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i don't get what people are doing with their phones to need new ones, i'm still using a pixel 6a and it's completely fine
yeah, it's not like the early days of smart phones where every generation was a huge jump in tech. we only see incremental changes now
End of security updates would be the best answer. But probably for novelty
does lineageos really provide support that much longer than official distros?
Nowadays maybe not? GrapheneOS gives 5-7 years of security updates and I think official OEMs just until a couple of years ago had regular updates for 2 years and security for only 3 years.
Not to mention a gpu from 2021...
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/28/google-pixel-11-tensor-g6-cpu-gpu-leak/
why the fuck do people care about GPUs in phones‽
Gaming for one? My Sony Xperia II handles games far better than my Pixel 8 Pro. So I have to keep my old phone as a gaming phone 🥲
First of all, it doesn't matter if you need a good GPU. You're paying premium for a brand new flagship, and getting severely outdated hardware. Absolutely no excuse for that.
As for use cases - emulation or just mobile games. Today's phones are so powerful you can easily play a lot of console games up to PS3 era. The new Pixel might struggle with that shitty GPU.
Probably not a deal breaker for anyone. Still, why buy this overpriced piece of shit when there are so many cheaper AND better phones?
Absolutely no excuse for that.
No excuse needed, since it doesn't matter.
[...] can easily play a lot of console games up to PS3 era. The new Pixel might struggle with that shitty GPU.
Why would a phone need to be able to do that?
You're basically saying: "A phone needs a good GPU, because other phones have good GPUs", but that's entirely missing the point.
why buy this overpriced piece of shit
Because it allows you to install the only mobile OS worth running.
OP gave you a perfectly legitimate answer and you act a prick, go douche it up elsewhere.
They did not, They managed to miss the point entirely.
Man its on 11 already.
The only important question is: will it support GrapheneOS? Which we don't yet have answer for.
I think an even more burning question is: will it blend? Which we also don’t yet have answer for.
Might be better to just check GrapheneOS's hardware support list and pick one with a good security update timeline (9 or 10 atm)
I guess 128 GB was the low end, so that being gone is probably not a bad thing.
| Pixel 11 | Pixel 11 Pro | Pixel 11 Pro XL | Pixel 11 Pro Fold | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 256GB | €999/£879 | €1,199/£1,079 | €1,399/£1,279 | €1,999/£1,799 |
| 512GB | €1,129/£999 | €1,329/£1,199 | €1,529/£1,399 | €2,129/£1,919 |
| 1TB | X | €1,589/£1,429 | €1,789/£1,629 | €2,389/£2,149 |
it's a bad thing. The lowest you have to pay for a pixel now is 999 EUR. I think I paid around 600 USD for my pixel 8, and it was already more than I'm comfortable spending on a phone. We should stop normalizing $1000+ phones.
You don't have to buy the top of the line phones... The a-series pixels work just fine for me. Just recently got the 10a for like $400 on sale I think.
The A-series is where Google dumps all the problematic phone batteries and commercialises them.
Still work fine for me. Yeah, I had one of the 6a phones that had the bad battery but they gave me a $150 credit towards the 10a, so that was nice. Bought a replacement battery of Ifixit for the 6a, and gave it to my son.
I’d love to get a pixel art a price like that so I can give graphene a real try. Only problem is that they don’t set that phone in the country where I live so there are always markups.
So complain about the fact that the base model is priced that high, don't complain about the fact that devices with lower specs are no longer being produced. Technology advances. Lower storage tiers will always inevitably eventually stop being made.
this comment completely ignores that the model specs are proportional to the manufacturing cost
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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