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.

  • higgsboson@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I mean, 7A was never a flagship, so it isnt shocking the thing doesnt impress. IMO, the A Pixels are just adequate. And that is how they are positioned. They are literally “midrange” for a reason.

    My partner liked her 6A well enough, but she isnt a techie with a bazillion things going on it. And now the battery is nerfed a bit, but I guess that’s the breaks with older devices.

    I like my 8 Pro well enough. I do wish it weren’t so thick, but that is mostly battery so it feels worth it. Other than that, I could wish it had a removable battery, headphone jack, IR, hell even a stylus. But again all those things would add up to being way less battery life, huge, etc.

    All that said, if I felt like I had better choices, I would ditch Pixel and never look back. I am really only on this thing for GrapheneOS and the relockable bootloader. I require control over my own device. Everything else is way lower priority.