And another post since my technobabble scared everyone:
I hate to pixel bash after 5 years of supporting them but something changed with their attitude and they're cutting corners everywhere these days - with problems discovered in one generation of phones simply covered up with quick hacks and not actually fixed for future models.
Since their first-party phone cases and manufacturing issues came out i've gotten bored and annoyed and listed together all the issues I've encountered over the years since i retired my still perfectly working original Pixel XL - what I've noticed is that it's VERY VERY HARD to find all these issues listed anywhere coherently - if I hadn't been suffering them and fighting my way through reddit to diagnose them, I'd have been unaware of what was happening and why. Even now, it took effort and knowing the exact catchphrases 'green tint 90hz' 'camera stopped responding' etc or I'd never have been able to find these examples again.
A TL;DR summary:
Pixel 1 was great. unlimited full quality cloud storage, no hardware issues.
Pixel 2 had serious camera hardware issues -
and they let it continue, coming back to reoccur on the pixel 3 and 4 as well
Pixel 2 XL had screen issues unique to its LG provided display, and could have
permanent screen burn-in in less than a week
Pixel 3 had serious screen issues with burn in, or just turning yellow in the sun as well as flickering lines (This was not entirely fixed with the Pixel 4 series, my 4XL still had smearing if brightness was low)
Pixel 4's had the faulty battery drama i posted through the thread already, as well as issues with the screen - when the 90Hz refresh rate was active everything tinted green and smearing became an issue at low brightness. Googles eventual fix was to simply disable 90Hz when brightness was low, which personally felt like a major copout (despite pretty much disabling a major hardware feature of the phone unless you're in direct sunlight, google didn't deem this to be RMA worth or refund worthy)
This is the green-screen issue on two identical phones, one at 60Hz one at 90Hz - it's not mild (not my image, i only had one phone at the time) - with the dynamic 60-90Hz switching the phone used you'd see it flickering back and forth between these two states constantly.
I've had three 4XL's fail with faulty batteries (all three had the above 90Hz green tint, with the software updates forcing higher brightness and 90Hz to hide it), my Ex-wifes 3A and our ex-best-mans 4A both got replaced last year because of a combination of battery issues (inaccurate battery readings) and just crashing the network/modem randomly requiring hard resets to reconnect, or in the case of the 4A it totally lost wifi and bluetooth, but was refused warranty as a 'software issue'
Onto the new-news!
Google’s cases used to be among the nicest feeling in the industry, now they’re just overpriced poor quality options
www.androidpolice.com
These are the official, expensive and pricey Google branded cases:
People have even found misaligned hole punches for the front facing camera, and this just screams lack of quality control -
even automated systems should have seen this
It's not a one-off either, with people noticing their phones had oddities with the hole punches on the pixel 5, as well (But mostly covered up by that black circular sticker, which may be why its there)
This ones worse, far far worse: the top right corner hole punch on a brand new phone is clearly a perfect circle (or a cut off part of one) - so you can at least argue for warranty.
The problem? They very fast start 'bleeding' and the owners get denied warranty because of user error damaging the screen
I'm okay with any brand having issues.
How i judge them is on how they respond - and googles answer to these issues (faulty batteries on the 4 series, bad displays on 5 and 6, faulty cases etc) has been to deny warranty every single time, unless local law prevented them
