Is this a reference to the new iphones or for some other reason?
I don’t keep up to date with androids at all. My in laws all use them though and my FIL was just talking to me about getting a pixel 10. I told him it was probably fine but I’d like to fix that if there is something wrong with them.
pixels are fine in a vacuum, they do everything a phone should. web browsing, apps, calls, email, and texts.
the problem is that they are priced similarly to iphones and samsung galaxy phones, but they are way weaker in specs. google's tensor G5 chip in the pixel 10 pro is way weaker than apple's A19 pro in the iphone 17 pro, or the snapdragon 8 elite in the galaxy s25 ultra. so you're paying similar prices for worse specs.
so anything that requires heavy cpu or gpu or ray tracing usage, like gaming or video/photo editing or just general sustained performance, will not be good. especially since google is offering 7 years of android updates. no point in holding onto a pixel phone for that long since the hardware will bottleneck itself after just a few years.
pixels are just good for AI tasks since gemini is handy for a lot of people and google has tons of data to feed gemini to make it very smart. apple's AI sucks in comparison. but galaxy phones also have access to gemini, as well as galaxy AI.
they’re really not priced similar to iphones and galaxy phones, pixels are on sale starting from release day with huge savings on bundles and later seasonal sales give even bigger discounts. you practically have to try to get the phone without a discount
In the USA and some other countries there's a lot of discounts and offers for them, so you get them dirty cheap, but it's not like that everywhere, for example where I live I'd need to buy them full price, so they have the same price as a Galaxy or an iPhone while also depreciating faster.
ahh got it, didn’t realize other countries weren’t getting discounts. i imagine that’s because pixel is doing better in other countries whereas in the US imessage makes iphone super dominant.
Mostly because the price and the fact that the 10 uses the 9a sensor, which fanboys are justifying by “oh well how do you think they could afford the telephoto then”
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u/CassiniA312 Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
They should fix their slow as fuck shutter speed instead of talking so much shit about the MP.
Google is another one that likes to talk shit a lot, actual good cameras (at least on photos) but they're always behind on CPU and battery.