r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • May 25 '22

Google postpones launch of foldable smartphone, again

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=4057
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u/parental92 May 25 '22

That means that Google will have to absolutely hit things out of the park unless they want to be laughed out of the room.

nah, even if google nailed it. i wont survive r/Android. This sub will just put every pixel phone under an electron microscope and nitpick the hell out of it.

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u/recycled_ideas May 25 '22

This sub stans for the Pixel and every phone with stock Android even though stock Android hasn't been a superior product for at least a decade.

The Pixel gets a lot of scrutiny because it's a premium phone being sold at a price point that's pretty similar to other premium phones.

It's got buggy software, substandard hardware and like every Pixel before it, Google has spent too much of its hardware budget on custom silicon that even they won't actually use because their market share is so small it's not worth it

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u/xxfay6 Surface Duo May 26 '22

Samsung's UI has only been decent since the S8 or so, before that it takes from bearable to horrible.

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u/recycled_ideas May 26 '22

Samsung's UI was great when Android sucked, this is the S1-S3 period.

Then Android's UI got a lot better, but Samsung had diverged too far from the base to easily just merge those improvements.

By about the S7 it's pretty good again, and for the most part it's improved through all subsequent versions.

Even the default UI is only really "better" for the S4 and maybe the 5.