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Should I buy a Pixel or a Samsung? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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If I buy the best that either company has to offer (Pixel 8 pro or S23 Ultra)

Which one, in your opinion, would be the best Android experience and why? Would love to know your thoughts.

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Pixels historically have a lot of weird hardware issues, like the modem underperforming, bad antennas, poor fingerprint sensor, overheating, and so on.

I don't know if the Pixel 8 lineup has them too, but I would search around pretty heavily on that and see first.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The Pixel is like any other Google product, half-assed and supported only when they feel like it. My Pixel 6 was vulnerable to an attack needing no user input because Google waited a week past the disclosure deadline to put a patch out from a vulnerability their own security group originally found. The phone also maybe couldn’t have called 911 for a few weeks. The phone looking dated and having a slow as hell finger print sensor are on me, but the former are Google being shitty.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I thought really hard about getting a Pixel 6a as my next phone (on a budget), but the specs aren't that great for the price, plus all the bugs I keep reading about are turning me away from Pixels in general.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I bought an iPhone a few weeks before the Pixel I have for work and at this point two years later the iPhone feels brand new and the Pixel feels old. Idk why but the os feels sluggish, I have more frequent app crashes and worse cellular service despite being on the same carrier for both, although that could be AT&T 5G which the pixel has but my iPhone plan doesn’t not.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I love my Pixel and would always choose it over Samsung, but yuuuup. Lot's of wierd Software issues too.

    Can't forget the time when they shipped a PIN recovery mode that allows you to enter the PUK for whatever SIM card is inserted ... while also allowing you to hot swap sim cards. 😂

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