https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_6-pictures-11037.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/newscomm-60107.php - comments tipped me off; then googling for "pixel 8 GN2; last hour" gets me links like https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-8-pro-release-... where the cache has the reference but the current page doesn't.
"This feature allows devices to have dual SIM support using a single eSIM chip, which can have multiple SIM profiles and can connect to two different carriers at the same time." https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/esim-mep
https://9to5google.com/2023/01/12/google-pixel-t-mobile-upda...
Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates - >>37766122 - Oct 2023 (269 comments)
My daughter's Pixel 5a update, for example, was delayed but it was purchased from Google.
To be clear, the update _does_ come directly from Google but the device won't show that the update is available until the carrier gives the green light. The factory image can still be sideloaded.
The P7P is the first phone that I've not purchased outright, and that's because TMO was willing to give me a ridiculously generous offer to trade in a OnePlus 7t.
edit: another link -- https://www.androidpolice.com/pixel-t-mobile-update-delayed/
"Face Unlock on Pixel 8 now meets the strongest Android biometric class and can be used for banking app sign-in and payment apps like Google Wallet."
https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-tensor-g3-pixel-8/
[1] https://www.apple.com/mt/iphone-15/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/16h13z3/why_are_the...
Here's an archive.is link which has most of the info [1]
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-debuts-iphone-1...
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/11833075?hl=en
This just happened to me after 1.5 years of usage of my Pixel 5A.
Luckily Google extended the usual 1-year warranty to be 2-years to give free replacements (which I took advantage of and in fact was given a free upgrade to a 6A)... But be prepared for your phone to die out of nowhere.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/apple-ip...
I feel compelled to bring up this tweet from John Carmack I just saw a few hours ago. The most popular editor on the planet feels laggier than stuff Borland made in the 90s, on hardware probably a thousand times as fast. I don't know how anyone can say software is great with a straight face.
We have supercomputers in our pockets and on the slightly aged phone my dad refuses to upgrade from four years ago many apps lag. They display like 5 widgets or 20 rows of items at any given time
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/10/22876067/google-apple-ios...
My teammates for a university assignment let out an audible groan when they found out I was the only one on an Android. I do have an iPad, so thankfully I was able to maintain communication regarding our team project.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-to-start-paying-out-5...
> I really have a hard time with a realistic business model that would be significantly better.
Well this one might be good for business, but as you can see, it is extremely bad for the individual.
Louis Rossman was a supporter of the project until he and Daniel had a failing out in which Daniel behaved inappropriately [1], all over a Youtube comment. There's proof for that and other claims [2, 4, 5].
Daniel can be a talented developer, privacy advocate and asshole at the same time.
It's sad to see him (and others, like yourself) say stuff like "examine the baseless claims", without providing any sources.
After all the drama with Calyxos, Techlore, Louis Rossmann etc, at some point one has to notice a pattern of behavior.
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg
3: https://github.com/AOSPAlliance/README/commit/cbd2a95cba7c2a...
4: https://web.archive.org/web/20210403012439/https://freenode....
5: https://web.archive.org/web/20210818110434/https://sethforpr...
If you don’t believe me, there are paths hardcoded in the kernel (I’m not joking: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapple-oss-distributions%2...) to very quickly reclaim memory for Camera to launch.
7 years of support! Now we are talking!
You can also just update the phone using the OTA Google provides on a page and ADB to side load it.
Yes you can still can. https://developers.google.com/android/ota#cheetah
In fact they even host all the images dating back to the Nexus lines still.
Obviously the first clue is cars are not phones.
1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183713/value-of-us-passe...
[0] https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/device-personalizat...
I think you are engaging in Whataboutism [1]. This does not make for a constructive discussion.
But lets take what you said in good faith.
I imagine most products I buy have a not so amazing CEO. That does not prevent me from criticizing one of the products I use most often. Furthermore, as the (former) lead developer, he had or has control of the signing keys, simply deleting (as he has done in the past) them would cause significant damage.
1: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/mmc-utils...
Here are the 170+ kernel CVE patches applied on top of what Lineage provides for Pixel 2 series: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/divestos-build/-/blob/mas...
Plus it just provides updates quicker, eg. the recent WebP CVE was first fixed in DivestOS before other aftermarket systems. https://divestos.org/pages/news
And provides rapid out-of-band WebView updates: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt
See my other notes here: https://divestos.org/pages/patch_levels#osSecurity
And also this independent table: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm