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My prediction is that it'll be everything I want in a 2022 phone but I can't get it because my carrier won't enable VoLTE because they don't sell it.

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It seems I have a bad habit, I don't even always upgrade but I almost always buy and sell used: Nexus One, HTC G2, Samsung Note 1, HTC One X, Galaxy S4, LG G2, HTC 10, Nexus 6P, Essential PH1, Pixel 2XL, iPhone 11, Asus ROG 2, Pixel 3a, Galaxy Note 10+ (current).

My Note10+ gets security updates until next year so I'll think about the S23 Ultra at that point.

I owned the PH-1. It was a pretty good phone with some significant weaknesses as well as an essentially (hah) useless gimmick. If not for Essential's founder's personal problems sinking the company, the PH-2 could have been very interesting. With that said, I'm not sure what this phone could...

Just don't use it? You can choose to pattern/pin/password/etc.

I've been switching between caseless and cased, but I find that curved glass really ruins the experience without a case. There always seems to be a situation where palm rejection doesn't quite work perfectly, rare but just often enough to be annoying. How are those of you with the Pro finding...

That's adaptive battery taking place and background app optimization finishing up.

Is that with the Pro? One thing the S21 Ultra is really good at is capturing detailed zoom photos of the moon.

Yeah, people hate when I point this out but Google has been playing catch up to Samsung's design language ever since One UI. I'm not actually a huge fan of One UI but A12 clearly borrows a lot from it and if even "stock Android" is going all-in space wasting, then the more polished One UI is...

You've got to think they'll do a redesign after so many years of the iPhone X design.

Oh yeah, I adjusted dpi on my 3a right away after getting A12. Way too information sparse.

But it's lighter, has a 3.5mm and microsd slot! I kid but it's the reality now that those just aren't available elsewhere.

I had been looking at the 5 III and this 1 III but the carriers in Canada won't enable VoLTE so I had to drop the idea. It's a shame because despite the weirdly long aspect ratio, the phones have all the features I want.

I like the external audio section near the end because it gives you a very good comparison of what the phones sounds like in comparison to the S21 and iPhone (this reviewer is an audio engineer). Have your headphones on.

For all their talk about making A12 customizable to the user, it sure is limiting if you wanted something other than the four pastel colors they offered you.

This may surprise you but since the S10 generation, Samsung was the best at updates, bettering even Google until the Pixel 6 came out. They guaranteed three years of major updates like Google did but also an additional year of security updates beyond that for four years total.

On the other hand, sometimes Google's exclusive features are things I just don't want like At-a-Glance in Android 12 or the gigantic lockscreen clock. In the end, it's customization that keeps me on Android and I don't really appreciate Google paring away choice all the time. There's no reason...

It's because they've been burnt several times when experimenting with non-glass backs. They were burnt by reviewers going "oh it just doesn't feel that premium". They were also burnt by the PIxel 5's resin coating starting to flake for some users.

It's at most 1% per hour so generally it's not a big deal. I've been using it since the Pixel 2 XL because of that.

If AOD is off, then you need to tap the screen first. Domingo I have A12 on my Pixel 3a and it's... alright. It was so information-sparse that I had to decrease the screen zoom. Luckily my eyes are still sharp. I don't really "feel it" though in terms of being impressed. Although these...

I didn't provide the link but I've heard that TPU film protectors (if you don't mind the softness) and PET film protectors (if you don't mind how hard it is to install without bubbles) have little-to-no trouble with optical fingerprint readers while being much cheaper...

A Pixel 4a or 5 would be a better direct replacement for a Pixel 2, especially with respect to size and weight.

While I do like the new direction for the Pixels, I think I want to get in with the next generation Tensor on the Pixel 7 or 8. ARM is shifting to a new architecture while Exynos will start featuring AMD RDNA GPUs instead of Mali. It might be something incredible, pulling closer (but...

Yet another example of how stupid curved glass is. Who even finds it better in terms of actual use if even people with large hands find it troublesome?

That's why I have my Pixel 1 still. All my photos are instantly available on any phone I switch to including iPhones.

Eh, I'm not letting Google go for screwing up the optical scanner in the Pixel 6 but even as of the S21 Ultra, the ultrasonic scanner is considered to be the inferior choice compared to the optical scanners in other phones like Oneplus which are more accurate, much faster (as fast as the...

One thing that I really hated with the optical scanner on my ROG2 was that in bright direct sunlight, the reader had a lot of trouble, becoming just about unusable. I wonder if the Pixel 6's scanner avoids this problem that the first generation scanner had.

If anything, the P6 regular should be very slightly (and completely indistinguishable by humans) faster since it's the same SoC driving fewer pixels (pun unintended). Anyone who claims otherwise is just falling to placebo effect. How do you find the screen in comparison? I've seen many people...

The FP reader on the P6 is pretty clearly slow and if not fixed in a subsequent update, will be considered the "Pixel flaw" of the generation.

I wish more phones were the old Nokia polycarbonate instead of the silly glass backs. Or even just plain aluminum.

That's something Anandtech mentioned, that the screen of the P6P isn't thermal glued to the stuff underneath which means it's slightly easier to repair but doesn't feel as solid. My vote is to return it if it isn't exactly what you want.

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Google-Pixel-4-XL,Google-Pixel-6/phones/11202,11732 The P6 is actually slightly smaller but 14g heavier. You're used to Pro Max weight though right?

I run dark mode 100% of the time but I deliberately choose non-perfectly black backgrounds within the apps if it's available to avoid the black smear I'm very sensitive to. Even the latest iPhone and Samsung screens still have a bit of black smear particularly in low light. By setting almost...

The difficult to find things part of A12 certainly copied iOS well. iOS has the reputation for things just working and it does do that, but only in narrowly defined scenarios that even regular phone people like my wife often strays outside of (and then me, the usually Android guy, has to figure...

Eager to hear your thoughts after a day, week and then a month.

If you're fine with the iPhone 12 Pro Max, I don't see why you'd have any trouble with the Pixel 6 Pro which is slightly taller but narrower and lighter. As for the iPhone 13 Pro Max, it certainly has the weight to back up its battery life lol.

Oftentimes, your carrier will block updates from coming as soon as possible. I'm not 100% sure it happens on Pixels but for Galaxy phones (which often get the security update before Pixels) this does happen. I think T-Mobile is particular notorious for this. I've canceled my Pixel 6 regular...

Unfortunately the pill bar is gone for good for those who happen to like it.

My MVNO doesn't even have 5G yet and I've gotten over 100mbps on the 4G so that's an easy ask =)