* Walks off tables (and dry hands) thanks to the atomically smooth surfaces
* Fails to detect rotation events
* Randomly detects false rotation events
* Turning off auto-rotate requires a rotate-dance to force a rotation to get detected, still completely fails sometimes.
* Which Google app does what, changes constantly for no reason (e.g. Nest vs Home, Hangouts vs Duo vs Gmail vs ???, Google Podcasts is going EOL, many more.)
* Camera adds AI artifacts to photos
* Google apps move their UI controls (my cheese) constantly for no reason
* Device search sucks. Exact matches for apps that are installed show the app result ~50% of the time, and web results the other 50%
* That gigantic camera slab on the back. WTAF?!
* Received SMS images from IOS users are potato quality
* Received SMS videos are useless
* Google deprecated security patches for my last Pixel after only 3 years. WTAF?!
* Bluetooth is still hot garbage when trying to use various headphones and cars
That's what I recall in a quick 5 minutes.
There are many more gripes, complaints and even some actual defects.
I recognize that i-devices have problems too. I recognize that some of these problems are caused by i-devices. I recognize that the utopia has not arrived for anyone.
Unlike i-devices, the entire device (and the software on it) do not feel like they were designed by a group of people who care about how it feels to use it.
It's obvious that caring people were involved in the creation of these devices, but they were always overruled and limited in their ability to accomplish their goals by dipshits with too much power and no values.
Ahhh, I understand, I don't use most of these features and have a QuadLock case on mine so I don't notice most of them. Yeah, that really sucks.
I have noticed it hates to detect my fingerprints and fails too fast. It's nowhere near the quality of my old Motorola. I think they sacrificed something to do that "Through the Screen" trick. Also the screen rotation thing is a pain.
I mostly bought mine because my previous Motorola lost security updates less than a year after I bought it. I need them for my work apps so it pretty much made that phone worthless. One thing I hate is that companies provide security updates for the time period after the phone is released, not last purchased.
Apple is definitely blowing away Android phones in almost every aspect. I just can't live with them after my experiences with their iPad and MacBook Pro. Butterfly keyboard, broken touch strip, power cord not working, one drop of water away from disaster. Gah!
Also, I'd suggest ditching SMS and encouraging family and friends to use an encrypted chat app instead.
> * Bluetooth is still hot garbage when trying to use various headphones and cars
This is usually the car's fault, especially if the car was made over a decade ago. Hell, back when I got my first car with Bluetooth built in, almost no contemporary Bluetooth devices would function with it.
* Fails to detect fingerprints most of the time
* Walks off tables (and dry hands) thanks to the atomically smooth surfaces
* Fails to detect rotation events
* Randomly detects false rotation events
* Turning off auto-rotate requires a rotate-dance to force a rotation to get detected, still completely fails sometimes.
* Which Google app does what, changes constantly for no reason (e.g. Nest vs Home, Hangouts vs Duo vs Gmail vs ???, Google Podcasts is going EOL, many more.)
* Camera adds AI artifacts to photos
* Google apps move their UI controls (my cheese) constantly for no reason
* Device search sucks. Exact matches for apps that are installed show the app result ~50% of the time, and web results the other 50%
* That gigantic camera slab on the back. WTAF?!
* Received SMS images from IOS users are potato quality
* Received SMS videos are useless
* Google deprecated security patches for my last Pixel after only 3 years. WTAF?!
* Bluetooth is still hot garbage when trying to use various headphones and cars
That's what I recall in a quick 5 minutes.
There are many more gripes, complaints and even some actual defects.
I recognize that i-devices have problems too. I recognize that some of these problems are caused by i-devices. I recognize that the utopia has not arrived for anyone.
Unlike i-devices, the entire device (and the software on it) do not feel like they were designed by a group of people who care about how it feels to use it.
It's obvious that caring people were involved in the creation of these devices, but they were always overruled and limited in their ability to accomplish their goals by dipshits with too much power and no values.