- extended update service to 7 years
- pushing Material UI consistency
- Tensor G3 chip for AI & machine learning done locally on device
Headphone jack? Sd slot?
How Google's Pixel 8 Pro Will Change Smartphones Forever
Submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 year ago
So pissed the new fairphone dropped the headphone jack.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
US doesn’t even get a faiphone…
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Welcome to dongle life!
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My big issue with the line has been no microSD slot. I won’t buy a phone with locked memory capacity.
Granixo@feddit.cl 1 year ago
Same!
I also demand justice for the headphone jack!
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m holding onto my 4a5g because I really really don’t want to give up my headphone jack
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have enough media to fill my phone about 4x over. I’d be lost without the expansion.
And no… “buh, buh, cloud storage!” is useless if you’re not connected.
Blizzard@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Do you record a lot of videos?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, I have a bunch of media.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Updates, user interface, and local neural network. You’ve described the iPhone.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t agree with that assessment
glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Those are facts. Having a quality phone will not change the world forever.
kftX@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is this year’s Tensor an actual in-house chip or just another rebranded shitty Exynos?
Hats off to Samsung tho, kneecapping the competition 😂
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
this article says that it’s based on its Exynos 2400
rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
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.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If a seven year update cycle becomes the norm for Android phones that would be revolutionary in my opinion. I have my doubts though.
rush@lemm.ee 1 year ago
meanwhile Fairphone on their way to do up to 10 years
ErikDegenerik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All that is worthless when the phone will be released without battery.
IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Sure.
phx@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Do the 7y updates also apply to the non-pro versions?
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 year ago
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.
Granixo@feddit.cl 1 year ago
The only thing that i want from Google is that they release Android 14.
vector_zero@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Granixo@feddit.cl 1 year ago
Yeah, and to be honest, the only reason i look up to Android 14 is because of the AV1 codec hardware acceleration requirement.
jcrabapple@artemis.camp 1 year ago
There were some major last minute bugs so they're releasing it in October with the phone this time.
HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If it doesn’t have a physical keyboard it’s won’t change shit
rush@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You may wanna look into F(x)tec
Havald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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%?
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
rush@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I agree in the fact that some ML algorithms are used daily by nearly all who have a smartphone, but things like increasing the touch target is BS. It’s quite easy to confirm by simply either looking at the code or enabling “show layout bounds” in Android’s Developer Options.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Definitely a little bit of hyperbole with that headline. I think I have to use the exact headline the article uses though.
panja@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fairphone
rush@lemm.ee 1 year ago
hats off to them, great company
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I miss removable batteries so much. I was so disappointed that project aria never went anywhere
Havald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
eumesmo@lemmings.world 1 year ago
I was so hyped for project aria back then… It was so sad that it was discontinued.
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s my understanding that the Pixel camera hardware isn’t that spectacular but boy-oh-boy the processed photos look spectacular.