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Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro by causi on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @02:47PM (#41238321)
That's been Google phones even since the Nexus days. They review super well then three months after release there's some crazy-ass hardware problem no phone has ever experienced before. Screen discoloration, glass backs cracking while laying flat on a table, power buttons getting stuck, spontaneous camera glass cracking, etc.
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Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro by jsheard on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @02:55PM (#41238396)
The flaws were much more excusable with the Nexus phones since they were dirt cheap, but the price of the Pixels has crept upwards and now they're more or less at parity with Apple and Samsungs flagship prices.
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Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro by AtlasBarfed on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @03:29PM (#41238806)
My issue is that they are bottom-barrel of repairability.

My Nexus phones were described as "designed to fail and impossible to fix" by a repair guy.

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Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro by abawany on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @03:43PM (#41238956)
But that's not true anymore afaik: they get good repairability scores at ifixit and also have a deal with them to stock repair parts.
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