do i hate to say it? kinda. but also, everything they’ve been doing lately (15 years?) sucks.
3a was okay but suddenly bricked itself one day… that was years ago. mine and my spouses, not too far apart from each other.
7a battery is meh.
7a gets too hot for video calls over 10 minutes?
GrapheneOS make it better, for sure! and was really easy to install. i can’t wait to see the phone they help design.
but the couple of them I’ve had… not impressed.
Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, Pixel, Pixel 5, and now Pixel 8 user.
For the most part the hardware is fine but what really sets them apart is pulling it out of the box. Clicking the build number until I’m a developer, turning on USB debugging and OEM unlocking, rebooting and installing my own choice of OS or ROM.
they’re slowly enshittifying though, i won’t be surprised if soon they stop letting us unlock bootloaders.
If they do I go…