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No headphone jack. No memory expansion slot. No removable battery. Made in China. $800 for the cheapest model (64G 5.5"). If I weren't trying to move away from
by blisterpeanuts 8y ago
No headphone jack.
No memory expansion slot.
No removable battery.
Made in China.
$800 for the cheapest model (64G 5.5").
If I weren't trying to move away from Google right now, I'd be interested. But this is not priced to be an impulse purchase.
Its specs are approximately equivalent to the Samsung S8 -- similar screen (5.5" vs Samsung 5.8"), same IP68 water resistance, edge, Bluetooth 5. But there the similarities end.
S8 and S8+ and later models still have memory expansion. I have a 128gb card in my 64gb S8+, for example, for a total of 172gb. S8, S8+, and the S9 series also have retained a headphone jack. I seem to recall Google making fun of Apple for eliminating theirs, and now they have followed suit.
In my opinion, Google should just designate a best of breed phone, e.g. the Samsung, as its flagship Android, and stop trying to market a "pure Android experience". They've never been very successful with hardware -- maybe the Chromecast was a hit, but their Nexus phones (of which I bought four) have been mediocre.