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Google Unveils Pixel Phone, Smart Home Hub, and More at AI-Focused Event
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As previouly stated video gives answer. It quotes Google's % accuracy - 100% being human speech.
So typical of Google, they've always been lame. Android is a blatant & crappy rip-off of iOS thanks to whats his face who dipped off Apple's board before the iPhone came out, and now they've come full circle ripping off the hardware design too. (and poorly done might I add) Hell, Samsung's attempts at ripping off Apple are almost better.. 
The worst damn thing about all this is Nest is a great thermostat but Google doesn't seem interested in working with HomeKit. Ugh. I knew this going in and it's fine, but dammit I'm not buying all that other crap, Googs. So just give in and make it HomeKit-compatible!
What I find hard to grasp is this:
How come pretty much every single person on the entire planet earth can understand these phones (lovely in many ways from their camera/speed/assistant integration etc etc) are overpriced.
Apart from Google Management/team?
This is EXACTLY another Nexus 9 Tablet moment.
That was a great tablet at the time, fast, great screen, but they places it smack on iPad Price Point, so a normal customer goes into a store, looks at their cash, and thinks:
"Well, if I'm paying this much I may as well get an iPad"
How come pretty much every single person on the entire planet earth can understand these phones (lovely in many ways from their camera/speed/assistant integration etc etc) are overpriced.
Apart from Google Management/team?
This is EXACTLY another Nexus 9 Tablet moment.
That was a great tablet at the time, fast, great screen, but they places it smack on iPad Price Point, so a normal customer goes into a store, looks at their cash, and thinks:
"Well, if I'm paying this much I may as well get an iPad"
So typical of Google, they've always been lame. Android is a blatant & crappy rip-off of iOS thanks to whats his face who dipped off Apple's board before the iPhone came out, and now they've come full circle ripping off the hardware design too. (and poorly done might I add) Hell, Samsung's attempts at ripping off Apple are almost better..
the traitor known as Eric Schmidt
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Google data mine photos as well as e-mail, crossing the boundaries of privacy.
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As far as the phones go: meh. Bland, look as dated as the current iPhone range. Where Google is running circles around Apple is AI, however, and that's where the future lies. Apple should be seriously worried that they don't have a decent Google Now (or whatever it's called now) competitor. They can't even tackle the Echo at the moment. Phones have reached peak, so that's not an area where Apple will be able to grow in the next few years.
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Yep they style the Phone & Website like the iPhone in the hope of capturing business from people who don't really know the difference but think it looks the same. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Innovation !!!!
Homekit is a bit of a joke at the moment, to be honest. I've invested a bit in homekit-compatible hardware. The hardware itself works ok (except for the Elgato EVE range), but the Echo works drastically better to control them than Siri.
Yes..I'd like to see where their headed.
Funny I've never gone over 2GB on my Android phone.
To be fair, Google Voice is already a thousand times more useful than Siri, and Assistant should be even better, considering how much attention they're drawing to it. The gap between the current services is even greater than Google Maps vs Apple Maps, which is really saying something.
Also, the camera has already been rated the best on the market. Sure, it won't have the dual-lens still-fake-but-better bokeh effect or the zoom function, but I'm not sure if there's a clear winner there, though the dual-camera marketing will probably push more buys Apple's way if people are comparing.
A real, serious plus for the Google phone will be the integrated (and free) cloud storage. If it's totally seamless, that'll be a huge plus for the Google phone, and basically mean a phone that never needs to be synced, even if you do a lot of photo/video shooting with it.
PS. A Headphone Jack! No Proprietary Lightning! No lightning means less dongles in my life, and to be honest, my next phone purchase will 100% have a headphone/aux jack. I'm never going to use a dongle to make use of my headphones with my phone.
Uhm, uh?!?
The whole point is that they reviewed the Pixel camera and gave it the highest score of any phone they have ever tested. Just like they awarded the highest score to the iPhone 6 a few years ago....
https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-review-At-the-top
But the brand new iPhone 7's camera is ranked seventh, according to DXOMARK, behind HTC, Sony, Motorola and last year's Samsung models.
Cheers, I guess.
Like it for the pure Android experience; hate it for iPhone-esque prices, lack of waterproofing, lack of courage.
Bring on the iPhone 7, I say!
Bring on the iPhone 7, I say!
I concur with the exception of the s7 edge
that is the only phone besides iphone I would consider
No I'm advocating for a successor to the analog jack and that successor should be an industry standard. You clearly chose to ignore the part where I said, Have been for longer than Apple even decided to do it. Despite the fact that you managed to quote it.
If Apple wants to have their own format, let them, no biggie we've already seen headphones that support more than one format over the past couple of years so either that trend would continue or Apples format would fall flat on its arse and they adopt the new industry standard.
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Kind of hard to figure out what your point is, since the secondary camera on the Plus is a 2X telephoto.
Regular shot quality, which is what is being tested here, should be the same for the iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus.
In theory it should be, but we don't actually know yet and one should never assume anything unknown as a truth.
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You mentioned the dual camera iPhone 7; that has not been reviewed yet. The single camera iPhone 7 scores 86 which places it 4th equal - phones with in each score are listed alphabetically.