Google Pixel and Pixel XL
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http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ee-...gb-4g-19-99-month-70-amazon-with-code-2523078
Combine it with an outright purchase and its cheaper, adn you can review it in 12 months time if prices drop.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ee-...gb-4g-19-99-month-70-amazon-with-code-2523078
Combine it with an outright purchase and its cheaper, adn you can review it in 12 months time if prices drop.
Looking at the good Pixel reviews yesterday from the tech journalists at Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, etc, I conclude that Google has a significant opportunity to sell many Pixel phones. Why?
The reviews point out what is clear to many of us, namely that Google's decision to take control of the hardware and the software and make them work well together, was a good one. How much control did Google exercise in hardware and software with HTC? Lots. Enough to make Huawei, its first choice as hardware partner, decline to accept Google's terms on the Pixel phone. But this control by Google on hardware is far from ended it seems. Why? Because, for example, it is making efforts internally to make its own processor and not rely on buying in Qualcomm's solution. That would be similar to what Apple does.
I have read that Samsung hoped to sell 10 million Note 7 devices in the next 6 to 9 months. These have now been pulled from the market, leaving a hole that someone will fill. Reading our site, some have clearly opted to stay with Samsung devices. Some have switched over OS to iOS. But many are buying Pixels. If Google is able to capture a significant share of these lost Samsung Note 7 sales, it can introduce into the wild a critical mass of Pixel buyers many times greater than anything Nexus ever achieved. And this gets Google software in general and in particular, Google Assistant, a key differentiating factor, into many more hands now when Google is keen to grow Assistant's capabilities. Relying on its partners to get its great software to users has resulted in fragmentation and bloatware. This can now change. Might we also see financing options offered by Google soon to get more Pixels in more buyers hands?
Perhaps the next step with be to make Android proprietary, like Apple with iOS?
The reviews point out what is clear to many of us, namely that Google's decision to take control of the hardware and the software and make them work well together, was a good one. How much control did Google exercise in hardware and software with HTC? Lots. Enough to make Huawei, its first choice as hardware partner, decline to accept Google's terms on the Pixel phone. But this control by Google on hardware is far from ended it seems. Why? Because, for example, it is making efforts internally to make its own processor and not rely on buying in Qualcomm's solution. That would be similar to what Apple does.
I have read that Samsung hoped to sell 10 million Note 7 devices in the next 6 to 9 months. These have now been pulled from the market, leaving a hole that someone will fill. Reading our site, some have clearly opted to stay with Samsung devices. Some have switched over OS to iOS. But many are buying Pixels. If Google is able to capture a significant share of these lost Samsung Note 7 sales, it can introduce into the wild a critical mass of Pixel buyers many times greater than anything Nexus ever achieved. And this gets Google software in general and in particular, Google Assistant, a key differentiating factor, into many more hands now when Google is keen to grow Assistant's capabilities. Relying on its partners to get its great software to users has resulted in fragmentation and bloatware. This can now change. Might we also see financing options offered by Google soon to get more Pixels in more buyers hands?
Perhaps the next step with be to make Android proprietary, like Apple with iOS?
Huawei declined because they couldn't put their name/logo on the phone. They were probably fine with the rest as it's not really much different to the 6P.
Another good 5.5" contender on the way it seems
http://www.gsmarena.com/this_looks_like_a_moto_x_can_it_be_the_2016_model-news-21141.php
2016 Moto X.
http://www.gsmarena.com/this_looks_like_a_moto_x_can_it_be_the_2016_model-news-21141.php
2016 Moto X.
Huawei had an easier decision working with Google on the 6P, branding aside. The 6P, like other Nexus devices, was a reference phone for devs, not a device clearly aimed at the consumer market like the Pixel.
Let's see if Huawei comes to a different conclusion when a future Pixel is launched?
£35 is quite a lot for a fairly basic case though...
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and calling it a case is stretching it a little as from the photos it looks more like a skin.. very little or no protection at all on the top and bottom of the phone as it is exposed. £35?.. yeah, right
I'm still hoping to receive my tomorrow but not had any email about dispatch.
If it's anything like the nexus 5 release then there's a good chance you will be able to.
I ordered 2 nexus 5 phones from google store but on release day i called my local CPW and they had 4 units in stock, so i picked up 2 from there and just refused delivery of the google ones which came a few days later.
