If OnePlus didn't have all those useless camera modules and only had a decent one I would have gone for it but alas I will wait for pixel to be released.
I'm done with Google phones. Both my wife's and my Nexus 6P had failing batteries after just 2 years, along with bad charging boards. My Pixel 3XL had the swollen battery issue. All of these are known issues.
The non-user-replaceable battery is the most frustrating aspect about current phone designs. Planned obsolescence of course.
Best things you can do to extend the life of the battery: 1. NEVER reconnect the device to a charger when the battery is full. Let it drain at least 10%. 2. Avoid draining battery below 20%, except every few months to calibrate. 3. Charge at most once per day, if possible.
For an iPhone 6S Plus (released in 2015), you can pay Apple $49 for:
- a brand-new, factory OEM battery - full labor (disassembly, replacement, assembly) - battery recycling of your old battery - a one-year warranty on the battery
No Android phone from 2015 can offer that. Not a single one. The sheer amount of global e-waste prevented by relatively affordable battery replacement is an untold story.
You are wrong. With the extension of the Samsung warranty, you have the right to repair, for example, a broken display and automatically replace the battery with a new one.
mmwave seems plausible. Pixels tend to be US centric in availability, and US carriers have started with mmwave deployments that are great for headline speed numbers, even though utterly useless for general connectivity due to tiny footprints; made worse by doing early deployments in sportsball arenas that are closed indefinitely.
Shame about the battery size. Last year, most $200+ phones had 4,000 mAh batteries, Pixel 3A had a 2,800 mAh battery. This year, it's 4,500 mAh for most, Pixel 4A has 3,1000 - BIG WHOOP.
No, I don't care the Pixel is "more optimized", especially given Google's track record with crap batteries in its phones that lost a significant portion of their capacity after 2 years, if not less.
my two pixel 3A's battery life started plunging after 6 months. I thought it was from fast charging, so one the second one i slowed charged but it made no apparent difference.
I was interested, then I signed into Google and got a late September delivery date lol... might as well wait until after the iPhone comes out and everything is discounted (fall pricing)
The Oneplus Nord will crush this phone if it comes to Canada by September.
Every Android phone looks garbage to my eyes now from design to the HW price to performance and worthiness.
First of all the design of every phone is inspired by Apple. And lack of HW features like expandable storage and 3.5mm jacks. Which is actually should be basic. Then you have the awful SW for which Google is to blame, every camera UI on Android phones is inspired by Apple, except Sony. And partially LG. Multitasking and every UI now has a bottom bar imitating iOS, same copy paste formula, even PlayStore Icons are now like AppStore. Then you have the price to perf ratio, these budget phones in specs but not price. Google asks a ton of money for the US market to spend for the garbage bin performance. India and EU get all those Chinese phones with top processors and cheaper price.
Finally the Flagship ! None of them are worth, $1000 for a dead phone in 2 years. Battery depleted and poor health of battery no way to take it to a brick and mortar shop and get it done properly quickly. Sealed shut design damn it..
Apple has those shops all over the world to do that part and genius people are very dumb so a machine does it. With these phones you have to ship the goddamn thing to them and wait for it to reset or bullshit, application backup on Android is SHIT. So can we take advantage of the filesystem for all our data ? Nope, from Android10+ bullshit scoped storage disaster you won't be able to find your own fucking files on your own phone nor there's expandable storage (Chinese flagships, Pixel). An insult it is tbh for people paying such money. Didn't even mention the A series performance because in the end the top androids and iphones both do the work in the same time with slight differences. Probably the video playback and camera processing features are definitely faster on iPhone and also probably the OS responsiveness due to the C++ for entire iOS vs Java and Kotlin for Android and probably more HW to support etc.
It's getting worse and worse, with Android tbh, using since 2.2 and never considered an iPhone. With the current copy paste bs formula and always having to pay more for second class clone and same locked down experience. I'm seriously thinking to move to either a KaiOS phone or a cheap iPhone, I do not want to support Apple ever but with navigation requirement on a phone and video calling, fucking out of options.
