Google To Share Pixel 2 With The World On October 4th
A cryptic video teased some of the upcoming phone's features and an event of some sort for today and the live stream is available now!
Update: The event is going live any second now and you can watch it right here with us!
The smartphone market is thick with competition but there's no doubt that Android and iOS run the show. Apple just wrapped up a major event that included the reveal of the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and the (potentially) groundbreaking iPhone X. Not to be outdone, it looks like Google is coming hot on Apple's heels with an event on October 4th dedicated to the Pixel 2.
Engadget reports that the somewhat cryptic video above corroborates a few rumors about the phone, including the previously predicted release date in October. The video implies improvements for the battery, storage, camera, and Google Assistant but there are no official details out just yet.
HTC is rumored to be creating the smaller Pixel model and LG will handle the larger AMOLED XL model. Other rumored specs include 4GB RAM, 128GB storage, squeeze controls, a new Snapdragon processor, and more. No matter what, the presentation for this new device should involve some VR updates and some cool implementation of augmented reality content taking advantage of the recently announced ARCore. Stay tuned for more information as it's made available.
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replyCharles Singletary posted a new article, Google To Share Pixel 2 With The World On October 4th
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The last round of Pixels had the bands for both CDMA and GSM carriers, why would they restrict it on the 2's?
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The Pixel phones are locked to a carrier, IIRC, Verizon was the only carrier selling the phones themselves. You could go to the Google Store and buy the exact same thing directly.
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*are not. Missed a word.
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I bought mine straight from Google and use Cricket as my carrier.
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No prorating, you just buy what data package you want. I think it's 3/5/8GB/Unlimited for $30/40/50/70.
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they were verizon-exclusive in that verizon was the only carrier selling them directly (i.e. not at&t, t-mobile, sprint). you could still buy them standalone from google or whatever, and they worked on all the other carriers just fine
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Can't wait to see it. If it's awesome, I'll switch to Android for the first time ever!
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The Pixel is pretty awesome, my wife is gonna be looking to switch from Samsung for the first time in 5 years
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They are about to add person to person payments in iOS 11 but in iOS 10 you get reactions, drawings, gifs, stickers etc. You can send handwritten messages. You can also do effects like a shower of balloons for birthday wishes and invisible ink. There are others but that is what comes to mind off the top of my head. It isn't as big a deal to me but my wife loves it.
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Animated gifs, videos that are higher res than 320x240, not having photo messages never received for no apparent reason.
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No shit. Apps I have to ask people to install.
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most of my friends use whatsapp. the best thing is you dont have to add them, if you have their number in the contacts its automatically done
also desktop app on whatsapp is a god send, cant do that with PC + iMessage
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SMS/MMS is horrible in my experience. I'm with wurt, I think I'm going back to iPhones simply for iMessage, and I hate that.
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downscaled images, postage stamp sized videos, no "..." to indicate the other person is talking (this is HUGE), no delivery confirmation (ALSO HUGE), sometimes delayed delivery (i've suddenly gotten a burst of SMSes all at once, this never happens in iMessage). the different message effects are kinda fun, the handwriting thing is neat from time to time but i could give it up if i had to.
mostly it's the "..." to indicate someone is typing. i don't know how to describe how transformative is it to have flow control in a conversation if you don't already get it-
Thanks, you got all the things I was gonna say :)
Tonight, I have another one. International friend is in town, someone starts a group text, all of them on iPhone. The international friend doesn't get any of them because it's MMS and he's on data only, so the "what chat should we use" conversation starts. It's just frustrating for everyone involved.-
(I'm on Android, if that scenario wasn't clear)
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I hear ya man, I love Whatsapp and that's what I ask everyone to use. It's just a bummer having to ask. It's minor, I just have to do it constantly (from dating mostly).
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SMS doesn't do group chat, which I think is one of imessage's biggest appeals. It frustrates me to no end how most of my family bought into the apple ecosystem and then they piss and moan when we're not on their glorious imessage. As far as I'm concerned, the only selling feature of those phones is their closed-platform message service.
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Technically I think group stuff falls under the MMS protocol, but I doubt Enity is splitting hairs there.
To my somewhat limited knowledge, other features iMessage has over general SMS, there's not really anything special about iMessage group messaging.
Let's see, you can name the group so it's not just a list of participants? Uhh... yeah.
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It's the seem less connection of an SMS/MMS app with a regular messenger app. That's huge.
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The Cortana SMS integration has never worked for me.
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You sorta answered your own question in some respect didn't you? Why do you use IM as your primary form of communication? Because you found IM clients did what SMS does except with a way better experience on the phone and with support on non-phones. iMessage does both of those too without requiring a separate app that's slower and more bloated than the messenger app.
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~50% of the US is on iOS so that's not really that hard to accomplish, especially since most people probably send 90%+ of their texts to < 5ish people. The stragglers still text you normally or message you through some other app if they want.
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I don't give a shit about that stuff either. In fact, I kind of dislike the idea of someone else being able to tell when I'm reading/responding to their texts. I'll get back you when I fucking feel like it!
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every IM client has done this for years and it's super useful for having an actual conversation
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Ah, then that sounds much better. I don't mind someone know if I'm literally in the middle of responding to them, but I really dislike the idea that they can see that I've read their message but haven't responded yet.
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A group of friends and family of mine did just that. I finally kinda snapped in my usual passive aggressive way when they were running their mouths about imessage, and told them that there's tons of options. They begrudgingly used it and it's been pretty great.
I'm sure they have their own group in imessage they mock me in, but when we were organizing for UFC215, it was great. -
I have a greater need for the ability to globally set default programs. Ios keeeps wanting to open various links in safari instead of YouTube or the my Reddit app.
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I really hope this causes the Pixel 1 to drop in price while they dump stock.
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They've already had sales on Pixel 1.
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Its free if you have a Nexus 6P!
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I am excited to upgrade, while my classic Nexus 5 still works really well, OS updates are nice, and I would not complain about having a much better camera on my phone.
Though hopefully they don't immediately start taking pre-orders... even just a few days later would be better for me.-
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Even today it remains a solid phone. It's never been the best at anything (other than at the time it was released it was the best at being pure Android), but it is and probably will remain my favorite if only for the surprising longevity.
I think it might even be snappier than it was when it was new thanks to Marshmallow. Just a really solid mid-tier phone.
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Have pixel XL, usually I upgrade every year to new Nexus/pixel but this time I have a feeling I won't especially if the rumors are true about the size (being larger than xl), bezels and lack of headphone jack
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