Pixel 10 / Pixel 10 Pro / Pixel 10 XL

I have a 25% off code from being a Google One member for Poixel 10 series.

PM me for code. Expires 11/02.
 
T-mobile is also offering a thousand off the XL, no trade in required.
 
kirbyrj said:
Sounds like a 3 year commitment then.
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All of those "offers" are just that. $1000 amortized across 24 to 36 monthly bill credits. Trade in early or pay off device? Full payment due, credits are forfeited. Because they want you to stay on the plan which is their revenue. Even worse, some carriers now (Verizon) require you to get the highest tier plan often where the difference is the same as the bill credits, in order to get the max trade in value. I recommend buying the device, unlocked, paid in full from the vendor (Google store) and then going to a MVNO like US Mobile, paying upfront for a year if you can. No recurring phone bill AND you can switch between the major providers (AT&T, Verizon, TMobile).

If you have Amazon's $17/mo. asurion protection plan, some devices are covered under that is well.
 
I buy all my phones outright. I've looked at US Mobile, but never made the jump. I'm currently on Xfinity Mobile (Verizon MVNO) because I get it for $10/mo. with my internet plan. Prior to that, I was with Visible and before that TMO. Unfortunately, it's tough to beat the Xfinity deal while I'm on my promo.
 
us mobile is great. They offered a pixel 9 for $250 a few months ago, I should have taken it. My bill is $18/month with them, not leaving any time soon.
 
Just switched over from Google Fi to Verizon and got the pixel 10 pro XL

So far so good.
 
I'm still digging it, the battery life is fantastic for me, I think I've been below 25% at bedtime once.
 
I left Fi because I didn't realize it wasn't a good deal at all until I learned about mvnos. The Reddit mvno is a good start, Mint and US Mobile have both been great for me.

But Verizon? :eek:
 
ZeqOBpf6 said:
I left Fi because I didn't realize it wasn't a good deal at all until I learned about mvnos. The Reddit mvno is a good start, Mint and US Mobile have both been great for me.

But Verizon? :eek:
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If I leave GF, I'll go to Boost Mobile.
 
uOpt said:
Why switch to Verizon from Google FI of all things?
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Honestly, I loved GF. Cheap, reliable enough. But the service was mediocre where I need it.

With the deal Verizon had going on, I'm ending up paying just $20 more a month with better coverage and a brand new phone.
 
It would be nice if we could get an additional $239 discount if we opt out of the ai plus "feature" which reminds me I need to find that setting and turn off auto renew.
 
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Looks like it's just $350 after the trade in...

Just got my wife the 17 pro max.. gosh, what a beast phone.. Not a single pixel can compete against it.
 
Here's a nice update: Pixel 10 phones can now share to iPhones through AirDrop.

We've seen unofficial AirDrop support through third parties (namely Oppo brands), but this instantly makes the Pixel 10 line more attractive to me than any other Android phone, at least until support expands. It can be a headache to live in an iPhone home (or just have a lot of iPhone-owning friends) and have to jump through hoops to send them files and full-quality photos. This means you can switch to a Pixel and still feel like part of the club... well, minus iMessage chats.

Not that I expect a mass exodus — it's just that this support is sometimes more valuable than raw performance.
 
I kinda hate my Pixel 10 Pro. The signals seem significantly weaker than my Pixel 9 Pro. The removal of the physical SIM tray kinda sucked too.
 
jlbenedict said:
Pixel 10 Pro in route... gonna retire the GOAT, Galaxy Note 9 🤣
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I think the S9/Note 9 is where smartphones or at least Samsung peaked in phone design. Since then I've hated the hole punches in displays in lieu of thin bezels. No more front facing speakers, IR blasters, expandable storage, headphone jacks, etc.

It's amazing how phones have mostly regressed in the last decade outside of SoC, display brightness, and battery capacities.
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I kinda hate my Pixel 10 Pro. The signals seem significantly weaker than my Pixel 9 Pro. The removal of the physical SIM tray kinda sucked too.
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It's funny how the 10 was the most hyped for going to TSMC and yet it turned out to be the most mediocre and iterative update so far, among all of the already mediocre and iterative updates since Tensor debuted in the Pixel 6.

I'm pretty much over the bare-minimum hardware, esp. the slow and tiny base storage option, while charging flagship prices. The only reason I have kept buying is they usually have sales for $250+ off somewhere unlocked only a few months after launch, which I haven't seen on current Samsung or OP phones.
 
T4rd said:
I think the S9/Note 9 is where smartphones or at least Samsung peaked in phone design. Since then I've hated the hole punches in displays in lieu of thin bezels. No more front facing speakers, IR blasters, expandable storage, headphone jacks, etc.