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SydneyBlue120d - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Maybe the Pixel 5 will use the rumored Samsung SOC?Flunk - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
That's $100 more than the 1+ Nord, which has 5G and otherwise similar specs. Google's handset prices are really holding them back.mmrezaie - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
If OnePlus didn't have all those useless camera modules and only had a decent one I would have gone for it but alas I will wait for pixel to be released.shabby - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
It does have a decent one, the main camera is from the op8. The ultrawide is acceptable and the rest are pretty useless.DigitalFreak - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
I'm done with Google phones. Both my wife's and my Nexus 6P had failing batteries after just 2 years, along with bad charging boards. My Pixel 3XL had the swollen battery issue. All of these are known issues.Peskarik - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
byeblurtested - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
2 years? my pixel battery life started plunging after 6 monthsvoicequal - Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - link
The non-user-replaceable battery is the most frustrating aspect about current phone designs. Planned obsolescence of course.Best things you can do to extend the life of the battery:
1. NEVER reconnect the device to a charger when the battery is full. Let it drain at least 10%.
2. Avoid draining battery below 20%, except every few months to calibrate.
3. Charge at most once per day, if possible.
euler007 - Monday, August 10, 2020 - link
Might as well be done with Huawei phones, because that's who built the Nexus 6P.ikjadoon - Monday, August 10, 2020 - link
This is another Apple advantage.For an iPhone 6S Plus (released in 2015), you can pay Apple $49 for:
- a brand-new, factory OEM battery
- full labor (disassembly, replacement, assembly)
- battery recycling of your old battery
- a one-year warranty on the battery
No Android phone from 2015 can offer that. Not a single one. The sheer amount of global e-waste prevented by relatively affordable battery replacement is an untold story.
Source: https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/ba...
I can't imagine paying $500+ for a mobile phone whose manufacturer won't replace the internal, sealed battery after a short two years.
Polezzz - Thursday, September 3, 2020 - link
You are wrong. With the extension of the Samsung warranty, you have the right to repair, for example, a broken display and automatically replace the battery with a new one.DanNeely - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
mmwave seems plausible. Pixels tend to be US centric in availability, and US carriers have started with mmwave deployments that are great for headline speed numbers, even though utterly useless for general connectivity due to tiny footprints; made worse by doing early deployments in sportsball arenas that are closed indefinitely.Krysto - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Shame about the battery size. Last year, most $200+ phones had 4,000 mAh batteries, Pixel 3A had a 2,800 mAh battery. This year, it's 4,500 mAh for most, Pixel 4A has 3,1000 - BIG WHOOP.No, I don't care the Pixel is "more optimized", especially given Google's track record with crap batteries in its phones that lost a significant portion of their capacity after 2 years, if not less.
danbob999 - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
Most phones with a 4000 mAh battery are bigger however.blurtested - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
my two pixel 3A's battery life started plunging after 6 months. I thought it was from fast charging, so one the second one i slowed charged but it made no apparent difference.Alistair - Monday, August 3, 2020 - link
I was interested, then I signed into Google and got a late September delivery date lol... might as well wait until after the iPhone comes out and everything is discounted (fall pricing)The Oneplus Nord will crush this phone if it comes to Canada by September.
Quantumz0d - Thursday, August 6, 2020 - link
Every Android phone looks garbage to my eyes now from design to the HW price to performance and worthiness.First of all the design of every phone is inspired by Apple. And lack of HW features like expandable storage and 3.5mm jacks. Which is actually should be basic. Then you have the awful SW for which Google is to blame, every camera UI on Android phones is inspired by Apple, except Sony. And partially LG. Multitasking and every UI now has a bottom bar imitating iOS, same copy paste formula, even PlayStore Icons are now like AppStore. Then you have the price to perf ratio, these budget phones in specs but not price. Google asks a ton of money for the US market to spend for the garbage bin performance. India and EU get all those Chinese phones with top processors and cheaper price.
Finally the Flagship ! None of them are worth, $1000 for a dead phone in 2 years. Battery depleted and poor health of battery no way to take it to a brick and mortar shop and get it done properly quickly. Sealed shut design damn it..
Apple has those shops all over the world to do that part and genius people are very dumb so a machine does it. With these phones you have to ship the goddamn thing to them and wait for it to reset or bullshit, application backup on Android is SHIT. So can we take advantage of the filesystem for all our data ? Nope, from Android10+ bullshit scoped storage disaster you won't be able to find your own fucking files on your own phone nor there's expandable storage (Chinese flagships, Pixel). An insult it is tbh for people paying such money. Didn't even mention the A series performance because in the end the top androids and iphones both do the work in the same time with slight differences. Probably the video playback and camera processing features are definitely faster on iPhone and also probably the OS responsiveness due to the C++ for entire iOS vs Java and Kotlin for Android and probably more HW to support etc.
It's getting worse and worse, with Android tbh, using since 2.2 and never considered an iPhone. With the current copy paste bs formula and always having to pay more for second class clone and same locked down experience. I'm seriously thinking to move to either a KaiOS phone or a cheap iPhone, I do not want to support Apple ever but with navigation requirement on a phone and video calling, fucking out of options.