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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
10/18/18 10:20:58 PM
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Coffeebeanz posted...
Well, that wins the award for most disappointing phone I've ever used on launch day. Literally everything about it was at very best slightly worse than my current phone.

Seriously, I cannot believe they're charging 899 for this phone. Considering it doesn't have an SD card slot, a headphone jack, or really any unique features to distinguish it from much more feature-rich phones in that price category.

That's been my issue with the Pixel line. Other than "stock Android" (whatever that means), it doesn't have anything you can point to as far as unique offerings go.

Sure, it may be tops as far as cameras go, but that's like a supercar that's 0.1 seconds faster than the rest.
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Tyranthraxus
10/18/18 10:23:51 PM
#52:


Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
Well, that wins the award for most disappointing phone I've ever used on launch day. Literally everything about it was at very best slightly worse than my current phone.

Seriously, I cannot believe they're charging 899 for this phone. Considering it doesn't have an SD card slot, a headphone jack, or really any unique features to distinguish it from much more feature-rich phones in that price category.

That's been my issue with the Pixel line. Other than "stock Android" (whatever that means), it doesn't have anything you can point to as far as unique offerings go.

Sure, it may be tops as far as cameras go, but that's like a supercar that's 0.1 seconds faster than the rest.

"Features" in my experience is a code word for obtrusive unwanted shit you will trigger by accident on many occasions.
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
10/18/18 10:26:19 PM
#53:


Tyranthraxus posted...
Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
Well, that wins the award for most disappointing phone I've ever used on launch day. Literally everything about it was at very best slightly worse than my current phone.

Seriously, I cannot believe they're charging 899 for this phone. Considering it doesn't have an SD card slot, a headphone jack, or really any unique features to distinguish it from much more feature-rich phones in that price category.

That's been my issue with the Pixel line. Other than "stock Android" (whatever that means), it doesn't have anything you can point to as far as unique offerings go.

Sure, it may be tops as far as cameras go, but that's like a supercar that's 0.1 seconds faster than the rest.

"Features" in my experience is a code word for obtrusive unwanted shit you will trigger by accident on many occasions.

Like what? I can assure you that many of these obtrusive features can be disabled or outright uninstalled.

What others may consider bloatware, I consider added features and functionality.
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Tyranthraxus
10/18/18 10:35:08 PM
#54:


I can't disable bixby without setting it up first.
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
10/18/18 10:40:18 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
I can't disable bixby without setting it up first.

...Then set it up and then disable it?

Bixby is a nonentity on my phone.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 12:29:00 AM
#56:


I turned off Bixby the day I got my Note 8 and haven't seen it since.

But yeah, I honestly don't understand why the UI is so unintuitive on the Pixel 3. Doesn't make any sense.
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KamenRiderBlade
10/19/18 12:40:32 AM
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Nova Launcher FTW =D
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SkittyOnWailord
10/19/18 1:00:31 AM
#58:


Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Sure, it may be tops as far as cameras go, but that's like a supercar that's 0.1 seconds faster than the rest.


It's not even tops with its camera.

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9166&idPhone2=9257

XZ2 Premium on the left. Pixel 3 XL on the right.
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Tyranthraxus
10/19/18 1:07:48 AM
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Tyranthraxus posted...
I can't disable bixby without setting it up first.

...Then set it up and then disable it?

Bixby is a nonentity on my phone.

Or I can just buy a phone that doesn't fucking have it in the first place
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LockeMonster
10/19/18 1:36:04 AM
#60:


I love how coffee thinks she's some paragon of smartphone expertise when she constantly makes shit up and lies.

And lol at SSJ Goku 3 rearing his ass in his master's topic. Already admit he's used Pixel only for 5 minutes, of course he's not going to get stock.

Both coffee and SSJ 3 are blind fanboys. Again, as I've mentioned, the Pixel 2 was an upgrade to my Note 8 and S8 in every way. Now coffee, who claimed she can charge her Note 8 from 0 to 100% in under an hour, which is not possible, says the Pixel 3 is actually slower.

The saddest part is all the fools who listen to her BS opinions and think it's true.

Only person that I would actually listen here is Tyranthraxus since he actually works in tech iirc and understands the huge difference.
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MC_BatCommander
10/19/18 2:05:45 AM
#61:


Calm down guy it's just a phone
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 9:16:18 AM
#62:


LockeMonster posted...
I love how coffee thinks she's some paragon of smartphone expertise when she constantly makes shit up and lies.

And lol at SSJ Goku 3 rearing his ass in his master's topic. Already admit he's used Pixel only for 5 minutes, of course he's not going to get stock.

Both coffee and SSJ 3 are blind fanboys. Again, as I've mentioned, the Pixel 2 was an upgrade to my Note 8 and S8 in every way. Now coffee, who claimed she can charge her Note 8 from 0 to 100% in under an hour, which is not possible, says the Pixel 3 is actually slower.

The saddest part is all the fools who listen to her BS opinions and think it's true.

Only person that I would actually listen here is Tyranthraxus since he actually works in tech iirc and understands the huge difference.


