An open Question to the Forum if you are considering a Pixel Phone ? What makes you want it ? What can it do better ? Than a 7 Plus or a Note 5 or a 7 Edge ?
Here's the Thing the 7 Plus has a great camera and has the Apple community to back it up Apple stores are an incalculable resource, And Apps on iOS will not let you down.
In my case owning a Samsung Note 5 Android looks Amazing and ALL Content does on the OLED 1440p Display and the Stylus is useful and at 5.7" it's a mini tablet.
Both devices have Marketable Features I fail to see what Beneficial Feature a Pixel Device offers ?
Short answer: I have no idea. I guess I'll find out when I get it. I just count it as an adventure. Google's trying a new paradigm here to match what Apple offers. It could fall flat and they could abandon it, as their dreadful history indicates they probably will do. Whatever. I'm just experimenting, myself.
Long ramble:
It's kind of weird because the smaller IPhone 7 is mostly what I've been wanting since the IPhone 6 and 6 Plus were released. Meaning it finally has OIS in the smaller form factor. It has better battery life (I think) along with the option for a ugly but low profile battery case. It has 256 GBs of storage. Wow! It is water resistant. It's got beautiful screen colors.
But it's got yet more things missing that I've come to view as important. First thing missing is the higher resolution...and I have weird vision so yes, I can perceive it as grainy or dotted at times. My SE also has a low res display but it's a tiny display so I don't really mind it as much. I mind it more on a larger display, especially one that is so much improved in terms of color gamut as the 7's.
And the headphone jack is missing. I won't harp on all the reasons why I'm so annoyed.
That's been covered in other threads. It's not a deal breaker but it's enough of a change on top of my already having to adapt to iOS 10 and retraining myself to adjust to the changes.
The other thing missing is something I only discovered from having a Samsung: IPhones record video with very flat monoaural sound. Samsungs use a more sensitive mic that give videos more life with immersive directional sound. You hear back the sounds as you did live, meaning you hear the directions all the sounds came from if you play back the video on a device that lets you hear stereo sound. It was a real revelation to me to discover what I've been missing all these years recording flat sound on an iPhone. It's not a total deal breaker because I can buy an external stereo mic. But that would be another thing to keep track of.
So it's kind of weird that I'm not jumping on the IPhone 7 bandwagon when it finally got so close to what I wanted the smaller iPhone to be. And I did come so close to getting one. It was a quirk of fate in that the AT&T account management crew went home just as my AT&T rep was trying to get me switched over from my Note 7 to the IPhone 7. I went home thought it all over and thought about how IOS 10 and I aren't getting along.
So I went to the Google site and text chatted with one of the reps and asked about the stereo sound recording capabilities of the Pixel for videos and she made an inquiry for me. While she waited for an answer, she made polite conversation rather than leave me hanging. And she said that yes, the Pixel could provide the feature I sought.
As to why I'm trying a Pixel when I already have an S7 Edge I'm cautiously becoming very fond of, well the S7 Edge is all glass. I've seen enough broken and chipped Edge phones now to know this is going to remain my pampered pocket computer that doesn't actually reside in my pockets.
The Pixel looks rugged. It's splash resistant which will suffice for surviving my outdoor landscaping and gardening hobby. In a proper case it will survive my life in my larger work jeans pockets. And it's sized just about right for that. Not as good as my SE, but close enough.
I anticipate popping my sim between my SE and the Pixel. I think the SE will see more use in the spring and summer when my pocket space shrinks a bit on those summer clothes.
Losing iMessage might be a problem because of how messages sometimes don't come to you even after you try to disassociate your phone number from iMessage. I'll have to work my way through that with my friends and family.
