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[TroubleKlef]

11 minutes ago, Kobathor said:

But the Pixel 2 XL is cheaper.. at least $50 cheaper than the Note 8 and definitely $150 cheaper than the iPhone X.

Bargain implies value. Not absolute price. I could find a flip phone for $50 but I'm not calling that a bargain.

[Chaos_Sorcerer]

9 hours ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Hype

Meh, it's just an overpriced Chromebook.

Pixel 2

 

Meh, it's just an overpriced Nexus 

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

6 hours ago, AG1233 said:

 

This is a pretty nice feature but doesn't this mean that the microphone will always be active and listening to everything?

Did you think it wasn't already?

[Chaos_Sorcerer]

2 hours ago, BuckGup said:

Lol people gave Apple shit for the EarPods and no one blinks at the pixel buds which cost the same. Not saying the EarPods are good as hey look pretty stupid and probably sound bad for $159

I guess the "Pixel Buds" look slightly less stupid in your ear? idk

[Paranoid Kami]

Really loving the Pixel 2  Going to be a nice upgrade from my Nexus 4.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Y'all complaining about a headphone jack when you have fuckin' options.

 

Those options are reducing and that's scary. 

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, coolkingler1 said:

Those options are reducing and that's scary. 

We're talking Apple and a Google phone that currently lacks headphone jacks out of hundreds out there in the open.

Surely you'll find something.

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

We're talking Apple and a Google phone that currently lacks headphone jacks out of hundreds out there in the open.

Surely you'll find something.

No HTC U11, Moto Z2 Force. LG and Samsung only have to bend and there is almost no choice for the mainstream brand flagships anymore. You could take a budget device yes. Or Oneplus but they are still meh imo. 

[Tech Enthusiast]

5 minutes ago, coolkingler1 said:

No HTC U11, Moto Z2 Force. LG and Samsung only have to bend and there is almost no choice for the mainstream brand flagships anymore. You could take a budget device yes. Or Oneplus but they are still meh imo. 

Or you know... just get new headphones with USB-C or bluetooth.

 

As much as i love bashing apple for stuff (or google for that matter), but removing the only left over analog connection is not a major issue. It was needed and people will get over it once they move on to a better connection that offers more options for better sound.

 

Right now it is a transition. One that hurts for a while since we don't have all the great headphones with usb-c yet, but we will get them and won't look back.

[Guest]

23 minutes ago, Rattenmann said:

Or you know... just get new headphones with USB-C or bluetooth.

 

As much as i love bashing apple for stuff (or google for that matter), but removing the only left over analog connection is not a major issue. It was needed and people will get over it once they move on to a better connection that offers more options for better sound.

 

 

It was absolutely not needed and I vehemently disagree with the decision. It's a toxic business practice imo and stays at that, I can not see it as anything more than a filthy cashgrab, which for all I can see it is. Sure they're corporations and need to make money, but there is a line and removing the headphone jack, a standard which worked just fine for not too much space at all, just crosses that. 

 

Any 'benefits' are far outweighed by the disadvantages and I will never not despise this practice. 

 

That it was the only analog connection isn't a good argument, what does that have to do anything? 

 

'going wireless' is not a good argument, people who wanted wireless always had the option, now you're just taking away choice. Or well, you can use a USB C adapter but they make extra by selling them to people who lost/broke theirs that came in the box, sickening practice you see. 

 

Being thin is not a good argument, phones are already plenty thin, it's fine already. 

 

 

On top of that the vast majority hates this, but taking a taking a stance of 'we know what's best for you' as a company (and I don't mean just Apple) is just stupid, just to force the removal of a standard that had no reason at all to be removed. 

 

[79wjd]

Does it bother anyone else that the cameras on the 2/XL 2 are flipped? 

 

Also, is that a camera bump I see?

[Paranoid Kami]

They included a dongle in the package if you need the jack. It's not a problem. Just finished watching Unbox Therapy's video on it.

[Drak3]

 

10 minutes ago, Rattenmann said:

It was needed and people will get over it once they move on to a better connection that offers more options for better sound.

Removing DVI-A, VGA, Composite, etc. was needed as analogue was the limiting factor to higher end display technology becoming cheaper, and the end device could run off of a digital signal.

 

Whereas with audio out, there is no high end that is being limited in any capacity to become cheaper. The end device, the speaker, cannot work correctly on a digital signal. Somewhere, there needs to be a DAC, and it makes far more sense to only have one device that requires batteries or to make the DAC a standardized thing amongst the vast majority of users to the device models you're selling.

 

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Does it bother anyone else that the cameras on the 2/XL 2 are flipped? 

It certainly is interesting however I don't think I would care unless I see them together in public. Now what bothers me with the 5-inch variant is the position of the camera relative to the top and bottom of the glass backing. I would not have cared if the glass backing wasn't there but it is. At least with the XL, it is fairly centered.

[Commodus]

I don't see the removal of the headphone jack as a bold leap into the future, but nor do I see this as some kind of egregious sin that ruins the Pixel 2 line forever.

 

Folks: there's an adapter in the box.  Leave it attached to your favorite set of headphones and you'll probably be fine.  About the only practical difference is that you can't listen while you charge.  If that's an issue for you, that's alright -- just don't act as if it's the end of the world, because it isn't.

[Drak3]

2 minutes ago, Commodus said:

Leave it attached to your favorite set of headphones and you'll probably be fine.

Google could have left it on their paperweight and it would probably have been fine too.

[D13H4RD]

I do actually like the Pixel 2 XL (not the standard one but the bigger one).

 

Shame it has no jack though. That sours the deal for me when it comes to being a daily driver. But 3 years of OS upgrades is actually real nice. Every other Android OEM should try to aim for that.

[Ground]

The Pixel 2's back kinda looks like an upside down first gen iPhone...

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Google could have left it on their paperweight and it would probably have been fine too.

I have you on ignore for I don't know what reason, but I agree with you though.

[Commodus]

10 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Google could have left it on their paperweight and it would probably have been fine too.

Maybe, but it's hard to say without a look at the innards.  Either way: unless it really, truly interferes with your ability to use your headphones, don't rule out the Pixels -- it isn't a calamity.  Relax.

[Drak3]

Just now, coolkingler1 said:

I have you on ignore for I don't know what reason, but I agree with you though.

Argument over something stupid, and something I didn't consider important enough to dig around for.

[Drak3]

Just now, Commodus said:

don't rule out the Pixels -- it isn't a calamity.

I've all but already ruled them out from everything I've seen from the first Pixel, the Pixel C, the Nexus Lineup, and the Google's Motorola era.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Ground said:

The Pixel 2's back kinda looks like an upside down first gen iPhone...

-snipped-

 

That would be for the "Black & White" XL model, but yeah it certainly looks that way. At least all the other color options are not opposite colors. Gotta say I like their color naming scheme though.

[rattacko123]

If there is no headphone jack, they should have some sort of port to replace it otherwise it's just a phone with no headphone jack and nothing else.

[Guest]

Just now, rattacko123 said:

they should have some sort of port to replace it

Isn't that why they were talking about USB Type C?