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Google Will Release a New Pixel Phone this Year (engadget.com) 55

Posted by msmash from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.
An anonymous reader shares an Engadget report: The Pixel represents Google's first proper foray into the smartphone market, allowing the search giant to directly compete with Apple and cement Android's reputation as a premium platform. While sales have been steady, it's been particularly hard to get a hold of one due to component shortages. That hasn't dampened the company's plans to continue investing in its own smartphones, though: according to Rick Osterloh, VP of Hardware at Google, there will be a successor to the Pixel this year and will continue to carry a high price tag.
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  • Analysis (Score:3)

    by puddingebola ( 2036796 ) on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:16AM (#53969101) Journal
    Company will release new product. Product is expensive product to compete with competition's product. Company has implemented previous strategy to dominate market, but will now try competition's strategy to dominate market. Company has more money than God to compete with competition who has more money than God. Fans of company wonder if company will include support for ________ technology, and also what the buttons will be shaped like. Product will exist in marketplace of products very similar to product to be released.
    • Film at 11.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by schnell ( 163007 )

      The Pixel represents Google's first proper foray into the smartphone market

      Can someone who follows Android more closely than I do explain WTH this statement from the summary means? Why is this in any way different from the Nexus phones, and why wasn't that a "proper" foray into the smartphone market? What is so special about Pixel compared to the original Nexus vision?

      • Google didn't design the Nexus line. They just provided software and branding. While the fabrication of the Pixels is farmed out to HTC the entire design of the hardware was done by Google. That's the difference and why they qualified it as their first 'proper foray.'

      • Pixel was the first phone where Google had complete input over the design and feature spec. This didn't happen with the Nexus line.

        I really don't understand why the iPhone-like prices. They would have sold a lot more with a $400 price

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        I guess it is referring to the fact that this is the first phone they designed themselves. Nexus phones were built to spec by other companies.

    • The thing I don't understand - google is still having QC, logistical, and supply chain challenges. I have a pixel, I love it. However, there are people who are on their 4th replacement that are still having issues (microphones dying, wifi issues, screen issues). Why not focus on getting this one right and building a reliable supply chain rather than immediately jumping on to the next device?

  • Comment removed (Score:3, Interesting)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:46AM (#53969297)
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    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      You've got that right - someone who puts out a phone with a replacable battery and uSD could have a potential windfall of users number in the hundreds - maybe thousands - that they would share with only one or two other handsets on the market.

    • And LG G5. Even the Galaxy S7 has a micro SD slot (and IP68 water resistance).

  • Haven't these phone thingies stopped being new? Can't some vendor come up with a model that only changes every other year, rather than every 5 minutes? No wonder phones are deprecated landfill garbage the very moment they're launched, or announced to the press.

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    • http://www.gsmarena.com/bq_aqu... [gsmarena.com]

      Nearly stock Android, reasonably priced.
      2 GiB RAM, 16 GiB Flash + microSD.
      Root and unlocked boot loader included.
      Previous Bq models have LineageOS support. This one will most likely follow.

    • OnePlus 3 is close to what you're looking for. I personally got the Nexus 5 ($349) 3 years ago and it's the best phone I've used. It also still gets updates; whereas 1 year old $700 Samsung's hardly do (depending on carrier). I'm assuming the Vanilla Andriod OS is most of why it works so well - because the hardware at that price shouldn't be superior. I wish the Pixel could stay in the $400~ range, but I might just get the Nexus 6P for that; debating between the OnePlus 3.

      If you buy a Samsung on Verizon yo

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Rob Y. ( 110975 )

        For a while the OP3 and the ZTE Axon 7 were neck-and-neck in terms of their flagshippiness. The A7 hardware is actually better (and cheaper than the OP3T), but ZTE has dropped the ball on unlocking the bootloader and working with 3rd party ROM developers. Of course, those promises still stand, and there's apparently a stable LineageOS ROM for the A7 that supposedly turns it into a real powerhouse. But the fancy stereo speakers still don't work right. C'mon, ZTE - you're this close to being what the read

  • Why is no manufacturer capable or willing to release a smart phone with 100% free software from the start?
    If they really have to keep the baseband firmware proprietary, isolate it with an IOMMU.
    What are they afraid of?

    • Because it wouldn't make it sell? Smartphones have become a commodities market and I would find it hard to believe a FOSS phone would drive enough sales from that fact alone.

    • Why is no manufacturer capable or willing to release a smart phone with 100% free software from the start?

      There *ARE* a few example of nearly 100% software smartphone.

      Random examples :
      - OpenMoko's FreeRunner. (about a decade ago)
      Basically a "do the fuck you want to do with it" platform, which was designed from the ground up to run free-software. At least within what was possible back then.
      They manage quite well on some fronts (the GPS and the baseband are basically glorified external modems talking over a serial line with the main computers), and butchered a bit other elements (screen and GPU aren't quite corre

  • There is no reason to spend $500 or more on a phone when I was able to order a Samsung Galaxy Express 3 Marshmallow device for AT&T yesterday that cost a total of $42.50.

    Google needs to do several things with the Pixel and greater Android: lower the price, fix the architecture, improve code quality, unify Android among all manufacturers, and implement Google-issued patches that can apply against the whole Android ecosystem at once without interference from carriers or OEMs.

    Apple can do all these things.

    • You're comparing Apples to asteroids.

      Google started the Android project by offering 3 options to carriers, the most popular being that the carrier could control almost all of the "user experience". If they had chosen the option to keep it close to "pure" Android then they could easily have pushed out updates, but you know what control freaks the carriers like to be. Google had to make it palatable to the carriers to get in the game and that history led us to where we are now.

      My gripe is that Google wants to

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by emil ( 695 )

        It may have been a completely different environment in the early days, but the security has become critical. Russia had DOZENS of OEM phones using Mediatek processors sending device data back to China. BLU was doing the same thing here, and the same malware made it into the latest Barnes & Noble tablets. We are talking tens of thousands of devices here, and Russia is certainly moving in the direction of seizing all of Google's Android assets within their borders. A few more major security incidents, and

  • Have we learned nothing from our mistakes?! This is the new africanized bee aka killer bees! If one of these smartphones gets into the wild it will destroy the delicate smartphone ecosystem as we know it! Do you want killer smartphones because this is how we get killer smartphones! ;)

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