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Android Oreo Helps Google's Pixel 2 Smartphones Outperform Other Android Flagships (hothardware.com)
MojoKid highlights Hot Hardware's review of Google's new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones: Google officially launched it's Pixel 2 phones today, taking the wraps off third-party reviews. Designed by Google but manufactured by HTC (Pixel 2) and LG (Pixel 2 XL), the two new handsets also boast Google's latest Android 8.0 operating system, aka Oreo, an exclusive to Google Pixel and certain Nexus devices currently. And in some ways, this is also a big advantage. Though they are based on the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor as many other Android devices, Google's new Pixel 2s manage to outpace similarly configured smartphones in certain benchmarks by significant margins (Basemark, PCMark and 3DMark). They also boot dramatically faster than any other Android handset on the market, in as little as 10 seconds. Camera performance is also excellent, with both the 5-inch Pixel 2 and 6-inch Pixel 2 XL sporting identical electronics, save for their displays and chassis sizes. Another notable feature built into Android Oreo is Google Now Playing, an always-listening, Shazam-like service (if you enable it) that displays song titles on the lock screen if it picks up on music playing in the room you're in. Processing is done right on the Pixel 2 and it doesn't need network connectivity. Another Pixel 2 Oreo-based trick is Google Lens, a machine vision system that Google notes "can recognize places like landmarks and buildings, artwork that you'd find in a museum, media covers such as books, movies, music albums, and video games..." The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are available now on Verizon or unlocked via the Google Store starting at $649 and $849 respectively for 64GB storage versions, with a $100 up-charge for 128GB variants.
google optimizes *their* mobile os for *their* hardware.
They also boot dramatically faster than any other Android handset on the market, in as little as 10 seconds.
And my Xperia running Sailfish X (by the former Nokia engineer who were developing Maemo/Meego before the whole Elop/Microsoft blunder happened), boots even faster, in a couple of seconds.
Yay for GNU/Linux OSes ! (in this case, using systemd as a init system).
The whole "boot loader unlocked" warning that Sony displays is actually longer than the OS boot procedure.
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Why is this not displayed as sponsored story?
Annoying people is is not helping your cause, Mr. Coward.
A strategy of deliberately fragmenting the user-base across OS versions based on the hardware they're running is not good from a UX, security or privacy perspective
You're an idiot. Nerds might be interested in new tech products and their benchmarks versus other similar products. By your standard, any post that discusses new products in a favorable way is an advertisement, regardless of how much the product might be of interest to nerds. I actually like to know when new products are released, and there have always been stories like this posted on Slashdot. Of you don't like the article, don't read it.
Another notable feature built into Android Oreo is Google Now Playing, an always-listening, Shazam-like service (if you enable it) that displays song titles on the lock screen if it picks up on music playing in the room you're in. Processing is done right on the Pixel 2 and it doesn't need network connectivity.
Do they also store the database of fingerprinted songs on the device as well? Without that, processing won't matter, you'd still need network connectivity.
You're the same dummy that claims first amendment rights when they get fired from a job. This board has no responsibility to you too host your inane ramblings. Say whatever the fuck you want. We don't have to listen to it
... And yet I'll still be able to read it if I so choose to do so, which would explain any downmods. You are simply asserting a falsehpod with an air of (false) authority.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I mean it's great that it can monitor your audio 24/7 and can make some nice numbers flash up in a benchmark and all...
But, uh.
Replaceable battery? Rugged/IP68? SD card slot? Headphone jack? You know.. things that actually matter?
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
A while ago, people had issues with "Google" Nexus 5 after the Android OTA upgrade. Despite the fact that Google called this as Google Nexus 5 and was sold from Google website, it refused to take the blame and told customers to contact LG as it was LG which made the phone and it was responsible for any issue with the phone. Pixel 2 is made by HTC. Who will be responsible for servicing and support? I upgraded by Nexus 5 to iPhone. 11 months later, I had issue with headphone jack (it was detecting as headphone connected even when it was not). I took it to Apple store and told them that I am traveling and need urgent fix. They gave a brand new phone. Can we expect Google to do the same? If not, you are just buying an HTC phone advertised by Google.
