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Google has preemptively announced the end of life for the Pixel 7 line.

I am more excited about this new feature: The phone would no longer randomly read raunchy emails to a mistress out loud when a spouse is around.

I am more excited about this new feature: The phone would no longer randomly read raunchy emails to a mistress out loud when a spouse is around.

If you can get your spouse and mistress in the same room together, is this not a much needed feature?

Cool. Because you're using some smartphone design from elsewhere that will still be going strong 20 years from now?

What the fuck are you even talking about?

My perfectly working everything happens near instantly pixel 2 disagrees.

I have an original Pixel XL and it still works perfectly. I keep it because it has unlimited full quality photo uploads to the Google cloud, and it will happily upload any photo or video you copy on to it.

Damn, that's a helluva loophole.

The lack of a rear fingerprint sensor is a deal killer for me. Hopefully they bring it back in the 8, but meanwhile I'll hold on to my 5.

You get hard for toilet paper? Not my kink but OK

How the fuck did you manage to pay $50 for a screen protector? You can get a nice glass one for a tenth that price.

Please, find me a nice glass protector for a curved screen for $5. Or for any price really. I have tried dozens, and they all separate. They are all crap. Flat screen phones, no problem. Curved edge? Big problem.

Wow, that's insane. Seriously, Amazon or eBay, a good quality glass screen protector, 5 bucks for two. Apply yourself or the local phone shop guy will do it for a tenner all in.

I always use the 5 buck ones and have not had issues so far. Good feel, no touch problems, protects the screen.

The under-the-glass front sensor did take a little getting used to, but the switch to their own chip and the improvement to the on-device speech recognition is very much worth it. I have the Pixel 6a and the speech recognition is vastly superior, both in speed and accuracy, than on the 4a and 4a 5G I had before.

Eh, it's only ever been a tool for me, and one I need to work conveniently and reliably or it's trash ( no matter how flashy it may be ).

I agree. I can't understand the drive to put it on the front under the screen. In practice it's way less ergonomic to use on the front, as it either requires use of the hand not holding the phone, or to risk dropping the phone by manoeuvring your thumb to the middle of the screen,. With the sensor on the back you can simply unlock it with the index finger of the hand that 's currently holding the phone.

The front fingerprint sensor avoids you having to reposition your hand. With a rear one you need to reach with your index finger to touch the sensor, then adjust your grip to use the screen with your thumb.

Under the screen you unlock with your thumb and then immediately start using the phone.

The whole lock screen concept seems ill-conceived and unnecessarily bloody awkward at least on all the Samsung phones I've had... now google have apparently just silently removed "trusted places" from "smart unlock" feature which makes it even more pointlessly painful to use your phone unless you disable all security. It was the last straw for me so now I'm done with Android.

Android's on body detection may be for you then. It keeps the device unlocked while it's on your body. When you set it down, it needs the password or biometric unlock.

That said I don't use it because fingerprint unlock is as easy and quick as pressing the power button.

That is a new one. I would have thought that any communication between someone and their lawyer is privileged.

On the other hand, sometimes any price to get someone out of oneâ(TM)s life may be a price worth paying.

google have apparently just silently removed "trusted places" from "smart unlock" feature

I found a report that it was missing from Android 13 QPR 1 Beta 1. This makes some sense, as it hadn't been working for a while and I just didn't bother to dig into it.

I've just updated to QPR 1 Beta 2 and it's back, right where it should be.

My phone's running Android 12 and the feature just disappeared like 3 days ago.I'm guessing as a result of an automatic update.

I said what I said...

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I thought this was news for nerds, not Google sycophants. Is slashdot going to report the launch of all phones from all manufacturers now? Get off Google's cock!

Google announced that the Pixel 7 phones would get 5 years of security updates and monthly feature upgrades.

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