Google Unveils New Flagship Pixel 5 Smartphone With 5G and $699 Price Tag

rmoliv said:
The pandemic is there for everyone but apparently only Apple’s supply chain was affected to the extent of postponing their smartphone release. Coming from the biggest and richest tech company in the world I can only qualify this situation as ridiculous! Amateurish even...
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Apple has to manufacture and ship orders of magnitude more phones than Google will with the Pixel. Google is predicting 800k phones this year, while Apple sold over 185 million in 2018. It doesn’t seem like a big deal to us - we’re used to it, after all - but manufacturing that many phones is really hard. Having the huge numbers on hand for that peak demand when a phone is first released is incredibly hard. That they can do it at all is a miracle, and it is, of course, to be expected that supply chain shutdowns in China would impact their schedules.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
I’ve found that the “seamless sharing” is anything but. I had an iPhone and a MacBook with no wifi network and I wanted to share a picture between them. Totally impossible. I plugged the phone into the laptop - it told me to just transfer through the non-existent internet. I set up a Hotspot on the phone and connected my laptop to it. AirDrop didn’t work that way. I set up my laptop to have its own Wifi network and had the iPhone join it. AirDrop also doesn’t work that way. AirDrop only works through WiFi with a dedicated router involved - lord knows why. I was simply unable to transfer the picture until I got in range of WiFi a few hours later.

(The laptop had a firewall that blocks email, social networks, and file sharing websites. There was probably some way via FTP that I could have done it, but didn’t occur to me at the time, and I figured that surely there'd be some way to either use AirDrop or a physical connection.)
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Then getting a non-Apple phone should work fine for you not having a network connected to the internet. I suspect you're an outlier, though.

Many, such as myself, have a wifi network (or access to a network when out, either wifi or carrier) connected to the internet, where sharing "just works" between devices. Apple Notes is an outstanding example. Outside of Safari, which seamlessly shares bookmarks between devices btw, and Mail, Notes is my most-used app as I write a ton. No matter which device I'm using, phone, iPad, multiple Macs, any note I create or modify, no matter where I'm at in the world, shows up almost instantly on my other devices next time they're opened. Ditto with other Apple apps, such a Messages.

It's like magic, putting a smile on my face every time. Not being able to look at, create, or modify a note while I'm out and about, and expect that to propagate to all my other Apple devices, would be a huge disappointment.
 
Looks like the case material has a lot of texture, almost a like a crinkle coat finish on a car engine. That is something I'd like to see on an iPhone.

Google's products don't do enough as an entire offering to entice me to switch, but every year they seem to come up with at least one practical feature that I am envious of. Competition is good.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
I’ve found that the “seamless sharing” is anything but. I had an iPhone and a MacBook with no wifi network and I wanted to share a picture between them. Totally impossible. I plugged the phone into the laptop - it told me to just transfer through the non-existent internet. I set up a Hotspot on the phone and connected my laptop to it. AirDrop didn’t work that way. I set up my laptop to have its own Wifi network and had the iPhone join it. AirDrop also doesn’t work that way. AirDrop only works through WiFi with a dedicated router involved - lord knows why. I was simply unable to transfer the picture until I got in range of WiFi a few hours later.

(The laptop had a firewall that blocks email, social networks, and file sharing websites. There was probably some way via FTP that I could have done it, but didn’t occur to me at the time, and I figured that surely there'd be some way to either use AirDrop or a physical connection.)
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I'm pretty sure you can transfer photos from iPhone to MacBook using a cable and the Image Capture app, which comes on every Mac. I'm not sure about transferring the other way, from Mac to iPhone, though.
 
Bestevaer said:
The shortsightedness of these kind of comments baffles me....

Do you use google search? Gmail or anything from Google? Do you use Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp or anything else from Facebook? Do you use outlook or anything else from Microsoft? Tok Tok, Tinder and we can go one and on...

Even look at your apps (e.g. news and games) and check to which obscure add company and server they send data to.

Everything you do on your phone is being tracked. Android or ios....
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On the contrary, my friend. From my vantage, we are in agreeance.
 
rmoliv said:
The pandemic is there for everyone but apparently only Apple’s supply chain was affected to the extent of postponing their smartphone release. Coming from the biggest and richest tech company in the world I can only qualify this situation as ridiculous! Amateurish even...
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Yeah, because they do the same shipping numbers... Pixel 4 and 4XL sold 2m in 6 months. Apple does that in a week. They need to make sure they can meet demand on launch, google doesn't have that concern.
 
