8 years of Pixel: How the Google phone changed the industry
The original Google Pixel launched in 2016 and the series changed not just Android, but the entire mobile market in the last eight years.
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By taking away the MicroSD slot to force users towards expensive cloud storage?
This reads like a pure ad. And just in time for the pixel 9 launch event tomorrow. What a coincidence.
I'd say the Nexus phones (pure Android) were way more a game changer than the Pixels.
Yes, but the nexuses did not have the courage and the vision to remove jacks and sd cards, all while getting more expensive. Fuck I miss me a proper nexus.
I agree with the headphone jack, but the only Nexus with a microSD slot was first one, the Nexus One.
My kingdom for the return of the rear fingerprint sensor.
I hated rear fingerprint sensor tbh, didn't help that it failed 1/3 of the time. Current location is much better imo
They forgot to expand to more than 20 countries in the world
now if only they would listen to customer feedback
So they've "pushed RCS and AI into the mainstream" which are both negative developments.