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Google Unveils New Flagship Pixel 5 Smartphone With 5G and $699 Price Tag
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We don’t know that for sure, but people also forget the sheer scale Apple has to build up when launching an iPhone. Pixels sell maybe a few million. iPhones sell tens of times more devices, and you’ve got to have a muncher more robust supply chain in order to do that.
Lol, in case you hadn't realized, 2019 handset shipments:
Google Pixel: 7 million
Apple iPhone: 197 million
Tell me again which one is the amateur.
Can Apple match this $699 and 128 GB with at LEAST the 5.4"?
My pessimism senses are tingling.
My pessimism senses are tingling.
They copied the design... but thankfully not the price.
Nest Audio only costs $99 rather than the $349(!) launch price of the HomePod.
Price is a huge factor.
Granted... the HomePod sounds amazing for its size... but it's still far too much money even at $279 today.
Reliable vs British junk?
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And that's just your opinion...
Somehow certain things are considered junk to the people who can't afford it... That's their consolation.
It's probably just the supplier's design. Neither Google nor Apple do everything in-house.
Ha! Neva! Viva La Apple!!!! <3
I always wonder...OK two things. One, why would other Android manufacturers have anything good to say about Google when the OS maker also competes against all the other hardware manufacturers in the hardware market? Weird...and I wonder how much money they make with all the Me Too peripherals they produce. I'm sure there's a market for sort-a-ok hardware that works with a sort-a-ok-phone-that-will-do but I'd guess all that stuff is a loss, and they use it to give away in marketing BS style events. "OH! I have a new Google Speaker!" And...you can plan on tossing it out in 9 months.
Ha! If that looks like a copy of the homepod design to you... a trip to the optometrist may be on order.
It's clearly an iteration of the home max. Here's the home max in vertical and horizontal orientations.
That's a rectangular shape just like the nest home audio. Take the back plastic (white) portion off the home max and you have a dead ringer for the nest home audio. Now that I think about it, that probably exactly what they did just to make it slimmer. The homepod is cylindrical, not quite the same, and definitely not copied.
Fake news. Totally aluminumPretty sure it's still a plastic phone. They seem to be using some clever word play by saying "100% recycled aluminum" to make it sound like the phone is actually aluminum.
Still a great phone though
Remember when Jon Prosser was confident about this design leak 😂😂😂😂
don't trust them.
and it looks like a toy for a 5 year old, google and their boring flat "clean" designs ...
and it looks like a toy for a 5 year old, google and their boring flat "clean" designs ...
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Not even close. In this case Pixel is the Tesla and iPhone is the e-tron lol. But keep the fanboy gimmick going...
That was the first thing I noticed as well. Other than the iPhone's notch, there hasn't been another symmetrical bezel phone.
Except for the large round plastic hole in the back housing to support wireless charging. Sure the body is aluminum, but to hide the antenna lines and wireless charging disk they are coating the entirety of the aluminum with some sort of enamel or plastic. The aluminum is not exposed.
Great price, but the lack of telephoto lens is interesting. Surprising given that the "Pixel" line was conceived and marketed based off of the prowess of the cameras in the first place. Competitors have Google beat there.
Having a dedicated "Netflix" button feels so....static? Most smart TV remotes still do this, and I've always found it off-putting. I'm sure Netflix negotiated some deal to get that placement, but they're hardly everyone's go-to streaming platform, and given the insane breadth of streaming apps available, it seems so odd to me for Google to dedicate 13% of the remote's buttons to a single third party app. Especially since the on screen UI is so fluid.
From Google's page:
Is this new technology I'm ignorant of? Or is the aluminum internal and they're just making it sound like the back is also metal?
This certainly seems to say that the entire back of it is aluminum, so I'm very curious how the wireless charging works. I'm not aware of any device with a metal back with wireless charging, or how that would work in terms of the physics.
Is this new technology I'm ignorant of? Or is the aluminum internal and they're just making it sound like the back is also metal?
Does Google really compete against all those other hardware manufacturers though?
There are 1.3 billion Android smartphones sold every year... but a commenter here today said Google only sold 7 million Pixels last year.
Samsung alone can sell upwards of 300 million smartphones a year.
Again... Google... 7 million.
I honestly don't think the other hardware manufacturers consider Google a threat in hardware.
And I would say Google makes more money from advertising on those billion phones from other manufacturers than they do selling their own hardware.
Pixel is a science project. It's fun for them.
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