Wow calm the hell down
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halomonkey1_3_5
10/19/18 9:18:38 AM
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Everyone is a little bit of a fanboy tbh
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InYourWalls1
10/19/18 9:22:08 AM
#64:


SkittyOnWailord posted...
Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Sure, it may be tops as far as cameras go, but that's like a supercar that's 0.1 seconds faster than the rest.


It's not even tops with its camera.

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9166&idPhone2=9257

XZ2 Premium on the left. Pixel 3 XL on the right.
w9y0O84


Correct me if I'm wrong but things like the camera software would play a big role as well no? I figured that's what made the pixel so great
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 9:23:59 AM
#65:


Sony has always had cameras with the best specs but mediocre results. I know this because I had the Xperia Z3
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Paragon21XX
10/19/18 9:27:57 AM
#66:


LockeMonster posted...
I love how coffee thinks she's some paragon of smartphone expertise when she constantly makes shit up and lies.

Coffee's problem with smartphones that she refuses to acknowledge is that she refuses to give a smartphone a fair shake when she first starts using it. I have the distinct impression that the moment she turns it on, she has already passed judgment on whether or not she will like it. I also found the double swipe up to access the app drawer to be a little disconcerting at first (one could also just swipe up in one smooth motion to bypass the task manager, and it also doesn't require returning to the home screen to access the app drawer), but I quickly got used to it. Sure I would like to go back to having dedicated task manager and app drawer buttons while keeping the new button, but I can live with this setup as it is better in some ways.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 9:31:45 AM
#67:


Paragon21XX posted...
LockeMonster posted...
I love how coffee thinks she's some paragon of smartphone expertise when she constantly makes shit up and lies.

Coffee's problem with smartphones that she refuses to acknowledge is that she refuses to give a smartphone a fair shake when she first starts using it. I have the distinct impression that the moment she turns it on, she has already passed judgment on whether or not she will like it. I also found the double swipe up to access the app drawer to be a little disconcerting at first (one could also just swipe up in one smooth motion to bypass the task manager, and it also doesn't require returning to the home screen to access the app drawer), but I quickly got used to it. Sure I would like to go back to having dedicated task manager and app drawer buttons while keeping the new button, but I can live with this setup as it is better in some ways.


I don't want to have to "live" with issues like that if I seemingly get nothing else in return.

It's not faster than my Note 8. The screen is not noticeably better. The notch is simply too big and intrusive. There's no headphone jack. There's no SD slot. The UI and gesture system are unintuitive.

What do I get for all those issues? A better camera?

Hell, because it has less RAM I encountered app reloading almost immediately. There's no excuse for a non-Apple $899 product to have 4 GB of RAM in 2018.

You can wax poetic about the advantages of "pure Android", but from the experience I had, the only thing "pure" about it was a lack of features.

And some features, like squeezing your phone to activate the Assistant, were just awful. Who thought that was a good idea?
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
10/19/18 9:40:24 AM
#68:


Wow calm the hell down

I've never seen a guy rant with as much disdain as he does. He takes these disagreements personal, which is hilarious.

Or I can just buy a phone that doesn't fucking have it in the first place

Of course that's an option, but any damn phone is going to have stuff you don't want or care about. What you do at that point is disable them.

You're not going to have a device that has 100% of what you want and don't want. Just like Bixby, I don't care about Siri on my iPad. No problem - that's disabled too.
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Tyranthraxus
10/19/18 9:44:40 AM
#69:


Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Of course that's an option, but any damn phone is going to have stuff you don't want or care about. What you do at that point is disable them.

That's literally not true. The Razer Phone doesn't have anything I don't want. I disabled Absolutely nothing on it.

And I should never have to set something up to disable it.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 9:59:44 AM
#70:


Tyranthraxus posted...
Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Of course that's an option, but any damn phone is going to have stuff you don't want or care about. What you do at that point is disable them.

That's literally not true. The Razer Phone doesn't have anything I don't want. I disabled Absolutely nothing on it.

And I should never have to set something up to disable it.


How about turning off Always On Display not actually turning it off
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Tyranthraxus
10/19/18 10:03:10 AM
#71:


Coffeebeanz posted...
Tyranthraxus posted...
Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Of course that's an option, but any damn phone is going to have stuff you don't want or care about. What you do at that point is disable them.

That's literally not true. The Razer Phone doesn't have anything I don't want. I disabled Absolutely nothing on it.

And I should never have to set something up to disable it.


How about turning off Always On Display not actually turning it off


Samsung has a second, stupid feature which took me like 3 months to figure out that lets you push the home button even when the screen is off. You have to disable both that and the Always On display to truly disable it.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 10:07:10 AM
#72:


Samsung has a second, stupid feature which took me like 3 months to figure out that lets you push the home button even when the screen is off.

I love that feature wtf.

