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1. SushiH+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-01-31 23:24:41
Kind of funny that they show the iphone 15 pro and the Samsung S24 in the comparison chart, but not their own phone the google pixel 8. (I know it will perform worse than both phones)
replies(2): >>geor9e+3i >>_the_i+vB
2. geor9e+3i[view] [source] 2024-02-01 02:01:14
>>SushiH+(OP)
Pixel marketing touts the NPU chip, which sounds ideal for accelerating a model like this. They might have reasons for leaving it out. Perhaps it's planned to ship with a new model - announcing a new phone in a model paper would be weird. I remember them advertising some Pixel-only photo editing features in the past.
replies(2): >>refulg+rj >>causal+gl
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3. refulg+rj[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-02-01 02:16:53
>>geor9e+3i
It's great in theory until you have to pierce through several organizational boundaries to actually leverage it. Too sclerotic for it to happen regularly at scale.
replies(1): >>geor9e+zF8
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4. causal+gl[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-02-01 02:39:26
>>geor9e+3i
All the Pixel AI stuff runs on the cloud anyway. Just try using it in airplane mode.
replies(1): >>dvngnt+Nl
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5. dvngnt+Nl[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-02-01 02:46:20
>>causal+gl
not entirely true. translation is done on device
replies(2): >>adamzo+Hp >>SushiH+n41
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6. adamzo+Hp[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-02-01 03:36:10
>>dvngnt+Nl
Not entirely true either. If it thinks it has network but it's flakey, it won't translate offline, it will say there is network error and will give you a button to retry. No button to do offline.

Additionally, in airplane mode it heavily doesn't want to translate, in my use case I have to go to saved translations as otherwise it won't even let me type what I need to translate.

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7. _the_i+vB[view] [source] 2024-02-01 06:22:14
>>SushiH+(OP)
There is some truth to it.

I don’t see it as a disadvantage, since Google markets services on both devices you mentioned. Hardly anyone will abandon its iPhone in favor of a Pixel just for a Google service.

So I think it’s ok what Google did marketing wise.

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8. kimixa+jH[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-02-01 07:34:06
>>adamzo+Hp
I just tried airplane mode on my pixel 7 pro and it seemed to be able to translate from the camera without problems

It doesn't seem to do it "live" in the preview without network access, though.

And the translation app seemed to get into a bad state and fail to download the language packs without first clearing the data, saying I need to download the pack, but the language list showing it already was. Though I haven't even opened it since I transferred it from my old phone, so if there's some phone-specific stuff going on that might have got messed up.

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9. numpad+B11[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-02-01 11:32:32
>>kimixa+jH
Pixel 8 / Tensor G3 specifically is rumored to have a performance or heat issue. The scope of that rumored issue is limited to that generation.
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10. SushiH+n41[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-02-01 11:55:09
>>dvngnt+Nl
Magic eraser in google photos is also on device. (I have not given Google Photos Network permission and don't have google play services installed)

The voice recorder transcription is also on device, but I haven't gotten it to work without google play services on GrapheneOS

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11. geor9e+zF8[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-02-03 20:07:50
>>refulg+rj
This is true. Knowing Google, their own blog post is probably the first time anyone 2 steps up the reporting ladder even heard of it.
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