How Google's Pixel 8 Pro Will Change Smartphones Forever
How Google's Pixel 8 Pro Will Change Smartphones Forever
Google will want the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro to be best-sellers, but these phones have another role to play beyond market share.
- extended update service to 7 years
- pushing Material UI consistency
- Tensor G3 chip for AI & machine learning performed locally on device
I just want to change my battery and get a phone for that no people had to die In some poor country.
Like seriously, what's the percentage of people that run machine learning algorithms on their phone? 0.0000000001%?
Like seriously, what’s the percentage of people that run machine learning algorithms on their phone? 0.0000000001%?
It’s 100%. You use them on your phone all day every day. Your keyboard used machine learning algorithms as you typed your comment to dynamically adjust the size of the tap target of your likely next character and for autocorrect.
Every single photo taken on a phone is run through a huge amount of ML to create it.
All of this is to say, however, that this headline is ridiculous. Aside from Material UI, this is basically a description of every iPhone from the last half decade (with a dedicated “neural engine”). Not really a change in the smartphone world.
Definitely a little bit of hyperbole with that headline. I think I have to use the exact headline the article uses though.
I miss removable batteries so much. I was so disappointed that project aria never went anywhere
I need a new phone soon, can't really wait until the EU regulations force companies to build them with removable batteries. I need to look more into Fairphone, hope that's decent. Last review I read made me concerned about battery life, I really don't like charging my phone every day either. Or having to carry a power bank with me.
I don't think there's anything on the market that comes even close to the modularity aria had promised. Moto z had some mods but they dropped that very quickly unfortunately.
Many actions on modern phones use AI. Text to speech and image processing just to name two. I am very excited to not have that information being constantly sent to the cloud for processing.
Headphone jack? Sd slot? Replacable batt?
So pissed the new fairphone dropped the headphone jack.
Welcome to dongle life!
My big issue with the line has been no microSD slot. I won't buy a phone with locked memory capacity.
Same!
I also demand justice for the headphone jack!
I'm holding onto my 4a5g because I really really don't want to give up my headphone jack
Reposting their "Circle" ad for the Pixel 5a 5G because it was just brilliant:
Too bad Google also later pulled the plug and abandoned the audio jack starting from the Pixel 6 series.
I feel like phones provide enough disc space nowadays. I was never a huge fan of microSD slots to begin with. They're slower than internal storage and I've had one fail before and everything on it was lost. I had to factory reset the phone to get the slot working again. There might have been a better solution but I couldn't figure one out.
Do you record a lot of videos?
No, I have a bunch of media.
What rubbish. It is exactly the same as every other smartphone on the planet. Updates are only new software and even then you could flash a new rom.
Click bait bullshit
I’m being a non-article-reading heathen here but of those three bullets I don’t think any is new to the smartphone industry - albeit Apple is cagey with support timelines (and probably slows down on what’s fixed versus the current iOS version) but the 5s technically got a iOS 12 patch this year.
Is this year's Tensor an actual in-house chip or just another rebranded shitty Exynos?
Hats off to Samsung tho, kneecapping the competition 😂
this article says that it's based on its Exynos 2400. Good call
All that is worthless when the phone will be released without battery.
Sure.
Do the 7y updates also apply to the non-pro versions?
The only thing that i want from Google right now is that they release Android 14.
Meanwhile, I want them to stop releasing shit. IMO Android peaked already, and it seems like every update over the last 5 years has made things slightly worse.
Have they made improvements? Yes, but each improvement has come bundled with several UI regressions.
Yeah, and to be honest, the only reason i look up to Android 14 is because of the AV1 codec hardware acceleration requirement.
There were some major last minute bugs so they're releasing it in October with the phone this time.
none of those features are current or future requirements of mine. i want user-expandable memory, and useful expansion IO like the headphone jack, microsd and USBc.
there is not a single 'feature' introduced in the last decade that i care about.