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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by dessant on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:38PM (#25040269)
Samsung hardware is indeed excellent, but there's still much room to improve around delivering updates. Samsung's current commitment is to deliver 3 major OS updates after device launch [1], which is still not enough for a flagship that will work fine even after 5 years.

[1] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-raises-the-bar-for-m...

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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by mekster on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @01:22PM (#25049205)
These days when Google itself doesn't even support a phone for longer than 3 years, you get to think phones are disposable assets and not something you're supposed to love keeping like in the old days hardware.

Makes you think less of trying to buy expensive ones when they get obsoleted real fast.

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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by thaumasiotes on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:55PM (#25040435)
The Nexus S was made by Samsung. It'd be nice to see that happen again.

On an unrelated note, my Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 both failed in different ways, but the Nexus S, from the year before the 4, still hasn't.

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