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Where do they ship from?
Where do they ship from?
Mine's been charged, too. Gonna be a fun week.My credit card was charged! Phone is scheduled to ship tomorrow and arrive either Wednesday or Thursday!
Some people reported last year's Pixels shipping from Carol Stream, IL...which is quite literally 20 minutes away from where I live.
Nice! No ship notice for me, yet, so I checked my Visa. The charge that appeared, yesterday, has been changed back to "Pending." Hope that doesn't mean there was a shipping or stock issue.Confirmed shipping from Carol Stream, IL for me. Just got my tracking information with a scheduled delivery for tomorrow.
Nice! No ship notice for me, yet, so I checked my Visa. The charge that appeared, yesterday, has been changed back to "Pending." Hope that doesn't mean there was a shipping or stock issue.
The Pixels will receive the security update against KRACK on November 6th. I wonder when will the rest of Android world would be updated. I wonder if Blackberry will update itself first.
Shipped! Delivery on Thursday.Same here. It's still showing that it should ship today, but I've gotten no other information.
The centerpiece of Pixel Visual Core is the Google-designed Image Processing Unit (IPU)—a fully programmable, domain-specific processor designed from scratch to deliver maximum performance at low power. With eight Google-designed custom cores, each with 512 arithmetic logic units (ALUs), the IPU delivers raw performance of over 3 trillion operations per second on a mobile power budget. Using Pixel Visual Core, HDR+ can run 5x faster and at less than 1/10th the energy than running on the application processor (AP). A key ingredient to the IPU’s efficiency is the tight coupling of hardware and software—our software controls many more details of the hardware than in a typical processor. Handing more control to the software makes the hardware simpler and more efficient, but it also makes the IPU challenging to program using traditional programming languages. To avoid this, the IPU leverages domain-specific languages that ease the burden on both developers and the compiler: Halide for image processing and TensorFlow for machine learning. A custom Google-made compiler optimizes the code for the underlying hardware.Lots of reviews posted so I won't bother linking them all. All mostly positive, some rag on the screen on the 2 XL.
But something interesting that Google didn't bring up:
Google's first mobile chip is an image processor hidden in the Pixel 2
...and it isn't even activated yet.
We taking bets on who "wins?"Back at'cha!
Nasty jokes about my city in 3... 2... 1...
Pick your own title that says ANYTHING if yours gets home first. Gotta post pic here.Let's rock!!!
You got balls...If I lose, you pick my title. ANYTHING!
Let's go! Bastard.
Can I play?
I guess that the others will start doing similar things than Google with the software. Huawei definitely does already (I have Honor 8) - it's actually interesting to see how well Mate 10 performs.Wait. Back up. The Pixel 2 has a custom image processor ASIC that's just dark silicon for the time being?
This sounds cool, no doubt (as image processing speed tends to be a weak point of certain cameras like the Lumia 1020), but if future updates activate it, we can say goodbye to modded Google Camera HDR+ for all the other Snapdragon-based flagships (which doesn't work on other SoCs because it already relies on the Hexagon DSP in Qualcomm's silicon to do the HDR+ processing). So much for "free" camera upgrades on non-Google hardware.
Still, I'm all for speed, no matter the manufacturer. Maybe we can get 960 FPS smartphone cameras across the board, no matter the manufacturer (not just Sony), and for speeds sustained for more than a second. A good ASIC should help with that, and it might get the others to follow suit.
Mine isn't scheduled to ship until 10/23 and arrive by 10/25
Screen! Screen!! Please tell us it has a nice screen!!!!
Screen! Screen!! Please tell us it has a nice screen!!!!
Screen is very nice, but as I mentioned with the Verizon model - the colors are a bit muted to what we're used to with OLED panels. Also, the blue shift definitely is noticeable on white screens in off angle viewing which is so odd for an OLED panel...
It's LG...
I honestly starting to think the reason why LG can price their phone so low is due to the fact that they just make cheap shit.
Looks like I am either keeping original Pixel or go for Pixel 2 smaller one.