MikeMo said:
Apple has to manufacture and ship orders of magnitude more phones than Google will with the Pixel. Google is predicting 800k phones this year, while Apple sold over 185 million in 2018. It doesn’t seem like a big deal to us - we’re used to it, after all - but manufacturing that many phones is really hard. Having the huge numbers on hand for that peak demand when a phone is first released is incredibly hard. That they can do it at all is a miracle, and it is, of course, to be expected that supply chain shutdowns in China would impact their schedules.
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Thats because Apple has too many iPhone models. How many are in production right now? 6? And there is going to be more than that with the mini joining the lineup. Google only has to produce one model, huge difference. Apple needs to cut down on all the iPhone models, its ridiculous and they obviously cant keep up with all of them, that's why the iPhone is so late this year and people are switching and getting other phones.
 
:p All the Apple fanboys here always talking about other companies copying Apple; these devices look completely different. Besides, Apple is not innocent. Everything is inspired by something else. Who cares.
 
DexBell said:
Thats because Apple has too many iPhone models. How many are in production right now? 6? And there is going to be more than that with the mini joining the lineup. Google only has to produce one model, huge difference.
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No, it's because Apple has double-digit sales (google sold 2 million 4 and 4 XLs in its first 6 months, where apple sold 12m iPhone 11 in the first two months). You are also misinformed in Google's available models, as they now make and sell a Pixel 5, 4, 4a, 4a 5G, and a 3a. Apple sells 5 counting the Pro Max.

Your huge difference isn't based in reality.
 
Websnapx2 said:
No, it's because Apple has double-digit sales (google sold 2 million 4 and 4 XLs in its first 6 months, where apple sold 12m iPhone 11 in the first two months). You are also misinformed in Google's available models, as they now make and sell a Pixel 5, 4, 4a, 4a 5G, and a 3a. Apple sells 5 counting the Pro Max.

Your huge difference isn't based in reality.
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Wrong. They no longer make the 3a and the 4. The 5G model isnt in production either.
 
The G1 Droid Nexus Pixel Pixel 2 Pixel 3 Pixel 3a Pixel 4 Pixel 4a Pixel 5 is an iPhone killer!

-- Someone on this thread, probably.
 
farewelwilliams said:
copying the colors I see.

also if you saw the google tv interface, it was a total rip off of Apple TV.
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In all fairness, pastels were Google's thing way before they were Apple's thing.... and the Chromecast W/Google TV leaked 8 months ago in those colors. Hard to say they copied a color pallet that was unviewed a few weeks ago when we saw it pushing a year ago.

So the interface design that Apple used that literally copies YouTube TV's interface in dark mode Google copied from Apple???? With about 4 others using something similar before Apple as well?

This is a bit of a stretch.
 
Price point competes with the iPhone 11 but the Pixel 5 has better smarts, more future proof specs and a more modern design without the ugly notch. Perfect upgrade from our iPhone Xrs.

Also, looking forward to checking out Chromecast Sabrina which is needed competition for the dominant Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K.
 
SmugMaverick said:
£599 in the uk

ridiculously good value and yes a 90hz display.

pre ordered and comes 3 days after the iPhone 12 event so will see if the 12 is worth over £1000
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Overall looks like a pretty solid phone for the money if you like the Google experience. I think the iPhone 12 will come in at ~£700 & I think the P5 will struggle to win market share from that even at £599 given the anticipated new design. Still choice is good & I'm sure this will make many stock android fans happy.
 
PickUrPoison said:
It’s up to app devs to take full advantage of iOS and iPhone hardware; same with iPadOS/iPad. Some devs do, but most don’t.

But if someone only needs the power of a 3 or 4 year old phone, they could always get an iPhone 8 for about $200, a X for $300, or an XR for around $350. Is there really a reason to pay $500, $600 or $700 for that?
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Devs can’t get around limitations of the OS. Or at least not without Apple stepping in and punishing them.

As for sticking to an older phone, there are plenty of reasons to get a newer phone besides raw processing power. Camera and display improvements, battery life, etc. my 7 Plus does everything I need it to, but I do still wish the camera was a lot better.
 
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