• Blaze@lemmy.zipOP
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    3 months ago

    Is it me or is the Pixel 9 hype very low? I feel like nobody is expecting much from it

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      3 months ago

      Well, of course, google leaks everything months before so nobody cares now. Plus the google io was a big fiasco talking 2 hours about AI, completed skipped android 15 which is a pretty incremental release. As a result, everyone expects the same from this event too. Meaningless ai everywhere

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          3 months ago

          I always watch it because of the android releases (phone, watch etc) but this year’s was such a big letdown. It ruined my day

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      3 months ago

      What’s the hype going to be about? All phones are just black rectangular prisms now. The camera will be a little better, the battery life a little better, the processor slightly faster… But there’s no huge leap in functionality and form factors aren’t taking risks any more.

      It’s previous phone release + .1

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      3 months ago

      I don’t think I’ve seen any hype for any new phone releases for a while. And that’s OK, the technology has matured a lot so there isn’t that much to get hyped about anymore. The foldable phones are pretty cool, hoping that they become affordable in the next decade!

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        3 months ago

        I haven’t seen a foldable phone that doesn’t have an ugly crease in the screen after a while.

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      3 months ago

      Same old slow chipset, ugly design (personally), software locked features rather than hardware limits

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      3 months ago

      No big features. Satellite emergency is nice, but that’s it. Everything else is just a slow iteration on the last version. So it’s fine, but nobody will upgrade early for it.

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      3 months ago

      For myself, I have an 8Pro, so I’m in general not all that interested until at least the 10 and then knowing it would just be a one-upsmanship of AI bullshit really made me not pay attention to its release at all :-\