It's amazing how phones have mostly regressed in the last decade outside of SoC, display brightness, and battery capacities.
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I wouldn't call it a wholesale regression. Some phone speakers sound great, and I don't mind hole-punch cameras that much. I'd also say that some of those 'missing' features have diminishing returns in developed countries. It's harder to push for microSD slots when even some midrange phones ship with at least 256GB, and many people are streaming media rather than storing it. Expandable storage and headphone jacks mainly matter in budget devices, where the customers can't necessarily afford more built-in space or wireless earbuds.

There's also the simple reality that the industry isn't going back. We risk missing out on genuine improvements because we're afraid of losing a few things we like. I don't want to be That Guy holding on to a creaky seven-year-old phone because I want to use a favorite set of headphones without an adapter.

I look at it this way: the iPhone 16 Pro I use as my main phone can take photos that might be mistaken for professional material. It vnever slows down when I'm working, and plays games with visuals that would have been reserved for consoles a few years ago. Yes, there's a camera cutout, but that also means I can sign in just by looking at my phone.
 
Aurelius said:
I wouldn't call it a wholesale regression. Some phone speakers sound great, and I don't mind hole-punch cameras that much. I'd also say that some of those 'missing' features have diminishing returns in developed countries. It's harder to push for microSD slots when even some midrange phones ship with at least 256GB, and many people are streaming media rather than storing it. Expandable storage and headphone jacks mainly matter in budget devices, where the customers can't necessarily afford more built-in space or wireless earbuds.

There's also the simple reality that the industry isn't going back. We risk missing out on genuine improvements because we're afraid of losing a few things we like. I don't want to be That Guy holding on to a creaky seven-year-old phone because I want to use a favorite set of headphones without an adapter.

I look at it this way: the iPhone 16 Pro I use as my main phone can take photos that might be mistaken for professional material. It vnever slows down when I'm working, and plays games with visuals that would have been reserved for consoles a few years ago. Yes, there's a camera cutout, but that also means I can sign in just by looking at my phone.
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These are fair points, I just disagree with them. Keeping a headphone jack and expandable storage takes nothing away from anything else. It's short-sighted to think only non-developed countries want these things.

The best example in my case is my kids get our old phones, and my daughter only gets the cheapest and largest headphones we can find because she has literally lost 6+ pairs of headphones and earbuds we've handed down or gifted to her. So now she gets large wired headphones only and she has to use a USB C adapter for it that wears out after a month or two of abuse from her. And she can't charge her phone while using them, which is a lot because half the time she falls asleep before remembering to charge her phone. She also takes a lot of video with her friends and has had to unload the internal storage to free up space a few times, which would be alleviated with expandable storage. 128GB is puny now and Google still sells this as their base storage, and it's 5+ year old UFS 3.1 NAND as well, so they're uber cheaping out on it.

To me a notch makes more sense than an island or hold punch too; at least that way the pixels between the hole and the bezel aren't entirely useless and wasted as well for any of the content you're viewing. I'd rather just have a slightly taller phone with all of it in the bezel instead of interrupting the display, but if you have to a notch makes way more sense to me.

These are all design regressions IMO. There's no excuse for some features to be relegated to mid-range phones. The absence of headphone jack makes sense from Apples perspective because they basically lock you into buying their proprietary Airpods for them so you get advanced features. But that's not the case at all on the Android side where you have countless options that work basically the same across all Android phones.
 
The removal of expandable storage is for one reason and one reason only, to force customers into buying the much higher priced larger storage versions of phones.

The removal of the headphone jack is for a similar reason. It's to sell more accessories. If you need an adapter, you can just buy one from the same company that sells the phone. If you don't want to deal with an adapter, which tends to fail quite frequently, you'll buy the wireless accessory headphones/earbuds sold by the same company that made the phone.

I would guess that this wasn't just a manufacturer's push but also pushed by cell providers because that's where a ton of sales for phones and accessories are made. They love to upsell you on overpriced accessories when you get a new phone through them.

For those who don't believe me, there was a time when a premier product was the one with all the features/options because it was supposed to be the best. It has gotten to the point with cell phones where the premier product is one with the fewest features/options. It has nothing to do with cost because if the cost was high to includes these features they definitely wouldn't be found on low end and midrange phones where price is the main determining factor.
 
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Sony Xperia was what you wanted if you wanted/needed all those. Headphone jack and removable storage. Unfortunately, they have downgraded displays on the recent models, pulled from the USA market and are much harder to get with very high prices. Lack of extended updates and questionable coverage on some 5G bands (n71, for example) make this even worse. And finally, the camera which it was noted for, has been leapfrogged by the Chinese brands such as Xiaomi and Vivo.
 
