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Google Pixel 4 Leaks Suggest Punch-Hole Selfie Camera and Total Lack of Physical Buttons
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I know the truth hurts, but it is what it is. Since Google has never posted any hardware unit sales, this is all we have.
Google Pixel 3 is a sales disappointment, sells less than the Pixel 2
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/google-admits-pixel-3-sales-have-fallen-year-over-year/
Google CEO Sundar Pichai blames a drop in sales of its Pixel smartphone on 'headwinds'
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-pixel-smartphone-sales-drop-2019-4
This is a quote FROM Google's Q1201910-Q:
"Hardware results reflect lower year-on-year sales of Pixel"
Pixel has never sold large numbers and the newest model is selling fewer units than before. Don't know what other proof you want.
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Maybe you haven't had time or the opportunity to use Pixlebook or the pixel phones. The Pixlebook has an aluminum body and silicone hand rest. It feels expensive it looks expensive and is considered expensive...that being said the hardware on these devices feel and look rich with a beautiful elegance. Any company is always striving for excellence Google included...Still, the hardware is actually quite lovely once you grow accustomed to it. I do understand why you may feel this way about the hardware but, once you've become accustomed to them you'll love them (Hardware and all)
It hasn't translated to sales.
As a platform (Android), it’s better for Google to provide a reference hardware with pure reference latest Android for developers. This was previously the Nexus phones. The difference is that now Google wants actual real profit margin out of these hardware. Thus the Pixel brand.
I love Google's hardware. I've owned a Pixel 1, and now use a Pixel 2 as my daily driver. I would have upgraded to a Pixel 3, but I refuse to pay more than $650 for a flagship phone.
Baymowe, dude. I have no clue if the hardware of the next-gen Pixel 4 will "suck" -- and neither do you.
[I am all-in for fresh competition that moves the Apple needle into new paradigms for interface with innovative packaging -- such as the Pixel 4.]
Do you care to share your research or just doing the blind Apple fandom???
Pixel raw numbers are never as high but Pixel does not really sell at carriers so you have to buy them directly which hurts it. Plus it is more used to push Android ect so it not going to hit the same numbers like apple.
Yeah that could work.
Haha Im sure people way smarter than me already have that stuff considered if this is the true path they are taking!
I won’t buy any smartphone that lacks physical buttons. That’s a usability nightmare. Sure, it may look cool but it would be uncomfortable in actual use. That is truly form over function.
It’s no use talking facts to the fanboys. They already locked their mindset to what they wanted.
It's a "hobby". That's how they justify completely cancelling whole projects overnight with no warning to duped customers.
Unfortunately, I can see Jony Ive wanting to do something with no buttons.
Yeah that is taking it to the extreme. Even Apple, who has pushed form over function too many times, ships iPhone with no less than 3 physical buttons.
A phone with no physical buttons is an absolute non-starter imo. As you said, software get's buggy. If the anecdotes about the Pixel 3/3XL are to be believed, the Pixel's software gets buggier over time. It would definitely need a button of some kind.
This render does look better with the punch out, so it does have that going for it. That bathtub notch was huge and far too intrusive into the screen real estate.
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The attraction of Pixel phones, aside from their excellent cameras (which others here have rightly noted), is having plain Android along with the ability to update the OS yourself direct from Google. Otherwise, you have to rely on whatever manufacturer (like Samsung) to put out the Android update.
Other than Google's Pixel phone, it's generally assumed that consumers will use only one OS version of Android per Android phone -- the version of Android that the phone comes with.
Then you don't understand Jony Ive, or large scale industrial design for a mass market consumer product at all. They don't start out with "How can we make a phone with no buttons."
They start with "what problem do we have" then "what would solve that problem". If the answer was "no buttons", then the question would become "how do we make a phone with no buttons, and what other problems does that create, and how do we solve/mitigate those problems."
Google doesn't have a mass market consumer product. They have what barely amounts to an expensive hobby. They can do things that make no practical sense whatsoever, without risk of alienating customers. Can't alienate customers you don't have. The only people who buy the Pixel are tech hounds who buy and try everything, reviewers, YouTubers, and some others. A few million people world wide, total.
This render seems like a mash up of the best ideas* of Essential, Samsung, and HTC.
*Provided their capacitive buttons aren't the madness-inducing trainwreck that the HTC U12 Plus's were.
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Flagships start above $750, so I guess you're never going to own a flagship again.
*Provided their capacitive buttons aren't the madness-inducing trainwreck that the HTC U12 Plus's were.
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Flagships start above $750, so I guess you're never going to own a flagship again.
You're very, very misguided if you're using ANYTHING Google in 2019.
I suggest you dig much more into this "company".
I suggest you dig much more into this "company".
Perhaps I should have explained myself better rather than making an implied statement. I feel that Jony Ive has a tendency to prefer form over function, and could be seduced by a device without any physical buttons. Thats all. Just wild speculation based on my subjective view of him.
You can put 64GB of ram in the new pixel and it still won't fix android.
IIR, he has stated his vision is just a slab of glass, has he not?
Based on Google's hardware history, it won't matter at the very least. They are a rounding error in this game and falling.
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Consumers evidently don't care about that attraction.
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Read the thread. The Pixel 3 isn't even doing as well as the Pixel 2, which didn't do well. Google literally admitted the Pixel 3 is seeing headwinds. You can look at their financials and see Google is an Ad company.
