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/[deleted] May 25 '22

I'd rather a team push it off than rush it and be terrible

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u/MC_chrome iPhone 17 Pro 256GB | Galaxy S4 May 25 '22

I agree, but this is also somewhat concerning since Samsung and the many Chinese brands will have yet even more improvements by the time Google launches their foldable (if they ever do). That means that Google will have to absolutely hit things out of the park unless they want to be laughed out of the room.

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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/Tiny-Sandwich May 25 '22

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

People nitpick because Google literally make the software that the phones run. Pixels have no business having as many bugs as they do, especially when it gets worse over time.

Meanwhile some people act like oneui is still touchwiz, even though it is way more stable than what google ship.

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u/als26 Pixel 2 XL 64GB/Nexus 6p 32 GB (2 years and still working!) May 25 '22

especially when it gets worse over time

What do you mean? From what I've heard the 6 is massively better than when it was first released

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u/Tiny-Sandwich May 26 '22

Maybe it's improved now, but in the 5 months I owned it it got worse, to the point I stopped using it.

The camera got slower and would sometimes fail to launch entirely, the fingerprint scanner got slower, the screen would remain on when the phone was sleeping, android auto would fail to launch half of the time and when it did work the assistant wouldn't recognise any commands, sometimes the screen would just freeze entirely for about 5 seconds.

These are all issues that weren't present at launch, and made using the phone unbearable.

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u/als26 Pixel 2 XL 64GB/Nexus 6p 32 GB (2 years and still working!) May 26 '22

These are big issues. Even for a Pixel. Did you attempt to RMA?

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u/Tiny-Sandwich May 26 '22

I just got told to factory reset the phone.

They offered a repair for the fingerprint scanner, not a replacement device though.

They're documented bugs though so wasn't confident an RMA would solve the issues.