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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by gstn on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:12PM (#12637150)
Whether it's a nice phone or not, I'm not tempted. I left Android due to an inability to get o/s updates. Android depends on the cell carrier (Bell Canada, in my case) for o/s updates, a model that doesn't work well, in my opinion. With Apple the o/s is always up to date.
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by ncallaway on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:17PM (#12637219)
I've never had that issue with a Nexus line phone. I got OS updates the day they dropped from Google.
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by 51Cards on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @03:11PM (#12638436)
Definitely not true for Nexus / Pixel devices. I'm in Canada, have had the Nexus line from the Nexus One, and every time an update releases I have it immediately.
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by qntty on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:22PM (#12637265)
Google phones are updated by Google, the same way Apple phones are updated by Apple.
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by guelo on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:15PM (#12637189)
Not true for this phone.
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by MBCook on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:39PM (#12637461)
Do you have a source for that? It doesn't have a track record (for obvious reasons).

Has Google promised the carriers don't get to interfere this time?

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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by guelo on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:59PM (#12637682)
"Pixel ships with the newest Android operating system, Android 7.1 Nougat. Phones will get software and security updates as soon as they’re available, directly from Google. " https://blog.google/products/pixel/introducing-pixel-our-new...

It's the same as Nexus phones, carriers did not interfere with them.

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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by gergles on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:28PM (#12637973)
But they still did. The "Verizon" Galaxy Nexus was basically a completely different phone from the other Galaxy Nexus versions and didn't get the same support or updates.
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by guelo on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:33PM (#12638019)
Yea that Verizon Nexus was the least Nexus-y of them all. One of the reasons I swore off Verizon for good. But that was 4 years ago and hasn't been an issue with other Nexii since.
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Re:Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s i... by MBCook on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:32PM (#12638011)
Ah, that's good.
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