SmokeRngs said:
The removal of expandable storage is for one reason and one reason only, to force customers into buying the much higher priced larger storage versions of phones.

The removal of the headphone jack is for a similar reason. It's to sell more accessories. If you need an adapter, you can just buy one from the same company that sells the phone. If you don't want to deal with an adapter, which tends to fail quite frequently, you'll buy the wireless accessory headphones/earbuds sold by the same company that made the phone.

I would guess that this wasn't just a manufacturer's push but also pushed by cell providers because that's where a ton of sales for phones and accessories are made. They love to upsell you on overpriced accessories when you get a new phone through them.

For those who don't believe me, there was a time when a premier product was the one with all the features/options because it was supposed to be the best. It has gotten to the point with cell phones where the premier product is one with the fewest features/options. It has nothing to do with cost because if the cost was high to includes these features they definitely wouldn't be found on low end and midrange phones where price is the main determining factor.
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And instead - infuriatingly - seemingly everyone just winds up using their speakers on high volume in public...
 
SmokeRngs said:
The removal of expandable storage is for one reason and one reason only, to force customers into buying the much higher priced larger storage versions of phones.

The removal of the headphone jack is for a similar reason. It's to sell more accessories. If you need an adapter, you can just buy one from the same company that sells the phone. If you don't want to deal with an adapter, which tends to fail quite frequently, you'll buy the wireless accessory headphones/earbuds sold by the same company that made the phone.

I would guess that this wasn't just a manufacturer's push but also pushed by cell providers because that's where a ton of sales for phones and accessories are made. They love to upsell you on overpriced accessories when you get a new phone through them.

For those who don't believe me, there was a time when a premier product was the one with all the features/options because it was supposed to be the best. It has gotten to the point with cell phones where the premier product is one with the fewest features/options. It has nothing to do with cost because if the cost was high to includes these features they definitely wouldn't be found on low end and midrange phones where price is the main determining factor.
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Yes and no.

There's certainly a business advantage to all of those moves and it no doubt plays a role, but I suspect Apple, Google, Samsung and others are also trying to temper these with real gains.

An example today is the iPhone 17 series. If you buy an eSIM-only model in countries where it's available, you get a larger battery than you do with models that still include physical SIM slots. That space constraint would also affect microSD slots and headphone jacks. Minimizing those components also theoretically allows for slimmer designs, better water/dust resistance, that sort of thing.

I'd add that the advantages of microSD are fading away in phones. There's more built-in storage, of course, but even microSD Express can be too slow if you have a speed-sensitive app (think games or creative tools). Apple actually requires an external USB-C SSD for its most demanding video recording modes as even the built-in UFS storage isn't necessarily fast enough.

I will say that microSD and headphone jacks are still important in the budget realm. Someone living in, say, India or South Africa won't have money for gobs of built-in storage or wireless earbuds, and probably won't be streaming (South Africa often delivers only limited hours of electricity, for instance). They're just tough sells in places like North America, where you'll probably get 256GB (as of 2025), stream most things, and won't see much trouble in buying a $50 set of cheapie Bluetooth buds instead of a $20 wired pair.
 
I got a Pixel 10a today to replace my 2018 Samsung 9 not using as a phone just for surfing I liked my work phone a 8a so picked up a 10a. I use my work phone for clocking in at work and trolling my coworkers. I guess Management can search our search history. I search self help supplements or prices for stuff in eBay that we sell at work or item location. I try to stay off the phone much as possible so I don't become a zombie in the lunchroom.

I had this Samsung phone twice Xcover 2 that thing sucked 1st one got wet screen started shorting out I had to press the phone on my pants legs just to get it turn on. That was for about 7 months.
 
Just upgraded to Android 17 the best feature of you ask me is getting rid of names in App Icons. Otherwise it's like looking at a zebra.

I updated but was getting weird eyestrain couldn't figure it out my brightness was way down no night light no weird settings no blur animations so I checked system software again. There was a August System update from August this year I used that and poof eyestrain went away. Must be like bad Gpu drivers on cards.

I took screenshots of all my settings the uploaded them to my PC so when Android 18 comes out I'll be the last person to update to it . I had Android 10 on my S9 I couldn't even use Amazon app it was so old. I had to use a Amazon retro version
 
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If anyone's Chrome suddenly lost the Home button after the recent update, apparently Google is testing a "Home Button Removal" experiment.

Go to chrome://flags, search for Home Button Removal, set it to Disabled, then relaunch Chrome.

Mine randomly disappeared today and this brought it right back. The normal Chrome settings don't seem to have an option for it.

Weird change. No idea why Google decided the Home button needed to disappear.
 
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