>"with both the 5-inch Pixel 2 and 6-inch Pixel 2 XL sporting identical electronics, save for their displays and chassis sizes"
And they also share the:
* Lack of headphone jack
* Lack of wireless charging
* Lack of swappable batteries
* Lack of SD card support
* Lack of serviceable battery?
But not the lack of price... so, go ahead and cough up $650 or $850, anyway, because we are giving the public what they want. And to think I am STILL using a Nexus 5 which has at more than half of the above lacking features, and was around HALF the price.
I don't get this claim: Google Now Playing, an always-listening, Shazam-like service ... displays song titles on the lock screen if it picks up on music playing ... Processing is done right on the Pixel 2 and it doesn't need network connectivity.
Where does it get the song catalog to match to, if not the Internet?
I hope you enjoy your time here. Feel free to take a look around and stay as long as you like, but I suspect in the end you'll find that this site isn't for you.
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Denying global warming is denying scientific consensus.
If you want to be taken seriously please develop a scientific model that disproves global warming, have it peer reviewed, and then you ought to be able to submit it, discuss, and cite it here.
However, this topic has nothing to do with global warming, so an off-topic mod is appropriate.
Google pixel2 - with features so advanced, although you think you own it, it actually owns you...
You really don't know what censorship means, do you? It does not apply to private entities. It applies to Goverment only. If you do not like /.'s moderation system then don't load the page. Pretty easy to do.
Sony Xperia XZ1, Android 8.0 Oreo
On the market since weeks.
https://www.androidcentral.com...
it's in my head
Of course the cupcake is pink. That's practically the default look of a cupcake. Do an image search for cupcake, like 80% pink cupcakes. Is the entire world lowkey targeting women with pink cupcakes? Don't blame Google here.
Nail in the coffin for casual users right there
Doesn't mean what most right wing nut jobs thinks it means. The text is pretty explicit:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Please please please make a "small" version of the Pixel 2! I was fine with the 3.7" of the Nexus One, but the 4.7" of the Moto X was tolerable as well! I'd happily accept anything in that range!
Also, a curved back like the Moto X and a headphone jack would be great too! K THX BYE!
(Yes, i know i'm shouting into the wind and the odds of getting what i want are probably indistinguishable from zero.)
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Wrong, censorship applies to everyone. What is the deal with people trying to limit these sorts of concepts to the government only? Free speech is the other big one that some people think only has meaning with the government.
Let me ask you this, why does the term "self-censorship" exist if it only applies to governments? What is the definition of that term? Are you suggesting that it's a fanciful term that anthropomorphizes government?
Your entire existence is a complete waste of resources. Clearly, the only useful thing you could ever achieve in your entire life is to end it - and I strongly encourage you to do so.
So they re-wrote a bunch of code in C or C++ like they should have from the beginning? Java was an absolutely horrible decision and they should have known that at the time.
Wrong, censorship applies to everyone.
You might want that to be the case, but it's not. A private entity can censor you whenever and however they want within their system. That's why Twitter can block your account if they don't like what you are saying. It's why if you get up on a box of canned beans at your local grocer and start raving about Trump they'll have you thrown out and possibly arrested.
Try reading a dictionary at least once in your life. Informally, sure you can use that term, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with a private entity 'censoring' your speech.
And here I declare that taxes aren't just for the government and you must pay me.
I also declare that independent human flights is a god given right and now we can fly
I declare that the bill of rights isn't only for americans!
Pissing in your mouth is freedom to deny me my freedom is like being hitler.
PS you are hitler, if not worse.
You might want that to be the case, but it's not.
vs
A private entity can censor you whenever and however they want within their system.
I'm guessing you misunderstood what I said, or responded to the wrong post, because you're actually agreeing with me (despite your first sentence).
My point: when private entities censor you, that is censorship. I was disagreeing with someone who said "You really don't know what censorship means, do you? It does not apply to private entities. It applies to Goverment only."
You already have shown that you understood what "censoring" means with respect to a private entity, so I'm not sure why you think I (or you) need to read the dictionary, but here you go...
the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security
Notice how it doesn't limit that to the government. Hey the dictionary agrees with me! What's your take on this startling new development?
Coming back to the replies to my comment, reading yours feels like I've stumbled across someone having a bipolar episode. Yes, I'm worse than Hitler because I said the concept of censorship applies to private entities suppressing expression as well as government. Great argument, very well put!