I'm on a Pixel 6a and nothing has appeared that I need yet.
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Rocking an 8 Pro. With 5 years sec updates & 7 for OS support (or whatever it was) + ability to boot load a different OS as someone else said: It would have to catch fire to get an 11. But then Moto are the next partners w/ graphene so....
I recently switched from a 6XL to a 10a. I'd been waiting on a couple repair shops to get batteries in stock but gave up after a couple months.
I realized that I'm old and don't need the biggest and best device anymore, especially since they cost like $1000+ now. I don't play games on my phone, don't watch media. I just do some email, music, podcasts, etc. Add to that I wanted to install GrapheneOS.
Yeah, my 9 series, I just use a case with the magnet ring on it, works great. I can't see a situation where the faster wireless charging would matter unless I only charged in the car or something where an hour of charging in a single go is the only time I'd be charging it.
Camera zoom - Sure, it's be nice, but, not worth tossing a phone that works great for 99.9999% of the pictures I take and just in general works great still. It's already got a 5x zoom, not sure how much more I could realistically want from it
I'm pretty underwhelmed with their offerings lately and probably wouldn't even have a 9 if I wasn't offered a great upgrade deal from my old 6.
My Pixel 7 would have to catch fire to get me to upgrade. Google is clearly trying to run the pixels into the ground. I'll give it another couple of years then probably switch to Motorola if they still support GrapheneOS.
The 10 added... magnetic Qi2 charging
A $3 metal sticker can allow any phone to use all the new magnetic doohickeys on the market. The wireless charger isn't 25W, but if you want to charge quickly you should plug in anyways.
I use one of those stickers on my phone and the Anker qi2 battery packs work perfectly fine (albeit a little slow)
Yes.
Pixel 9 Pro XL here, bought it the day it released. Rooted on Day 0 and ran that way until last week when I decided to install Graphene OS. I have no reason to "upgrade". I also never use wireless charging, so that isn't a factor in my purchases, but if you're curious - the 9 Pro can do 23W wireless charging.
FYI - The 9 Pro devices have a periscopic zoom lens.
Pixel 7a with GOS. Perfect but for size -- too small.
I got a 7 second hand (only way I buy electronics now) and loaded GrapheneOS on it and I'm happy. Can't think of anything I'd want to do that this one doesn't
IMO no, even if you're on the Pixel 8 the upgrade to 9/10 isn't giving you much and isn't worth the high cost. The Pixel 11 is a straight up downgrade with less RAM and less solid support by google.
If it's more camera zoom you want the Pro editions all have that.
I'm still using my pixel 9 pro with no plans of upgrading. It's still perfectly fine and the new ones don't look worth the upgrade
Plus, the 9 pro starts with more RAM than the 11 pro. Go figure.
I upgraded from the 8 and it's barely noticeable. But I had severe water damage on my phone but the screen still worked so it was worth trading in.
I went up from the 9 pro to the 11 pro this year. It feels like an incremental upgrade. It's newer and faster but it's not wildly different from my last phone. I probably could've held out another year but with RAM prices affecting phones I wanted to upgrade before AI gets even crazier.
Top shelf phone I hope it holds on for awhile. I mainly love having an answering robot, but let me put my phone number on the internet for free!!! That way there's no point in buying my phone number from a data leak.. frankly the whole concept of phone numbers and gives me the ick for a lot of reasons.
Fuck no
From what I could gather:
RCS is not supported by the Android system - probably because Gurgle doesn't want to (not sure about iOS). Also quite few carriers still do not support it. So if you manage to send a message, you have no guarantee that it would arrive in the same format you would expect.
The only advantage it has is that you don't have to create an account anywhere and you can simply use a phone number to send it. However, that is also it's biggest downside, because you would have to give your phone number to other people or services, which is not a good idea in this age.
It may have been a good idea around 2007, but it's too late now.
Same, I don't think I'll need to upgrade until it becomes unusable on a daily basis.
There are a few different Trump Phone videos on YouTube if you search for it. It has been known for at least a few months that it's an HTC phone.
Did you get yours in the USA?
I'm on a 10a - it has a sim card tray. I use it.
I'm on Pixel 8 "amateur" and even then it isn't worth it for me.
And thanks to that recent leak, we know who. I mean someone does. I haven't really looked at the data myself.
None "just work".
SMS did. But it got dated fast...like, as soon as camera phones came out.
RCS came out around 2007 and was defined by GSMA as the next generation of SMS, but they struggled with carrier and device compatibility until 2016-ish.
By then, iMessaging had already been around for several years.
Apple could've opened up iMessage. Google could have forced Android towards GTalk/Hangouts/GVoice, but instead joined up with a pre-existing standard.
Plenty of stories where Google is the bad guy (including one, I thought, where they basically hijacked the XMPP project, but I could be misremembering)...but I don't think RCS, itself, is one.
No. Absolutely not.
The year-to-year advancements of the Pixel series are minimal. I upgraded from a 7 to a 10 and it was really more of a sidegrade thanks to the P10's shitty GPU.
I'll consider upgrading when the base model gets 16GB of RAM or if they ever make a SOC that's a significant upgrade.
The only two upgrades I want from my 7 Pro is the smaller size and support for desktop mode.