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>The Pixel is a premium 5" phone, not a budget one. what makes it premium other than the fact that they're charging lots of money for it? i can't find a real

>The Pixel is a premium 5" phone, not a budget one. what makes it premium other than the fact that they're charging lots of money for it? i can't find a real differentiator over something like the oneplus 3, which costs half as much. i agree with you that it's better than the 5X, but comparing it to this year's competition, it doesn't look so good.

technofiend 10y ago
That's my problem with the phone - premium price but not premium feature set.
Veratyr 10y ago
Flagship SoC (SD821 vs SD808) and a metal body are the main things that make it worth the price to me.
- notatoad 10y ago
  yeah, i understand that it's better than the $300 nexus 5X that's a year old. that goes without saying. but since the Nexus 5X was released, there's been a bunch of metal bodied phones with the SD820 released that only cost $399 - the oneplus 3, zte axon, honor 5x, xaoimi mi5... and there's nothing to differentiate the pixel from those phones, other than a 40% higher price.
hammock 10y ago
Oneplus 3 not available on verizon
- lagadu 10y ago
  That's a problem for you, not for most people; therefore not google's problem.
  - hammock 10y ago
    Verizon has 140 million subscribers in the US, or about 35% market share. So you're right, that's not most people.
smlacy 10y ago
4GB RAM
tw04 10y ago
More memory, faster CPU, better GPU, and most important to me - best camera on the market. The Oneplus 3 is four times the size, the firmware running on it tends to be buggy, and the battery life is nothing close to the same. I get it - if you're on a budget you can probably do better with the Oneplus 3. But there are a MILLION options in the budget space. Pixel is about showcasing a high end Android phone WITHOUT all the bloat that Samsung adds. I can just about guarantee if Samsung would relent and just run stock android, Google would end the nexus/Pixel program overnight.
- notatoad 10y ago
  It has 2GB less ram, and the same processor (slightly higher clock speed) and same gpu, vs the oneplus 3
  - lagadu 10y ago
    > the same processor (slightly higher clock speed) So... not the same. Also the GPU is faster too. I'll agree with you that it's silly that they're still trying to pass a 1080p screen and lack of SD card as high end though.
    - notatoad 10y ago
      The phone vendor always sets the frequency the snapdragon processors run at - some vendors choose to run their processors at higher clock speeds than others because they have better cooling, some get a better binning, but it's the same processor.

technofiend 10y ago

That's my problem with the phone - premium price but not premium feature set.

Veratyr 10y ago

Flagship SoC (SD821 vs SD808) and a metal body are the main things that make it worth the price to me.

notatoad 10y ago
yeah, i understand that it's better than the $300 nexus 5X that's a year old. that goes without saying. but since the Nexus 5X was released, there's been a bunch of metal bodied phones with the SD820 released that only cost $399 - the oneplus 3, zte axon, honor 5x, xaoimi mi5... and there's nothing to differentiate the pixel from those phones, other than a 40% higher price.

hammock 10y ago

Oneplus 3 not available on verizon

lagadu 10y ago
That's a problem for you, not for most people; therefore not google's problem.
- hammock 10y ago
  Verizon has 140 million subscribers in the US, or about 35% market share. So you're right, that's not most people.

smlacy 10y ago

4GB RAM

tw04 10y ago

More memory, faster CPU, better GPU, and most important to me - best camera on the market. The Oneplus 3 is four times the size, the firmware running on it tends to be buggy, and the battery life is nothing close to the same. I get it - if you're on a budget you can probably do better with the Oneplus 3. But there are a MILLION options in the budget space. Pixel is about showcasing a high end Android phone WITHOUT all the bloat that Samsung adds. I can just about guarantee if Samsung would relent and just run stock android, Google would end the nexus/Pixel program overnight.

notatoad 10y ago
It has 2GB less ram, and the same processor (slightly higher clock speed) and same gpu, vs the oneplus 3
- lagadu 10y ago
  > the same processor (slightly higher clock speed) So... not the same. Also the GPU is faster too. I'll agree with you that it's silly that they're still trying to pass a 1080p screen and lack of SD card as high end though.
  - notatoad 10y ago
    The phone vendor always sets the frequency the snapdragon processors run at - some vendors choose to run their processors at higher clock speeds than others because they have better cooling, some get a better binning, but it's the same processor.