Mobile Phone Thread S2

[wakka]

Saw this article on using the Unihertz Titan Pocket, a phone with a hardware keyboard that resembles a Blackberry, and thought of [MENTION=7652]Hirst[/MENTION]...

https://www.theverge.com/23673548/keyboard-phone-2023-features-unihertz-titan-pocket

It's a fun little Sunday read.

[teddymeow]

[Nu-Eclipse]

*snip*

https://media.tenor.com/ppCK9EbT_s8AAAAC/naw-mike-epps.gif

[teddymeow]

https://media.tenor.com/ppCK9EbT_s8A...-mike-epps.gif

The phone or the video?

[Nu-Eclipse]

The phone or the video?

All of it.

Phone looks trash. Software and hardware both massively outdated.

World moved on. iPhones and Android phones upped their email and enterprise games, (the only reason that Blackberries ever stood out in the first place), never mind their hardware and software. BlackBerry-types didn't, hence why they're dead and buried.

[MartyG]

£1800. That's a hard pass from me then :/

[Anpanman]

We both just bought new phones, we had them for 3.5/4 years my wife's had screen cracks from multiple drops (if you have read my comments about how she treats our vacuums it's incredible her Nokia 8.1 lasted so long) and my battery on the Motorola G8 Plus was starting to degrade.

She went for a Samsung A34 which is full of bloat (I did warn her) whilst my Motorola G73 isn't.

[MartyG]

Pixel 7a hits a better price point at £449

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_7a?hl=en-US

[Nu-Eclipse]

Pixel 7a hits a better price point at £449

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_7a?hl=en-US

Makes the standard Pixel 7 look redundant, tbh.

There are rumours that the 7a will be the last a-series Pixel that Google make, given that it's effectively no longer a mid-range phone per se. Going forward it'll be a standard Pixel, a Pro Pixel and the Fold.

[Nu-Eclipse]

£1800. That's a hard pass from me then :/

Hard pass from me too. Fold phones suck IMO and the Google Tensor chip clearly isn't anywhere near enough of a high-end performer to warrant a premium RRP like that at present.

[MartyG]

It doesn't look like a bad effort, it's just that price - it's way outside how much I'd be prepared to spend on a phone, even a folding one. The tablet looks fairly decent too. I'm almost tempted to pre-order one. I like that it includes the dock with the built-in speaker/charger.

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_tablet

£600 though, even though I do use my Amazon Fire 10 quite a lot, is the price premium really worth it? Not sure.

[Nu-Eclipse]

It doesn't look like a bad effort, it's just that price - it's way outside how much I'd be prepared to spend on a phone, even a folding one. The tablet looks fairly decent too. I'm almost tempted to pre-order one. I like that it includes the dock with the built-in speaker/charger.

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_tablet

£600 though, even though I do use my Amazon Fire 10 quite a lot, is the price premium really worth it? Not sure.

I don't believe that Google have any justification for asking for nearly £2k for a fold phone that tech-wise is basically on-par with their standard Pixels, but hey.

Also, the entry-level 9th-Gen Wi-Fi only 64GB Apple iPad (with Apple silicon that easily outperforms Google Tensor G2) is currently £369 so Google re-entering a tablet space that they already failed in years ago is a really tough sell IMO. I feel like they would've been better off making the Tensor Chromebook that they were originally going to instead and adding a touchscreen to it to make it a 2-in-1 convertible.

[MartyG]

Half the storage, smaller screen and no dock tho.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Half the storage, smaller screen and no dock tho.

But still highly likely to be a better performer in every way possible, with a far better ecosystem of apps and user support ready from the off, and that's not even mentioning the price.

[MartyG]

If you're already in the Apple ecosystem maybe. I've had an iPad, I really didn't like using it. I don't think that's a bad price, given Apple's usual form mind.

Maybe Google should have made the doc an optional extra, it'd be price parity then.

It looks like Google has tweaked Android with Android L, so there's now multitask window docking for example. I'd like to see a more in-depth review first with that price tag though.