the base 10's battery
>>108621788they are free if you use a real mobile provider instead of an mvno
>>108617239The only reason I can think of is GrapheneOS. I think they are alright, I just hate their fucking Tensor chips, like nigga just use a fucking Snapdragon. People enjoy Dark Souls 3 @60FPS on a 300€ chink phone and I can't even run Dark Souls Remastered without heavy lags on a 9a???
>>108636531>gayming>gayming on phoneliteral cancer
>>108624329SAAR THE HOLE IS REPRESENTS WISDOM AND SPIRITUAL OKAY??
>>108636581personally I use my phone to connect to run geforce now with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and I chromecast to my tv
>soc that is now nearly 3 generations behind other chipsets>poor cooling.>shitty battery>unreleased drivers and libs>flagship that stutters whilst performing basic tasks>past history of product recalls on previous phonesNo thanks.
>>108617239It be Evil.
>>108636642yeah it was really shitty of them to do tensor g4 in the 10a instead of g5. the 9a got the g4 too. all previous releases stayed within their generation.
>>108624342>phone>phabletpick one
with all the sales google offers on the device it has either been free or $250 for the majority of users. hard to nitpick a device that is purchased with one shift on the fryers at mcdonalds
>>108617239Ad company making software and hardware not purely for ads was never going to work. Plus, unless many competitors, google has zero pressure to release a good product when they are guaranteed to profit anyway.
