Not a fan of the design of the Pixel or iPhone. They both have these cold, sterile design that doesn't look like it was designed to be used and held by a human hand. It was designed to be looked at or for curated display in an Apple Store.<p>And what's with all the flat design, we need skeumorphism and warmth back in industrial and UI design.<p>I prefer the soap bar design which seems to have been forgotten. And no more glass backs please. I don't get the appeal of glass, they shatter so easily, finger print magnets and just add unnecessary weight.
The store was down, but these are the links:<p>Overview: <a href="https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB" rel="nofollow">https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB</a><p>Buy: <a href="https://store.google.com/config/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB" rel="nofollow">https://store.google.com/config/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB</a><p>Weirdly I kept seeing an internal MOMA login page asking for an @google.com login. So clearly something is broken (I do not work at Google).<p>Edit: Past all of those problems... error R013 when trying to check out.<p>Edit: Oh well... I missed out. Sold out before I got past the R013 error.
Not a huge fan of the Geordi La Forge band. Feels...bulky. In general I'm a little baffled at the Pixel's aesthetic vs the iPhone. Like take the corners on the Pixel. They're weirdly small and sharp, making the phone seem a lot more blocky. Or how the lime green doesn't go quite as well with the pastel turquoise back. Say what you will about Apple's products, they get a lot of these details right.
>We aren’t in your country yet.<p>New year, same shit again.<p>I wonder who are the target of these phones really are? Never seen anyone using a Pixel out in the wild<p>Feels like a pet project of Google to me. Like "we make Android so we better make some phones too otherwise people don't take us seriously" idk
Love the back design of the phone, symmetry is always good. Finally one can put their on the table and tap on it without making a noise to hell and beyond.<p>But this presentation, with the potato chips 1 hour long ad... and i can see that more effort went for the video than the engineering effort of the phone with that amazing selection of genders, skin color and ethnicity, not to mention the sexual orientations of the actors. And that not taking into consideration the order in which to present them - imagine the wars that were waged in the planning room.
I was looking around to buy a new phone, and the Pixel 5a seemed very nice. The design is clean, the screen may be big but the battery is bigger, and it works with Graphene OS! I just want a boring phone that will work. But they decided to sell it only in the US and Japan. Apparently one of the reasons for this decision was to not distract away from the Pixel 6. Now the only option I have left is to maybe buy a Pixel 4a from last year, if want a normal looking phone.
interesting, don't really disagree with the comment about the form factor of pixel and iphone being cold/sterile (although it's been for so many years now kinda used to it and don't really notice) -- however, one thing that occurred to me on this launch is how much the <i>software</i> has a human feel/push from Google. The colours and theme shifting - giving your device, the UI, that personal feel which is really what makes it yours in the day-to-day (big customization/wallpaper/launcher fan here, always has been the Android advantage), and many human elements from inclusive photography to translation and things about people connecting - I appreciated that approach.
Will app developers get access to the Tensor chip?<p>Will all the features of the phone and the Titan M2 chip still work with another Android build like grapheneOS or LineageOS?<p>I don't think those were covered in the video.
Anyone knows if having some items in the basket while being unable to complete the order somehow guarantees a certain spot in the queue on store.google.com?<p>I want this phone badly, I want to be part of this inclusive camera experience, but due to systemic issues in the ordering process, I am still unable to checkout.
Why do manufacturers have to trap the good features like telephoto lenses on devices with bent screens? I don't like having the first letter of every line doing the lean-back. I don't like having to find the one exact body angle that keeps glare off the screen.
Who writes the copy for these things? Are they outsourcing these, adapting to the audience or am I part of the dumbed down flight?<p>'The best', 'our most powerful', 'The most advanced', 'Most hardware security', 'most light ever', 'most fluent', 'most layers of hardware'.<p>Seriously?<p>EDIT: This felt familiar, apparently I noticed something similar in the previous launch: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641965" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641965</a>
I am really liking the "Shareable moments" sidebar on the right. Such a cool idea and it's so smooth along with the right types of media (gif, png, video)
For what it's worth, I had this thing in my basket since 10-ish pacific, during all this time, i was stuck at the order checkout 'comfirm purchase' step.<p>In google fashion, it'd fail in very diverse ways:
1) mostly 'OR_PCVH_01' "unexpected error occured".
2) sometimes a troika of codes with the label "your purchase has expired". This would be ~5% of the time.
3) sometimes no error at all, just a blank page.<p>I was rather afraid to attempt going back to 'store.google.com' to checkout my cart again and find the items sold out, but I courageously overcame my fears and decided to stand up for myself. Consumer me went ahead, created a new tab, clicked the basket and pressed 'checkout'. And after the one or two 'OR_PCVH_01' and some blank page, boom, it went through.<p>Long story short, i suspect that error message 2 is misleading in what it means. It doesn't mean 'try to click this comfirm purchase' button later, it means try to "checkout your cart again".
Does anyone knows about the state of the futuristic AI features from Google?
I recall a presentation about AI phone assistant that was ordering something on the phone and it was indistinguishable from a human, handling edge cases flawlessly. Are people using AI assistants to make them book places or order things on the phone?
this is the single worst product launch I've ever seen on all fronts from the terrible video to the store being down for a half hour and still down
Wow. The marketing team for this have been taking <i>very</i> detailed notes on Apples presentation style. Products aside, this is almost identical to Apple's launch yesterday.
On the off chance anyone else is wondering, there are plans for grapheneOS support, but they will likely wait for the first quarterly major update to Android 12: <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1444081794769375233" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/144408179476937...</a>
I am still rocking my Pixel 3, which for me is the perfect size. I just don't see much need to upgrade much anymore, the pixel 3 has a nice screen, decent hacker news browsing experience, and wireless charging. I'll keep an eye out for a black Friday deal but otherwise I will keep my phone for now.
As much as I love Android, the way Google introduces pixels is just sad, esp. when you think about the time and effort that Apple put into their event.
Dear Google. Let me provide you the solution to your self-created problems.<p>1. Make products that work.<p>2. Make sure that your website does not crash when someone tries to order your product.<p>3. Make sure you do not allow to customers to put more devices into the carts than you can ship. This has been a solved problem for at least a decade. You may want to outsource this to Shopify as your software engineers clearly can't figure out how to build ecommerce platforms that actually work.
Lmao fuck this shit. I HAD a 256GB model in my cart for like an hour but checkout would lead to R013. THEN they decided they're going to wipe everyone's car and now every one except the 128GB black model is sold out. Cool so I add that one to my cart and even when I get past a new error, R008, the final "confirm purchase" button is spitting out an error. Goddamn scalping scum.
It's just been admitted.<p>Fuchsia/Zircon is going to be optimised to run on Google Tensor chips most likely this decade.<p>I'll probably end up linking this comment in a few years.
I don't get it, wtf am I supposed to do with the images on the right hand side in the link?<p>I'm not interested in sharing moments, I just want to see a picture of the damn thing without having to watch the stupid video.
Beautiful phone, but the bump in the back... sorry i just can't<p>Who started this camera bump movement the past decade? it's very ugly... and not practical at all..
What’s the differentiation against an iPhone? Presumably both phones are fast and take great photos and have an app ecosystem. But the iPhone is likely faster, probably has longer battery, and will last longer as a phone - I know people using Apple phones several generations old and still getting security updates. Apple also offers better privacy and their built in services like Maps are really good now.<p>If I were Google what I would do is make a more open phone. One with side loading, customization, repairability, and transparency as first class considerations. Otherwise it all comes off as a second class offering that’s just like anything else.