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Google's inconsistent Pixel experience makes its phones impossible to recommend (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We typically like Pixel phones a lot, but we have some reservations about Google's quality control

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

All I know that really surprised me is I'd been disgusted with nothing phone 1 constantly rebooting for no reason since an update (still does it).

When I complained on a reddit sub about it I got a ton of replies saying it's normal and not as bad as the pixel phones.

I've nowhere to go with that people are defending a completely unstable buggy phone and I've owned half a dozen androids before that and never seen any of them just randomly restarting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've had pixel phones for at least 5 years now. I've probably had less than 10 random restarts, most of those would have been from apps crashing.

Sometimes the device gets slow and I restart it. But that happens maybe 3 times per year. Otherwise the phone only gets restarted when an update is installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah I'm skeptical of those claims as well, I've never owned a phone that did it a lot until this one and I'm pretty sure it's Nothing who introduced the vast majority of problems.

Their just too concerned with things like clothing lines and pr stunts to actually fix anything they break

[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 6 months ago

I have a 5 year old phone and it does in fact not randomly reboot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nothing Phone is a scam?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wouldn't buy the phone 1 again anyway put it that way.

It was actually great until phone 2 released then they updated it to be very unstable and the cameras also got noticeably worse from updates.

On the plus side I've read the custom roms for it are pretty good, I haven't went that far yet but I know I will eventually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I used to have that issue on my midrange samsung when i set the ramplus(virtual ram in samsung) to max and did medium to heavy multi-tasking. It was mitigated in a future update but did happen once a while. The slow storage speeds combined with heavy usage of virtual ram were the main reason for that.