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The shoddy build quality, plus lack of microSD & heaphone jack means I will never buy a Pixel or other Google branded hardware. My friends seem to get a year o

The shoddy build quality, plus lack of microSD & heaphone jack means I will never buy a Pixel or other Google branded hardware. My friends seem to get a year or so before the SoC desolders from the motherboard, causing the device to bootloop, or the battery fails, or one of a million other things. Among us, there are a few dozen Pixels that are unusable due to their hardware defects. Meanwhile, both of my old Galaxy S4's is going strong, and ditto for all but one of my LGs (one had its charge controller start smoking, LG repaired it).

tremon 8y ago
Same here. Galaxy Note II, still going strong. I bought a new battery for it a year ago, expecting the old one to go out soon, but I still get more than three days battery life from it.
- mavhc 8y ago
  My Galaxy S3 died due to a known fault with the flash storage, can't repartition it to fix it
noderat 8y ago
I have owned since launch day a Nexus 1, Nexus 4, 2x Nexus 6, 2x Nexus 7 and Pixel 2 XL and they are all currently still functional well past their warranty. (The Nexus 1 was replaced by Assurion for water damage with a refurbished device @1.5yrs but replacement is still running.) In fact my Nexus 4 is still in use every day as an APRS GPS receiver/data logger, and one of the Nexus 6s is now in use by a co-worker as a OBD2 data logger/HUD. I've avoided Samsung devices (including Galaxy Nexus/Nexus S) because the girlfriend has had the last 4 Samsung devices fail or become completely usable right at the end of the warranty (+/- 2mo) running completely stock. For those that became completely unusable it was usually pitiful battery life, the others became too slow to function on stock roms that I suspect they failed due to internal storage wear. Not even custom roms could save them. I keep my devices a long time, and frequently repurpose them after they are no longer my primary device. Non-Samsung "Pixus" problems are overblown, except Nexus 6 AMOLED burn-in which is annoying but didn't present itself until it was used daily as a HUD.
- metildaa 8y ago
  Seems like you missed the horrid bootlooping issues of the Nexus 5x, the bad battery firmware on the Nexus 6p, and the bootlooping and flakey charge controller on the OG Pixel. Your choice in devices of the Nexus/Pixel series is very lucky, you avoided the defective models nearly entirely. I have no faith that I will be similarly lucky.
paulie_a 8y ago
I won't buy anything but pure Google, Moto or lg phones anymore. If they start adding crappy software replacements I will switch. Samsung is a non starter there, hard coded button for bixby is idiotic. Also bixby is idiotic.

tremon 8y ago

Same here. Galaxy Note II, still going strong. I bought a new battery for it a year ago, expecting the old one to go out soon, but I still get more than three days battery life from it.

mavhc 8y ago
My Galaxy S3 died due to a known fault with the flash storage, can't repartition it to fix it

noderat 8y ago

I have owned since launch day a Nexus 1, Nexus 4, 2x Nexus 6, 2x Nexus 7 and Pixel 2 XL and they are all currently still functional well past their warranty. (The Nexus 1 was replaced by Assurion for water damage with a refurbished device @1.5yrs but replacement is still running.) In fact my Nexus 4 is still in use every day as an APRS GPS receiver/data logger, and one of the Nexus 6s is now in use by a co-worker as a OBD2 data logger/HUD. I've avoided Samsung devices (including Galaxy Nexus/Nexus S) because the girlfriend has had the last 4 Samsung devices fail or become completely usable right at the end of the warranty (+/- 2mo) running completely stock. For those that became completely unusable it was usually pitiful battery life, the others became too slow to function on stock roms that I suspect they failed due to internal storage wear. Not even custom roms could save them. I keep my devices a long time, and frequently repurpose them after they are no longer my primary device. Non-Samsung "Pixus" problems are overblown, except Nexus 6 AMOLED burn-in which is annoying but didn't present itself until it was used daily as a HUD.

metildaa 8y ago
Seems like you missed the horrid bootlooping issues of the Nexus 5x, the bad battery firmware on the Nexus 6p, and the bootlooping and flakey charge controller on the OG Pixel. Your choice in devices of the Nexus/Pixel series is very lucky, you avoided the defective models nearly entirely. I have no faith that I will be similarly lucky.

paulie_a 8y ago

I won't buy anything but pure Google, Moto or lg phones anymore. If they start adding crappy software replacements I will switch. Samsung is a non starter there, hard coded button for bixby is idiotic. Also bixby is idiotic.