The haptic home button is a vastly superior solution to the removal of physical buttons than swiping up.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 10:08:24 AM
#73:


Plus, double tapping the power button to launch the camera is the best shortcut of anything ever.
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AvantgardeAClue
10/19/18 10:08:57 AM
#74:


Beanz sounds like a Linus Tech Tips subscriber here
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Paragon21XX
10/19/18 10:11:03 AM
#75:


AvantgardeAClue posted...
Beanz sounds like a Linus Tech Tips subscriber here

Naw, she's closer to being the Samsung equivalent of BGR "journalists."
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Tyranthraxus
10/19/18 10:19:53 AM
#76:


Coffeebeanz posted...
Plus, double tapping the power button to launch the camera is the best shortcut of anything ever.

Hated all that shit and disabled all of it. I ended up taking like 50 megs worth of pictures of the inside of my pocket.
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orangefire25
10/19/18 10:20:46 AM
#77:


Tyranthraxus posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
Plus, double tapping the power button to launch the camera is the best shortcut of anything ever.

Hated all that shit and disabled all of it. I ended up taking like 50 megs worth of pictures of the inside of my pocket.

How did you manage this?
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Tyranthraxus
10/19/18 10:21:53 AM
#78:


orangefire25 posted...
How did you manage this?

Combination of the above two features.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 10:22:37 AM
#79:


Tyranthraxus posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
Plus, double tapping the power button to launch the camera is the best shortcut of anything ever.

Hated all that shit and disabled all of it. I ended up taking like 50 megs worth of pictures of the inside of my pocket.


...the hell did you manage that?
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im not 13
10/19/18 10:24:02 AM
#80:


I'm going for the original Pixel 3 but I might go xl

Dat notch tho :/
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LockeMonster
10/19/18 10:27:57 AM
#81:


Coffeebeanz posted...
Wow calm the hell down

Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
I've never seen a guy rant with as much disdain as he does. He takes these disagreements personal, which is hilarious.

I'm just letting people know that both of you make shit up and don't even know half the stuff you talk about. You are the equivalent of people who watched the Fast and Furious movies and now think you're car experts.

If exposing people who lie is taking things personally and "ranting" and not about being correct, well then, that's really a "you" problem.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 10:32:14 AM
#82:


You need to chill bro
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LockeMonster
10/19/18 10:33:28 AM
#83:


Coffeebeanz posted...
You need to chill bro

Said the person who has made like 10 topics this week talking about one phone.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 10:35:10 AM
#84:


LockeMonster posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
You need to chill bro

Said the person who has made like 10 topics this week talking about one phone.


You need to chill bro
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AvantgardeAClue
10/19/18 10:35:50 AM
#85:


LockeMonster posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
You need to chill bro

Said the person who has made like 10 topics this week talking about one phone.

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LockeMonster
10/19/18 10:36:09 AM
#86:


Coffeebeanz posted...
LockeMonster posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
You need to chill bro

Said the person who has made like 10 topics this week talking about one phone.


You need to chill bro

And you need to stop posting.
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Coffeebeanz
10/19/18 10:36:24 AM
#87:


LockeMonster posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
LockeMonster posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...
You need to chill bro

Said the person who has made like 10 topics this week talking about one phone.


You need to chill bro

And you need to stop posting.


You need to chill bro
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AvantgardeAClue
10/19/18 10:36:50 AM
#88:


Just make a YouTube channel already

Gotta profit from your shitposting and YouTube loves to hate when it comes to Apple
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AvantgardeAClue
10/19/18 10:38:19 AM
#89:


This is not the Android board

You can't stroke a phone then just go "that's nice" when someone disagrees

SS3G is clearly discovering this the hard way
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DoctorVader
10/19/18 10:41:07 AM
#90:


Paragon21XX posted...
AvantgardeAClue posted...
Beanz sounds like a Linus Tech Tips subscriber here

Naw, she's closer to being the Samsung equivalent of BGR "journalists."

More like a troll. Don't know why people still feed her. Nearly everything she says is wrong and the only person ever agreeing with her is Goku. Probably the same person.
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SkittyOnWailord
10/19/18 12:54:43 PM
#91:


InYourWalls1 posted...
SkittyOnWailord posted...
Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Sure, it may be tops as far as cameras go, but that's like a supercar that's 0.1 seconds faster than the rest.


It's not even tops with its camera.

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9166&idPhone2=9257

XZ2 Premium on the left. Pixel 3 XL on the right.
w9y0O84


Correct me if I'm wrong but things like the camera software would play a big role as well no? I figured that's what made the pixel so great


You're correct about the software. And from the few reviews I've seen, Sony's even beating the Pixel on that.
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foreverzero212
10/19/18 5:27:41 PM
#92:


foreverzero212 posted...
LinksLiege posted...
foreverzero212 posted...
Apple does a pretty good job of not doing that. They make money through overpriced hardware and services, not your data. Look into it.

I have.

The evidence that they aren't trustworthy is easily found.

Then it should be easy for you to post sources of your findings that Apple isn't any better on this issue than Google. I'm interested.

Aaaaaaand he's gone.
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AvantgardeAClue
10/19/18 8:58:20 PM
#93:


One time I posted factual evidence to Beanz or SS3J Or some other shill and they just went back to bitching about iPhone prices, "RRREEEE $1500"

They're not interested in hearing a fair point
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